McConnell's - Strawberry Rhubarb

Strawberry Rhubarb - Ice Cream Infused with Strawberry Rhubarb Preserves

Today is the third pint of my recent shipment from the Santa Barbara-based McConnell's.  This flavor is called Strawberry Rhubarb.  Strawberry and rhubarb are commonly paired together because they are both strong flavors which complement each other well -- strawberry is very sweet and rhubarb is very tart.  Surprisingly, I have only had rhubarb in ice cream one other time, so I am looking forward to checking this out.

The top of the pint is a light pink color and there is sort of a bulgy shape to it.  McConnell's ice cream is often very thick and dense (not a lot of air) and I can tell just buy looking at this that it is thick.  Digging in, I can taste the strawberry right away.  It's a really good strawberry flavor, not too sweet and not too tart.  There are no strawberry chunks like in some other flavors (such as McConnell's own Chocolate-Covered Strawberries).  This is just smooth strawberry flavor and is very tasty.  The rhubarb comes through in the mix-ins.  You can see them in the pictures below.  They provide a twist of rhubarb flavor into each spoonful, but strawberry is the dominant flavor here.

This is a solid pint of ice cream.  The strawberry flavor is perfectly placed along the sweet-tart scale so as not to be too much of one and not the other.  The texture is thick and creamy as is McConnell's specialty.  Rhubarb is definitely a secondary flavor here.  That might be disappointing for rhubarb fans, but it might ease the concerns for those who might be apprehensive about the rhubarb.