The Big Muddy Ice Cream Blog

Oh, Sweet Science, why do you insist on making the world a better place by making such delicious ice cream?  Because when the zombie apocalypse comes we'll just be that much sadder that we can't eat your ice cream.  Waaaaaaahhhhhhhhh! I worry a lot about a zombie invasion, specifically about the ice cream situation that would ensue. Continuing their tradition of splendiferous seasonal flavors, Sweet Science is offering Pumpkin Five Spice this fall.  Their description is Roasted pumpkin is combined with honey and five spice powder - as close to pumpkin pie as you can get. So I didn't realize five-spice powder is an actual and spent all the time I was eating the ice cream I was trying to guess what the five spices were.  I came up with cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, anise and ......  I got some and was way off on others.  Apparently five-spice powder is actually made with cinnamon, anise, fennel, Szechuan peppercorn, and cloves. This was definitely the...

Okay, fine. I'll admit it. It is fall.  I was trying to avoid admitting it, but I can't any longer. But plz lets not talk about winter yet. Now, I know I sound a bit curmudgeony. However, I do not dislike fall. In fact, I think fall is great. Perfect running weather, sweaters, beautiful foliage, an excuse to use the word foliage. Fall is wonderful.   However , what I don't like is this new craze as of the last 5 years or so where people have become extra obsessed with fall. And I don't even mind all of the social media googoogaga-ness about fall. What bugs me is this: (1) Other seasons are fun, too and (2) where was all of this love for fall 10 years ago? Fall as been around for a while, and I feel bad it hasn't gotten this kind of love until recently. Like, do you only love fall because some white dude finally figured out pumpkin and spice taste great in many forms? Which by the way many other peoples have had figure out for a while now . (Sorry, not sorry my blog ...

I finally, FINALLY have a review of the last of the three pints of Sweet Science I picked up at their September free tasting.  I had a cold for a really long time and wanted to wait until my sense of taste and sense of smell were back to normal before digging in to this ice cream.  I remembered loving it at the tasting, and didn't want anything to get in the way of that.  This flavor is Organic apple cider ice cream swirled with honey caramel and our gluten free streusel for crunch. Simply amazing. Fall flavors are everywhere.  Most brands do a pumpkin/pumpkin pie/pumpkin spice.  Fewer brands do apple pie/caramel apple.  I have never seen an apple cider ice cream before, and I definitely see why.  Oh wow, that sounds like I hated the flavor and I didn't, it's just kind of a weird concept.  For me, imagining a combination of tart, acidic apple cider and cream seems a bit gross; along the lines of combining orange juice and milk. Ther...

Alert! Alert! Alert! I have the first pumpkin flavor of the season! It's only half-way through September! Summer is not officially over! What is wrong with the world! I feel like summer and I have a kind of 'Rose and Jack from Titanic' thing going on right now: Summer/Rose: Don't worry, I'll never let you go! Me/Jack: Oh, thank fuck! Summer/Rose: JK, bitches! Me/Jack.  Dammit.  I am now frozen to death. I mean, Kate Winslet, what a bitch.   Was anyone else obsessed with Leo when they were in 4th grade when Titanic came out? Although I'm currently having an "oh my god summer cannot possibly be over and school cannot possibly have started and fall products cannot possibly be on shelves" crisis/panic, my sadness is slightly mitigated because I love pumpkin-flavored things.  I just wish fall was not the only time to get them.  LONG LIVE SUMMER! Now that my little breakdown is over, I have a review of my first of (hopefully) many pumpkin-fl...