Ice Cream Review: Van Leeuwen Royal Wedding Cake (7/10)
Van Leeuwen’s Royal Wedding Cake is a nice pint find and worth a taste considering it’s available at Walmart for $4.98. Van Leeuwen describes the flavor as “Floral, sweet cream cheese ice cream. Chunks of lemon sponge cake layered with elderflower frosting.”
Ice Cream Review: Van Leeuwen Peanut Butter Brownie Chip (9/10)
Van Leeuwen Peanut Butter Brownie Chip dials in the mix-in levels just right. Tons of dark chocolate chips, little chocolate flakes everywhere, and even some biggie-sized chunks half an inch long, which reminded me of Graeter’s—one of my faves.
Ice Cream Review: Van Leeuwen Marionberry Cheesecake (7/10)
Van Leeuwen Marionberry Cheesecake is an enjoyable, refreshing take on a cheesecake pint. It has an excellent, luxurious base with subtle notes of custard and tart cream cheese, the right amount of intensely flavorful marionberry swirl, and many tiny graham cracker crumbs throughout, with only a very few larger graham crumble chunks.
Ice Cream Review: Van Leeuwen Cookies and Cream (7/10)
Van Leeuwen Cookies & Cream stands out from the competition only because of its luxurious, ultra-premium base. Otherwise, it’s a pretty standard cookies and cream flavor that everyone has tasted before.
Ice Cream Review: Van Leeuwen Praline Butter Cake (6/10)
Van Leeuwen Praline Butter Cake has the elements of a great flavor—a nearly perfect base, and two flavorful, high quality mix-ins that add flavor and texture. The praline pecans and cake gobs work well together to compliment the sweet cream base.
Ice Cream Review: Van Leeuwen Brown Sugar Cookie Dough Chunk (7/10)
Brown Sugar Base: A luxurious, creamy, dreamy base. The pint packaging states that due to the amount of egg yolks in the base—the back blurb reads “when you use twice as many egg yolks as standard ice cream…”—this is not mere “ice cream” as the powers that be define it, but instead “French ice cream.”