Lapperts - Hana Road

Hana Road - Chocolate Ice Cream with Marshmallows, Walnuts, Macadamia Nuts, and Chocolate-Covered Almonds

The fourth pint of my six pint shipment from Lappert's Ice Cream is called Hana Road.  This is basically their implementation of "Rocky Road", but the flavor is given a more Hawaiian feel by the inclusion of macadamia nuts and invoking the famous "Road to Hana" along the northern coast of Maui.  This should be fun.

Opening the pint, the base chocolate is quite dark.  Digging in, the chocolate base tastes a bit like a fudgesicle.  I remember thinking the same thing about a McConnell's pint a while back.  Most chocolate bases have a frozen-chocolate-milk feel, but this is a bit thicker and deeper chocolate than that.  The marshmallows are the same size and shape as the mini-marshmallows that you can buy in a bag, but they are a bit higher quality than that.  They   The nuts are generously mixed in and provided quite a bit of crunch.  With three different kinds of nuts in the mix, I never really knew which one to expect.  It kept me on my toes.

This turned out to be a fairly standard implementation of Rocky Road.  Yes, there was macadamias in there but their presence was diluted by the other nuts.  My favorite Rocky Road is still Haagen-Dazs because of the superior marshmallow mix-ins but for those that like a darker chocolate base and a more exotic mix of nuts, this is pretty good, too.