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Rating
8 of 10
Review
Buttercream Ice Cream: A rich, smooth, creamy, buttery base. Above all: it’s sweet. Many Jeni’s bases include cream cheese—and that’s true of this one as well. But I’m not really tasting cream cheese, let alone buttercream—just sweetness, a cake batter sweetness, if anything. Regardless, I enjoyed it because I was in the mood for something rich and decadent.
Spongy Yellow Cake: Small, crumbled bits of cake. There was something off in their texture, perhaps because the cake was gluten-free. It wasn’t a sponge cake texture—too crumbly to be a sponge cake. The flavor was bland, nonspecific. There wasn’t much of this mix-in in my pint.
Rainbow and Rosette Sprinkles: These were multicolored candy sprinkles, some thin and long, others round and flat. If they have a flavor other than “sugar” I can’t taste it. They did add a lot of sweetness to the ice cream and fun, crunchy texture. They weren’t dissolved into the base at all. The pint was absolutely packed with sprinkles, so there was plenty on every spoonful.
Overall: Jeni’s Buttercream Birthday Cake is rich birthday cake flavor that doesn’t skimp on the sprinkles.
Jeni’s describes the pint as “Buttercream ice cream that’s rich with notes of vanilla and butter and has a decadent, spoon-coating, icing-like texture. Spongy, pale yellow (gluten-free!) cake pieces lend crumbly, moist cake texture. And, just for fun, two kids of sprinkles — rainbow and rosette — and lots of them.”
I enjoyed the base. I couldn’t really taste butter or vanilla or buttercream frosting in the base—it tasted to me like a very sweet cake batter flavor, and I was loving it.
The cake pieces were disappointing though, probably because they were gluten-free. They were small, crumbly, and lacked flavor. And there weren’t too many of them. This pint could be improved simply by including real cake chunks.
The sprinkles were fun and there were plenty of them. While they didn’t add any flavor other than sweetness, I welcomed their crunchy texture. They helped make up for the lack of cake chunks.
For me, it was an enjoyable pint because I have a major sweet tooth, even though the cake chunks could have been better. 8/10.
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Front blurb
Jeni’s Ice Cream Buttercream Birthday Cake
Buttercream frosting, golden cake, and a rainbow of sprinkles.
Back blurb
Let’s rewind to the era of real buttercream worthy of a once-a-year celebration. Spongy, pale yellow cake. Bouffant-high buttercream frosting. Blue and pink rosettes all over. It’s high time these perfect, pastel-hued, tiered confections stop living in our imaginations and cartoons. This is what a birthday cake should taste like. Don’t call it a comeback. Call it a return to glory.
Calories
- 3 servings per container
- Serving size: 2/3 cup
- Calories per serving: 310
- Calories per container: 930
Ingredients
Cheese (Pasteurized Milk and Cream, Salt, Carob Bean Gum, Cheese Culture), Tapioca Syrup, Sugar, Cream, Sea Salt, Citric Acid], Rainbow Sprinkles [Sugar, Palm Kernel Oil, Palm Oil, Corn Starch, Beet Juice (Color), Vegetable Juice (Color), Annatto Extract (Color), Spirulina Extract (Color), Turmeric (Color), Beta-Carotene (Color), Paprika Oleoresin (Color), Sunflower Lecithin, Maltodextrin, Carnauba Wax, Cellulose Gum], Cake [Gluten Free Flour (Sweet White Rice Flour, Whole Grain Brown Rice Flour, Potato Starch, Whole Grain Sweet White Sorghum Flour, Tapioca Flour, Xanthan Gum), Eggs, Cane Sugar, Brown Sugar, Unsalted Butter (Pasteurized Cream, Natural Flavors), Egg Yolk (Egg Yolk, Sugar), Vanilla Extract, Baking Powder (Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Sodium Bicarbonate, Corn Starch, Monocalcium Phosphate), Salt], Tapioca Syrup, Flower Sprinkles [Sugar, Rice Flour, Palm Oil, Palm Kernel Oil, Corn Starch, Cellulose Gum, Carrageenan, Spirulina (Color)], Natural Flavors, Sea Salt.
Contains: Milk, Egg. GLUTEN FREE
Purchase Location
Whole Foods
Price
$10.29
Books
Need to know how Jeni’s Ice Cream does it?
Get Jeni’s cookbooks: Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams at Home
and Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream Desserts.
Related
Psst! You can make ice cream like Jeni’s at home. Here’s Jeni’s secret ice cream base recipe! (Spoiler: her secret ingredients are cornstarch and three tablespoons of cream cheese!)
