Contents
Brand
Flavor
Rating
6 of 10
Review
The Coolhaus website describes this pint as: Salted Tahitian vanilla bean ice cream, graham cracker cookie butter marshmallow swirl, dark chocolate squares.
But to the contrary, the pint front identifies the flavor as: Vanilla marshmallow ice cream with chocolate squares and a graham marshmallow swirl.
Ice Cream Base: Thick, creamy, rich, mildly sweet. Flecks of vanilla are plentiful everywhere in this pint. No salt or marshmallow flavors are detected, however. And it’s a mild vanilla despite all those vanilla bean flecks—a vanilla largely obscured and overwhelmed by the caramel swirl flavor. The vanilla peaks through only when I isolate the base on my spoon without the caramel or chocolate mix-ins.
The Swirl: The swirls is a buttery caramel with a rich cinnamon flavor. No marshmallow flavor or graham cracker cookie butter flavor detected in the swirl, regardless of the claims on the pint and website. It’s a very sweet and bold swirl, but mostly found only on the top and sides of the pint. Despite its liquid texture, the swirl hasn’t dissolved into the base—so quite successful as a caramel swirl. It has a strong cinnamon flavor which tends to flavor the bland base well. There wasn’t too much swirl in my serving, but it had a strong flavor that went a long way.
Dark Chocolate Squares: Crispy dark chocolate chunks. Thicker, richer, more bitter than a typical ganache. They don’t melt in the mouth very easily. About 1/4 inch square pieces, though some are smaller pieces. A moderate amount of them, but less than what you get from Ben & Jerry’s or Graeter’s.
Overall: Coolhaus Campfire S’mores is not a s’mores flavor because it lacks marshmallow and graham cracker mix-ins or flavors. The front pint blurb identifies the flavor as: “Vanilla marshmallow ice cream with chocolate squares and a graham marshmallow swirl.” To further confuse the matter, the Coolhaus website suggests the pint contains: “Salted Tahitian vanilla bean ice cream, graham cracker cookie butter marshmallow swirl, dark chocolate squares.”
To my taste, salt is entirely missing in action. There’s no marshmallow flavor to the base. And while the flecks of vanilla bean are plentiful, the vanilla taste is fairly subtle, easily overwhelmed by the swirl’s flavor. The swirl is a delicious dark cinnamon caramel, thick on the pint top and sides, mostly absent from the middle of the pint. But Coolhaus promised some variation of “graham cracker cookie butter marshmallow swirl” and the swirl isn’t that. Caramel is not marshmallow, and, yes, I can tell the difference at this point.
The dark chocolate squares are crispy and bitter—a good, standard mix-in, if not overly generous in amount. So to sum up: this is a pint of vanilla ice cream with chocolate chunks and a cinnamon caramel swirl—which is fine, but not the ingredients for s’mores. 6/10.
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Front Blurb
Coolhaus Campfire S’mores
Vanilla marshmallow ice cream with chocolate squares and a graham marshmallow swirl
Back Blurb
ABOUT THIS FLAVOR
It’s also known as ‘Julia S’ more-gan’ after our hero, architect Julia Morgan. She was the first woman to be admitted to the architecture program at l’Ecole nationale superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and the first woman architect licensed in California. She designed more than 700 buildings in California during her prolific career including institutions serving women and is best known for her epic work on Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California.
Calories
- 3 servings per container
- Serving size: 2/3 cup
- Calories per serving: 290
- Calories per container: 870
Ingredients
Milk, Cream, Organic Cane Sugar, Nonfat Milk, Non-GMO Marshmallow Graham Swirl (Invert Sugar, Enriched Wheat Flour [Wheat Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid], Malted Barley Flour, Canola Oil, Dextrose, RSPO-Certified Palm Oil, Powdered Sugar [Sugar, Corn Starch], Honey, Caramel Color, Natural Flavor, Molasses, Salt, Baking Soda, Titanium Dioxide, Sunflower Lecithin), Chocolate Chunks (Sugar Chocolate Liquor, Cocoa Butter, Vanilla Extract), Vanilla Bean, Salt, Guar Gum, Carob Bean Gum, Acacia Gum.
Contains: Milk, Wheat, Coconut, Soy. Made in a facility that also processes nuts, tree nuts and peanuts.
Purchase Location
Amazon Fresh
Price
$4.19
Books
Need to know how Coolhaus does it? Get Coolhaus’s cookbook: Coolhaus Ice Cream Book: Custom-Built Sandwiches with Crazy-Good Combos of Cookies, Ice Creams, Gelatos, and Sorbets.
Related
Psst! You can make ice cream like Coolhaus at home. Here’s Coolhaus’s secret ice cream base recipe! (Spoiler: their secret ingredient is 8 egg yolks for an extra rich base!)
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Last Updated on September 2, 2022 by Ice Cream Admin
