The Big Muddy Ice Cream Blog

I've got another new Talenti flavor to review! Hooray! Key Lime Pie Talenti is a tangy, creamy key lime gelato with graham cracker swirls and pieces throughout.  A dessert within a dessert is a beautiful thing, but a dessert inside a Talenti? Now that's next level. In preparation for this post I was on Talenti's website looking for the description of their new Key Lime Pie flavor.  While there I noticed the interesting phenomenon that this flavor had lots of 5 star ratings and lots of 1 & 2 star ratings, so I delved in to the reviews to see why.  To summarize, the 5 star reviews said, "This was a great flavor!" And I agree.  The 1 and 2 star reviews said, "This was NOT a key lime flavor!" And I also agree. I'll address the negative reviews first.  This flavor was not very limey.  In fact, limes were not listed as an ingredient.  They do list 'natural flavors,' but do not explicitly list limes.  I can understand why die-hard ...

About a month ago, I wistfully imagined a Ben and Jerry's chocolate cake batter flavor.  It seemed like my prayers would be answered with the new Brownie Batter Core.  Alas, it was not to be. Brownie Batter Core is described as Chocolate and vanilla ice creams with fudge brownies and a brownie batter core. I'm about to rip into this flavor, so let me clarify that this ice cream was not objectively bad, it was just sub-par for what it should have been.  First the base flavors.  Ben and Jerry's does not have a strong vanilla base or a strong chocolate base.  To me their vanilla base tastes like gross, fake vanilla.  It's not the worst on the market, but far from the best.  The chocolate is not actually that bad, I just expect a brand like Ben and Jerry's who excels in ridiculously decadent flavors specifically designed to help you get over your break-up to have a killer chocolate base.  The chocolate and vanilla bases together were just ...