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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