Jeni's - Churro Ice Cream

Churro Ice Cream - Cinnamon Sugar Ice Cream with Toffee and Pastry Flakes

Today, we return to the Columbus-based Jeni's brand for their Churro Ice Cream flavor.   This is the second churros-themed flavor that I've reviewed -- McConnell's Churros Con Leche being the previous one.  It will be fun to compare and contrast the two implementations.  Both include a cinnamon-flavored base and flakes or chunks of dough or pastry, but Jeni's includes toffee into the mix.

Removing the lid shows the light color of the cinnamon sugar base but a lot of darker brown mix-ins are visible right away on the very top.  Also visible are a couple of small chunks that appear to be in a semi-liquid state.  I think this is the toffee!  Its going to be a melted-toffee mix-in.  Eating my way into the pint, the cinnamon flavor of the base is quite potent.  It is not a 'hot' cinnamon, but there is no shortage of its flavor in each spoonful.  The pastry flakes provide a good textural contrast.  The melted toffee chunks were surprisingly prevalent.  It tasted like caramel to me, but whether it's toffee or caramel, it is tasty.

This was a very successful pint.  I liked it better than the McConnell's implementation.  The cinnamon was stronger, the chunks were more smaller but more numerous, and melted toffee the icing on the cake.  Of course, Jeni's is a more premium-priced and harder to find brand, so I will leave it up to the reader as to whether its worth it.