Pumphouse Creamery - Black Raspberry Crisp

Black Raspberry Crisp - Vanilla Ice Cream with Black Raspberry Jam and Oatmeal Crisp

Today we return to the Minneapolis-based Pumphouse Creamery for another pint.  They have a new flavor for the new year called Black Raspberry Crisp.  It appears to be a berry-pie-a-la-mode flavor.  It looked really good in the scoop shop tubs, so I picked it up.

Opening the pint, I see a lot of beautiful things.  An off-white vanilla base provides the backdrop, there are dark sections of black raspberry jam, lighter sections where the jam has bled into the vanilla and I can see a lot of small little pieces of the oatmeal.  I haven't even dug my spoon in yet!  Digging in, the raspberry jam is quite good.  It is not too sweet and not too tart.  The vanilla ice cream goes very well with it.  The oatmeal crisp ends up being crunchy nuggets that you encounter from time to time.  The mix is quite good, there was a little bit of everything in almost every spoonful.

This is an excellent pint of ice cream and one of my favorites from Pumphouse Creamery.  It reminded me a bit of Jeni's Brambleberry Crisp except it was a different type of berry.  That's quite a compliment as that is one of Jeni's most successful and popular flavors.  Fans of pie-a-la-mode ice creams will be in for a treat when they try this.