Sweet Science - Gingerbread

Gingerbread - Cinnamon Brown Sugar Ice Cream with Gingerbread Pieces and a Frosting Swirl

Today we return to the Saint Paul-based Sweet Science brand for the first of their December flavors.  Because of the holidays, they have released four flavors with holiday themes.  Whew!  They usually only have two seasonal flavors per month.  Well, I had better get going.  The first pint is called Gingerbread.  Gingerbread pieces are the mix-ins in a brown sugar cinnamon base.  Some frosting is swirled into the mix as well.  Looks good!

Removing the pint, the brown-sugar cinnamon base is a light tan color.  There is a marbling of a lighter color on the top, too.  This is probably the frosting.  Digging in, the brown sugar cinnamon is quite flavorful and delicious.  The gingerbread pieces are of a decent size (see below) and are chewy and have a strong flavor.  The frosting is slightly runny -- it was almost like a sauce.  It actually worked quite well as a swirl.  It was allowed to half-mix with the base in spots making the ice cream a bit softer.

This is an excellent pint of ice cream.  The gingerbread pieces here are better here than in my recent Jeni's pint, though I can't really make a direct comparison between the two flavors because the bases are so different (brown sugar cinnamon vs cognac).  This is one of the better brown sugar bases that I have had -- perhaps topped only by Ample Hills' Nonna's Oatmeal Lace.  The saucy frosting worked out quite well, too.  I wonder if that would work well with other flavors (strawberries and cream?).  Anyhow, great base plus great mix-ins means a great pint.  Enjoy.