Belgian Chocolate Haagen Dazs - a tasty treat (Haagen Dazs Belgian Chocolate)

Member Name: jesperado

Product:	Haagen Dazs Belgian Chocolate
Date:	22/04/09 (134 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Creamy and chocolatey and yummy

Disadvantages: A bit expensive!

I don't often eat ice cream but when I saw that Haagen Dazs Belgian Chocolate was on offer for £3 for a 500ml tub, I thought I'd treat myself. It usually costs between £3.50 and £4.00.

The packaging is a very nice part deep red and part gold carton with a plastic lid. The 500ml tub is a handy size for keeping in the freezer as it does not take up much room. A 500ml tub usually lasts me and my other half about two weeks.

The ice cream itself has a lovely texture. It is very soft and creamy so you don't have to dig away at it for ages just to get some out of the tub! This kind of texture is fairly typical of Haagen Dazs ice cream which makes it a really good accompaniment for warm desserts as it melts into a lovely cream. This particular ice cream has shavings of dark chocolate which melt in your mouth as you eat it making it a bit more interesting than your average chocolate ice cream.

Aside from the lovely texture, this ice cream tastes delicious. It is very creamy and chocolate-y and you can really taste that it is based on Belgian chocolate as it has that extra creaminess missing from other types of chocolate. The use of dark chocolate shavings rather than milk chocolate give it more of a cocoa flavour and the bitterness of this stops the ice cream from being sickly sweet.

Although Haagen Dazs is a fairly expensive brand of ice cream, I think it is definitely worth the money as an occasional treat. As it is quite rich and creamy, you only need to eat a little at a time to enjoy it so it lasts quite a long time. The chocolate shavings give this ice cream an unusual texture and make it taste all the more luxurious!

Summary: A really nice treat