New Ice Cream Flavors – My Review….
Posted on February 9, 2008
by Kim
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I love Caramel………..PERIOD – End of Story! If desserts, candy, or ice cream has caramel in it, then I am bound by law to try it – it is my duty, my calling…..I must surrender to the “voices” – get the picture?
With that said, I was in Food Lion the other day to pick up some things I needed. One need took me down the aisle with eggs and butter. Down that aisle is also the ice cream coolers. I was NOT looking for ice cream, mind you, and didn’t even make a conscious effort to look towards the ice cream coolers. But, as I walked down that aisle, I glanced to the left at just the right moment (maybe it was the “voices” that made me do it) and some new packaging in the ice cream section caught my eye. I went to take a closer look………………and discovered new Breyers flavors with CARAMEL!!!! OMG – what could I do? I tried to move on and leave the store without buying the new flavors, but my feet were glued to the floor until I put the containers in my cart!!!!
The flavors I selected and my opinions of them after tasting both are as follows:
Breyers Caramel Pretzel – Caramel flavored light ice cream with caramel swirls and chocolatey coated pretzels. This has lots of thin caramel swirls and big pieces of pretzels coated with chocolate. The flavor is really good and definitely met my expectations. The mix of the sweet caramel and chocolate with the salty pretzels was really quite good. The less than perfect parts: 1) the pretzels weren’t always crunchy – if the chocolate coating was fully intact, the pretzel was crunchy – if not, then the moisture from the ice cream softened the pretzel and it lost it’s crunch. 2) the caramel swirls are thin ribbons – not nice thick, gooey bands of caramel.
1-5 Rating: Flavor – 4, Caramel factor – 3, Texture – 2 — Overall – 3
** If extra caramel sauce is used as a topping – 5
Breyers Fried Ice Cream – Cinnamon flavored light ice cream with honey caramel with cinnamon toasted tostada pieces. This one left a lot to be desired. The ice cream had a nice flavor, but I’m not sure I was impressed with the addition of the cinnamon flavoring. The toasted tostada pieces felt weird – they were a strange combination of chewy and semi-crunchy. There was little or no actual visible signs of caramel anywhere. Bottom line – caramel or no caramel, I won’t buy this one again and I may not even finish the tub I did buy…..
1-5 Rating: Flavor – 3, Caramel factor – 1, Texture – 1 — Overall – 1
** If extra caramel sauce is used as a topping – hhmm – nope, not even that would help!!!
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