Salt & Straw’s Cookie Dough Ice Cream is Social Distancing
I love chocolate chip cookie dough and malted milkshakes, so I was excited about Salt and Straw’s Salted, Malted, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough ice cream but I didn’t get what I anticipated with its title.
Chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream was created by Ben & Jerry's in 1984 and it has since spread around the world because, simply put, vanilla cream and frozen cookie dough bits mixed together are both genius and hard to screw up. It’s a dependable and safe bet.
The chocolate was dark and strong in the Salted, Malted, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough ice cream. The cookie dough seemed oddly absent, a bit of an afterthought for what should be the belle of the ball. In its place were chunks of fudgy brownie. I texted Davida and told her the pint was chocolate forward. It was good but a surprise. Davida said “yum” she always wanted more chocolate in her chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream. I agreed that this cookie dough mix is exactly that. It is a vanilla cream base, with large dark salted chocolate fudge squares and tiny bits of cookie dough batter - and a hint of malt.
Speaking of malt- I didn't get a strong malted milkshake taste in this ice cream. The malt taste I was expecting comes from malted milk powder, which is a combo of malt powder, powdered milk, and flour. Salt & Straw uses "malt you’d use to brew amber ale", i.e. malt powder, and is a part of the chocolate, giving it a nutty profile without any of that grainy powdered milk taste.
It's good despite it not matching my assumptions, so I'll give it 4 spoons out of 5 spoons
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UPDATE: Looks like I wasn’t the only one perplexed by the large chocolate fudge chunks in their cookie dough ice cream.
The Salted, Malted, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough ice cream is in regular rotation at Salt & Straw and the regulars noticed a difference immediately. Salt & Straw commented that they had to use a different recipe due to social distancing during production.
Since this was my first time trying this Salt & Straw cookie dough ice cream flavor, I have never tried the original. So, I’ll come back to this flavor when production changes to a different recipe.
All the snaps for Salt & Straw keeping their employees safe. And I'm raising the rating to 5 spoons - because it's 2020, it’s good ice cream and everyone reading this knows now that this is a limited edition extra fudgy chocolate cookie dough surprise - with a hint of malt.
Get it before the pandemic ends.
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Cheers!
