#breyers black raspberry chocolate ice cream...

[yardsards]

companies who discontinue my favorite little treats should go to jail forever and ever

[bright-and-burning]

favorite ice cream flavor? 🍦🧡

i actually have different ones in different contexts!! rn im on a strawberry ice cream w chocolate syrup kick; i ALWAYS have strawb stocked in the freezer. it was my childhood fave too <3 so that’s my like basically daily dessert akdjskjd

but when im at home my dad and i go hard for black raspberry chocolate chunk!! and when i go out for ice cream ill get something w chunks of dough in it. so either like Quadruple Chocolate Extreme Fudge Brownie Bites Deluxe or whatever the ice cream place wants to call it bc its always insane. or like, cookie dough or (at a very specific place in my hometown) mint oreo.

what’s YOUR fave?

[redwolf17]

Favorite ice cream flavor?

Oooh I have OPINIONS.

Okay so obviously there are many different delicious flavors of ice cream with completely different vibes. Mint chocolate chip. Deer tracks. Chocolate chip cookie dough. Peach.

But oh. One flavor truly is That Girl, and she’s almost fucking impossible to find.

You see, I am a chocolate fiend. I am also a raspberry fiend. Now, when I was a kid, my grammie got Schwan's delivery. One of her favorite products was their raspberry rumble ice cream. Around the same time, Breyer’s had a black raspberry chocolate chip flavor with a raspberry swirl. Both of these flavors BLEW MY TINY MIND.

I have spent years trying to recapture that utter, glorious, nostalgia tinged bliss. There’s several grocery brands that have black raspberry chocolate chip, but they aren’t raspberry-y enough, or the chocolate is too sweet, and they never have the raspberry swirl. The local ice cream shops have some raspberry chocolate flavors, but usually it’s chocolate ice cream with a raspberry swirl, which is not the same, it’s just not.

So. My ideal, perfect ice cream is an intense raspberry base, with dark chocolate chunks and a raspberry swirl. Pretty much the only way I can get it is if I make it, at which point I go completely feral.

Tragically, the only picture I have is from a batch a few years ago where I was too lazy/busy to do the raspberry swirl:

There is no dye in there. That’s whole raspberries, cooked down and shoved through a sieve to get the seeds out (which is a massive pain btw), before being blended with sugar and cream and yogurt and a hint of lemon juice.

It’s incredible, it’s life changing, it’s one of the last things my grampa ate before he passed because he LOVED ice cream and he asked me to make him a batch, which I brought to the hospital. When my sister visits next month, I’m supposed to make it for her, by special request.

So uh, yeah. That’s my favorite ice cream.