A COMPANY creating mouth-watering ice creams is making a cool five-figure investment in the business.

Yummy Yorkshire, based at Delph House Farm, Denby Dale, is investing £11,000 to renovate two adjoining animal pens to create an ice cream parlour to sell its ever-expanding range, which includes unusual flavours such as lemon curd, marmalade, honey and ginger and cheesecake.

The work includes adding a new roof, doors and windows, fresh plasterwork and sandblasting the original stone walls.

Owners husband and wife Jeremy and Louise Holmes will also spend a further £8,000 on interior design and equipping the parlour with a serving area, fridge, coffee machine and five tables to accommodate 20 customers.

There has been further investment with a new car park to accommodate up to 20 cars, as well as picnic tables on the grass area during the summer months.

The work follows a link-up between Yummy Yorkshire and Bradley-based Coopers Coffee to provide ice cream with a fresh ground coffee taste.

Jeremy and Louise are confident that the coffee cones and cups of coffee will both prove popular when the parlour opens in July.

Yummy Yorkshire is a working farm which has been run by the Holmes family for 46 years.

It has an “open farm” policy, whereby customers can tour the diary parlour and learn how the milk – which constitutes the main core business activity – and the ice cream are both made.

All milk used in Yummy Yorkshire ice cream is processed from the cow to the bottle within 90 minutes from the farm’s 150 Holstein Friesian herd set on 250 acres of grazing land.

Said Jeremy: “Louise and I are excited about the launch of the ice cream parlour.

“We hope it will be a profitable investment to our business and we are always looking at ways in which we can promote our brand and sell more products.

“It is perfect timing to also introduce our new coffee flavour in association with Coopers Coffee.

“Customers will be able to enjoy our ice cream and also a fresh mug of coffee set on our farm.”

Louise said: “Our coffee flavour is just another example of our commitment to evolve and expand our product ranges on the farm.

“We hope our ice cream parlour will be enjoyed by our customers and welcome both new and existing ones to buy our ice cream and to visit our new parlour to enjoy the traditional tastes and to experience the rural setting and farm environment.”