Tillamook - Salted Caramel Toffee

Salted Caramel Toffee - Caramel Gelato and Caramel Sauce Topped with Crunchy Toffee Pieces

We return to the Oregon-based Tillamook brand for its Salted Caramel Toffee flavor.  Interestingly, they've decided to implement this as a gelato rather than an ice cream or a frozen custard.  Plus, the mix-in is toffee pieces instead of the usual chocolate.  It should be interesting.

Removing the lid shows the toffee pieces sprinkled liberally across the top of the pint.  This is a common practice of Tillamook's to do this.  They have done this in previous pints with peanuts, chocolate and strawberry sauce.  Taste-wise, I prefer the mix-ins to the blended into the pint a bit more, but visually this is quite festive.    Eating into the pint, the caramel gelato is quite soft and also quite salty.  It was so soft that I almost felt that it was melting, but it wasn't.  The toffee pieces were rather chewy and not the jawbreaking type of toffee.  They blended with the caramel quite well.  The caramel sauce created the glue for the toffee pieces and was quite good as well.  Overall, there saltiness was more noticeable than the average 'salted caramel' flavor.  It created a bit of a burn in the back of my throat at times.

All in all, it was a pretty good pint.  It reminded me a bit of Ample Hills' Salted Crack Caramel flavor in its half-melted salty flavor, although I liked that pint a little better than this one as it had higher quality mix-ins.  That said, if you like your caramel bases soft and salty, then this pint is worth a try.