The Big Muddy Ice Cream Blog

Tim and Tom's Speedy Market recently started selling pints of Gelato Petrini, and after thoroughly enjoying their Cinnamon Espresso Chip , I was excited to try more flavors.  I recently picked up Cookies and Cream Cheesecake.  Here is the blurb from their website: For this recipe we have taken two of our all-time favorites and combined them into a single showstopper that is even better than the sum of its parts.  Cookie and cream meets NY Cheesecake in a flavor that is sure to please the whole family. Gelato Petrini gets it.   We are totally, 100% on the same dessert level.  How do you make cookies and cream better? Damn the consequences, throw it in some cheesecake! (Not that it  needs  to be better, you're delicious just the way you are, mmmkay cookies and cream.) I ate this in two servings.  The first was a small-ish bowl.  Then I devoured the rest for dinner the next night.  I eat ice cream for dinner way more t...

On a recent trip to Tim and Tom's (oh praise that bastion of rich, white suburanity which carries such a diverse and high-priced selection of ice cream!) I saw a new brand of Gelato, Gelato Petrini .  They seem to be a gelato shop based in Florida who have recently expanded into the retail market.  Obviously I had to pick up a pint.  They had several delicious-looking flavors, but I settled on Cinnamon Espresso Chip.  This is described as Our take on a deconstructed cappuccino.  True Ceylon cinnamon is used to spice up this gelato.  We then blend in fresh milk and cream to help temper some of the heat and bring out cinnamon's softer side.  Finally we fold these beautiful dark roasted espresso chips that transform the ordinary into the totally sublime. Holy. Crap.  This was, hands down, some of the best gelato I have ever had.  It's texture was amazing.  It was squishy and silky and smooth and rich and thick and creamy all at the...