To create its new rocky road version of the popular Memphis Meltdown ice-cream, Tip Top had to devise a way to successfully combine the many separate ingredients that make up a recognisably 'rocky-road combination. The trickiest item was the marshmallow – it had never been successfully mass-produced for a frozen ice-cream product before. This case study examines the process of achieving this feat – a world-first.

Technological Products

• Relationship between the properties of materials and their performance capabilities in the  manufacture of a food product

Technological Modelling

• Gathering evidence to justify decision making throughout the development process

Technological Systems

• Redundancy and reliability in manufacturing  system design and performance
• Establishing operating parameters

Discussion starters

• Years 1-6
• Years 7-11

Web links

• History of ice cream
  www.deepsouthicecream.co.nz/funstuff.htm

• Tip Top web site – Factory Tour
  www.tiptop.co.nz/factory_tours.aspx

• Making ice cream
  video.answers.com/making-ice-cream-142090362

• Making Rocky Road ice cream
  www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea8HeJfTPEE

• Manufacturing choc bars/Ice Lollies
  the-hub.tv/content/view/1714/106/
• How Ice Cream-Filled Lollies Are Made...
  www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aD_JfhLVhU