Vanilla ice cream with brownie pieces and sweet caramel swirls – We think the quality of Haagen Dazs ice cream certainly one of the best mass produced that can be bought in supermarkets here in the U.K, and we always enjoy it’s luxurious and consistent thick creamy feel.
The ice cream itself is vanilla, not one of our preferred usually as too often vanilla = plain, but 
we didn’t find this to be the case here at all. The vanilla is strong and authentic – you can see the flecks of vanilla bean for yourself!
The brownies aren’t quite as large as their competitors but are still of a very acceptable size and are perfectly moist, chewy and chocolatey.
Although the caramel swirl isn’t as visible as comparable flavours from other brands, we certainly tasted it. It has a very strong rich caramel flavour and we think it’s the perfect swirl for the sweet vanilla base flavour.
Co-Op exclusive.
“Cool and creamy, swirled with fruity berry sauce” Unfortunately we don’t have any of the finer details as our recycling collection has been and gone and according to the internet, this doesn’t exist!
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. 
£3.50 – £4 Supermarkets – interestingly, this seems be being phased out in favour of a Triple Chocolate Parfait version.
Salted caramel ice cream with a ripple of salted caramel sauce – although we’d not tried Yeo Valley ice cream before, they weren’t unknown to us as they’re a large dairy company – famous for their yoghurts. The addition of “better quality” ingredients, such as organic whole milk rather than powdered or skimmed, and organic double cream weren’t too unexpected.
Zesty exotic Ecuadorian yellow passion fruit with an intense vibrant ripple – the Irresistible range is Co-Op supermarkets higher end range. We certainly think this sorbet is worthy of the “Irresistible” name and it’s one we’ve rescooped a few times.
Banana ice cream with Caramel & Cookie swirls & Chocolatey peace signs – this flavour originally started life as Satisfy My Bowl in 2014 but returned in 2016 as One Love. The ice cream itself is typical of Ben & Jerry’s and we just loved the strong banana flavour.
en we first scooped this flavour back in 2014 we had plenty of swirl and not much chocolate and it seems Ben & Jerry’s tried to correct this in its resurrection but seem to have gone too far the other way!
We (and many others it seems) have had the same experience this time round, plenty of slightly darker tasting chocolatey chunks but barely any of the sweet caramel swirl Ben & Jerry’s use a lot of, and even less of the slightly gritty cookie swirl.
Mint ice cream with chocolatey chunks – a repeat seasonal release from Ben & Jerry’s and the quality of the ice cream is just the same as their standard year round line up. Although we aren’t usually keen on mint flavours, we found the mint ice cream base refreshing and surprisingly addictive.
Vanilla ice cream with fondant sauce and Cadbury milk chocolate – this is a “limited edition” release from Cadbury but it tends to be available year round. We found the vanilla ice cream fairly generic, nothing bad but nothing to write home about but we did agree it was the perfect match for the extremely sugary sweet fondant sauce.
Northern Bloc are a premium brand and make their ice cream using natural ingredients. We really enjoyed this, although it seemed softer than other comparable ice creams it was still thick and creamy and this only improved the closer to room temperature it got (and the more we ate!)
perfectly.
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