Tillamook - Dark Chocolate & Red Raspberry

Dark Chocolate & Red Raspberry - Dark Chocolate and Red Raspberry Frozen Custard with Red Raspberry Swirls

 

We return to the Oregon-based Tillamook Creamery for this Dark Chocolate & Red Raspberry flavor.  I bought this at Kowalski's on Grand in Saint Paul, but I have noticed that they have started selling Tillamook pints at Target!  So, if you frequent the Target freezer cases, keep an eye out for this quality brand.  Today's flavor features a dark chocolate raspberry base with raspberry swirls.  Raspberry and chocolate is a very common combination, but it's usually a raspberry base with chocolate mix-ins and not the other way around.  Checking my archives, this is the first chocolate-base-with-raspberry-mix-ins that I have tried.  I did find a couple of cherry flavors with chocolate bases:  the limited-batch Chocolate Cherry Garcia from Ben & Jerry's and Dark Chocolate Cherry (Layers) from Talenti.  Let's see how this raspberry flavor turns out.

Removing the lid, I see one of my favorite emoji jokes on the seal.  Peeling back the seal, the chocolate-raspberry base has a deep brown color -- it looks like chocolate.  Digging in, I taste primarily chocolate but there are some raspberry notes and some raspberry flavor in the 'finish'.  This is good.  Closely examining some spoonfuls, I can see dark pink streaks in the base where the 'swirl' is but it is hard to isolate this flavor because there is so much chocolate.

This is a good raspberry-tinged chocolate flavor from Tillamook.  Raspberry lovers should note that this is for the most part a chocolate pint.  But you do get interesting raspberry accents in each spoonful.  It tastes a bit like one of those 'flavored chocolates' that you may find at a fancy chocolate store.  A good pint for chocolate-lovers to try for a twist on their favorite flavor.