I had the Three Twins caramel truffle swirls tonight. I didn't take pics because it just looked like vanilla. I was underwhelmed. The flavor was good. The texture was grainy. There was only one truffle in mine and the rest of the pint looked similar. It was 230 calories for only 85 grams.

Didn't even know that flavor existed.

You're having some bad luck with bad batches lately huh

Yep. I wonder on those two if the texture is a consequence of bringing them home in the hot car-- they were pretty melty and then refroze.

But seriously-- where are my mix-ins?

Wow that looks messy to make. :laugh:

I'd put my brown butter snickerdoodles with my Jeni's brambleberry crisp.

Wow that looks messy to make. :laugh:

I'd put my brown butter snickerdoodles with my Jeni's brambleberry crisp.

Funny you say that about the brown butter snickerdoodles - I was just looking up a recipe for those! I have a trivia night tomorrow night and think I'm going to take them. Either that or salted caramel brownies. Or chocolate gooey butter cookies. I haven't decided.

Does your BB Snickerdoodle recipe have 1 TBSP of Greek Yogurt in it? This recipe I found on Pinterest does, seems interesting.

I'll look when I get home-- I can't remember.

Saw this online today, and it reminded me of one of my all time favorite desserts: Cinder Cake.

I never thought about using different flavor combinations though, but I thought this group might come up with some creative suggestions. Like what could we put with everyone's favorite - Talenti Salted Caramel? I would vote for those Milano Salted Pretzel cookies... Or Pecan Sandies with Butter Pecan ice cream?



http://www.tastingtable.com/entry_detail/national/17499/Oreo_Ice_Cream_and_Cool_Whip_Ice_Cream_Cake_Recipe.htm

My husband's family makes a version of this every Easter for dessert. It's layers of Oreo cookie, vanilla ice cream, hot fudge sauce and cool whip. The sauce layer is an important addition.
i'd recommend making it for a crowd or cutting the recipe in half. A 9 x 13 pan of it lasts forever in my house.

Saw this online today, and it reminded me of one of my all time favorite desserts: Cinder Cake.

I never thought about using different flavor combinations though, but I thought this group might come up with some creative suggestions. Like what could we put with everyone's favorite - Talenti Salted Caramel? I would vote for those Milano Salted Pretzel cookies... Or Pecan Sandies with Butter Pecan ice cream?



http://www.tastingtable.com/entry_detail/national/17499/Oreo_Ice_Cream_and_Cool_Whip_Ice_Cream_Cake_Recipe.htm

My husband's family makes a version of this every Easter for dessert. It's layers of Oreo cookie, vanilla ice cream, hot fudge sauce and cool whip. The sauce layer is an important addition.
i'd recommend making it for a crowd or cutting the recipe in half. A 9 x 13 pan of it lasts forever in my house.

When we had it as kids I am pretty sure it was something like this:

Oreo cookies mixed with melted butter and pressed in a 9x13
Vanilla or Mint Chip Ice Cream
Crumbled Oreos on top
Hershey's syrup drizzled over the whole thing

I don't think we had Cool Whip, but that was fine, I'm not a Cool Whip fan.

A friend informed me she makes something similar in a loaf pan - cookie layer, ice cream, then chocolate sauce or caramel and freeze. She said her favorite combo is shortbread cookies with cherry garcia ice cream and chocolate sauce...

Finished off my Jeni's and my Talenti toasted almond. Down to 7 flavors to finish. lol

Tomorrow I'm going to attempt a chocolate malt with Jeni's base recipe.

It's not just you - Jeni's is ok but not worth the high cost to me. Steve's on the other hand - less expensive and way better in my opinion. Jeni's has a cookbook though - so if you are a big fan you can make it at home without the cost. Steve's Mexican Chili Chocolate is so good - I would try others but I always go back to that one.

eta: From what I have seen here it looks like if you are going to go with Steve's go with the dairy - the non-dairy didn't get good reviews (I didn't realize they had non-dairy until I was looking at the site online a few days ago). The Salty Caramel and the Mexican Chili Chocolate are both dairy. And apparently I need to get some talenti because everyone seems to rave about it - saw it today when I was out but didn't get it which I am now regretting.

It's not just you - Jeni's is ok but not worth the high cost to me. Steve's on the other hand - less expensive and way better in my opinion. Jeni's has a cookbook though - so if you are a big fan you can make it at home without the cost. Steve's Mexican Chili Chocolate is so good - I would try others but I always go back to that one.

I think I'm going to try another pint of Steve's. It got such great reviews I think I must have just gotten a bad one. Usually MrM and I like similar things-- there are a couple of exceptions but not many.

I really enjoyed the Jeni's I bought but it's just so expensive. I'll let ya'll know how my concoction turns out.

It's not just you - Jeni's is ok but not worth the high cost to me. Steve's on the other hand - less expensive and way better in my opinion. Jeni's has a cookbook though - so if you are a big fan you can make it at home without the cost. Steve's Mexican Chili Chocolate is so good - I would try others but I always go back to that one.

You just reminded me to check to see if they got Steve's Sunday Morning yet. Thanks! :drinker:

Oh I just looked at that at their site - that sounds so good!

It's not just you - Jeni's is ok but not worth the high cost to me. Steve's on the other hand - less expensive and way better in my opinion. Jeni's has a cookbook though - so if you are a big fan you can make it at home without the cost. Steve's Mexican Chili Chocolate is so good - I would try others but I always go back to that one.

I think I'm going to try another pint of Steve's. It got such great reviews I think I must have just gotten a bad one. Usually MrM and I like similar things-- there are a couple of exceptions but not many.

I really enjoyed the Jeni's I bought but it's just so expensive. I'll let ya'll know how my concoction turns out.

From what I have seen the dairy flavors of Steve's are great and the non-dairy not so much (the ones in here that were meh were all non-dairy flavors) so if you can get one of the dairy flavors I would say go with that.

I got the salty caramel. The flavor was great but there was almost no caramel in it. It looks like most of it pooled in the bottom so I bet I'll like the last serving.

It's not just you - Jeni's is ok but not worth the high cost to me. Steve's on the other hand - less expensive and way better in my opinion. Jeni's has a cookbook though - so if you are a big fan you can make it at home without the cost. Steve's Mexican Chili Chocolate is so good - I would try others but I always go back to that one.

I think I'm going to try another pint of Steve's. It got such great reviews I think I must have just gotten a bad one. Usually MrM and I like similar things-- there are a couple of exceptions but not many.

I really enjoyed the Jeni's I bought but it's just so expensive. I'll let ya'll know how my concoction turns out.

From what I have seen the dairy flavors of Steve's are great and the non-dairy not so much (the ones in here that were meh were all non-dairy flavors) so if you can get one of the dairy flavors I would say go with that.

I got the salty caramel. The flavor was great but there was almost no caramel in it. It looks like most of it pooled in the bottom so I bet I'll like the last serving.

Oh that makes me sad for you - caramel is so awesome and in ice cream - yum. I had some Ben & Jerry's Karamel Sutra, which has the core of caramel, and it seemed like it had less than it should have too (not my first time having it, so I had a reference) - it was such a bummer.

It's not just you - Jeni's is ok but not worth the high cost to me. Steve's on the other hand - less expensive and way better in my opinion. Jeni's has a cookbook though - so if you are a big fan you can make it at home without the cost. Steve's Mexican Chili Chocolate is so good - I would try others but I always go back to that one.

I think I'm going to try another pint of Steve's. It got such great reviews I think I must have just gotten a bad one. Usually MrM and I like similar things-- there are a couple of exceptions but not many.

I really enjoyed the Jeni's I bought but it's just so expensive. I'll let ya'll know how my concoction turns out.

From what I have seen the dairy flavors of Steve's are great and the non-dairy not so much (the ones in here that were meh were all non-dairy flavors) so if you can get one of the dairy flavors I would say go with that.

I got the salty caramel. The flavor was great but there was almost no caramel in it. It looks like most of it pooled in the bottom so I bet I'll like the last serving.

Oh that makes me sad for you - caramel is so awesome and in ice cream - yum. I had some Ben & Jerry's Karamel Sutra, which has the core of caramel, and it seemed like it had less than it should have too (not my first time having it, so I had a reference) - it was such a bummer.

I like Karamel Sutra but in general I wanted moar caramel and less dark chocolate. I wish they would make just the caramel half. I don't love most of the Ben & Jerry's chocolate based ones.

I hear you on the less chocolate more caramel - I 100% agree on that. I really go back to it for the core of caramel - that is the best part. I was a big chocolate fan as a kid but now that I am older I am all about the caramel. In fact I am eating some Haagen Daaz Salted Caramel Gelato right now (had to - since I took a day off work and have been a lot more active then normal, I would be way under calories without it )

I hear you on the less chocolate more caramel - I 100% agree on that. I really go back to it for the core of caramel - that is the best part. I was a big chocolate fan as a kid but now that I am older I am all about the caramel. In fact I am eating some Haagen Daaz Salted Caramel Gelato right now (had to - since I took a day off work and have been a lot more active then normal, I would be way under calories without it )

Can't have that! :laugh:

This is a reprise of a post I made a couple days ago, but due to Photobucket issues, the pictures wouldn't load...hopefully it works this time!

It's from a local ice cream company supposedly known for it's quality and fancy flavours. I saw it in the grocery store and though I'd give it a try...Black Forest Cake ice cream! The outside promised cherries and a whipped cream swirl..

It's pretty delicious, the chocolate ice cream is really good. I love chocolate but chocolate ice cream often disappoints me. It was chocolaty smooth and creamy with just a bit of dark chocolate flavour.
It was pretty light on the cherries and the whipped cream swirl didn't add a whole lot. I'm probably going to go buy some cherries and whipped cream and plop them in there next time I have some

EDIT: Well the pictures are huge, but at least they loaded. Haha

Yay I'm glad you came back!

I'm also generally disappointed with chocolate ice cream. I love chocolate but usually I prefer a different base with chocolate mix-ins.

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