To that end, I concluded that the individual flavors of the various elements would be easy to distinguish from one another, and I also realized that cookies 'n' cream would likely be a great barometer for how much each brand gives you when it comes to the mix-ins. The Oreo-adjacent chocolate cookies are also a relatively straightforward mix-in - no swirls of anything, and nothing complicated.

The vast majority of ice cream brands out there use a simple vanilla base for their cookies 'n' creams, so I figured that this flavor would be a solid indicator of the overall quality of the vanilla ice cream itself - how smooth and creamy it is, its general sweetness level, and if it delivers in the flavor department.Why cookies 'n' cream? I've got two reasons in particular: And when we start to enter the world of ice cream flavors with mix-ins, things can get pretty wild.Īll roads and schools of thought led me back to one flavor in particular, which just so happens to be my personal favorite: cookies 'n' cream. Other products I've taste-tested, like marinara sauce and boxed mac 'n' cheese, are pretty limited in their flavor offerings.but ice cream flavors? The limit does not exist. While pondering ice cream flavors to test, I struggled more than I usually do.

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