First release — Spring, limited run
The ice cream sandwich, rebuilt for the backcountry.
Seven ingredients. A wafer that holds its structure at altitude. A cold chain that ends at a trailhead instead of a freezer aisle. Cipher & Pine is a small-batch frozen dessert designed for the places dessert was never supposed to go.
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The first run is allocated to the waitlist. Tell us how you eat and where you sleep, and we will match your box to it.
The product
Engineered like hardware. Made like pastry.
A dense, low-water wafer that resists the softening every other sandwich surrenders to. Churned slowly for a smaller ice crystal. Pressed, scored and wrapped by hand in a facility that smells, permanently, of toasted sugar.
The trail
Built for the last mile, which is usually uphill.
Every decision in this product was made twice: once in the kitchen, and once at eleven kilometres, in the dark, with a pack on.
Cold chain to the trailhead
Insulated, reusable shippers hold temperature for a full day, so the box can be opened at the campsite rather than the kitchen counter.
Structure over softness
The wafer is formulated to stay rigid as the fill relaxes. It eats cleanly with one hand, standing up, wearing gloves.
Nothing left behind
Compostable wrap, returnable shipper, no foil, no plastic clamshell. Pack it in, and there is almost nothing to pack out.
Sourced close to the range
Dairy from three herds within a day's drive of the mountains the product is tested on. Sugar, salt, vanilla — and very little else.
Our thesis
Comfort has been optimised for the couch. We think the more interesting market is everywhere else.Cipher & Pine — founding note
A category asleep
Frozen novelty is a large, slow, undifferentiated shelf. It has not been redesigned around how people actually spend a weekend.
Distribution, not flavour
The hard problem is not taste. It is temperature over distance. Solve the cold chain and the product can go anywhere.
Choose your reality
Two lines from one kitchen: a simple classic, and a range for people who want to know exactly what is in it and why.
Limited first run
Four hundred boxes. Then we go again.
Join the waitlist and you will hear from us once, when the first batch is numbered and ready to ship.
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