![]() ![]() If you like fruit, granola and vanilla then this is you kind of flavor.Loved seeing celebrate the Bremner Cup win versus Coe College tonight! Congratulations, student athletes! #cornellcollegeĪ post shared by Gwen Schimek-Tischler on at 7:06pm PDT That being said the base is amazing and the sweet but still naturally fruity taste of the jam with the abundant and varying in texture streusel is good. I also wish the oat streusel had a better taste and more pastry like pieces and I wish the sauce had been thicker, and more spread out. It’s worth it to try one of Jeni’s flavors but I’m not sure i would repeat any of them with the 12 dollar price tag and long drive. The jam basically provides the taste difference to the exotic vanilla while the texture of the oat streusel disrupts the creaminess. I wish that the streusel was more prolific but once the ice cream softens then the jam can be mixed around. There are no bites of vanilla without at least one oat but most have a decent size chunk. When all three things are together they remind me of warm fruit compote with vanilla whipped cream and granola topping than a crisp. It doesn’t melt like the ice cream but it mixes with nicely as it softens. It’s like a dessert sauce in that both berries are present and taste natural but not woodsy and the whole thing is also super sweet. It’s like a dessert sauce and the taste provides a really nice switch up to the basic combo already present. Tastewise, it’s super sweet with that little bit of tart aftertaste that jam often has. Really be careful this will get everywhere. The thickness is also a bit more liquidy than jam and it runs a bit so it’s more of a super sticky sauce. There are seeds to prove that real berries were used but it has a uniform thickness. Consistency wise, there are no whole berries like a jam might have. That’s not a huge deal to me because I cut it, but you may want to do the same if you want to have some in every bite. Not because of its liquidy consistency but in terms of its location, most of my jam is in a sort of hole in the lower half of the pint. I have to say this is much more of a puddle than a swirl. The last aspect of the the pint is the blackberry-blackcurrant jam swirl. The bigger pieces had a bit of a sweet and nutty granola feel to them but that was really about it. It’s unfortunate because they could have put some spices with them but mainly the crumbles were tasteless. ![]() The strength of the vanilla means they get a bit lost. They have a taste that’s similar to granola or to a brown sugar oatmeal. Tastewise they don’t add much but pie crust doesn’t usually. It’s nice that there is a bit in every bite and the size varies but I’d prefer to have fewer little pieces and more chunks purely because I appreciate the more distinctive crunch than the little flakes that like oats can’t really be chewed through. ![]() The littler bits provide more of a textural change than anything else and are a bit chewy while the bigger peices are more like granola and have a bit of crunch to them. Every bite has either chunks or specks of streusel in them. ![]() I usually prefer real pie chunks to oat streusel because the streusel reminds me of healthy oatmeal flakes too much but we’ll see. The next mix in that comes in is the oat streusel. They obviously don’t change the texture but every bite is very sweet with a bit of floral complexity. There are black specks of vanilla bean through the whole pint that clearly show real vanilla was added. The phrase vanilla had become a name for just plain ice cream without any real flavoring but instead of being a “vanilla” that tastes like ice cream this ice cream actually tastes like vanilla. In terms of taste, this is probably the best vanilla that I’ve ever had. It wasn’t super thick or heavy but the cream came through more than the milk despite being behind it on the ingredients list. That being said, it didn’t melt into liquid and it stayed dense the whole time I was eating it. It was quite soft immediately out of the freezer and I was pleasantly surprised by how the texture held up. I’ll start with just the vanilla base since that’s what appeared first on my pint. When I took it out I hoped most of the mixins had sunk down since not much was visible: Jeni’s describes their most popular flavor as “oven-toasted oat streusel and a sweet- tart ‘brambleberry’ jam of blackberries and blackcurrants layered throughout vanilla ice cream.” The first hot day all year was an unfortunate time to try this flavor since the pint probably got soft on the way home but I put it in the freezer and hoped for the best. There’s only one grocery store in the whole of Seattle with Jeni’s but after seeing pictures of this flavor in Instagram, I knew it was worth seeking out. ![]()
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