Contents
Brand
Flavor
Rating
7 of 10
Review
Vanilla Bean Ice Cream: Sweet, smooth, and creamy. A distinct flavor of vanilla and dairy. The quality I’ve come to expect from Haagen-Dazs, which is to say premium. Where the chocolate frosting mix-in is present, the flavor leans towards chocolate milk—probably because the “chocolate frosting” tastes more like Hershey’s chocolate syrup than frosting.
Soft Cookie Pieces: Plain cookie pellets. The ingredients describe them as shortbread, which is fair I suppose. The ingredients also include lemon oil in the cookies, and I think I could taste it. The cookies are the right consistency and bland flavor for a black and white cookie. The texture is soft, not soggy, which is good. They aren’t very sweet. A sufficient amount of this mix-in—one cookie pellet on most every spoon.
Chocolate Frosting Ripples: As mentioned above, this is more chocolate syrup than chocolate frosting. It lacks the texture and thickness of a frozen frosting. And it tastes exactly like Hershey’s chocolate syrup. I’m not one to turn my nose up at chocolate syrup, but I do feel a bit disappointed that it wasn’t more of a thicker chocolate frosting. There’s no vanilla frosting, but I guess that’s covered by the vanilla bean ice cream. But it could have been fun to have both chocolate and vanilla frosting swirls. Disappointing.
Overall: Haagen-Dazs’s Black and White Cookie is a missed opportunity. I think this flavor could be a big success if executed well. This pint consists of a pretty good vanilla base with what tastes like a Hershey’s chocolate syrup swirl and a fair amount of bland shortbread cookie pellets. It’s not bad. But black and white cookies are covered with chocolate and vanilla frosting—and his pint specifically claims it includes chocolate frosting ripple.
So: where’s the frosting? I have it on good authority that chocolate syrup is not chocolate frosting. This could have been epic with gobs of the promised frosting. Instead, we got a half-hearted effort. HD said “Well, close enough. Ship it.” Nope. HD: please reformulate this recipe and try again. I’m telling you people love their black and white cookies and if you did a better approximation of it, people would clamor for it. But there’s no clamor for this lame pint. 7.5
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Front blurb
Haagen-Dazs Black & White Cookie Ice Cream
Back blurb
Inspired by New York’s classic Black & White cookie, we mixed vanilla bean ice cream with soft cookie pieces and ripples of chocolate frosting. Forget the cookie and grab your spoon.
Calories
- 2.5 servings per container
- Serving size: 2/3 cup
- Calories per serving: 410
- Calories per container: 1025
Ingredients
Cream, Skim Milk, Sugar, Fudge Frosting Swirl (Sweetened Condensed Milk [Milk, Sugar] Sugar, Water, Coconut Oil, Cocoa Processed With Alkali, Butter [Cream, Salt], Chocolate, Natural Flavor, Salt), Shortbread Cookie Pieces (Wheat Flour, Butter [Cream, Salt], Sugar, Eggs, Salt, Lemon Oil), Egg Yolks, Vanilla Extract, Ground Vanilla Beans.
Contains: Milk, Egg, And Wheat Ingredients.
Purchase Location
QFC
Price
$3.99
Books
Need to know how Häagen-Dazs does it? Get the Häagen-Dazs cookbooks:
The Haagen-Dazs Book of Ice Cream and
The Emperor of Ice Cream: The True Story of Haagen-Dazs.
Related
Psst! You can make ice cream like Häagen-Dazs at home. Here’s the Haagen-Dazs secret ice cream base recipe! (Spoilers: they use 6 egg yolks and heat the base twice!)
