Sophisticated Vanilla. (Carte d'Or Vanilla)

Member Name: Little Miss

Product:	Carte d'Or Vanilla
Date:	11/04/01 (70 review reads)
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Advantages: Ice cream for grown ups

Disadvantages: all the calories

Most of todays ice creams are designed to make you feel naughty, they are sheer indulgence and packed full of all kinds of things that one time or other would have been classed as toppings. While these ice creams are great to eat sat in front of the TV (they even come in tubs which are designed to eat from!) they're not what you'd serve up to guests.

Now enter Carte d'Or Vanilla ice cream. This is a truly sophisticated ice cream, it's rich and creamy, a lovely pale custardy yellow colour with tiny little black specs of real vanilla pod. No pretend flavouring here. This ice cream is delicious with a wonderful true vanilla flavour, you may believe you've been eating "Vanilla" ice cream for years but had it ever really seen a vanilla pod? My guess is no. Until eating this I always thought of Vanilla ice cream as plain ice cream, as it really seemed to have no flavour. It was the boring flavour only to be eaten as a last resource to any other flavour, and even then only with some sickly sweet topping on top (remember ice magic?). Well this Vanilla ice cream is no longer boring, it can really stand alone as a good ice cream but my suggestion is to wow your friends with it at dinner parties. Which I'm sure is what the manufacturer intended as this is not packaged in one of those tall tubs like Haagen Dazs, no it's a long tub, perfect for using an ice cream scoop to create lovely little round balls of ice cream. Which are great served with numerous desserts, fruit salad, apple pie, caramalised apple wedges or my favourite Crepes Mikado - translation pancakes folded over a scoop of Carte d'Or Vanilla ice cream, drizzeled with melted chocolate sauce.

This ice cream is best served after being left at room temperature for 5-10 minutes, this makes it lovely and soft so it just melts in your mouth.

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