Milkjam Creamery - C.R.E.A.M.

C.R.E.A.M. - Sweet Cream with a Hint of Sea Salt

Today, we return to the Minneapolis-based Milkjam Creamery -- not for the seasonal July flavors (which by the way are described at this instagram link) but for one of their standard flavors which somehow I have not tried yet.  This is "C.R.E.A.M" which is Milkjam's implementation of a sweet cream.  Sweet cream is the simplest of all ice creams.  The easiest way to describe it would be "vanilla without the vanilla", so just milk, cream, sugar, etc.  Milkjam has a lot of fun naming their flavors.  I am not as cool as the flavor namers at Milkjam, but I believe this flavor is named after a 1994 Wu-Tang Clan song of the same name.  There, the acronym stands for "Cash Rules Everything Around Me".  That sounds fun.  I like money, too.  I have reviewed a simple sweet cream implementation before from Tillamook here.  Let's see how this flavor compares. 

Removing the lid, the ice cream is the expected white color with a slight tinge of yellow (perhaps their recipe includes some egg yolks).  Digging in, the ice cream is 'whipped up' more than usual.  You can tell from the pictures that more air is churned into this pint than in the usual Milkjam flavor.  The flavor expectedly simple (just creamy) but is quite good.  The links above mention that there is a hint of sea salt in the mix, but the effect of that is extremely subtle -- this is by no means a salty pint.

This is a decent and solid implementation of the simplest of ice cream flavors: sweet cream.  I think I liked Tillamook's implementation slightly better (thicker and denser) but that flavor has since been retired so this flavor will work great if you need a simple sweet cream -- often used as the 'a la mode' ice cream to accompany a slice of cake or pie.  It is a lot like an ice cream version of a whipped cream.  I should mention, though, that Milkjam's namesake flavor Milkjam is a great alternative which you should try first.  Its blend of goat, cow and sweetened condensed milk is thick and unique and not available anywhere else.