Emack & Bolio’s unveils ice cream pizza

By Globe Staff

It’s a culinary convergence, a marriage of chowhound genres that could push food science to new frontiers --- It’s ice cream pizza from Emack & Bolio’s, a chain of parlors that markets itself as making “ice cream for the connoisseur.”

But don’t reach for the anchovies just yet. Emack & Bolio’s isn’t using pizza ingredients such as red sauce and cheese. Instead, it views the pizza as inspiration for a dessert delivery platform that can be repurposed to serve as the packaging of a new type of ice cream sundae -- a sundae billed as a “hybrid of guilty pleasures.”

According to Emack & Bolio’s, the foundation of its menu offering is a brownie crust, and featured ingredients include vanilla ice cream, hot fudge, and marshmallows. Then this melange is sublimed with a chocolate peace sign, chocolate raspberry “bleeding” hearts, and celestial stars and moon, the chain said.

The $24.95 ice cream pizza serves between 10 to 12 adults or 14 to 16 children, the chain said.

Needless to say, such an unusual pizza cannot be delivered in the usual manner. Plans call for this pizza to be delivered in the Greater Boston area by the “Cosmic Cruiser, a custom-designed Victory Kingpin motorcycle complete with a freezer sidecar,” Emack & Bolio’s said.