So Delicious Cashew Milk Non-Dairy Frozen Dessert Snickerdoodle
Last winter I tried one of the then new-ish So Delicious Cashew Milk ice creams. After I published the review, a lactose intolerant friend of mine very excitedly told me I should try the Snickerdoodle flavor. Some how, getting around to this reader request kept getting pushed to the bottom of my ice cream to-do list. It's also been too long since I've reviewed a vegan ice cream, so woohoo here we go~~
In my opinion, vegan ice cream raises some important ontological questions. Because obviously ice cream should be at the center of any good ontological question as Reddit proved to us a few years back:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/287bw4/everything_is_or_isnt_ice_cream/
If everything is or isn't ice cream, what is vegan ice cream?
I'll just let that one sit for a bit and get back to the more important stuff, reviewing ice cream. This flavor is described as A cinnamon delight loaded with chunks of gluten-free snickerdoodle cookie dough.
Just kidding, let's go back to ontology a bit, because it is productive here. Some people consider vegan ice cream to be ice cream. Which is a fine position to take, but I don't always like to take it. You end up comparing vegan ice cream to dairy ice cream. If you make this comparison as a dairy eater, you'll often be disappointed. However, if vegan ice cream is it's own category, things go a bit differently. So thinking about this flavor as a vegan ice cream? OH MY GOODNESS YUM.
The base was awesome. It was strongly cinnamon flavored, but the cashew milk still stood out. As I've said before, sweetened cashew milk, especially with vanilla, tastes kind of like cookies. So this base was like an awesome snickerdoodle cookie base. The cookie dough chunks were also awesome. They were huge and super moist. They had a more intense cinnamon flavor than the base, and also tasted buttery. Even though they are vegan. They weren't super frequent, but since they were large, that's okay.
But for those of you that want your vegan ice cream to be ice cream, you might be disappointed by the texture. It was thick and pretty creamy, but with just a hint of that iciness, lack of smoothness you are going to find in most vegan ice creams.
Overall, I thought this flavor was superb. At times it was a touch one-note, but it is still going to earn š¦š¦š¦/4 cones.
In my opinion, vegan ice cream raises some important ontological questions. Because obviously ice cream should be at the center of any good ontological question as Reddit proved to us a few years back:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/287bw4/everything_is_or_isnt_ice_cream/
If everything is or isn't ice cream, what is vegan ice cream?
I'll just let that one sit for a bit and get back to the more important stuff, reviewing ice cream. This flavor is described as A cinnamon delight loaded with chunks of gluten-free snickerdoodle cookie dough.
Just kidding, let's go back to ontology a bit, because it is productive here. Some people consider vegan ice cream to be ice cream. Which is a fine position to take, but I don't always like to take it. You end up comparing vegan ice cream to dairy ice cream. If you make this comparison as a dairy eater, you'll often be disappointed. However, if vegan ice cream is it's own category, things go a bit differently. So thinking about this flavor as a vegan ice cream? OH MY GOODNESS YUM.
Look at that monster cookie dough chunk.
The base was awesome. It was strongly cinnamon flavored, but the cashew milk still stood out. As I've said before, sweetened cashew milk, especially with vanilla, tastes kind of like cookies. So this base was like an awesome snickerdoodle cookie base. The cookie dough chunks were also awesome. They were huge and super moist. They had a more intense cinnamon flavor than the base, and also tasted buttery. Even though they are vegan. They weren't super frequent, but since they were large, that's okay.
The archaeological dig style of eating this flavor was definitely employed because those cookie dough pieces were sooo goooood.
But for those of you that want your vegan ice cream to be ice cream, you might be disappointed by the texture. It was thick and pretty creamy, but with just a hint of that iciness, lack of smoothness you are going to find in most vegan ice creams.
Overall, I thought this flavor was superb. At times it was a touch one-note, but it is still going to earn š¦š¦š¦/4 cones.
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