Sunday, April 9, 2017

TWINKIES FROZEN DAIRY DESSERT CONES


In my ongoing quest to discover two great tastes that go great together, I've tried a lot of weird combinations: Swedish Fish Oreos.  Lime Twinkies.  Root Beer Pop Tarts.  Pumpkin Spice Cupcakes.  Carrot Cake Hershey Kisses.  Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett.  Believe it or not, most of them weren't terrible--but they weren't memorable either.

Ever since January, when Hostess announced a partnership with Nestle to create frozen novelty items based on some of the most well-known Hostess snack cakes, I've been waiting in anticipation.  Now, at last, the wait is over...and judging from the first treat out of the gate, the wait was worth it!

I've always been a big fan of Drumsticks--vanilla ice cream in a waffle cone, with a hard shell chocolate coating on top and inside the bottom of the cone, usually with peanut slivers, and often with a caramel center.  These "Twinkies" (that's the only name on the box, with "Frozen Dairy Dessert Cones" in small letters below) consist of a vanilla dairy product solid inside a waffle cone topped with yellow sponge cake sprinkles on a cream-flavored dairy product solid.

I would prefer to say "ice cream" instead of "dairy product solid," but that's what this is made of according to the ingredient list.  In case you were wondering, "dairy product solids" are obtained by removing protein and/or lactose and/or minerals from milk.  Like the beef fat in Hostess pies, if you intend to eat these, it is probably something you shouldn't think too much about.

And eat these you should!  The yellow cake sprinkles are hardly noticable, but the cream topping is distinguishable from the vanilla ice cr...dairy product...inside the cone, which is just as delicious as the normal Drumstick waffle cone.  It had a taste that was reminiscent of Boston Cream Pie, and while I still prefer the Drumstick with the caramel center and peanut slivers, this is definitely a close second.

That said, if you had served me this dessert without the box or odd wrapper (not the usual Drumstick package, but a foil that you need to unwrap), I would honestly not make any connection to Twinkies. But that's not necessarily a bad thing.  If you were expecting a frozen Twinkie, you can always freeze one yourself.  If you were instead looking for a new flavor of Drumstick, you can't go wrong.

RATING:  5/5



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