The Big Muddy Ice Cream Blog

Remember the movie Gigli? That train wreck of a movie starring Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez with a whopping 6% Rotten Tomatoes rating? Yeah, you remember it. In my university's freshman writing class, each person chose a 'cultural text' and spent the semester analyzing their cultural text. Inexplicably, one of my very good friends chose Gigli as his cultural text. Why? I don't know, maybe for the sake of irony, maybe it was pure masochism. Whatever the reasons, we watched that stupid, awful, terrible movie at least 7  times that semester. It was so bad every time, but it was also SO FUN. Hostess Ding Dong ice cream sandwiches may just be the frozen dessert equivalent of the best good-bad movie. They're objectively terrible, but I also want to eat them all.  Officially these are vanilla frozen dairy dessert sandwiches with chocolatey coating.  Frozen dairy dessert, not ice cream and chocolatey coating, not chocolate coating. These were awful. The ice cr...

Hooray! It's the first new for 2017 flavor. For a while now I'll be bringing you lots of new for 2017 flavors as my HyVee just stocked the new Haagen-Dazs Trio flavors, which I'm soooo pumped about. I was feeling a bit ambivalent about these new Edy's/Hostess flavors, on the other hand. Hostess desserts are so bad, but so good and you don't really want to admit that you eat them as an adult. But new ice cream is new ice cream so lets see how this goes. This flavor is described as Chocolate cake ice cream, chocolate cake pieces, and a frosting swirl.  Given I had super low expectations for this ice cream, it wasn't too bad. The base had a hint of cake flavor to it, but it mostly tasted like chocolate. A strong, rich chocolate, but not very much cake flavor. The texture of the base, however, was lacking. There was a lot of air and it melted very quickly. It just did not stay frozen at all in my freezer. My freezer could be colder, but at the same time,...

Twinkies and Cupcakes and Sno Balls oh my!  I've delved further and further into the world of ice cream, and, for better or for worse, this means I don't eat as many other desserts. I don't think I've had a hostess dessert in years. I loved them as a kid because we didn't often have them in the house. Don't worry, we weren't deprived, we were just more of a Little Debbie Zebra Cakes and Cosmic Brownies family.  Now that Edy's has partnered with Hostess to make Sno Balls, Twinkie, and CupCakes ice cream. Sno Balls is Marshmallow ice cream with chocolate cake pieces and a whipped coconut swirl. If you read my last Edy's review , Peanut Butter Cookie Dough, which I gave essentially 0/4 cones, you'll understand why I was wary of trying another Edy's flavor so quickly, but I was pleasantly surprised. The marshmallow base has a sweeter and more concentrated marshmallow flavor than marshmallow candies, but it tasted very similar to the m...