Hay Rosie Craft Ice Cream Co.

A hidden gem in Carroll Gardens not too far from Brooklyn Farmacy. Ahhh, I’m so glad I found you!
Came here w/​a few friends after the DUMBO Arts Festival. All of us were craving ice cream & low and behold, we found Hay Rosie. I think it’s just that they call their business a «craft ice cream company». They live up to the trade!
One of my girl friends & I split the tasting flight. It’s so worth it! 4 scoops for $ 6? HELL YES. So among the ice creams, we tried the blood orange, apple cinnamon cookie & autumn fire and we also sampled the coconut marshmallow sorbet. All the flavors were amazing, creamy & wholesome. You could taste the components of ALL the flavors that mentioned in the descriptions.
The staff is also friendly & helpful. Quick note though, the place is quite small!
I think Hay Rosie has become one of my favorites. Artisan ice cream, yum!

Tasty, unique, and interesting ice cream. This is a tiny shop worth stopping by if you’re looking for a treat.
Just be aware that because of the scale of the operation, they may run out of what you had planned on trying.
Anyway, not much to say… glad to have this place in the neighborhood!

Hay Rosie!
Why are you not open when you say you are? Came by here on a Friday around 6pm and you were closed.
Hmf.

I got suckered into trying a cookie monstrosity when really I should have eaten the ice cream.
What I’m referring to is the BarnBurner, which I’m assuming is called that because it burns down the baaarn that is your stomach. It’s a bit too big, too heavy on the cookie and not something anyone needs.
But the ice cream within? Divine. Next time I return I’m getting a scoop of a fancy flavor that surely rivals Ample Hills.

Creamy delicious offerings with some very unique flavour combinations. Friendly and eager staff that obviously love what they do.
My only suggestion would be the availability of actual spoons beyond the small wooden taster scoops to eat the offerings.

Incredible artisanal ice cream options that come and go regularly because they bring forth new incredible flavors and also because they sell out.
some honorable mentions from the summer were yam and coconut, chocolate honey peanut butter and fig and port wine reduction (which i would eat every day if i could).
i highly recommend the tasting flight which are 4 neat little scoops of your choice flavors served in an egg carton.
barn burner looks like a real winner too!

ICE CREAM SO CHILLLL!!! I just can’t describe the feeling when you’re eating donuts and ice cream together, as it was always meant to be. God’s two greatest gifts to this planet. And possibly other planets we don’t (or do) yet know about.
The girls working there were really nice, and let us try whatever we wanted. I wanted to get a barnburner but all of my friends were just getting 2 scoops so I didn’t want to be a fatbutt and so I jumped on the bandwagon and didn’t stand up for what I believe in. BUT STILL, OH MA GAHD. Like I said, donuts, ice cream, apple cider, caramel, coffee… what is NOT to love? I mean the FLAVOR was called, Doughnut Ya Love Coffee and Apple Cider?!
It’s like they know.

Such a cute storefront, but not so much inside. Inside is like a tiny warehouse with no seating. There is only limited outdoor seating.
They have an interesting variety of flavors, all which are delicious. Availability of flavors vary day to day.
+ Flavors
+ Accepts credit cards
— No seating

Hay Rosie has been on my list as soon as it opened. I love ice cream and sweets and seeing all the pics of the barnbuners made me jealous! I needed to try one of these glorious cookie sandwiches.
Now, i know I am crazy, but i even called the day before to make sure they would have it when I went on a Friday evening. It was my birthday, and I didnt want to show up and they had a different version of the barnburner (I saw a peanut butter one, and I’m not a fan of peanut butter– I know, Im weird)
Anyway, they were going to have it, as well as a haydae that sounded really amazing. I was all set to go!
When I arrived at about 630 on a friday, i had expected a wait. It was in fact, empty, which made me happy because I do not like to wait. Unfortunately they were out of the sundae, and hot fudge, and one of the flavors i was interested in trying.
I was there for the barnburner anyway and went with that. The ice cream I chose was amazing and I forgot the name but had pieces of chocolate and toffee in it.
However, after a few bites, I found I could not eat anymore. It was yummy, but just too sweet.
I think if I come again, i would just stick with the ice cream. With winter coming though, and no seats inside, I dont see myself going until the spring.

Words fail me when trying to describe the incredible taste of their chocolate chip cookie dough barnburner ($ 8.00). It’s quite possibly the best dessert I’ve ever had.
Basically you choose your ice cream: I went with the Cocorosie. It was vanilla ice cream with candy bar pieces, toffee, caramel, oreos, and almonds. The ice cream on its own is perfect. They make it on premise which you can definitely tell. Then they seal the ice cream with raw chocolate chip cookie dough and heat it up ever so slightly. Its everything dreams are made of. All I can say is, go get it.
The shop is tiny with only outside seating, so as the weather gets cold it’s going to get pretty inconvenient. Although that wouldn’t stop me from coming.

The people at Hay Rosie are doing something truly special. A lot of ice cream places «experiment» with flavors, but Hay Rosie really goes out there and stretches your perceptions of what ice cream can be.
Of course, if you’re going to get only one thing, it has to be the Barnburner (don’t call it a barn burger). Imagine a considerably sized ice cream sandwich that’s put into a pseudo-​panini press. Now imagine that the «bread» of the sandwich is anything from donuts, cookie dough, or even two peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Yeah. It’s awesome.
The Barnburner I had was their salt and sand ice cream (sea salt and brown sugar) in a cookie dough sandwich. It was so very rich. The cookie dough melted in your mouth and was just the right amount of gooey. Mixed really well with the ice cream and was about as ridiculously tasty as it sounds.
Luckily I was with two other friends, so I didn’t have to eat the Barnburger by myself (hint hint: great way to end a date). But what that also meant was that we were free to try scoops of other flavors.
The oddly named «Finocchio & His Goat» was one of the most interesting flavors I’ve ever had. It was goat cheese, fennel pollen, and orange zest with an olive oil drizzle on top. The fennel was subtle, but the zest and olive oil was great. It was really nuanced, and balanced.
We also tried the honey, lavender, and ricotta ice cream. It had a great texture (you can thank the ricotta), and the honey + lavender combination made it a bit on the sweeter side, so it’s good for someone with a sweet tooth. The lavender gave it floral notes as well.
Hay Rosie has rotating flavors basically every week. They also do tasting flight (they were the first ones to do it!). Of course, you can always try a flavor first, but you really need multiple bites to discover all of the nuances. Everything I had was amazing, but if you’re not into flavors that are too savory (is that a thing?), then I would highly recommend a flight.
Be warned though, that it’s a tiny shop and a little out of the way. But it’s definitely worth the walk. And anyway, you have to burn off all those calories anyway, right?

Super cute shop, and really enjoyed the ice cream! You can tell it was quality ice cream based on the rich taste and how quickly it began to melt (more cream). Interesting flavors, with a variety from the classics to curious flavors, but sadly a bunch of them sold out by the time I got there (it was around 9pm). I’m glad they have an ice cream tasting flight, and am actually surprised more places don’t offer that as an option (fantastic idea hay rosie!!).
It’s a tiny shop, with just enough room for a tiny queue for purchasing. You should really just buy your ice cream and wall outside. Outdoors, they have a few lawn chairs painted a bright red, where you can plop down and enjoy your eats.

GO now!
Might be the best and freshest/​creamiest ice cream I have tried yet in the city and with the nicest service ever.
Can’t wait to go back to try more flavors!

Delicious homemade ice cream created from scratch in the sealed room next door.
Friendly staff, fresh ice cream. Great selection; they offer a tasting, which is 4 mini scoops for 6 dollars and there’s an awesome item called the barnburner.
Love the out door seating (four bright red lawn chairs), and their cute signs.
You just want to hug the staff!
I will be back again and again!
Brownie brickle crunch is my favorite!

I’ve been here three times. The first two times I has great service and delicious ice cream. The third time however I had to leave after I was cut in line by a family of 6 (at first it was just the grandmother) and both girls behind the counter fully attended to them. I waited for one of the girls to shift over to help me (both girls saw me come in before the group of 6), that never happened. It was just such a frustrating experience that I wouldn’t have felt right about giving them my business that night, but hey, what’s the loss of business of one ice cream when 6 orders just walked in the door?
I’m also suspect of the half pint for $ 7.00, blue marble has a full pint, freshly packed that can include two flavors for $ 8.75 I believe… hmm

I hate this place. Seriously!
I had a major knee injury about 1 year ago, and had to spend several months in bed, followed by several more in physical therapy. Due to my low level of activity during this period, I gained 30 lbs. And I’m a small guy, so 30 lbs is quite a substantial increase.
Now I’m more or less healed, and ready to start losing weight. Started to walk without crutches or cane, started to ride my bike to work again, and saw a little progress, then BAM! This place opens just down the block from me! And they are like drug dealers, I tell you! «Sure you can try any flavor you want», they say. Just like a crack cocaine dealer giving you a «free sample». Then you’re hooked. There goes any hope of me ever losing this weight.,
Yes, I’m giving it 5 stars. The ice cream is excellent, the flavors are quite creative, the people are friendly, the atmosphere of folks sitting on the beach chairs on the sidewalk is pretty cool, yadda, yadda, yadda. But make no mistake about it. I hate this place!

3.5 stars…
I feel as though I’m definitely a ice cream fanatic. It’s fitting that Hay Rosie has a slogan «Ice Cream for Breakfast» as I’ve actually done that before. Perhaps more than once in my life. When it comes to Brooklyn’s newest artisan/​craft ice cream maker I would give Hay Rosie:
Service: 5 stars
Style: 5 stars
Ice Cream: 4.5 stars
Pricing: 4 stars
Hours of Operation: 2 stars
Space: 2 stars
Portion Sizes: 1 star
If their limited weekend hours, 4 chairs outside the cubicle sized business, and tiny scoops of ice cream don’t deter you then you’ll be in for some of the best and most innovative ice cream you’ve ever had. They manage to sneak in flavors like sage, smoke, sriacha, and fennel into some of their flavors in a seamless way that seems to make sense (the smoke flavor in their Bonfire at the beach option isn’t so subtle though). If you’re not so brave they are more than happy to let you sample any or all of the 8 or so rotating flavors available or you could just go with another flavor, most of them don’t have a savory aspect to them.
I got the double ($ 5) which came in a cup that most ice cream places outside of NYC would consider a kiddie cup. Portion aside the ice cream was wonderfully creamy and flavorful. I thought the lemon bar was good but lacked in the lemon department. The chocolate malt with honey peanut butter was also good but missed a bit on the malt notes. My most favorite was their Rosie Bar Ice Cream (chunks of house-​made Rosie bars– shortbread, salted caramel, nutella-​coated rice crispies, chocolate ganache, in sweet cream with caramel swirl), and the Vanilla Mint Cookies & Cream Cheese (peppermint and bourbon vanilla, chocolate sandiwch cookie-​cream cheese chunks). If their flavors weren’t inventive enough they also have some amazing sounding toppings that I’ve never heard of before like fluff flambé (torched to order).
Everyone I encountered here was incredibly sweet and I’d like to welcome them to the neighborhood. I just wished my money went a little further here.

Nice
Service
But flavors
Don’t pop as much
As I’d like. I can’t wait to see them grow.

This golden age of ice cream in NYC continues with yet another excellent new little shop selling inventive and delicious flavors.
Making all the ice cream in house during the week, this tiny operation is only open on the weekends. Seeing some of the great flavors on offer, I of course came to check it out the first weekend they opened, and was crushed to learn that the Chocolate Malt with Honeyed Peanut Butter Swirl was not available by the scoop (they did have it in the mini pints to go though for $ 7).
It was all good though, as they had most of the rest of the flavors available, which included enough tantalizing flavors that we had to share a Triple Scoop ($ 6.50), which gets you up to 4 different flavors. Here is what we tried, just a small sampling of the great stuff being churned out here:
— Sriracha Popcorn
— Mexican Muscovado Caramel
— Brickle Brownie Crunch (sweet cream, crunchy brownies, housemade toffee)
— Batman (burnt chocolate, smoked almonds, butterscotch)
The Sriracha Popcorn is of course the gimmick flavor, designed to draw in the curious and the Asians that love all things Sriracha. I often get just a taste of such flavors and pass as they are a little too strange to enjoy for a whole scoop, but that was definitely not the case with this one. Sure, spiciness in your ice cream can be a bit weird, but this really worked. At first you really get a very strong popcorn taste, and then the heat comes in. I couldn’t really get all this from the small sample, so I would suggest you try a full scoop of it.
The rest of the flavors were excellent as well, especially the Batman, a really smooth, sweet chocolate with whole crunchy almonds in it. The ice cream is really smooth and also dense, making for a really satisfying dessert.
Speaking of satisfying dessert, I wasn’t done yet — the main reason for coming was to try the Barnburner ($ 8): a hot ice cream sandwich consisting of a flavor of your choice in between piping hot, freshly pressed bread sealed around the sides. If this is a new trend, I am fully behind it (they just started selling them a week earlier at AB Biagi, a gelato shop in Nolita). I was in luck, as the flavor of the day happened to be the best bread of all, pretzel bread. As the owner was grilling it for a few seconds, the whole shop started to smell so good. I chose the Sage Chocolate Chip flavor for the filling, and when she gave it to me, it was so hot I nearly burned my fingers (this is a good thing). It was so good, you must make sure you try one of these, no matter what the current flavor is.
It’s a tiny shop with no seating inside and just a few big wooden seats outside. I will definitely be back frequently to try more Barnburners and the rest of the great flavors as they become available.

Creamy and flavorful, but the portions are tiny. I had sage chocolate chip (so soothing!).
Hand-​packed half pints available in cute retro single-​serve boxes that would make an excellent dessert/​favor.
A nice, creamery-​focused alternative to the Brooklyn Farmacy soda fountain nearby. But this ice cream «tasting room» is open for a few hours only and only on days that start with S… for now.