Sweet Science - Fresh Oranges & Cream

Fresh Oranges & Cream - Orange Sorbet swirled with Vanilla Ice Cream

Today's review is from the Saint Paul-based Sweet Science Ice Cream.  They release new flavors on the first Friday of every month.  The December flavors are the holiday flavors and they are the same as last year.  The holiday flavors are Gingerbread, Peppermint Bark, Strawberry Kolache and Opera Cake.  They are all pretty good (click the links for the reviews I wrote last year).  There is one new flavor in their regular (non-monthly-limited) line which is called Fresh Oranges and & Cream and I will review that here.  It looks like a variation on their late-winter seasonal Blood Orange Cream where regular oranges are used instead of blood oranges.  Using regular oranges and orange juice likely means they can keep in the rotation longer as blood oranges are much more seasonal.  The orange is made into a sorbet which is then swirled into a vanilla ice cream.  Let's check it out.

Opening the pint, I see a lot of the orange sorbet right away on top of the pint.  It is a much lighter color than the Blood Orange of course.  The color looks right, but it is remarkable how yellowish the orange of an orange is.  I have had their orange sorbet before (with a twist of mexican honey lager) and it is quite good.  It tastes like a good glass of freshly squeezed orange juice.  The vanilla ice cream blends with the sorbet quite well.  Often sorbets are good for a scoop or two, not for a full pint.  Here, it was quite easy for me to eat the entire pint.

This is an excellent implementation of an orange-and-vanilla ice cream.  The side of the pint says that the sorbet & vanilla combination is like an 'orange-sicle for adults'.  This is a much higher quality orange with a softer texture than the orange popsicles used in the orange-sicles that I grew up with to boot.  If you are in a citrus mood this winter, check this one out.