Kemp's Pearson's Salted Nut Roll
While researching Pearson's Candy Company, the St. Paul-based candy company who makes Salted Nut Rolls, I learned that they purchased the Bit-O-Honey brand from Nestle's in 2013. Bit-O-Honey are such a mystery to me. I'm sure you received them in your Halloween haul as a child, but can you remember which house gave them out? Can you remember ever seeing them for sale? EERIE.
Sorry for going off on a bit(-o-honey) of a tangent there, the ice cream flavor I'm reviewing today is not, in fact, Bit-O-Honey, but rather Salted Nut Roll from Kemp's. Salted nut rolls are definitely a Minnesota regionalism. They are salty peanuts stuck to a sweet nougat or peanut butter center. True story, I eat SO MANY Salted Nut Rolls. Basically, anytime I don't bring enough afternoon snacks (which is a lot, I'm a very hungry person) I buy a Salted Nut Roll from the vending machine. It has almost as much protein as the vending machine protein bars, it's only slightly higher-calorie, tastes better and is $.50 cheaper. What's not to love?
Kemp's Salted Nut Roll ice cream is Marshmallow nougat ice cream with caramel swirl and pieces of Pearson's Salted Nut Roll.
The marshmallow nougat ice cream base was basically crack. It was WAY too sweet, but it's that overly sweet where you don't get sick of it. Instead you want to keep eating it until you've eaten the entire container in a single sitting. I would describe the flavor as a cross between vanilla ice cream and marshmallow fluff. The texture left a lot to be desired. It was very light and airy. I don't think a super dense base would have worked well with the flavor, but I wanted it to be less airy than it was.
The salty peanuts are the predominant flavor in a Salted Nut Roll, and the nougat adds a sweet aftertaste, but the roles were reversed in Kemp's ice cream version. There weren't too many peanuts, and they seemed to be coated in grainy sugar (think honey-roasted peanuts), so they didn't really contribute a salty element to balance out the sweet base.
This was actually a decent flavor, but I didn't think it was 'true' to Salted Nut Rolls. There should have been way more peanuts and a way stronger salt factor. š¦š¦/4
Sorry for going off on a bit(-o-honey) of a tangent there, the ice cream flavor I'm reviewing today is not, in fact, Bit-O-Honey, but rather Salted Nut Roll from Kemp's. Salted nut rolls are definitely a Minnesota regionalism. They are salty peanuts stuck to a sweet nougat or peanut butter center. True story, I eat SO MANY Salted Nut Rolls. Basically, anytime I don't bring enough afternoon snacks (which is a lot, I'm a very hungry person) I buy a Salted Nut Roll from the vending machine. It has almost as much protein as the vending machine protein bars, it's only slightly higher-calorie, tastes better and is $.50 cheaper. What's not to love?
Kemp's Salted Nut Roll ice cream is Marshmallow nougat ice cream with caramel swirl and pieces of Pearson's Salted Nut Roll.
The marshmallow nougat ice cream base was basically crack. It was WAY too sweet, but it's that overly sweet where you don't get sick of it. Instead you want to keep eating it until you've eaten the entire container in a single sitting. I would describe the flavor as a cross between vanilla ice cream and marshmallow fluff. The texture left a lot to be desired. It was very light and airy. I don't think a super dense base would have worked well with the flavor, but I wanted it to be less airy than it was.
The salty peanuts are the predominant flavor in a Salted Nut Roll, and the nougat adds a sweet aftertaste, but the roles were reversed in Kemp's ice cream version. There weren't too many peanuts, and they seemed to be coated in grainy sugar (think honey-roasted peanuts), so they didn't really contribute a salty element to balance out the sweet base.
This was actually a decent flavor, but I didn't think it was 'true' to Salted Nut Rolls. There should have been way more peanuts and a way stronger salt factor. š¦š¦/4
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