Post by thesolution on Dec 27, 2015 20:02:41 GMT -5
Ample Hills The Raw Deal:
Ample Hills The Raw Deal is labeled as "Vanilla ice cream with chocolate flakes and homemade brown butter chocolate cookie dough". This description was a bit enticing to say the least. As most cookie dough ice creams provide a basic vanilla ice cream and cookie dough, Ample Hills decided to use a brown butter cookie dough. Adding in chocolate flakes is like a coldstone creation to fix everything you want in your own cookie dough creation. The question is will brown butter take away from the cookie dough flavoring? Will the chocolate flakes be a worthwhile inclusion? lets find out.
First off a vanilla base is either hit or miss on the ice cream market. Since Vanilla is one of the most used flavors for ice creams, you wonder how many ways you can replicate it. It is really hard to find a vanilla that can really top Graeter's when it comes to a pure, luscious, and sweet tasting vanilla based ice cream. Ample Hills Vanilla has the thin consistency similar to a gelato that provides a creamy, delicious, and soft vanilla based ice cream. The vanilla is not overpowering, but packs a powerful aftertaste that is enjoyable.
Now onto the chocolate flakes and homemade brown butter chocolate cookie dough. If you ever had had Jeni's Brown Butter Almond Brittle you may have had a Brown Butter experience before. Right away in my first bite I got a massive cookie dough ball that has a surmounting brown butter flavor. You get that butteriness you’d associate with Butter Pecan but it has more depth and sweetness to it. Combine that with the flavoring of a pure cookie dough you would buy in a grocery store makes it a killer 1-2 combination. The chocolate flakes are similar to shattered chocolate bars scattered throughout the pint.
Being a cookie dough fan, I have to rank this one towards the top of my all-time favorites. It is hard to crown something above Handel's CCCD & 2nd Street Cookie Dough as a basic cookie dough offering, but this brought the heat. Ample Hills again brings a ton of mix-ins, and a delicious creamy base of ice cream. As the vanilla ice cream melts on your spoon you are left with thick globs of cookie dough in every single bite. The size of the cookie dough mix-ins begins to overpower the amount of ice cream in every single bite. The ratio of mix-ins to ice cream tends to slide in favor of mix-ins after breaking the initial layer of ice cream. Cookie Dough fans that love brown butter will want to scoop this in seconds.
Grade: A-
Found: GoldBelly.com (LemonBar159 = 15% off)
Ample Hills The Raw Deal is labeled as "Vanilla ice cream with chocolate flakes and homemade brown butter chocolate cookie dough". This description was a bit enticing to say the least. As most cookie dough ice creams provide a basic vanilla ice cream and cookie dough, Ample Hills decided to use a brown butter cookie dough. Adding in chocolate flakes is like a coldstone creation to fix everything you want in your own cookie dough creation. The question is will brown butter take away from the cookie dough flavoring? Will the chocolate flakes be a worthwhile inclusion? lets find out.
First off a vanilla base is either hit or miss on the ice cream market. Since Vanilla is one of the most used flavors for ice creams, you wonder how many ways you can replicate it. It is really hard to find a vanilla that can really top Graeter's when it comes to a pure, luscious, and sweet tasting vanilla based ice cream. Ample Hills Vanilla has the thin consistency similar to a gelato that provides a creamy, delicious, and soft vanilla based ice cream. The vanilla is not overpowering, but packs a powerful aftertaste that is enjoyable.
Now onto the chocolate flakes and homemade brown butter chocolate cookie dough. If you ever had had Jeni's Brown Butter Almond Brittle you may have had a Brown Butter experience before. Right away in my first bite I got a massive cookie dough ball that has a surmounting brown butter flavor. You get that butteriness you’d associate with Butter Pecan but it has more depth and sweetness to it. Combine that with the flavoring of a pure cookie dough you would buy in a grocery store makes it a killer 1-2 combination. The chocolate flakes are similar to shattered chocolate bars scattered throughout the pint.
Being a cookie dough fan, I have to rank this one towards the top of my all-time favorites. It is hard to crown something above Handel's CCCD & 2nd Street Cookie Dough as a basic cookie dough offering, but this brought the heat. Ample Hills again brings a ton of mix-ins, and a delicious creamy base of ice cream. As the vanilla ice cream melts on your spoon you are left with thick globs of cookie dough in every single bite. The size of the cookie dough mix-ins begins to overpower the amount of ice cream in every single bite. The ratio of mix-ins to ice cream tends to slide in favor of mix-ins after breaking the initial layer of ice cream. Cookie Dough fans that love brown butter will want to scoop this in seconds.
Grade: A-
Found: GoldBelly.com (LemonBar159 = 15% off)