Colorado Democratic candidate Stephany Rose Spaulding, who is waging a daunting battle against an incumbent GOP congressman in a solidly Republican district, got a sweet scoop of help this week from the ice cream barons at Ben & Jerry’s.

The ice cream behemoth’s founders, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, are releasing a new flavor in Spaulding’s name — a peach and pecan jumble dubbed Rocky Mountain Rose — that is one of seven custom flavors whipped up by the pair as part of a coordinated effort with liberal political advocacy group MoveOn.org to promote Democratic challengers in congressional races across the country.

Spaulding, a minister and professor at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, is facing Republican Doug Lamborn, who has held the 5th Congressional District seat since 2007.

Cohen himself is scheduled to scoop free Ben & Jerry’s ice cream at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at Spaulding’s campaign headquarters at 24 E. Rio Grande St. in Colorado Springs.

“It’s amazing,” Spaulding told The Denver Post on Tuesday. “It’s a tremendous boost of spirit and energy in our campaign. I am extremely thrilled because we have been building a grassroots campaign in the last year and a half.”

Don’t expect Rocky Mountain Rose to become a household flavor in freezers across America. In fact, chances are very few people will get to even sample it. Only 40 pints of the ice cream are being produced and people will have to sign up for a raffle at MoveOn.org/BenandJerry for the chance to score the small tub of pecans and Palisade peaches set in a caramel base.

Edward Erikson, who works on Cohen’s private initiatives, said the ice cream is being produced by the founders as individuals and not by the Vermont-based ice cream company itself.

Cohen and Greenfield cite Spaulding’s experience as a professor in women’s and ethnic studies at CU and her role as senior pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Colorado Springs as reasons for getting behind her candidacy.

“‘Do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with our God,'” reads the label on the specialty pint. “That’s her creed. That’s how she lives her life. Teacher, pastor, servant leader. That’s the kind of person we need in Congress.”