Contents
Brand
Flavor
Rating
7 of 10
Review
Vanilla Ice Cream: A nice Van Leeuwen base—creamy, dense, rich, gently sweet, with a mild vanilla flavor. A good neutral start to build upon with the mix-ins.
Wild Blueberry Swirl: The swirl has the taste and texture of blueberry jam—sweet, with a burst of intense blueberry flavor. Happily, no ice is detected—a problem common when fruit is included in ice cream. The swirl is somewhat thin. But the concentrated blueberry flavor goes a long way—a bit of swirl flavors the whole spoon of ice cream. The swirl is so flavorful I often wanted more of it.
Shortcake Chunks: Soft, doughy, almost gummy, cake cubes. I wouldn’t really describe them as shortcake. They’re softer than shortcake, moister, more of an uncooked texture. Perhaps this is necessary for shortcake to survive inclusion in a pint of ice cream—a dry shortcake might quickly absorb the base and dissolve. Most chunks were about 1/4 inch across, although there is some variety in the sizes, some larger, some smaller. I enjoyed the generous amount of chunks, about 10-12 chunks in my half of the pint.
Overall: Van Leeuwen’s Wild Blueberry Shortcake is a good pint featuring a nice, standard vanilla base, a pop of jam-like blueberry swirl, and plentiful moist shortcake chunks. The shortcake is softer, denser, more gummy than I was expecting—likely a compromise to prevent the shortcake from dissolving into the base and becoming too much like cake batter. I like a moister cake, so I had no real problem with it. A little more blueberry swirl would have made this pint outstanding—you can see the swirl is thin from the pictures. But the swirl is sufficiently concentrated and flavorful that the thinness didn’t really interfere with my enjoyment. A good pint to grab at a Walmart price point–$4.98. 7/10.
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Front Blurb
Van Leeuwen
Wild Blueberry Shortcake
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 Wild Blueberry Shortcake Ice Cream. There was no taming these wild blueberries, who were out late at night getting into trouble. We let them run wild before using them to create a swirl and then blending it into the vanilla ice cream, at which point they were so cold that they couldn’t argue when we added chunks of shortcake.
Calories
- 2.5 servings per container
- Serving size: 2/3 cup
- Calories per serving: 290
- Calories per container: 725
Ingredients
Cream, Blueberries, Cane Sugar, Eggs, Milk, Butter, Brown Sugar, Wheat Flour, Malted Barley Flour, Water, Canola Oil, Invert Sugar, Salt, Natural Flavors, Vanilla Extract, Sunflower Lecithin, Baking Soda
Contains: Milk, Eggs, Wheat (Gluten)
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!)
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Last Updated on August 29, 2022 by Ice Cream Admin
