Top Ten Most Popular Reviews of 2014

Hello ice cream nation!! I was going to try and shove in one more review this year, but getting a new scoopmobile has really kept me busy these last few days. That's right, after driving my car (almost) to the moon (when it's closest anyway), I finally traded it in. It's pretty weird driving something else after 12 years, but when a rusty car starts needing a bunch of repairs, well, you move on if you can.

So let's do a recap like a lot of other sites are doing right now. Let's start with the ten most popular reviews of 2014. Before starting though, I'd like to put in an honorable mention for #11 because it has gotten more comments than any other review... and they're all angry. That's right, Nick's showdown between Ben & Jerry's Coffee Toffee Bar Crunch & the old Coffee Heath Bar Crunch has gotten people so very riled up. Not a single person has come to the defense of the new non-GMO version. We haven't seen this much angst since B&J Creme Bruleee was cancelled. (Ironically B&J says this was their #7 most popular flavor this year... but maybe that was from sales of people buying up all the old pints). Anyway, on to the countdown!

Turkey Hill Peanut Butter Ripple Light Ice Cream

[By Nick] I'll give Dubba credit, he put in a valiant effort there at the end to make this Turkey Hill limited edition contest even remotely competitive. That said, it's time to put the nail in his coffin and end it all with one last TH limited edition review for 2014. [Finally tally: 8 to 6]

Turkey Hill Peanut Butter Ripple Light Ice Cream

Vanilla flavored light ice cream with a roasted peanut butter swirl, all with no sugar added

Hood Berry Chocolate Crumble Low Fat Frozen Yogurt

[New for 2014] It's no secret that both me and Nick are huge fans of Cookies & Cream. It's just so classic and perfect and we both love trying new versions. The problem is that despite a few exceptions, there's no creativity in this space. How hard is it to add cookies to pretty much any base flavor and not get a winner out of it? Now this next flavor isn't a straight C&C flavor, but how can I say to to a berry base with a cookie swirl? I can't, plain and simple.

Hood Berry Chocolate Crumble Low Fat Frozen Yogurt

blackberry lowfat frozen yogurt swirled with chocolate cookie crunch

Gelato Fiasco Maple Sap Tap Gelato

[By Nick, New for end of 2014] I hope you all had a Merry Christmas and a Happy Holidays! Today we're going to take a look at a free sample of one of the new seasonal pint flavors being offered by the Gelato Fiasco.

Gelato Fiasco Maple Sap Tap Gelato

Inspired by sap on snow. 

Maine maple syrup with house-made maple walnut toffee pieces

Holiday Market Pantry Ice Cream Sandwiches

[New for end of 2014] We'll make this quick since we're all pretty busy right now. On top of the new ice creams at Target, there are two festively decorated flavors of....

Market Pantry Ice Cream Sandwiches @ Target

Festive Vanilla : vanilla flavored ice cream with red & green candy confetti

Peppermint : Red & white peppermint flavored ice cream

(both between chocolate flavored wafers)

Coolhaus "Caramia Lehrer" Salted Caramel Ice Cream

[By Nick] ‎Time to take a look at the other pint of Coolhaus provided by the Niskayuna Co-op!

Coolhaus "Caramia Lehrer" Salted Caramel Ice Cream

Turkey Hill Sea Salt Caramel Truffle Greek Froyo

[limited run in 2014 (Oct-Dec)] See, I was just trying to lure Nick into a false sense of security about our Turkey Hill competition. This limited edition container puts me at 6 vs 7  and I just need to find one random hidden container of Turkey Hill to rob him of his victory.... but at what cost?

Turkey Hill Sea Salt Caramel Truffle Greek Frozen Yogurt

Caramel Greek frozen yogurt with sea salted caramel truffles

So Delicious Candy Corn & Pumpkin Spice Bars

[By Nick] ‎I already know what you're thinking, "Nick, why are you reviewing So Delicious limited edition bars for FALL?" Well there was a miscommunication at So Delicious that resulted in me not getting these bars until earlier this month. "Well, don't they have a Winter line you could be reviewing instead?" Yes, yes they do. However, like the fall bars, those are also exclusive to Whole Foods. It seems that Whole Foods had bought them out of their own inventory so you guys are left with a review of a couple bars you might still be able to find or will have to more than likely find next year. Hope you enjoy!

So Delicious Candy Corn Coconut Milk Non-Dairy Frozen Dessert Bars

Market Pantry Hot Cocoa Ice Cream @ Target

[New for 2014] With Target's Peppermint Neapolitan gone from the freezer, it's time to dig in to the next new seasonal flavor at just $2.99 a container.

Market Pantry Hot Cocoa Ice Cream @ Target

chocolate and artificially flavored marshmallow ice cream
swirled with marshmallows & fudge

Kemps Denali Peppermint Bark Moose Tracks FroYo

[By Nick, New for 2014] This might be one of the products I've been most looking forward to trying this year. Ever since Moose Tracks announced they would be offering this recipe back in the Summer to companies to produce, I've been on the lookout for potential brands to make it. Honestly, I wasn't expecting it to find it as a frozen yogurt let alone Kemp's being the only one in my area to produce it. I mean I've seen their normal frozen yogurts around me for years and Dubba has reviewed some of them. I didn't know they released limited editions and wasn't expecting any place near me to carry them. That was until I stumbled into a random Shop Rite and saw this flavor next to their other limited edition, Cinnamon (that I passed up on). Knowing I wasn't going to be near a freezer though, I knew I had to come back and claim my prize.

Kemps Denali Peppermint Bark Moose Tracks Frozen Yogurt

peppermint flavored frozen yogurt with 

crunchy peppermint bark and famous moose tracks fudge

Turkey Hill Chocolate Malt Chip Ice Cream

[New for 2014] Well, I think I've officially lost my limited edition Turkey Hill flavor contest with Nick, but that doesnt mean I cant make a decent showing by bringing the score to 5 vs 7. That's right, I've got my hands on their elusive malt flavor... and by elusive I mean every malt flavor made by anyone seems to get cancelled sooner or later.

Turkey Hill Chocolate Malt Chip Ice Cream

Chocolate malt ice cream swirled with choco malt chips

Jeni's Sweet Potato With Torched Marshmallows Ice Cream

[By Nick] If you recall in my last review, I said I wouldn't spend anymore of my money on a pint of Jeni's. Thankfully, I have friends who randomly show up to my apartment bearing frozen treats.

Jeni's Sweet Potato With Torched Marshmallows Ice Cream

roasted sweet potato ice cream with red hot cinnamon and torched marshmallows

Market Pantry Peppermint Neapolitan Ice Cream

[New for 2014] About four weeks ago, I posted a pic of four seasonal flavors from Target. While I do question them throwing a reindeer on their pumpkin pie flavor and a snowman on their apple pie flavor, the other two options did catch my eye. We'll get back to the other one next week, but first, let's dig in to...

Market Pantry Peppermint Neapolitan Ice Cream

Peppermint Ice Cream & Artificially Flavored Vanilla Ice Cream

swirled with Mint Stocking & Trees

Gelato Fiasco Santa's Little Helper Gelato

[By Nick, 2014 only] Before my trip to Maine, The Gelato Fiasco also sent me some free samples of their new flavors to review like they did for Dubba. Seeing as its officially December and it's snowing/sleeting/raining here, I guess it's time to look at their new...

Gelato Fiasco Santa's Little Helper Gelato

Coffee gelato with Allen's Coffee Brandy and creme-filled chocolate cookies

Bourbon Everyburger and the Nosh Show Episode 44

Good morning Nosh show listeners! Episode 44 is upon us and we finally dive back in to another Happy Happy Mystery Package Fun Time courtesy of Junk Food Guy, and guess what, he's got a surprise in store for us since it seems so long since the last HHMPFT. There's not 1, not 2, not 3, but *4* surprises in this package.... and one of them makes a pretty fun looking sundae.

Wondering what those crazy looking cookies are? Well let's find out!

Yuengling's Spiced Pumpkin Roll Ice Cream Yuengling's Peppermint Crunch Ice Cream

I'll admit it, I really didn't want to do another pumpkin review. It's fun to do one review of it a year, but it feel's like I've had it a hundred times, and I really didn't want to do it again.... but Yuengling really wanted us to try it, I hate saying no to free ice cream... and I must admit it, I'm glad I agreed.

Yuengling Spiced Pumpkin Roll Ice Cream

Yuengling Peppermint Crunch Ice Cream

Hershey's Ice Cream Chocolate Chip Cookie in a Cup!

While I was busy grabbing my first pint of Hershey's ice cream, I couldn't help but grab one of their interestingly packed ice cream sandwiches. I mean, I LOVE ice cream sandwiches... and I was hungry... and I really love ice cream sandwiches. Ok, let's see what $2.29 buys me.

Hershey's Ice Cream Cookie in a Cup!
Chocolate Chip Cookie Ice Cream Sandwich

Premium vanilla ice cream wedged between
two delicious chocolate chip cookies and coated in chocolate chips

Adirondack Creamery Banana Chip Ice Cream

[by Nick] It's been a bit since we've had Adirondack Creamery on the site (I'm sure you all remember that pistachio disaster I went through). Well this time I grabbed another iffy flavor for me from the Niskayuna Co-op, Banana Chip. You all know my love/hate relationship with banana flavored things so let's see if Adirondack can get back on my good side.

Adirondack Creamery Banana Chip Ice Cream

banana ice cream with dark chocolate chunks

Turkey Hill Egg Nog Ice Cream

So I bought this for two reasons: one, it's never been on the blog and two: I totally lost that Turkey Hill limited edition contest I was having with Nick. Well, technically there is a third reason: I'm hoping my wife will eat it this for me because I totally don't like eggnog.

Turkey Hill Egg Nog Ice Cream

Rich egg nog ice cream with rum flavoring and spicy nutmeg

Tea-rrific Chunky London Mist Ice Cream

Look, I had no intention of having ice cream for lunch yesterday, I just havent been in the right frame of mind for it lately. The plan was to go to whole foods, grab a few things for my son, and then grab one of those pre-assembled lunches they have with the rotisserie chicken, veggies, and mashed potatoes... but they were out! Ugggg.... but wait, seasonal stuff in the freezer aisle... and sales... and look, Tea-rrific is on sale!

What is Tea-rrific you ask? Well, it's tea infused ice cream out of Connecticut actually. I spied 3 of their flavors back in May and got some positive feedback about it on facebook. The problem was justifying $5.99 for a pint of something that I was afraid I would hate. I actually wound up talking with Mario (who I didn't realize was their president and founder) but I just couldn't mange to get to one of their free summer tastings.

Tea-rrific Chunky London Mist Ice Cream

The malty and citrusy notes of Earl Grey tea with a hint of vanilla, 

rich semi-sweet Belgian chocolate flakes and buttery roasted pecan chunks

Nick's Trip to The Gelato Fiasco

[By Nick] I would like to start this post with a big thanks to everyone over at The Gelato Fiasco for inviting me to Maine last weekend for an amazing time. You see, I have been talking with Josh (one of the founders) about visiting them for awhile now and I finally had a chance to take the trip. If you followed me on Twitter, you would have seen a good portion of what happened already but let's start from the beginning.

Hershey's Midnight Caramel River Ice Cream

The other day I badly needed a kick to get me through the rest of the day, so I headed over to the gas station to grab my beloved Rock Star fruit punch.Well, what do I see out of the corner of my eye? An entire freezer section devoted to Hershey's Ice Cream (it's a pretty big gas station, it also has a Dunkin Donuts). Anyway, Nick's already reviewed two of their flavors with respectable results, so I think it's my turn to dig in.

Hershey's Midnight Caramel River Ice Cream

sweet caramel swirls throughout creamy golden vanilla ice cream

paired with fudgy dark chocolate ice cream

Blue Bunny Sweet Freedom Butter Pecan A Light Ice Cream Review

[By Nick] Seeing as I had a good experience with Turkey Hill's No Sugar Added Butter Pecan light ice cream, I thought I might want to check out some other companies as well. Enter Blue Bunny's Sweet Freedom line.

Blue Bunny Sweet Freedom Butter Pecan 

Butter Pecan Light Ice Cream with Pecans (sweetened with Splenda)

Pierre's Pumpkin Pie Ice Cream Have a Great Thanksgivings Everyone!

Alright, one last pumpkin review to wrap up the fall season (side note: this is a lie, there'll be one more next week). Now I've spent the last several weeks thinking about writing some nice heartfelt post about how we should appreciate every moment of holiday family time. Sure the holidays can seem like a chore but some day you'll be looking back going "remember when grandma cooked that" or "remember when the kids did that" or whatever. Ahhh, I'm too tired to be sentimental, just try to enjoy Thanksgiving and we'll leave it at that. Let's get to the ice cream!

Pierre's Pumpkin Pie Ice Cream

Talenti Old World Eggnog Gelato (#17)

[By Nick, Seasonal] Hi my name is Nick and I hate the holidays. I also hate the fact that companies are putting out so many holiday products before Thanksgiving has even happened. I mean, I was seeing candy canes and fruit cake before Halloween even happened.

So with reluctance, I picked up Talenti Old World Eggnog Gelato.

Brigham's Frozen Pudding Ice Cream

Let's be honest, there's not a whole lot going on in the ice cream world right now. Besides the fine folks of Gelato Fiasco cranking out a ton of new stuff, the next month or two is probably going to be pretty devoid of any new product releases. So what's an ice cream fan to do during these chilly months? Well, wait for crazy products to go on sale ofcourse!

Brigham's Frozen Pudding Ice Cream

Brigham's Ice Cream, rum and fruit pieces
(golden raisins, cherries, peaches, pineapple to be specific)

Belfonte Spumoni Ice Cream

[By Nick] ‎I'd like to start this review by apologizing to Belfonte. They sent me three free containers of ice cream right before I started to move and they never made it with me for some odd reason. Thankfully after a recent trip to visit family, I was able to recover these containers and brought them to their proper home. Now without a further ado, let's look at a flavor I don't think we've ever reviewed on the blog before.

Belfonte Spumoni Ice Cream

Almonds & Fruits Blended in our Cherry Flavored Ice Cream,
Surrounded by our Pistachio & Chocolate Ice Cream

Friendly's Forbidden Chocolate Ice Cream

Ok, this is going to be more of a PSA than a review.... ok, actually it's going to be more of a wish list item then a PSA. See, I was busy toiling away with the breakfast sundae project when I realized I had never actually posted anything about the ice cream I was using.

Friendly's Forbidden Chocolate Ice Cream

Walgreen's Good & Delish Royal Chocolate Fudge Brownie Ice Cream

[By Nick, new for 2012] For some odd reason, I've yet to review any of the super premium ice creams that Walgreens has put out in the past couple of years. Sure, I've covered the more mainstream pints, but I never grabbed the other stuff. I blame them never having the salted caramel butter pecan flavor for this. After being fed up the last time, I decided to grab a couple of the other flavors Dubba has yet to cover. Let's start things off with...

Walgreen's Good & Delish Royal Chocolate Fudge Brownie Ice Cream

fudge brownie pieces in chocolate ice cream swirl

Pierre's Cherries & Chocolate Chunks Ice Cream

Ok, we've already covered two flavors from Pierre's mainstream line up, so now let's dig in to their signature collection. Created in 2012 to celebrate their 80th anniversary, the signature collection is made up of seven super premium ice creams meant to compete with the likes of B&J's and H-D.

Pierre's Cherries & Chocolate Chunks Ice Cream

cherry ice cream, filled with plump, sweet, juicy cherries and chunks of chocolate

Gelato Fiasco Raspberry Truffle Sorbetto

[New for 2014] So if it's late in the day, and you need a flavor that will wake you up but not really weigh you down, then I think gelato fiasco has you covered.

Gelato Fiasco Raspberry Truffle Sorbetto

Intense raspberry with house-made chocolate truffles

Trader Joe's Salted Caramel Gelato

[By Nick] After receiving multiple requests to review this gelato from Trader Joe's, I finally caved in and bought it. It takes a lot for me to buy a base only flavor as you all know. I love my mix-ins and feel there's only so much a base flavor can be on its own. That's said, I've had great luck with other similar base only gelatos from GS Gelato and The Fresh Market so it was only fair I gave Trader Joe's a shot as well.

Trader Joe's Salted Caramel Gelato

Dunkin Donuts Croissant Donuts

Hello Nosh Show listeners! Episode 42 is alive and well and awaiting your listen. We forgo "let's chew on this" in favor of a double sized helping of Nosh or Not. We also recap Marvo's runt-filled Halloween failings and everyone's apparent love of Reeses... or money, we had a bit of trouble agreeing on exactly why Ryan got almost half of your votes.

Since followup was a bit light this week, we took a minute to discuss the new overpriced Croissant Donut from Dunkin Donuts. While it's not a bad product, it's plenty tasty enough, it just reminds me way too much of the larger and cheaper DD coffee roll that I adore (it's a giant glazed cinnamon roll basically). Feel free to try this faux cronut once, but after that, try the coffee roll and you'll see what I mean. You can also check out second opinions at GrubGrade and The Impulsive Buy.

Have a good week everyone!

Perry's Peanut Butter Cup Light Ice Cream

[By Nick] I can't be the only one who has days when they just want to eat a ton of chocolate and peanut butter, right? I mean, it's one of the greatest combinations of all-time. Sadly, it's not the healthiest combo, especially when it comes to ice cream. Dubba always preaches moderation and I try to follow those same guidelines. When I saw that Perry's was offering a "perfectly churned" light version on this combo when I was at the Niskayuna Co-op, I knew I had to pick it up just in case I was having one of those days.

Perry's Peanut Butter Cup Light Ice Cream

light chocolate ice cream with peanut butter swirls

Taco Bell Strawberry Starburst Freeze

[Debuted October 9th, 2014] Hey, sorry for the minimal posts this week, I've been fighting off a stupid cold that has done a pretty good job of killing off my energy as well as my appetite, plus I have that lovely raspy cold voice thing going on. I know I should blog about something new, and well, what's better for a lingering cough then a nice frozen beverage.

Taco Bell Strawberry Starburst Freeze

Steve's Sweet Corn & Blackberry Preserves Ice Cream

[By Nick] Okay, you guys stuck with me for the Balsalmic Fig and Marscapone ice cream from Coolhaus. Now I ask for you to keep an open mind again. I received this pint from my tour of Whole Foods awhile back and mainly decided to grab it because how unique/scary it sounded.

Steve's Sweet Corn & Blackberry Preserves Ice Cream

sweet corn ice cream swirled with blackberry preserves (#83)

Graeters Dark Chocolate Truffle Gelato

[New for 2014] Ok, we still have one last free sample of Graeters gelato to cover.

Graeters Dark Chocolate Truffle Gelato

Dark chocolate gelato is paired with 

dark chocolate truffles that have dark chocolate cream centers

Hershey's Mint Moose Tracks Ice Cream

[By Nick] Halloween is over so it's time to switch from pumpkin overload to mint overload! Let's start things off with a pint I grabbed at the Niskayuna Co-op.

Hershey's Denali Mint Moose Tracks Ice Cream

Mint Ice Cream With Mint Cups And Famous Moose Tracks Fudge

Dean's Happy Birthday Cake Ice Cream

[New for 2014] Back to Donelan's to see if they've restocked their supply of Dean's ice cream... yup, they have, and while I usually shy away from birthday cake flavors, I am beyond starved today (plus it's on sale at $3.99).

Dean's Happy Birthday Cake Ice Cream

cake flavored ice cream with buttercream freckles

(freckles? that's a new one)

Central Market Key Lime Pie Ice Cream

[By Nick] This review is going to be short and sweet. Central Market (Price Chopper) deserves an award for their semi-new Key Lime Pie ice cream because I don't think I've ever had a more boring key lime flavored product in my life. 

Central Market Key Lime Pie Ice Cream

key lime flavored ice cream with graham cracker crust bits

Haagen-Daz Strawberry Dark Chocolate Gelato Bars

[New for 2014, discontinued after 2015] Ok, so I mentioned that there were going to be three new Haagen-Daz gelato bars. There is the excellent vanilla caramel pizzelle bar, we've got the fine tiramisu dark chocolate bar, and now we have....

Haagen-Daz Strawberry Dark Chocolate Gelato Bars

Sweet and creamy Strawberry gelato dipped in rich dark chocolate (and dazzled)

The Nosh Show Episode 41 : Halloween Candy Draft

Hello Nosh Show Listeners! I have returned from my brief hiatus, big thanks to Nick for filling in while I was off dealing with my daily life (being crazy Dubba is so much easier then being the real me). But anyway, let's get this rolling because we've got candy voting to do!

Episode 41 starts with nosh or not which includes the mysterious (aka fake?) red velvet Oreos, last bites to end the show, and then in the middle we've got a Halloween Candy Draft, much like the fast food draft we did with ours buds from the Nerd Lunch in episode 32. Now I know the list below isn't perfect, I forgot some candy bars and not all of them might be in the right category, but if you want to play along at home, make up a team and post it in the comments.

Pick 2 chocolate candy
snickers	milky way	3 musketeers	hershey milk chocolate
Butterfinger	100 grand	baby ruth	hershey special dark
reese cups	Reese nutrageous	Reese pieces	hershey C&C
M&M reg	M&M peanut	M&M minis	hershey candy corn
twix	rolo	kit kat	take 5
whoppers	milk duds	york	heath
pay day	almond joy	mounds	crunch
snickers almond	milky way caramel	snickers PB	3 musketeers mint
oh henry	dove minis	junior mints	raisinets
butterfinger mini mix	reese fast break	5th avenue	skor
Pick 2 fruity (non-chocolate) candy
twizzlers	starburst	sour patch	skittles
life savers gummies	nerds	laffy taffy	skittles sour
fruit roll up	sweetarts	jolly ranchers	mike & ike
jelly belly	starburst candy corn	mentos	hot tamales
pez	runts	peeps	pop rocks
Super cheap bulk candy
peppermints	dum dum pops	tootsie pops	tootsie rolls
DOTS	smarties	blow pops	dubble bubble
swedish fish	taffy	hershey kisses	hershey minis
strawberry bon bons	mary jane	ring pops	sugar daddy/babies
gummy bears	charleston chew	cow tales	razzles
necco wafers	candy necklace	bottle caps	laffy taffy
sixlets	wax stick drinks	fun dip	warheads
Pick 1 non-candy
granola bars	pretzels	candy corn pretzels	choc cov pretzels
fruit snacks	raisins	gold fish	stickers
glow sticks	vampire teeth	pencils	dental products
money	cheeseballs	chips	juice boxes

As a side note, we did have the drafting option to buy either bagged candy or full size candy bars (as if you went down to BJs or Costco and picked up a case of a candy bar). And for the record, I was one of those crazy people that handed out full size candy bars because for a few extra bucks it puts a smile on everyone's face. Unfortunately we don't get trick-or-treaters where we live now, BOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

If you just want to see the final teams and vote, here you go:

Coolhaus Erin Owen-Meal Moss-Capone Ice Cream

[By Nick, New for 2014] I have spoken about my love for the Niskayuna Co-op before and they've won me over once again. On my latest trip, Damian, the frozen foods manager, pulled me aside and informed me that he had just gotten in a shipment of Coolhaus products. To say I was excited was an understatement. Being the awesome guy that he is, he sent me home with all 4 products for free. Words cannot describe how great this store is to me.

Coolhaus Erin Owen-Meal Moss-Capone Ice Cream

Balsamic fig & mascarpone ice cream

Pierre's Cinnamon Ice Cream

I was worried this ice cream might be gritty like that annoying Batch version I had, but that's not the problem here. The texture is that of a fine mainstream ice cream. No no, we have a much bigger problem my friends. See, I have one question for you... do you like Atomic Fireballs?

Pierre's Cinnamon Ice Cream

cinnamon flavored ice cream

Breyers Salted Caramel Frozen Dairy Dessert

[By Nick, New for 2014] Back when I was on the look out for Breyers Peppermint Cookie flavor, I happened to stumble across another new flavor instead.

Breyers Salted Caramel Frozen Dairy Dessert

salted caramel flavor with other natural flavors and a salted caramel swirl

Gelato Fiasco Red Flannel Whoopie Pie Gelato

[New for Fall 2014] So the fine folks at gelato fiasco have hooked us up with a bunch of free samples. First we covered the potent pumpkin pie flavor, but now it's time to cover something that is.... I think mesmerizing is a good word. Let's check it out.

Gelato Fiasco Red Flannel Whoopie Pie Gelato

cream cheese gelato checkered with red velvet cake and "buttons" of  chocolate chips

Hood Pumpkin Pie Ice Cream

[By Nick, New for Fall 2014] And Hood is the next company to jump on the pumpkin wagon this fall with their latest limited edition flavor. To be honest, I don't have much of an intro for this product. I'm basically all pumpkined out at this point and Halloween isn't even here yet. Let's just get right into this.

Hood Pumpkin Pie Ice Cream

pumpkin ice cream swirled with pie crust pieces

Blue Bunny Birthday Party Ice Cream

That's it, I give up trying to review this next flavor. Every time I buy it, my daughter makes it disappear before I can get an official taste test on it. Oh, I've sampled it several times since summer started, and it's even been in sundaes, but I never remember to take notes. I've now bought this at least four times now and it disappears every time. Pretty sure this is my daughter's #2 flavor (cookies & cream being #1 ofcourse). Why did I "waste" my time trying an old flavor? Well, we've covered the ice cream sandwich version, and then we covered the mini champs version, so I thought it was about time we took a look at the actual ice cream.

Blue Bunny Birthday Party Ice Cream

white cake flavored ice cream with confetti shaped candy pieces and a blue frosting ribbon

"Dubba, ummm, why are those next to the ice cream?" Cause I'm crazy, that's why! And, despite waiting to post this review until there is absolutely no chance of you finding these crazy cotton candy balls, I still need to show you a neat trick I learned.

Cold Stone Creamery Mud Pie Mojo Signature Creation

[By Nick] With my recent move away from the middle of nowhere, I now find myself with a lot of awesome food places within a reasonable distance. For example, Cold Stone Creamery. Now I've been to Coldstone a few times in my life and I know all about making my own combination of stuff. Seeing as a lot of people opt to just go with one of their Signature Creations, I thought why not start reviewing them for the site? I mean a lot of them sound awesome but the one that stood out to me the most was their Mudpie Mojo.

Cold Stone Creamery Mud Pie Mojo Signature Creation

Coffee Ice Cream with OREO Cookies, Peanut Butter, Roasted Almonds and Fudge

Haagen Dazs Tiramisu Dark Chocolate Gelato Bar

[2014-2016] Now I'm no tiramisu expert, and I'm definitely not a coffee expert, but I gotta say, I think you're going to like these new gelato bars (don't forget that I've already fallen in love with the vanilla caramel pizzelle version)

Haagen Dazs Tiramisu Dark Chocolate Gelato Bar

bold and complex tiramisu gelato dipped in rich dark chocolate (and dazzled)

Ciao Bella Brown Sugar Caramel Gelato

[By Nick] Hello everyone, Nick here. Due to uncontrollable circumstances, I had to fill in for Dubba on this week's episode of the Nosh Show. I know you're disappointed but give Episode 40 a listen anyway. Marvo, Ryan, Eric and I discuss if we'd nosh some new candy from Mars, talk about food crossovers and as then wrap up with last bites which include Red Bull's legal settlement. Leave me some feedback on what you thought of my job filling in. That said, Dubba will be back for the next episode so you'll soon be getting your usual fill of rants and funny sounds.

Ciao Bella Brown Sugar Caramel Gelato

Gelato Fiasco Pumpkin Pie Gelato

[Fall 2014 only] The very fine folks over at Gelato Fiasco asked if I was interested in their new fall and holiday lineups.... like they even had to ask! I love their stuff, Nick loves their stuff, so let's jump right in to the most appropriate flavor to start with.

Gelato Fiasco Pumpkin Pie Gelato

New England pumpkin with cinnamon, clove, allspice,
molasses, ginger, and nutmeg, and a gingersnap crust