I scream for icecream

Lately, I haven't had much of an opportunity to eat out, but I've eaten several icecreams from various brands and stores.

Mövenpick is a Swiss brand of high-quality gourmet icecream. It's a 900ml container of pure delight. Although it's a tad expensive...about $8 for any flavour, available at Mövenpick stores or at New World Supermarkets. Someone once joked that it would be virtually impossible to get fat on this brand of icecream unless one had money to throw around. To enjoy this icecream, you should eat in small portions.

So, I've currently tried the Maple Walnut flavour as well as the Chocolate flavour from their Classic range. The Maple one had a lasting effect on me, even though I'm usually not a fan of walnuts. The creamy texture of the icecream was what grabbed me. The Maple syrup in the icecream gives it a fragrant sweetness, whilst the caramelized walnut bits accompany the maple perfectly, by adding crunch.

On the other hand, the chocolate one was not at all what I had expected. Normally, I am the world's most undisguised chocoholic. Upon tasting two spoonfuls of this icecream, I was let down. The icecream itself was somewhat bland, no rich chocolate aroma and an overtly milky aftertaste. Its saving grace was supposed to be the thin cover of hardened chocolate. It reminded me of Choc Bar [a cheap chocolate ice-block you can buy at the dairy for less than $2]...It was much too sweet, obviously to compensate for the plain taste of the rest of the icecream.

Cadbury Well, usually I wouldn't touch their chocolates with a ten-foot-long pole, but their icecream range is fantastic! Their 2 litre tub of Triple Chocolate icecream is what I've been munching [only because licking sounds too kinky :P] on throughout these stifling hot summer days. There are tiny little chocolate drops inside the rich milk chocolate icecream. It's of a smooth texture, though probably not quite as upper-class smooth as the Mövenpick range. Topping off the taste-bud explosions, there's a thick chocolate sauce pooled at the centre of the icecream. Mmmmm...it'll make you dream about chocolate all day long. And, it's cheap enough to not leave a dent in your wallet! I bought four tubs over the course of a month and a half.

Killinchy Gold [self-proclaimed premium New Zealand icecream] Vanilla flavour really didn't make me go back for seconds. While it's not unpleasant, it's just so very off-the-shelf Vanilla icecream. It's got some random little brownish-black bits in it, which I presume to be the roasted vanilla beans, but aside from that, it's a boring flavour. Before I can comment on the entire brand, I shall have to try more flavours :3

One final brand, your supermarket regular Tip Top icecream, available virtually anywhere in New Zealand. The French Vanilla flavour is definitely more interesting than the original Vanilla one; this could be due to the fact that I don't like the no-nonsense, down-to-earth minimalist taste, being a rebellious young adult and all :D

Anyway, once I get the hang of uploading photos onto Blogger, I shall put faces to names ^_^

edit: one more icecream I tried, Real Strawberry icecream from the cafe by the Waldorf Tetra complex on the corner of Wakefield St and Symonds St, Auckland CBD. It was delicious, and really did taste of strawberries, as opposed to strawberry flavouring. However the strawberries were frozen ones, and were not as juicy or aromatic as I had anticipated. Nevertheless, it's worth my recommendation.