Review: Velvet Ice Cream Company Strawberry Cheesecake Ice Cream

Velvet Ice Cream gave me one of my best experiences that I've ever had on this blog, so I look at them with fondness.  Unfortunately, I haven't reviewed them much because my local stores do not have a wide variety of flavor selections.  That said, my local Kroger has had this Velvet Ice Cream Company Strawberry Cheesecake Ice Cream in stock for quite a while but me being the miser that I am, have been waiting on a sale before I made the leap to pick up a container.  A reason sale for $3.99 for a 1.75 quart container (two extra servings!) caused me to make that leap, so here we are.  Each container has fourteen half-cup servings and each serving comes in at 180 calories.  Velvet makes its ice creams using all natural ingredients, so that's quite nice as well.

Review: Velvet Ice Cream Company Denali Moose Tracks Ice Cream

If you really look at it, Moose Tracks is kind of like vanilla or chocolate in the ice cream world.  It's a flavor combination created by Denali that is licensed out to ice cream manufacturers to make under their own label. I've looked at other versions of Moose Tracks before, but never one from Velvet Ice Cream Company based out of Ohio.  In my previous Velvet review, I had my socks knocked off by how awesome their Buckeye Classic flavor was, so despite the fact that Moose Tracks is sort of a generic flavor, I had high expectations heading into this review of the 1.75 quart container of this Velvet Ice Cream Company Denali Moose Tracks Ice Cream.  My mom picked this one up, so I actually didn't pay for it (or eat it at my house as the different picture background above indicates), but I can tell you that I have seen this in Kroger for roughly $5.99 for the container.  Since this is two scoops/servings bigger than the typical ice cream container, I can tell you that this one had fourteen half-cup servings at 190 calories per serving.

Review: Velvet Ice Cream Company Buckeye Classic Ice Cream

I usually try to stay with national brands on this blog, but sometimes I'll be wandering through the store and I'll see a regional brand that piques my interest and that's what happened with the subject of this review with the Velvet Ice Cream Company Buckeye Classic Ice Cream.  I figure what better time than fall is there to review a product based out of Ohio that shares a name with a tree nut and also one of college football's preeminent powerhouse teams?  Also, I have a bit of an attachment to Buckeyes (the candy, not the team) since I used to make them every single year in a family cookies/candy competition that my family had around Christmas every year.  For those of you that don't know what a Buckeye is, it's a candy made of a peanut butter mixture and then dipped in chocolate so that it resembles the nut itself and quite honestly, it is freaking delicious (here's a Wikipedia link if you want to learn more).  As for the nut itself, it's worthless and if you ever want to make an Ohio State Buckeyes fan mad, tell them their team is named for a worthless nut.  Of course, you should probably make sure that your team is not named Hoosiers like mine is before making that joke because at least there is something that their name represents.  No one quite knows what a Hoosier is.

Okay, enough of my incoherent rambling...I picked up a 1.75 quart container of this at my local Kroger, an Ohio based grocer and thus the connection to an Ohio based ice cream maker, on sale for $2.99 and it contains 14 servings of ice cream at 180 calories per serving.