It’s back! I apologize we don’t have a review for this ice cream with milk chocolate ice cream with chocolate cake pieces, chocolate-coated strawberry hearts, and swirls of strawberry sauce and chocolate icing. (Spotted by Robbie at Walmart.)
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What the heck makes this a groom’s cake? I didn’t get anything like this.
I think it’s a Southern thing. See “Steel Magnolias” for “reference”.
I really wish I could post the picture…
In the 19th century, chocolate was one of the original groom’s cake flavors, because it was considered to be more masculine than vanilla. Though nowadays, it can be any flavor.
Here’s a mini-review in the meantime from an ice cream addict who tends to prefer vanilla. I only like chocolate ice cream when it really tastes like chocolate and not watered-down cocoa powder, but Groom’s Cake had me curious.
Starting with a spoonful, the texture is very creamy with plenty of the cake chunks, strawberry hearts, and swirls. I could see a little of everything when I opened the pint.
The chocolate ice cream tasted like milk chocolate – rich like a chocolate bar, not leaning too much toward bitter, but not too sweet. It had none of the gumminess that you get in some off-brands that use a powder mix.
It was chocolatey enough I almost expected it to overpower the strawberry flavors, but they held their own. In fact, bites with the swirl made the strawberry almost take over. It also wasn’t an overly sweet flavor, but it was definitely sweet strawberry. If I got a bite with both swirls, I couldn’t tell the chocolate icing was there. The icing component overall was a little lost in the pint; it was the mix-in I found and tasted the least.
The chocolate cake chunks were, by far, my favorite part of the pint. They were dense, moist, and chewy, like little bits of brownie. There were plenty, but I don’t think I’d have complained if they replaced the strawberry hearts.
The strawberry hearts were good, though! The chocolate shells weren’t so thin that they were always broken like you see in some candy mix-ins, but they also weren’t so thick you got none of the filling. They broke open easily under my teeth and melted in my mouth to release a thick strawberry gel that I could still taste alongside all the chocolate flavors.
I split it across a few servings, and it wasn’t icy or too hard to scoop after being opened, scooped, closed, and put back in the freezer twice.
Overall, even for a vanilla ice cream girl, it was a very satisfying pint with real chocolate ice cream and lots of the promised mix-ins. If I had a complaint, I’d ask for more of the chocolate icing, but I wouldn’t say that disappointed me. Chocolate ice cream lovers might like it even more than I did!
Rating: 8/10
Purchased: Smith’s (Kroger)
Price: $4.99
I’ve always wanted to try blue bell but I live too far north sadly. they all seem like great flavors
Bring back cinnamon twist you cowards!