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| Caramelized Banana & Bourbon - Banana Bourbon Ice Cream with Ripe Bananas Caramelized in Brown Sugar and Butter |
Today I return to my recent six-pint shipment from Lick Honest Ice Creams in Austin, Texas. This is the five-pint which is called Caramelized Banana & Bourbon which is one of their spring flavors for 2020 (as I write this, they have since switched to summer flavors). A note to local readers that this pint is not available in Twin Cities grocery stores. I could not find this exact flavor combination in my archives. It appears like a twist on either banana-caramel combination or a bananas foster implementation. Here the bananas themselves are caramelized in brown sugar instead of having an explicit caramel swirl and it's not quite bananas foster because they use bourbon instead of rum and there is no spice. Let's see how this tastes!
Popping off the top, I see a light-beige-colored with a smattering of the caramelized banana mix-ins. Digging in, the banana base has good flavor. The caramelized banana mix-ins have a very strong flavor. The side of the carton refers to these as 'ripe' bananas and that is indeed the case. These are those dark-brown bits of ripe banana which have strong flavor but are too soft and mushy to eat plain. But when these are caramelized with brown sugar and butter and immersed in ice cream, it works!
This is an interesting and delicious pint from Lick Honest Ice Creams. It's a bit different from the other banana ice creams that I have had. I get the intense flavor of an over-ripe banana but made very palatable by the brown sugar and bourbon. If you are a banana lover and have access to this flavor, you should check it out.
Popping off the top, I see a light-beige-colored with a smattering of the caramelized banana mix-ins. Digging in, the banana base has good flavor. The caramelized banana mix-ins have a very strong flavor. The side of the carton refers to these as 'ripe' bananas and that is indeed the case. These are those dark-brown bits of ripe banana which have strong flavor but are too soft and mushy to eat plain. But when these are caramelized with brown sugar and butter and immersed in ice cream, it works!
This is an interesting and delicious pint from Lick Honest Ice Creams. It's a bit different from the other banana ice creams that I have had. I get the intense flavor of an over-ripe banana but made very palatable by the brown sugar and bourbon. If you are a banana lover and have access to this flavor, you should check it out.
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