Chocolate ice cream with dark chocolate pieces and vanilla ice cream, swirled and topped with chocolate sauce with a sprinkle of dark chocolate pieces made with 70% Ecuadorean cocoa – this is one for the chocaholics as we found much more chocolate than vanilla in our tub. The Carte D’or Gelateria range is inspired by gelato and we did notice a difference in the texture of the ice cream. Maybe it was power of persuasion, but we thought it seemed thicker and denser but with a somehow softer and creamier mouth feel. 
We weren’t blown away by the vanilla ice cream, finding it pretty plain tasting but as mentioned, there was far more chocolate than vanilla anyway. We liked the chocolate ice cream and sauce, although maybe not comparable to the higher end stuff, we think they’re perfectly chocolatey and sweet enough for a middle of the road brand. The dark chocolate pieces, both the ones inside and the curls on top, impressed us though. We loved the richer, more intense chocolate flavour and the curls were thin enough to have a crisp crunch that shine through the smooth ice cream.
£3.50 – £4 Supermarkets – interestingly, this seems be being phased out in favour of a Triple Chocolate Parfait version.
Chocolate ice cream with Chocolatey Cookies and a Crumbled Chocolatey Cookie Core – this tub uses Ben & Jerry’s standard chocolate base, the same used in many flavours and so the texture and flavour is identical.
chocolatey flavour and a slightly gritty, crunchy literally crumbled cookie texture. An extremely chocolatey flavour!
Candy floss and chocolate flavour ice cream, swirled with Cadbury Dairy Milk, pink sugar crunch, sugar coated jelly pieces and mini marshmallows – we found the ice cream to take a backseat in this tub, and it’s probably for the best. Although it retails at a Ben & Jerry’s-esque £4+, we found it much more like supermarket quality stuff in texture but the flavours themselves were better.
jelly sweets found in Dolly Mixture. We didn’t find much flavour from the marshmallows but certainly appreciated their soft squidgy texture. The Dairy Milk chocolate didn’t appear in any of our tubs until at least half way through and even then it was a slither – and that’s being generous!
point when it wasn’t edible until the actual ice cream was long gone!
Chocolate with chocolate brownie pieces – the first of the three Non-Dairy flavours we’ve tried from Ben & Jerry’s is a reworking of their classic Chocolate Fudge Brownie flavour. We found the base, made with almonds, to be thick, soft and slightly chewier than ice cream. We thought the “ice cream” had a good chocolatey flavour but tasted strangely cake like.
Dark chocolate ice cream (minimum cocoa solids 72.5%) with a chocolate peppermint ripple – Green & Black’s are a company more usually associated with chocolate but they have a small range of organic ice creams too. It looks like a mousse rather than a chocolate and is soft and scoopable right away. It’s luxuriously thick and creamy with a strong chocolate flavour. We found that despite being 72% cocoa solids it didn’t taste as dark as a 72% chocolate bar, however this is probably thanks to the fresh cream in the ingredients.
subtle mint chocolate flavour. The ripple itself is extremely minty, there isn’t too much of it though so we didn’t find it overwhelming, it’s silky smooth and really cuts through the rich chocolate.
Joe Delucci’s is (apparently) gelato, not ice cream so it should come as no surprise that it’s thicker, creamier and more luxurious feeling than most of the other tubs on sale in the supermarkets.
Chocolate Ice Cream with Brownies Sandwiched Between Chewy Double Chocolate Chip Cookies – Ben & Jerry’s sparked a trend when they (re)released their ice cream sandwiches but this is the first time round for the Chocolate Fudge Brownie flavour.
Delve into the silky salted caramel swirl, chocolate cookies & chewy gooey brownies – the perfect partner for your night in? Sofa So Good we think! – The ice cream base in Sofa So Good is caramel flavoured and it’s typical Ben & Jerry’s caramel ice cream. This is a flavour for mix-in fans as it has a ton of small biscuit pieces. These aren’t the same cookies as any of the Cookie Dough flavours, instead a new generic biscuit with quite a strong chocolate flavour.
We found the salted caramel sauce didn’t pop out too much against the already caramel flavoured ice cream and very chocolatey mix ins but tasted alone found it is the same usually quite strong sauce used in other flavours.
Chocolate gelato swirled with chocolate sauce and chocolate fudge cake pieces – as this is a gelato it is supposed to have a denser feel than ice cream and be served at a warmer temperature. While it did feel heavier, both on our spoons and in our mouths, we felt it actually had a lighter and airier texture. Beware, despite the supposed warmer temperatures, this is a melter and within 20 minutes of leaving the freezer was a puddle of liquid chocolate.
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