Walgreens Cake Batter Ice Cream

Yet another busy day. I didn't get to take a break until after 2:30 ...ok, technically I've been thinking about ice cream since about 10:30. I decided to head out for a pint of Walgreens goodiness. Actually, let me be more specific. I know Walgreens makes a respectable ice cream, but can they nail the flavor down right?

Walgreens Cake Batter Ice Cream

Cake Batter Flavored Ice Cream with Thick Fudge Icing

Oreo Ice Cream from Uhlman's

I'm sorry to say I made one of my final Uhlman's trips today (well, unless we stop this weekend). For several minutes, I've been debating to give the good news or the bad/good news first: let's go good news, this is an ice cream blog after all.

Ok, beautiful day, Uhlman's last day of the season is Monday, and I could use some ice cream. I wanted to keep the new flavor streak alive, so I put away the urge for Milky Way and went with Oreo. I knew they wouldn't let me down, and they didn't. A fantastic Vanilla with plenty of fresh Oreo cookie chunks that have been fantastically blended throughout. As always, I am very pleased with my purchase.

Ok, now for bad/good news: Two weeks ago I mentioned having a "rough day". The division I watch over got a new owner, and while I was told my job was secure, they changed their minds and I got laid off by my division ...but thanks to my very cool boss, I was then immediately rehired by our corporate office. Today was actually the first (and probably only) day I went back since the layoff and it was kinda weird. It wasn't easy going back, I think I earned my ice cream treat today. I would just like to say, good fortune and paychecks to us all in the coming months.

(Again, VERY BIG THANKS to my boss)

Topping of the Week: Nesquik

I keep forgetting to pick a topping of the week, so today I go with one of my very favorites: Nesquik! Oh the memories. I use to be addicted to putting Nesquik powder, crushed Chips Ahoy, and whip cream on my ice cream. Mmmm, my very own sundae every night of the week.

It's funny, because only recently have I switched to Nesquik Syrup. I decided to choclify my Chocolate Pretzel Ice cream and see how it tasted. And just like I did when i was a kid ...I added way too much chocolate. You would think I would know better by now. No worries (and no wasting!)

Happy National Frappe Day

Yes, time for another pointless food holiday! My question is: does this mean the same to everyone across the country? Around here in New England, everyone will think this is a milkshake day. Everywhere else? they may be enjoying a chilled coffee drink today. Hmmmmm, maybe this is a pointless post.....

2009 Update: Geez, it's national frappe day again, oh boy!! technically one site says the 4th, but I really think it's today, the 7th.

Hey, since you're here, why not check out the rest of the site.

Breyer's Vanilla & Almond Light Ice Cream Bar

Update: These Double Churn bars are now Carb Smart bars

Breyer's Vanilla & Almond Double Churn Light Ice Cream Bars

light vanilla ice cream with milk chocolate flavored coating and almonds

Dubba's Peppermint Patty Ice Cream

Not sure what came over me, but I suddenly got hit with an idea: York peppermint patties in ice cream! I mentioned in my Andes Ice Cream review that I prefer good old (1940) York peppermint patties. Maybe I just wanted to play with the blender. As you can see, the blender results are quite interesting: the chocolate spreads over the little chunks that are created.

Dubba's Peppermint Patty Ice Cream Recipe

1 Cup of Heavy Cream (finally!)

1.5 Cups of 2% milk

6 Peppermint patties

2.5 tablespoons of cocoa

(5) tablespoons of cane sugar

a few squirts of dark chocolate

I blended the peppermint patties first to see what would happened. They got pretty warm and clumped together, but overall came out good. In a bowl went a cup of heavy cream (so fattening) and a cup of 2% milk. Then we added cocoa and the peppermint patties. Strangely enough, the very cold cream and milk made the peppermint patties very hard, so i had to manually break them all apart, but at least they aren't sticking together anymore (so If you give this recipe a try, watch the chunk temperature).

Almost forgot the sugar, through in some cane sugar (not too much, there's already sugar in the peppermint patties). We were all set, so into the Ice-20 it goes. The high fat content made it solidify very quickly. It also tasted good, but I decided to back off the peppermint flavor a bit by adding another half cup of milk in. To compensate, I threw in the last of the dark chocolate syrup to keep the chocolate/peppermint balance similar to that of the original candy.

Overall, I like it, it's way more pleasant and mellow than that Andes ice cream. I don't want to be overpowered, I just want a cool, pleasant flavor. The only downside is the patty pieces got a bit chewy, but this may be avoidable (again, watch your temps and see what happens).

On Second Scoop: I still really like the flavor. The texture is better than usual, but still feels like the water content is too high (it's more crunchy than smooth)

Nutrition: 206/137/0.5/2
(heavy cream means most of that 137 calories is saturated fat)

Walgreens Waffle Cone Ice Cream

You know, if you put Waffle Cone in the name of your ice cream, you should be VERY sure it actually tastes like a waffle cone. You guessed it, I am disappointed with this ice cream. It's not that it's bad, it's just that it doesn't even come close to living up to it's name.

Walgreens Waffle Cone Ice Cream

Vanilla flavored ice cream with chocolate coated waffle cones, 

chocolate peanuts, and chocolate and caramel swirls. 

Breyer's Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough An Ice Cream Review

Wow, where oh where have you been my old friend? It's been awhile since I had Breyer's cookie dough where the base ice cream actually tasted like vanilla. I don't know what it was, but every container I bought seemed to be made with some sort of bleach white, bland substance. Yes, finally a batch that tastes like I remember. The base vanilla was actually off-white and tasted of vanilla to boot! Amazing! It wasn't perfect, but it was 20 times better than the last several containers.

Nutrition: 160 / 70-5 / 0 / 2