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Brand
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Rating
7 of 10
Review
Disclaimer: Proper Ice Cream sent me a complimentary box of six pints to review. Thanks, Proper! While the free pints provide me with the opportunity for this review, Proper Ice Cream has no control over the opinions expressed in my review.
The pints reviewed are available from Goldbelly.
Sweet Cream Base: A sweet and creamy base, lighter, less fatty, than the bases of some other premium brands. It melts quickly. Sometimes it tastes slightly icy. No, we’re not talking big chunks of ice, just a hint of frost. It’s not a problem, but a conscious choice to keep the butterfat level of the ice cream in check—to make an ice cream that is more refreshing. It works well as a blank canvas for the mix-ins.
Homemade Candied Honeycomb Pieces Covered in Rich Dark Chocolate: The honeycomb candy melted, slipped from its chocolate shell, and settled towards the bottom of the pint in a large syrupy pool—which isn’t necessarily bad, as I enjoyed that caramel-flavored goodness. However, it doesn’t seem like what was intended because the description mentions homemade candied honeycomb covered in chocolate, not caramel syrup pools.
It wasn’t a problem for me because I cut the pint in half and knew there was this concentration of caramel syrup at the pint bottom that I could portion out as I ate the pint. But someone eating from the top of the pint down would’ve instead discovered to their great surprise a big pool of syrup at the bottom of their pint with little or no ice cream left to mix it with—probably not the ice cream maker’s intent with this flavor.
Honeycomb candy may be one of those mix-ins that works in the ice cream shop, but in a pint, it has too much time to melt. Freezing the honeycomb first before adding it to the pint may—or may not—solve the problem. The honeycomb may always melt when exposed to the dairy in the base, so that the only solution to prevent such melting is sealing the honeycomb with a chocolate coating.
The melted honeycomb did have a pleasant dark caramel flavor, but texturally was not quite as thick as caramel, more of a syrup really. There was enough of the melted candy syrup to flavor the entire base. Enough to have some on every spoon if I wanted it. It added a lot of sweetness to the base.
There was a moderate amount of chocolate left behind higher up in the base. Small, gnarled chocolate pieces, some with imprints inside where the honeycomb candy used to be before it melted. It was a dark chocolate—the ingredients list shows 100% chocolate—and it worked well as a contrast to the sweet base and honeycomb syrup.
Overall: Proper Ice Cream’s Chocolate-Covered Honeycomb worked for me because I have a serious sweet tooth. It is supposed to consist of a sweet cream base with chocolate-covered honeycomb candy pieces. But I don’t believe the pint I received is what was intended by the ice cream maker. The honeycomb candy pieces had entirely melted from their candy shells and settled in a giant liquid caramel syrup pool on the bottom of the pint—as you can see from the cross section pictures.
Because I cut the pint in half, I had the opportunity to portion out the caramel syrup with the base and gnarled chocolate chunks. But someone eating down from the top of the pint would’ve had a rude awakening when they reached the giant caramel syrup pool at the bottom with no ice cream left with which to mix it. I enjoyed it, the decadent sweetness of the generous amount of dark caramel syrup, but I doubt the pint I received was what was intended by the ice cream maker. 7/10.
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Front blurb
Proper Ice Cream
The Way It Should Be
Chocolate Covered Honeycomb
Back blurb
As many artisan crafts begin, Proper Ice Cream started in our home kitchen. Many trips to Italy and “foodie” cities such as New York, San Francisco and Chicago left us missing such amazing textures and flavors until our next visit. Experimenting with trying to recreate these experiences was all it took.
There is real science to crafting an ultra creamy ice cream that uses entirely natural ingredients, and we’ve cracked it. We even use 20% less sugars than standard recipes!
Less sugar and zero additives results in custard-like mouthfeel that doesn’t require a drink of water afterward.It’s simply proper, the way it should be.
Calories
- 3 servings per container
- Serving size: 2/3 cup
- Calories per serving: Unknown
- Calories per container: Unknown
Ingredients
Whole Milk, Cream, Cane Sugar, Sugar, Skimmed Milk Powder, Coconut Oil, 100% Cocoa Powder, Vanilla Bean, Local Florida Honey, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Kosher Salt.
Purchase Location
Price
Free. (Thanks Proper Ice Cream.)
Books
Need to know how Proper Ice Cream makes their ice cream? I can you tell you this much according to their websise: Proper Ice Cream “makes small-batch ice cream using only the finest available ingredients and zero artificial flavors or coloring.” But their secret ice cream base recipe? Who knows!? Proper Ice Cream hasn’t put out a recipe book yet! Come on, Proper! What’s the deal? We love you and want to get to know you better—to know all your little ice cream quirks and secrets. Publish that ice cream recipe book already! Everyone’s doing it.
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Psst! You can make ice cream like Ben & Jerry’s, Jeni’s, and Haagen-Dazs at home. Here’s their secret ice cream base recipes!
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Last Updated on September 3, 2022 by Ice Cream Admin
