The Big Muddy Ice Cream Blog

I've got to say, I am proud of myself. I'm smoking through the Iowa City frozen dessert offerings. This past Friday, I visted Yotopia with a local fan (can I use that word?) of the blog. Thus, I participated in #FroYoFriday. By which I mean I ate froyo on a Friday, but I did not partake in any social media. It would have required me to take my attention away from my froyo for like 30 seconds and that's way too much time. I have been reviewing a lot of froyo shops as of late, so if you aren't familiar with my 8 step review process for froyo shops, you need to get it together. Please spend more of your life reading my blog and less time doing important, productive activities. 1) The variety of flavors: is there a good selection. 2) The flavor of my choices. 3) The quality of the combination of my choices. 4) The texture of the froyo 5) The variety of the toppings. 6) Quality of the toppings. 7) How well my toppings coordinated with my froyo flavors. 8) Overall ...

Raspberry and Chocolate is the second flavor in the duo of Kemp's Frozen Yogurt Shop flavors I recently purchased.  I was really, really excited about this flavor because lately I've been in the mood for fruity ice cream, but it let me down a bit.  This is described as Creamy raspberry frozen yogurt with thick chocolatey swirl with semi-sweet chocolate curls topping. Photo featuring my lovely Red Fuji poster. The texture was the same amazing smooth, creamy, very-similar-to-ice-cream texture I have come to expect from the Kemp's Frozen Yogurt Shop line.  It was maybe a touch icier than the two flavors I have tried previously, but nothing like normal store-bought frozen yogurt. Unfortunately the flavor was the disappointing part.  The raspberry flavor by itself was pretty good and the flavor of the chocolate swirl by itself was pretty good, but they clashed with each other quite a bit. The raspberry was on the tarter side (as opposed to the sweeter side...

A few months ago I tried the Peanut Butter Cup flavor from the new-ish Kemp's Frozen Yogurt Shop line.  I enjoyed it thoroughly, so when I saw these babies were on sale, I picked up a couple flavors. Vanilla Salted Caramel was one of the flavors I picked up.  It is described as Creamy vanilla frozen yogurt with thick salted caramel revel with dark and white chocolate curls topping. When I first read this description, I thought the word 'revel' was being used as a noun.  I did't know what caramel revel is, and Google didn't seem to know either.  I wondered if this was a typo and thought was supposed to be swirl.  I'm an idiot, and Lizzy informed me 'revel' was being used as a verb in this context.  Duh. Out of all the Frozen Yogurt Shop flavors, I was least excited about the Vanilla Salted Caramel, but my options at the store were limited.  Vanilla can be so bland, and I'm a bit over salted caramel.  This exceeded all expectations and was...

Guuuuuyyyssssssss. I'm so lazy. I've done seriously nothing since I finished grading finals. I finished this container of frozen yogurt at least a week ago and am just now writing about it. Uggghhhhhh, I don't even want to write this review even though I love writing about ice cream!  It's Newton's first law of laziness, yo. But, I shall power on for you, dearest reader! The frozen yogurt I am putting off reviewing is Kemp's Frozen Yogurt Shop Peanut Butter Cup.  This is described as Creamy chocolate frozen yogurt with thick peanut butter swirl and chunks of peanut butter cup topping. I've seen this line of frozen yogurt around for a while, but I think it's relatively new (like at least under a year old).  I have been meaning to pick one of these up for a while, and finally got around to it.  I decided on the chocolate peanut butter because I wanted to make sure I got something Kyle would like.  Also, who doesn't love the chocolate and pe...