Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams is an artisan ice cream company headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. Jeni’s has over 40 branded ‘scoop shops’ and retail distributors nationally.
In 2011, Jeni Britton Bauer published her first cookbook, Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams at Home, which became a New York Times best-seller and The Wall Street Journal called the “homemade-ice cream-making Bible.” Britton Bauer won a James Beard Foundation Award, the highest honor for writing about culinary arts and food, for her cookbook. The book was also nominated for the Goodreads Choice Awards Best Food & Cookbooks that year.
Britton Bauer published Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream Desserts in 2014 “to provide an audience with the tools to craft their own ice cream-based creations”.
In March 2019, Britton Bauer published her third cookbook, The Artisanal Kitchen: Perfect Homemade Ice Cream: The Best Make-It Yourself Ice Creams, Sorbets, Sundaes, and Other Desserts.