Steve's (Dairy Free!) Burnt Sugar Vanilla
Recently, Tim and Tom's Speedy Market has been stocking Steve's Ice Cream, which means I am buying lots of it. I've heard rave reviews of Steve's dairy-free flavors so I decided to pick up a pint of Burnt Sugar Vanilla. This is described as
Vanilla that is slightly bittersweet. Caramelized burnt sugar folded into vanilla dairy-free organic coconut cream made with Madecasse Fair Trade vanilla imported from Madagascar. A perfect frozen rendition of Creme Brulee.
So basically this is Creme Brulee ice cream, which is a much fancier name than 'Burnt Sugar Vanilla,' and I'm pretty sure people know what Creme Brulee is, so I'm not sure about the logic behind the name choice, but whatever, this ice cream was awesome it doesn't even matter.
Obviously, the first thing to talk about with a non-dairy ice cream is the base texture and the second is the base taste. This was by far the least offensive non-dairy texture I've ever had. Sometimes non-dairy flavors have this weird thing going on where the base is dry and brittle yet somehow also unpleasantly chewy and gummy. It almost defies reasoning. Luckily, Steve's avoids this as much possible. It had a fairly rich and creamy texture, that felt like there was a substantial fat content. There was a bit of the 'breakage' typical of non-dairy ice creams, but not so much it was offensive and there was none of the typical gumminess.
Another issue many non-dairy ice creams have is that the base tastes too much like soy or almond or cashew or coconut, not letting the intended flavor shine through. I was really worried that a coconut base would overwhelm the intended vanilla flavor. Thankfully my fears were unfounded. There was just the slightest hint of coconut flavor, but it was much weaker than the vanilla.
Some of the burnt sugar pieces were liquidy globs and others were crunchy like the top of Creme Brulee. I preferred the crunchy bits a little better because the texture differentiated them from the base. The base was quite sweet so sometimes it was a little hard to taste the liquid sugar bits. There were enough mix-ins to get at least two per bite.
Comparing against all ice creams, this gets 🍦🍦🍦/4 cones. I'm mainly taking cones off because I wanted more crunchy sugar bits, but this is so far and above other non-dairy ice creams that it's definitely worth a try.
Vanilla that is slightly bittersweet. Caramelized burnt sugar folded into vanilla dairy-free organic coconut cream made with Madecasse Fair Trade vanilla imported from Madagascar. A perfect frozen rendition of Creme Brulee.
So basically this is Creme Brulee ice cream, which is a much fancier name than 'Burnt Sugar Vanilla,' and I'm pretty sure people know what Creme Brulee is, so I'm not sure about the logic behind the name choice, but whatever, this ice cream was awesome it doesn't even matter.
Obviously, the first thing to talk about with a non-dairy ice cream is the base texture and the second is the base taste. This was by far the least offensive non-dairy texture I've ever had. Sometimes non-dairy flavors have this weird thing going on where the base is dry and brittle yet somehow also unpleasantly chewy and gummy. It almost defies reasoning. Luckily, Steve's avoids this as much possible. It had a fairly rich and creamy texture, that felt like there was a substantial fat content. There was a bit of the 'breakage' typical of non-dairy ice creams, but not so much it was offensive and there was none of the typical gumminess.
Another issue many non-dairy ice creams have is that the base tastes too much like soy or almond or cashew or coconut, not letting the intended flavor shine through. I was really worried that a coconut base would overwhelm the intended vanilla flavor. Thankfully my fears were unfounded. There was just the slightest hint of coconut flavor, but it was much weaker than the vanilla.
Some of the burnt sugar pieces were liquidy globs and others were crunchy like the top of Creme Brulee. I preferred the crunchy bits a little better because the texture differentiated them from the base. The base was quite sweet so sometimes it was a little hard to taste the liquid sugar bits. There were enough mix-ins to get at least two per bite.
Comparing against all ice creams, this gets 🍦🍦🍦/4 cones. I'm mainly taking cones off because I wanted more crunchy sugar bits, but this is so far and above other non-dairy ice creams that it's definitely worth a try.
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