DQ Snickerdoodle Cookie Dough Blizzard

[New for September 2018 - Blizzard of the month for October 2018]
Alrightly, Dairy Queen's new blizzard menu went active this weekend. Now the unsurprising thing is that the Pumpkin Pie blizzard is the blizzard of the month. It's excellent if you have never tried it and it seems like it should basically be called the blizzard of the season at this point. That said, the rest of the limited offerings are pretty diverse. One, the excellent Reese's Outrageous blizzard stays on the menu awhile longer. Two, the Oreo Hot Cocoa (from Nov 2017) and the Dipped Strawberry Blizzard made with Ghirardelli (from Feb 2018) are back. Lastly, we have an actual new blizzard and I will just skip ahead and say it's pretty good.

2018 Dairy Queen Fall Menu

DQ Snickerdoodle Cookie Dough Blizzard

snickerdoodle cookie dough with cinnamon sugar blended with vanilla soft serve

The funny thing is that this blizzard starts off fairly tame looking but actually has a fair amount of cinnamon bite (aka it tastes a bit like a cinnamon fireball). It's not crazy hot or anything, but my serving certainly had some kick to it. Despite how pretty cinnamon swirls may look, I did my best to mix the blizzard up a bit more to take a little of the spicy edge off.

As I got further down, my blizzard now looks more uniform in color (beige with lots of cinnamon specs), but the cookie dough helps balance everything out. I know every blizzard is different unfortunately, but there was a figurative ton of cookie dough bits as the bottom of this, and yes, they are definitely snickerdoodle bites and not some generic bland cookie dough bite. By the end of my small blizzard, I was getting three or four bites on every spoonful. Yeah, it was fun.

This is definitely a case of a blizzard growing on me. As the server handed me my blizzard, she said it was now her favorite blizzard, so that kind of elevated my expectations a bit and for the most part, I say it delivered.

Now, with all those nice things said, I will say that it seems a little risky to make such a bold blizzard. On one hand, it's nice to see them get out of their comfort zone (don't think we've ever had a fireball blizzard), but on the other hand, I know I am very unlikely to try this one again. Sure, maybe my server was a little heavy handed with the cinnamon, but I don't think I'll have the urge to go repeat purchase on this one.

On Second Scoop: I tried this again in December because I was hungry and cinnamon sounded like it would hit the spot... and it did. The second blizzard was definitely prepared better and had a ton of cookies (though I think a bit of cinnamon heat was coming from them). I definitely preferred this blizzard in the less bold state (still might be safest to get a small one though).

Verdict?  bold
Buy Again?  unlikely