Monday, December 21, 2020

Best Ice Cream in Utah Valley Parlors

BEST Utah Valley Parlor ICE CREAMS

7 Mar 21


TESTED SIDE BY SIDE:


Caramel, Brown Sugar, Graham, & Maple Flavors


A

Baskin Robbins – Butter Pecan

Brooker - Abigail Adams salted caramel ice cream with crack cookie chunks, roasted pecans, and smoked almonds

Handel – Caramel Pretzel Crunch


A/A-

Handel – Tin Lizzy

Rockwell – Brown Butter Pecan


B+

Baskin Robbins – Black Walnut

STORE BRAND (NOT PARLOR): Tillamook - Salted Caramel Toffee

STORE BRAND (NOT PARLOR): Haagen Dazs – Dulche de Leche

Handel – Butter Pecan

STORE BRAND (NOT PARLOR:) Haagen Dazs – Caramel Cone (note that their no-longer sold Caramel Core would have graded higher on this list as one of the best caramel ice creams nationally)

Handel – Pralines

Handel – Graham Central Station

Leatherbys – Butter Pecan

Culver – Butterscotch

Mora - Dulche de Leche

Brookers – Speculoos

Culver – Caramel

Subzero – Dulche de Leche

Brookers – John Jay's French brown butter vanilla ice cream with pralines and butterscotch swirl

Baskin Robbins – Pralines

Handel – Salted Caramel

Rockwell- Salted Caramel


B

STORE BRAND (NOT PARLOR): Talenti Brown Butter Caramel (rates here or below)

Sub-Zero – Caramel

BYU Caramel Cashew

Brusters - Graham Central Station

Leatherby's – Praline


B-/B

Sub-Zero - Maple

Leatherby's – Black Walnut

Rockwell – Maple Pecan (very weak maple flavor)

Red Barn – Maple Pecan

Brusters – Maple Pecan

Red Barn – Apple Caramel

Mrs. Cavanaugh's – Praline

Red Barn – Cashew Caramel


B-


Farr – Pralines

Brusters – Salted Caramel Toffee (about here)

Baskin Robbins – Mom's Makin' Cookies


C-

Baskin Robbins – Snickers (overshadowed by peanut butter somewhat, or could be higher as a caramel ice cream)

Mrs. Cavanaugh's – Penoche (maple, brown sugar + penoche fudge)

Mrs. Cavanaugh's – Trinidad (caramel + cashew)

Red Barn – Butter Brickle

BYU – Graham Central Station

BYU – English Toffee (pecan ice cream)

Brusters – Salted Caramel


D+

Sub-Zero – Butterscotch

Leatherbys – No Sugar Added Butter Pecan

Baskin Robbins – No Sugar Added Caramel


TEST: Farr Maple


Coconut


B/B+

Brusters


B

Baskins – Almond Joy


B-/B

Sub Zero


C+/B-

Mora

Leatherby's – Almond Joy


C/C+

Red Barn – Almond Joy


C

BYU – Almond Joy




Banana


B+/A-

Handel's Banana Cream (seasonal)


B+

Sub Zero

Mora


B/B+

Brookers - “Roger Sherman's Banana Foster Brittle: Caramelized Banana ice cream with chunks of almond brittle and white chocolate swirl”


B

Handel's Monkey Business


B-/B

Cold Stone


C+

Leatherby's


Cherry


B+

Leatherbys – Cherry Jubilee

Handel's Black Cherry


B/B+

Red Barn – Black Cherry Chip


B

STORE BRAND: Graetors' Black Cherry

Baskiin Robbins – Cherry Jubilee

Handel's Cherry Vanilla (would be higher without strong-flavored marachino cherries)

Baskin Robbins – Winter White Cherry


C

Red Barn Cherry Cheesecake

Farr – Cherry Jubilee

Mrs. Cavanaugh – Cherry Almond


C-/C

Red Barn Cherry (or chocolate cherry?)


C-

Mora marachino cherry


C- -

Sub Zero


Peppermint Chocolate


A

Rockwell – Peppermint with chocolate flakes


B- -

Coldstone


Strawberry


A

Culver – concrete (they sell pints of it at times, which is untested; but concrete is like a very thick shake that passes for ice cream)


A-

Brookers

Leatherby's


B/B+

Haagen Dazs

Cold Stone


B

Mrs. Cavanaugh


C-/C

Baskin Robbins

Brusters Tuxedo Strawberry w/ white chocolate swirls and choc flakes

Super Chix (not tested with others in this grade)


C-

Brusters reg. Strawberry

Rockwell – Strawberry and cream (their regular Strawberry is a B+, tied with Brookers, possibly makes for Brookers, as their chocolate ice cream base is also the same)

Farr


C-

Handels

Mora

Red Barn


D+/C-

Sub Zero



Dark Berries

B+

Handel Black Cherry

Brookers – Black Raspberry

Handel's Black Raspberry


B/B+

STORE BRAND: Graetor's – Black raspberry


B

Baskin Robbins – Oregon Blackberry


B-/B

Mora blackberry

Red Barn Pomegranite


B-

Brusters – Chocolate Raspberry Truffle (about here)


Note: Other berry ice creams not tried for this 2021 test, but tested years ago: Sub Zero, Leatherby's.




CHOCOLATE


A

STORE: Haagen Dazs


B+

STORE: Trader Joes

STORE: Haagen Dazs Triple Chocolate

Rockwell – Dark Chocolate Oreo

Baskin Robbins – regular chocolate

Mora – regular chocolate


B/B+

Handel's Chocolate Oreo

Baskin Robbins – chocolate almond

Baskin Robbins – Rocky Road

Brookers - Paul Revere Midnight Ride Cookies & Cream


B

Red Barn – chocolate

Red Barn – chocolate almond

Red Barn – German chocolate

Baskin Robbins Triple Chocolate

Baskin Robbins – choc mousse

Baskin Robbins – World Class

Handels – French silk pie

Handels – malt chocolate caramel

Handels – regular chocolate

BYU - Roasted Almond Fudge


B-/B

Baskin Robbins – fudge

Rockwell – milk chocolate

Brookers – Alexander Hamilton (same taste as Rockwell milk chocolate)

Brookers – James Armistead

Baskin Robbins – gold medal


B-

Mora – dark chocolate

Mora – Swiss chocolate

Rockwell – dark chocolate (Rockwelll Road)

Handels – chocoholic chunk

Brookers – campfire

STORE: Farr's Hokolua

BYU – Earnestly Chocolate

Leatherby's

BYU chocolate

Rockwell Molasses Marble (with chocolate)

Limone's Double Chocolate

Farr

Culvers

Brookers – Patrick Henry Give me Liberty


C+

Mrs. Cavanaugh's

Sub Zero

Brusters

Brusters – triple chocolate oreo (about here)

Brookers – Abe Lincoln (chocolate cake batter ice cream)

Baskin Robbins German chocolate


C

Cold Stone – regular chocolate

Cold Stone – chocolate cake batter

Super Chix (actuallly makes the 2nd best fast-food place serving chocolate shakes! Adding milk turns this much better!) (Not graded with others in this grade group of C's.)





Coffee flavored ice cream


A

STORE BRAND: Sprouts: Tillamook Cold Brew


B+

Handels - coffee choc chip

Cold Stone

Baskin Robbins - Java

Sub Zero

Handels – Mud


B/B+

STORE: Graeters (at Harmons) (stronger)

STORE: Ben & Jerry's Coffee Coffee Buzz Buzz Buzz


B

Sprouts Organic Cappacino ice cream


B-/B

Haagen Dazs


B-

STORE BRAND ONLY – not in local parlor: Ben & Jerry's Coffee Toffee Bar Crunch


C++

Farr (plus their store brand: Hokolia)


D+/C-

Humphrey Slocome




MISC FLAVORS (not in order)



Peppermint: Brookers C/C+

Cherry Jubilee: Leatherby's B

Farr: Peach C - -

Mora – French Vanilla B+

Brookers – Black Madagascar vanilla B+

Farr – vanilla C-

Brusters – vanilla C+

Brusters – rocky road B-

Brusters – cookie craze B/B+

Brusters – vanilla C+

Brusters – triple chocolate oreo B-

Super Chix – Nutter Butter (peanut butter) B

STORE ONLY: Graetors – Black Raspberry 


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