Haagen-Dazs Lemon Raspberry White Chocolate Trio (NEW!)

Out of the three new dairy TRIO flavors (yes, there are non-dairy TRIOS this year!) I was most excited about the Lemon Raspberry White Chocolate flavor. The other flavors sound good, but less adventurous. Lemon Raspberry White Chocolate is white chocolate and raspberry sauce, lemon and raspberry ice cream. Grammatically, the description makes it sounds like this flavor has white chocolate sauce, but in reality it has crunchy white chocolate layers. Tsk tsk.

This reminded me so much of a lemon layer cake with raspberry filling. The lemon ice cream had a very light and sweet flavor like ... well ... lemon cake, and the white chocolate gave a touch of richness reminiscent of a buttercream frosting. I was initially disappointed with this flavor because I was hoping for much bolder flavors, but it's growing on me as more time passes. Like a lemon layer cake with raspberry filling, this wouldn't be a dessert I'd purchase or try to make from scratch, but I'd definitely enjoy it if someone handed it to me at a fancy tea party or bridal shower.

The raspberry swirl was more sweet than tart, and as with their other TRIO flavors, Haagen-Dazs did not add enough swirl. I think this is because they are trying to shove too many things into one pint. Two flavors of ice cream, a swirl, and some crunch all arranged in layers is a tall order to squeeze into less than a pint. Yeah, Haagen-Dazs pints aren't actually full pints.

I really enjoyed how the white chocolate played with the lemon and raspberry flavors. Fruit ice cream isn't typically rich in the way that chocolate ice cream is, but the white chocolate added a bit of a buttery without overwhelming the lemon and raspberry.

Overall I rate this 🍦🍦.5/4