Contents
Brand
Flavor
Rating
5 of 10
Review
Sweet Cream (Vanilla?) Base: When I open the pint, it seems full of ice cream, as you can see from the top-down picture. Then I slice the pint in half to create the cross-section pictures. As I am doing so, the pint collapses in the middle, probably because there’s a large empty space in the middle of the pint, an air pocket. You can see in the cross-section pictures that about one inch of the pint is simply missing, a manufacturing defect. There are lines in the middle of the pint that probably indicate an air pocket was present there.
The base tastes like a simple sweet cream—rich, dense, fatty, and mildly sweet. A typical, enjoyable Van Leeuwen base. The listed ingredients include vanilla, but if this was intended as a vanilla base I’m not tasting it. It would help if the description on the pint were more explicit, more detailed, so I know what to expect from this pint.
I’m left to speculate as to the pint’s contents because the pint description provided by Van Leeuwen is vague: “ice cream with peaches and a gluten-free oat crumble.” Is it a sweet cream, vanilla, or peach base? What are the mix-ins exactly? Candied peach bits? Peach jam? Peach swirl? Does the oat crumble include brown sugar or cinnamon? Is this intended as to oat crumble topping of a pie or cobbler? It seems like this product was rushed to the shelves without regard to informing the consumer as to the pint contents, basic marketing abandoned.
Peach Swirl: There is very little peach swirl in my serving; it’s absent from most of the pint as the pictures document. Looking at pictures and reviews of this flavor online, it appears there is normally a large peach swirl at the top of the pint. But that’s absent from my pint. Is this a manufacturing defect? Probably. It happens. But that’s a pretty bad defect to be missing an entire mix-in. Maybe the empty space in the middle of the pint was where the peach swirl should have been.
Gluten-Free Oat Crumble: There are a very few small bits of sweet oat clusters in my serving—and by very few I mean three. I don’t care for them. Their texture is too chewy, almost like uncooked oak flakes, not the delectable topping of a peach pie or peach cobbler. Again, the amount of this mix-in seems like a manufacturing defect; I can’t imagine Van Leeuwen intentionally included so few oat clusters.
Overall: Van Leeuwen’s Summer Peach Crisp is one of the worst pints I’ve tried from this brand’s otherwise enjoyable Walmart line, probably due to manufacturing defects. I have to speculate what the pint was supposed to contain because the pint’s description text is vague. From other reviews, it seems like this was supposed to be sweet cream or vanilla ice cream with a peach swirl and oat crumbles. The sweet cream base I tasted was fine—premium quality. But the peach swirl and oat crumble were missing in action for the most part. For me, this was effectively a pint of plain ice cream devoid of mix-ins for $4.98. Disappointing. 5/10.
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Front blurb
Limited Edition
Van Leeuwen
Summer Peach Crisp
French Ice Cream
Back blurb
Ever since 2008, when Van Leeuwen was born out of a yellow truck on the streets of NYC, we’ve been making good ice cream from good ingredients that makes you feel good.
After all, happiness is healthiness.
And nothing makes us happier than this Summer Peach Crisp Ice Cream. Picture this, if you will. A hot, summer day. The sun is shining. You’re sweating. Ew. Someone hands you a scoop of ice cream with peaches and a gluten-free oat crumble. Clutch move.
Calories
- 2.5 servings per container
- Serving size: 2/3 cup
- Calories per serving: 300
- Calories per container: 800
Ingredients
Cream, Milk, Cane Sugar, Rice Syrup, Water, Oats, Buckwheat Flour, Peaches, Brown
Sugar, Egg Yolks, Rice Flour, Corn Starch, Vegetable Juice Color (Pumpkin), Cultured Dextrose (Maltodextrin), Coconut Oil, Canola Oil, Vanilla, Citric Acid, Natural Flavor, Annatto (For Color), Vanilla Extract, Baking Soda, Salt, Sea Salt.
Purchase Location
Walmart
Price
$4.98
Books
Need to know how Van Leeuwen does it? Get Van Leeuwen’s cookbook: Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream
Related
Psst! You can make ice cream like Van Leeuwen at home. Here’s Van Leeuwen’s secret ice cream base recipe! (Spoiler: their secret ingredient is 8 egg yolks!)
