My local grocery store has started stocking a “limited edition” apple pie ice cream (message me for the details, don’t want to be shilling). It’s one of my favorites – not only does it have chunks of real apple and graham cracker crust, but the ice cream itself has a delicious apple flavor. The whole thing tastes like you took a slice of apple pie with vanilla ice cream and blended it chunky style.
I always figured there was some boring food-science reason you couldn’t make a decent apple ice cream, but this shows it’s perfectly possible. So why isn’t it more common? Apple pie is one of the most popular deserts, and you find apple flavoring in plenty of drinks and candies. What gives?
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I’ve wondered about the same but with kiwi fruit it’s delicious and refreshing yet you don’t see any flavored drinks or ice cream with that flavor.
There is such a variety of apples it’s hard to pick one apple flavor.
damn good question
Apples turn brown when you freeze them.
While that is the case, modern industrial ice cream rarely contains the actual fruit. Just take standard Neutro mix, regenerate it with water, not milk, and add some food coloring (a light green), an acidic component like citric acid, and “natural” “apple” flavor.
Most apple flavored stuff sucks, except for apples.
Apple brandy would like a word. One of my favorite liquors, it’s fantastic.
Apple brandy counts as a serving of fruit, not apple flavored.
Making ice cream with actual apples involved is a nightmare due to acidity influencing other ingredients. But making it apple-scented is trivial.
But you raised a very good question…
I feel like dehydrated apples might work.
you’d end up with apple cider vinegar as your flavorant, and that doesn’t play well with milk.
Because it’s too expensive to crunch up a whole iPhone just for one cone.
This should be higher. Even broken iPhones from 3 years ago sell for tens or hundreds of euros.
Are we talking Apple or apple pie? Because from your post I can’t really tell.
This particular one is apple pie, but the ice cream itself (minus the pie crust chunks) would be great on its own.
The same reason they took it back out of skittles and no one gets apple flavored suckers. It isn’t up to snuff.
Forget apple, we need more banana/banana creme ice cream flavors.
Even better, bananas foster flavor
Cinnamon apple jelly should be more common too! (Not apple butter… fuck Apple butter).
Apple cinnamon all the things!
Where do you live? Where I live (Austria), apple ice cream is maybe not 100% universally available at all ice cream vendors, but common enough that I have no problems getting it if I want to.
Southeastern US. This is my first time seeing apple-anything ice cream on the shelves, from major national brands at least.
Hm. I rarely buy ice cream in stores so I am not sure whether there is apple ice cream in stores here, but at ice cream parlors it is definitely reasonably common here.
HEB?
I’d love if it was more popular!
Mighy try and make at home. Parfait ice cream is reasonably uncomplicated. Wonder if I should make it from dried apples.
