Jeni's - Snowflake

Snowflake - Spearmint and Peppermint Ice Creams with White Chocolate

I ordered six pints from Jeni's Splendid Ice Cream!  This is becoming a bit of a Black Friday tradition for me.  The first flavor is a flavor called Snowflake which is the result of a collaboration with Tyler the Creator.  I must admit I did not know who he was at first.  I thought he was some sort of chef or food guru, but it turns out that he is a rapper and musician.  He has branched out into fashion designing a little bit and now he wants to try his hand at making ice cream.  He says that he has always been a fan of white chocolate and mint but has been frustrated that white chocolate cookies always have macadamia nuts and mint ice cream almost always has chocolate chips.  So he wanted to have a flavor which contained his two favorite flavors together instead of with their usual companions.  Interestingly, Jeni's already has two mint-and-white-chocolate combinations in White Chocolate Peppermint and Savannah Buttermint, but in Snowflake they include both peppermint and spearmint.  I have had spearmint gum, but not spearmint ice cream before, so this should be interesting.

Removing the lid, I see a marbled green and white colors on the top of the pint.  I guess spearmint is naturally green.  Digging in, the ice cream is very cool and minty.  I recognize that spearmint is in the mix right away -- I taste it more in the finish.  Dispersed throughout the pint are these small little white chocolate pellets.  They look a little bit like large sprinkle candies but they have a denser texture which provides a bit of 'crunch' when you bite into one.

This is a very cool, refreshing and unique pint of mint ice cream.  The marbling of the spearmint and peppermint is beautiful visually and quite interesting to boot.  Then the white chocolate pellets provide a bit of crunch.  With three mint and white chocolate flavors now, Jeni's would seem to have you covered.  White Chocolate Peppermint is the traditional holiday flavor, Savannah Buttermint re-creates the flavor of those soft, buttery mints that everyone's grandmother seemed to have and this Snowflake flavor introduces Spearmint into the mix.  This particular blend is well done and is worth checking out if you love mint.