Dolcezza - Stracciatella

Stracciatella - Sweet Cream Gelato with Stracciatella-style Chocolate Chips

 

Today, I return to the Dolcezza Gelato for their implementation of a Stracciatella flavor (instagram link here).  I have had chocolate Stracciatella once before from Sweet Science with an explanation of what stracciatella is in an earlier review of a white-chocolate stracciatella.  The word is Italian for "little shreds" and was originally used to describe the web-like suspension of an egg-drop soup.  Gelato makers have adopted this term to describe a way of created a web-like suspension of chocolate shreds inside a base gelato.  It is basically an exotic way of saying "chocolate chip".  The earlier Sweet Science pint was excellent, but it had a twist of raspberry flavor in it.  Not that I didn't like the raspberry, but today's flavor might be a simpler implementation.  Let's check it out.

Removing the lid, there are a lot of chocolate chips visible right away and the base gelato looks very white.  Digging in, the shreds of chocolate are quite good.  They have a crumbly-flakey texture to them and provide a lot of chocolate flavor.  The base is simple and creamy.  They call it a sweet cream, but I checked the ingredients and see that vanilla is included as well.  If it is a vanilla it is not a strong vanilla.

This is a simple and delicious implementation of what is essentially a chocolate chip ice cream.  The chocolate is yummy and the base is clean and simple.  Don't be afraid of the fancy Italian name, this is a good and simple flavor.  Similar flavors that I have tried include Häagen-Dazs, Graeter's, Izzy's, Sweet Science and Jeni's.  Jeni's included cone pieces and Sweet Science contains raspberry, Graeter's has their signature large and chewy chips.  This Dolcezza pint holds up against the others.  This would actually be a good pint to try for those curious about the Dolcezza brand in general.  It was one of their original flavors and is featured on a lot of their social media posts.