Haagen Dazs Non-Dairy Coconut Caramel
After enjoying the two new Haagen-Dazs chocolate non-dairy flavors, I got pretty amped to try the last two flavors in the new line-up. Target was out of Peanut Butter Chocolate Fudge (drat!!!), so I only picked up Coconut Caramel. Haagen-Dazs says For an authentic coconut flavor, we start with a creamy base of coconut cream before complementing it with ribbons of luscious caramel. What odd grammatical construction and uninventive word choice! "Creamy base of coconut cream." Really?! Per Wikipedia, coconut cream is made by simmering 1 part coconut shredded coconut with 1 part water, straining through a cheesecloth and squeezing out as much liquid as possible. (Haagen-Dazs lists coconut extract and water as the ingredients for their coconut cream.) I imagine this would freeze pretty hard, but Haagen-Dazs adds some corn syrup and other stabilizers to combat this. The coconut in the base was very warm and the flavor reminded me of coconut oil - slightly mor...