Erika Massow’s H & C Ice Cream rolls into farmers markets

• Brooke Vandever
• Massow hopes to keep Kansas City cool this summer.

Erika Massow doesn’t drive a van that plays jangly, public-domain windup tunes. She’s got a Ford Focus with a front license plate that reads: “Powered by bacon.” And Wednesdays and Saturdays, the car is packed with Igloo coolers full of the salted-caramel, blood-orange buttermilk, and peanut-butter-cup ice creams that she can’t keep in stock at area farmers markets.

“I got tired of going to the store and not finding anything that wasn’t made with corn syrup,” Massow says of what sparked her month-old business. “Ice cream just needs to be five ingredients.”