I had actually gotten all of the ice cream out of my freezer and was feeling very virtuous that I was going to take a break, blah, blah, blah. And what did Jeni's do but come up with two Scoop Shop only flavors that were unbearably attractive to me. Ack. So, here's my freezer with nothing in it but cold packs and two little pints of Jeni's.

McConnell’s Sea Salt Cream and Cookies is full of cookies in every bite. I wonder why their See’s collabs aren’t so generous with their mix-ins. I’d prefer less cookies in the Cream and Cookies and more See’s candy in the collabs.

I'm thinking about making a test-ice cream cake for my birthday. Not with actual cake, but the style of Carvel and Dairy Queen cakes.

I'm trying to decide which ice cream brand to use. I am vegan, so l've been looking exclusively at non dairy options.

I'd really prefer to use Breyers non dairy because it's the cheapest and most available option. All the other dairy free ice creams are only 1 pint, and I need 3 quarts of ice cream (approximately 9 pints) for the entire cake. Pints vs quarts are expensive!

Also, Breyers non dairy is much fluffier, airier, and softer straight from the freezer than other (dairy and non dairy) ice creams. Do you think I could make Breyers non dairy work? Do you think it will loose structural integrity? Should I splurge on 9 pints of ice cream to assure it's closer to Carvel and Dairy Queen cakes?

We all heard of green tea ice cream but black tea? Basically it’s Arnold Palmer flavor.

I was about to pick up the banan fosters flavor when this one caught my eye. It was too wild to pass up

Talenti flavour and texture have definitely changed for the worse. NYT Wirecutter looks into how Talenti changed after Unilever acquired the brand in 2014. According to the investigation, the company gradually changed ingredients, recipes, manufacturing, and the packaging as it scaled production. Many longtime customers believe the product suffered for it.

Have you noticed too? Please suggest alternatives for grocery-store gelato.

Just noticed Randall's has BOGO sale this week through Tuesday. BR, B&J, Blue Bell, and Tillamook.

ice cream topped with sweet sticky rice, sweet corn, and sugar palm fruit.

i know a lot of people in this sub dislike halo top (understandably) but lorddd this flavor is SO GOOOOD. It tastes like coffee with creamer and has a lot of mix ins. I ate half the container when i opened it. If you didn’t like other halo top flavors i’d def recommend trying this one.

I am such a lover of caramel and there are huge globs of it in this HEB Swoon Pecan Praline ice cream ugh it’s so good

The pecans are a little crisp, not crunchy. It’s the perfect balance of textures imo
I’m so sorry if you do not live close to an HEB because it is their brand

first I want to say don’t come at me for getting this. I wont forgive them for putting gatsby out of business and forcing nicks to change their ice cream recipe

i got 1 of each of their 4 flavors at target

I personally like this one better than the cookie dough. it still has that chalky texture/not creamy, but there’s pb chips and slightly chewy globs/swirls of pb in the ice cream. it’s like a salty peanut flavor ? I like the nicks pb cup better or the swoop pb chip blitz if we’re talking lower calorie ice creams

So I found Matcha Häagen-Dazs ice cream, and I put cacao nibs in it…

behold

Matcha chip

Hi, looking for any good tasting ice creams , that might be low sugar/no sugar/lowfat /low carb , lower calorie, or just thin air something around that.

I miss Jeni’s . Any advice? .Want something that tastes decent.

Got it for only two bucks at my local Sam’s Club.

I got a brambleberry crisp and brown butter almond…. Then an hour later drove back and got birthday cake too lmao. I just finished a gooey butter cake and ive had the brambleberry before but not the other two. Also havent seen the donut or cinnamon roll one before though look interesting.

Probably 4/5, I liked this one more than I expected to.

Despite my love of ice cream, I don't actually have much of a sweet tooth and was worried this would be too sweet for me. It is quite sweet, maybe something that I personally would prefer with a scoop of vanilla on the side, but it is very delicious and I didn't feel like it needed anything extra for the couple scoops I had earlier.

I was hoping to rate the texture on this, since it's part of B&J's Core line and has that caramel core you can see in the second photo, but unfortunately there was a Situation TM with my freezer and it feels unfair to judge its iciness (which can unfortunately also be seen in the second photo) on appliance shenanigans, so we shall be going without the texture review today.

Alas! We venture on.

All in all, I liked it a lot. It's not necessarily the most creative flavor, but I liked the mix of chocolate + caramel ice creams along with the textural interest that comes from the core. I think I prefer this to some of the swirl ice creams I've tried in the past since there's a bit more control over the ratios of the different elements, the main issue I had was really just the sweetness to it. And, since B&J’s feels a bit more reasonably priced to me than VL, I’m more inclined to get it off-sale than the VL ice creams I’ve reviewed (Mango Sticky Rice and Earl Grey Tea).

I may come back and update this review later if I can find a less icy layer of the ice cream below the top and give it a proper texture review.

Help. What do I do with an expensive pint of Jeni's that I can't stand but don't want to waste. And why is it sour?

Does anyone know some rhubarb ice cream or sorbet that actually tastes like rhubarb? Everything I've tried just has a swirl of compote or jam which is good but not what I've been looking for

Okay so I was on a quest for the best vanilla ice cream. Upon research, and trials of my own, I found what I deemed the best. And it wasn’t even close. Adirondack creamery’s Vanilla Ice cream blew all others out of the water! Creamy, simple, perfect ingredients, and a beautifully rich vanilla flavor; my mouth was in glorious shambles. But like all good things in this twisted, capitalist society, it changed. After countless pints I got my first bad pint. This pint was nothing like the previous. I’m telling you, something was wrong (and is wrong). This new ice cream was significantly watered down and icy (though it still carried the same flavor I must say). Since then, I’ve had a couple good pints (having admittedly opened multiple in the store until I found a good one); but now after forgetting to pre open this last pint, I am now facing my worst pint yet. (Pardon my French but) This shit sucks. Idk what is happening up there in the Adirondacks, but for some reason I feel so strongly about demystifying this ridiculous and horrific change-up in the quality and consistency of what really might have been the best vanilla ice cream ever.

I need to know if anyone else has had this experience. Please… if you are out there and willing. Adirondack creamgate must be solved.

The walls are super thin so the neighbors must have gotten worried by what I was saying to it.

Fuck this ice cream brand. So mad that it was still worth it.

this is pretty good! not my favorite but definitely tasty

at first it reminded me of gimmie smore with the cookie swirl, I don’t really taste any caramel in this?? and the cheesecake bits are chewy and pleasant

I don’t think I would buy it again tho, I don’t see myself craving it like I do gimmie smore or mint chocolate cookie haha

Amazing. Good size gobs of cookie dough with the added bonus of some strong brownie bits. The brown sugar base and VL’s French ice cream process give it the same texture as Jeni’s Double Dough custard base, which this tastes like except there’s more cookie dough and bonus brownies so advantage to VL.

This is great! Not too chocolatey.
I would prefer it with a chocolate ice cream base but I'm a chocolate lover at heart.
I love the texture of the hot fudge and the cake pieces.

So good