McConnell's - Cookie Dough

Cookie Dough - Vanilla Ice Cream with Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Pieces

The third pint in my recent shipment from McConnell's Fine Ice Creams is Cookie Dough.  This flavor is usually only available in scoop shops only, but they temporarily make it available online for a while.  It is actually what inspired me to get the McConnell's shipment.  There were only two limited batch flavors for the spring, but an online shipment requires four pints.  A third limited-batch flavor makes the shipment more appealing.  Anyhow, this looks like a standard cookie dough implementation.  Vanilla is the base here.

Removing the lid, the base is actually a creamy beige color.  It almost looks like the carton is filled with cookie dough itself!  I am relieved to find after having a spoonful that it is ice cream.  A whole pint of cookie dough would seem to be a bit much.  It doesn't taste like plain vanilla ice cream, though.  It tastes like it has been 'infused' with cookie dough flavor.  I have seen cookie milk ice cream here, this almost tastes like cookie dough milk.  Perhaps the base milk and cream is cooked with the cookie dough in it before the churning starts?  Or maybe the flavoring from the mix-ins simply diffused into the base?  Whatever they did, the effect is quite delicious.  Then chunks of actual cookie dough are dispersed generously throughout the pint.  These taste pretty good and include chocolate chips.

This is an excellent implementation of a standard, simple ice cream flavor.  Whatever they did to infuse their base with cookie dough flavor worked like a charm and allows this pint to stand out among other cookie dough flavors.  For simple cookie dough implementations, this is probably my new favorite.  If you're a cookie dough ice cream enthusiast and you live near a McConnell's scoop shop, give this one a try.