Serendipity Unicorn Bliss Sundae Ice Cream

[New for Early 2020, was still online in early 2024 >> relaunching for 2025!] 

So this first came out right before everything got crazy so I had honestly kind of forgotten about it... until now. The freezer aisle continues to be fairly barren in my area, but I got lucky at Stop & Shop and picked up...

Serendipity Unicorn Bliss Sundae Ice Cream

vanilla flavored ice cream with pink and blue cookie dough pieces and a glittery swirl

Serendipity Forbidden Broadway Sundae Ice Cream Serendipity Frrrozen Hot Chocolate Ice Cream

[Frrrozen Hot Chocolate is relaunching in 2025!] 

Alrighty, there are still a few Serendipity reviews sitting in the review that I should really clear out before the new 2020 stuff starts showing up on store shelves. Please remember that these were free samples so take my brief review as you so choose.

Serendipity Forbidden Broadway Sundae Ice Cream

chocolate flavored ice cream with brownie pieces and fudge swirls

Serendipity Frrrozen Hot Chocolate Ice Cream
hot chocolate flavored ice cream with whipped cream, swirl and chocolate shavings

Serendipity Strawberry Fields Sundae Ice Cream

[New for early 2019, relaunching in 2025!] 

When I was talking to Seredipity's PR firm amount sampling the three new flavors that popped out for the fall, I couldn't help but mention the tough luck I've had finding the original flavors. Granted I'm not hunting this year like I have in years past, but I still should have come across something by now.

I decided to try Strawberry first because... well, I don't know why. I guess I didn't want a saltier flavor after my salty lunch, so in we go. (note: this was my first review but I didn't post it first)

Serendipity Strawberry Fields Sundae Ice Cream

strawberry ice cream with strawberries and cheesecake pieces

Serendipity Birthday Cake Ice Cream

[New for 2019 - relaunching in 2025!] 

Another free sample to review, and heads up, it's good!

Serendipity Birthday Cake Ice Cream

cake flavored ice cream with swirls of pink frosting,
cake pieces and sprinkles

Serendipity Vanilla Vogue Ice Cream

[New for early 2019 - relaunching as Vanilla Vanilla in 2025!] 

So I still have several Serendipity reviews to post but the pictures were a big (and sometimes blurry) mess. My goal for this past weekend was to get all my Serendipity reviews straightened out. I didn't prep everything, but I can move forward. Where will I start? Well, I do love me a good vanilla ice cream. I usually have all natural Turkey Hill vanilla bean ice cream as my last snack of the day, but let's see how well this can take its place.

Serendipity Vanilla Vogue Ice Cream

vanilla ice cream flavored with Madagascar Vanilla

Serendipity Cafe Espresso Chip Ice Cream Serendipity Outrageous Banana Split Ice Cream

Since I got a double order of free Serendipity samples, I brought about half of them to work. Sometimes I would bring just one pint of a certain flavor, but sometimes I would bring both pints. I did it for Humble Pie and then also for....

Serendipity Cafe Espresso Chip Ice Cream
Serendipity Outrageous Banana Split Ice Cream

Cafe Espresso Chip is coffee ice cream with chocolate chunks and it disappeared quickly... like so quickly that I didn't get to try a scoop of it or grab a photo of it. I don't have an opinion for you, but three of my co-workers took the time to tell me that they really enjoyed it so if this one tempts you, I'm pretty sure that it's safe to purchase.

banana flavored ice cream with fudge swirls, walnuts and strawberries

Outrageous Banana Split did not receive the same kind of love. It was in fact the last pint to leave the freezer (at least I think someone finally finished it). I know a lot of people love a good banana flavor, and after my small sampling I would call this a good banana flavor, but there are a ton of people out there who don't care for banana ice cream. Sorry, it's just reality. It has a nice ripe banana bread flavoring, so if that interests you, I say give it a try.

Verdict?  Coffee won the popularity contest, but Banana was still tasty.

Serendipity Humble Pie Ice Cream

[New for early 2019, faded away in 2024] Time to dig in to another free sample pint of Serendipity. This time I will dig in to the one I had the highest hopes for...

Serendipity  Humble Pie Ice Cream

Peanut Butter Ice Cream with Peanut Butter Swirls,
Chocolate Chunks and Graham Pieces

Serendipity Dulce de Leche Ice Cream

[New for Fall 2019, faded away] So my big plan here was to reveal all three new Serendipity flavors in a row. (When you get free samples like this, it just seems like the right thing to do).

Serendipity Dulce de Leche Ice Cream

caramel flavored ice cream with salty caramel swirl

Serendipity Very Cherry Chunk Ice Cream

[New for Fall 2019, faded away] Time to dig in to the second of the new Serendipity flavors (provided courtesy of their PR firm). I don't scoop cherry ice cream that often, but I do enjoy it when it's executed well. Let's see if this one can stand out from the crowd.

Serendipity Very Cherry Chunk Ice Cream

vanilla ice cream with cherries and chocolatey chunks

Serendipity Salty Caramel Pretzel Ice Cream

[New for Fall 2019, faded away in 2024] There are three new flavors from Serendipity that should be hitting your store shelves soon. I was fortunate enough to receive free samples so let's jump in to the one that got my attention (because it has "pretzel" in the name!).

Serendipity Salty Caramel Pretzel Ice Cream

vanilla ice cream with chocolatey covered pretzel bits
and salty caramel swirl

Serendipity Ice Cream Cakes

Of all the free samples Serendipity sent over, I've decided to cover the cakes first because...  well, because I want to. I do love ice cream cake but I feel like Carvel's quality has been slipping the last few times I've had it. I wouldn't say no to Carvel, but I want more. Can Serendipity take over as my go to ice cream cake? Let's find out!

Serendipity Ice Cream Cakes

Serendipity Ice Cream

2025: Serendipity is relaunching in 2025 with 5 bars and 9 flavors! New flavors include apple pie churro and sundae scaries.

2024 Update: I can still find a half dozen flavors at my local Shaw's, and I can find some flavors online, but I have the feeling that it's the end of the road for these pints. 

Note: they did redo some packaging around 2021 when they released some pop culture flavors.

You know what I got delivered last week? Two giant containers of ice cream. I was expecting free samples of the newest Serendipity flavors but what I got was their entire line up of 11 flavors plus samples of their two new ice cream cakes. I'm lucky to have gotten the samples I have over the years, but never have I gotten this much ice cream. I didn't know where to start and it's going to take a bit of time to get everything posted, so here's a tease of what's in the freezer.

The three newest flavors are Salty Caramel Pretzel, Dulce de Leche, and Very Cherry Chunk. I do love pretzel flavors so I'll probably crack that one open first.

Yes, I was hoping Serendipity would a couple extra pints along with the three promised ones, but never did I expect ice cream cake. In retrospect, it explains why the shipping containers were so huge. Am I excited for these? Ofcourse I am! I love that one is actually birthday cake flavored. Only one other time have I seen cake flavored ice cream cake (seen here in my Jon Donaire review). The Frozen Hot Chocolate one should be good too. I am very excited to review these and see what's inside. Hopefully the review for both will be up on Sunday.

Who doesn't love irony right? While I was waiting for my delivery of free samples, I finally found Serendipity at my local Hannaford (Food Lion). The only pint missing from this shot is the Vanilla Vogue Flavor. I did a quick instagram post with this shot and Birthday Cake got the most love, followed by Humble Pie. I didn't know what was headed my way, but it's a good thing I held off for my shipment before picking any of these up.

....so did anyone catch the fact that I said two large containers? See there was a little shipping snafu and I got a double delivery. Super lucky right? Well, I still felt kind of guilty about it so I brought a bunch of extra pints in to my office. So far I've gotten nothing but positive reviews and at least three of my coworkers have gone back to try a second flavor.

Stay tuned for a lot of Serendipity reviews coming up (and some other stuff too!)