Freeze Craft collaborations
Mad lab meets ice cream: limited runs made with some of our favourite New Zealand producers.
Updated October 2026: Collaboration list tidied into a table, with links to our current and past flavours, by the Wooden Spoon team.
Freeze Craft is the name we gave to our collaborations. The idea is simple: find a local maker whose product we love, then build an ice cream around it. Each flavour ran in limited batches, so the list below is a record of past releases rather than a menu.
Past Freeze Craft flavours
| Partner | Flavour | What was in it |
|---|---|---|
| All Good bananas | Chocolate-Covered Banana | Real banana ice cream with dark chocolate flecks |
| Earthbound Honey | Sweet-As Honey | Pōhutukawa honey ice cream with honey-sesame brittle |
| Fix & Fogg | Chocolate + Peanut Butter | Dark chocolate ice cream with white chocolate and peanut butter clusters |
| Fix & Fogg | Hot Fudge Sundae | Lightly salted vanilla with a fudge ripple and a peanut butter swirl |
| Garage Project | Cherry Bomb | Dark chocolate ice cream with cherry beer, kirsch-soaked cherries and roasted salted almonds |
| Garage Project | Corn Star | Cereal milk stout ice cream between two cornflake cookies |
| Montfoort | Stroopwafel | Cinnamon ice cream with pieces of stroopwafel |
| Viberi & Otago Girls School | Blackcurrant Crunch | Blackcurrant ice cream with a caramel chocolate crunch |
| Wellington Chocolate Factory | Dominican Truffle | Malted vanilla with salted dark chocolate and truffles |
| Zany Zeus | Strawberry Cheesecake | Cheesecake ice cream with a jammy strawberry swirl |
Blackcurrant Crunch went on to become a signature flavour and won Supreme Champion at the 2019 Outstanding NZ Food Producer Awards.
Why we collaborate
Wellington and the wider country have a busy, talented food scene. Working with other producers pushes us to try ingredients we would not reach for on our own, and it gives you a reason to discover a new local maker. Collaborations also tend to become the flavours people ask us to bring back.
Want to collaborate?
If you make something delicious in New Zealand and think it belongs in a tub of ice cream, get in touch. For what is in the freezer today, see our flavours and the limited edition archive.