McConnell's - Chocolate Covered Strawberries

Chocolate Covered Strawberries - The richly complex, insanely smooth creaminess of McC’s Sweet Cream - Central Coast, grass-fed milk and cream, cage-free organic eggs and pure cane sugar - meets its decadent match in Guittard bittersweet, melted chocolate and perfectly ripe, Santa Barbara strawberries.

Another McConnell's Flavor.  I always feel a little weird pasting the flavor description from the McConnell's website because there are so many salesman-like adjectives interspersed within the list of ingredients.  More simply put, this has a sweet cream base with chocolate & strawberries mixed in.  McConnells does always have fun text on the back of the carton though.

Opening the pint, I was surprised to see a light pink color with specks of chocolate scattered across the top.  Some red strawberry specks were also visible.  I guess with a name like Chocolate Covered Stawberries, I expected large chunks of strawberry coated with chocolate.  That is not the case.  Digging into the pint, the red strawberry specks become more numerous providing a lot of strawberry flavor. It's still a sweet cream base as I believe the pinkish color is just diffused strawberry juice from the shredded strawberry pieces.  Shredding the strawberries has a nice bonus.  I've noted in previous reviews that strawberry chunks will freeze in the ice cream and that biting into a frozen strawberry can be a bit unpleasant.  With the smaller shreds of strawberry that is much less of an issue as the strawberries melt very quickly in your mouth.  The chocolate is also half-melted -- melt in your mouth mix-ins is a McConnell's specialty -- so you can eat the entire pint without need of any biting.

This was a tasty pint.  If you like strawberries and you have McConnells in your area then you should give this a try.