“Uncle’s” Updates an Old Classic with New Flavors
In the company’s Waialua kitchens, cookie and ice cream crews use peanut butter, liliko‘i, ube and other local favorites to make ice cream sandwiches.
“The ice cream sandwich has been around for 110 years or so, and it’s pretty much been vanilla, vanilla, vanilla. I thought, they don’t need another vanilla sandwich!” says “Uncle” Paul Logan, who founded Uncle’s Kū Aloha Ice Cream Sandwiches in 2013.
His company’s 14 flavors include honey and peanut butter ice cream with chocolate chip cookies, liliko‘i ice cream with sugar cookies, and dark chocolate ganache ice cream with matching dark chocolate cookies. Three flavors are vegan.
But Logan says people kept asking, “Don’t you have vanilla?” He listened, putting his own spin on the old standard, coating vanilla ice cream with rainbow sprinkles and sandwiching it between two snickerdoodle cookies.
Last year the company added another facility for baking cookies, across the street from its 1,000-square-foot kitchen in Waialua, which now focuses on producing ice cream. “What we’re trying to do is (make) a world-class product, and we do that here by concentrating on quality, flavor and variety,” says Logan.
