What is Blue Bell Cookies ‘n Cream Cone?
It’s the newest flavor from Blue Bell and is described as, to quote the packaging, “vanilla flavored ice cream with chocolate crème filled cookie crumbles, dark chocolate-coated chocolate cone pieces and a chocolate fudge swirl.”
If you’re counting, the word “chocolate” is mentioned four times in the description but not once in the product’s name. And if you are a stickler for punctuation, you might wonder why chocolate-coated is hyphenated, but not vanilla flavored or crème filled. I have no answer for that, and it will probably keep me up tonight.
How is it?
My first thought upon popping the top was that the quartet of chocolates in the description was not enough because all I saw was a small island of vanilla-ish color in the middle surrounded by a sea of chocolate.
However, after some excavating, it turned out that there just happened to be a thin layer of the fudge swirl on the top. A full scoop has more of a traditional cookies’ n cream look.
As for the taste, it was quite good and not overly chocolatey. The cookies’ n cream part was basically your standard cookies’ n cream flavor, but the fudge swirls added a nice chocolate boost and tasted a lot like Hershey’s syrup.
The cone pieces provided some extra taste and texture, although they were hard to distinguish from the cookie pieces. The label was not kidding when it said “crumbles” either, as I didn’t find many cookie pieces of significant size. The cone pieces were larger but still fairly small. Overall, the flavors and textures all worked together splendidly. It would have been nice to have some more sizable chunks of both cookies and cone, however.
Anything else you need to know?
In my dedication to providing you with the most comprehensive information available about this product, I actually read — OK, I skimmed — a press release about it. According to it, this new flavor is an homage to Blue Bell’s Cookie Cone product that launched in 1997, was sold mostly in school cafeterias, and discontinued in 2015. That product had a complete cone with a scoop of chocolate-coated ice cream, along with the same overly happy fake Oreo guy on the package.
Conclusion:
This is not the fanciest or most daring ice cream flavor out there, perhaps because Blue Bell sees itself as a more traditional ice cream maker. The packaging on this product is flashy by its standards, as most of its other flavors have just a solid color with the kid leading the cow logo. So if you want ice cream with Pop Rocks, Sour Patch Kids, or something like that in it, you have plenty of other options, but if you just want some good cookies’ n cream ice cream with a little something extra, this one is for you.
Purchased Price: $6.34
Size: Half-gallon
Purchased at: H-E-B
Rating: 8 out of 10
Nutrition Facts: (2/3 cup) 280 calories, 15 grams of fat, 8 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat, 30 milligrams of cholesterol, 120 milligrams of sodium, 34 grams of carbohydrates, 1 gram of fiber, 27 grams of sugar, and 5 grams of protein.
Very much agree with this review. I could feel the texture difference between the cone and cookie pieces, but they were very similar visually. My fudge swirl was more evenly dispersed/not concentrated on the top as much as yours, though I accidentally defrosted mine for too long, so it might have been like yours originally.
Will join a lengthy list of limited Blue Bell flavors that I hope will come back in future years.
This looks like a good homage to their old cones. It is a shame it is regional.
I’m sure some obscure government bureaucrat had its hand in what has to be hyphenated and what can’t on a product label. They know best, of course…
I’m dating myself but I definitely loved the cone product back at the pool/at school.
I enjoy cone pieces in ice cream but it’s hard for them to not get soggy.
Wife and I Love this flavor. The biggest issue we have is finding it in a store. But when we do, we make darn sure to stock pile this ice cream. We have been know to purchase four at a time. We will both have a bowl at night while watching TV. I like cookies and cream a little bit, but this cookie and cream cone beats regular cookies and cream by a long shot. In fact, this may be my favorite Bluebell icecream, it really is good.
It’s no longer available, which is extremely upsetting !!!!!!
We WANT cookies and cone BACK… PLEASE!!!
Must have missed this flavor last year, but when I saw it this weekend, I thought, “oh my, I MUST try this!” I did, in pint size, and it was good, then I read the ingredients later. If I had known that, in my humble opinion, that you ruined it with the “chocolate syrup swirl”, I would not have purchased. Leave pure vanilla ice cream with chocolate/vanilla cookies alone…..yes, you can add the cone, even a chocolate covered cone, that is fine. But that is ENOUGH! No more chocolate. Chocolate syrup has a separate flavor, and not always a pleasant one, it takes away from the vanilla part of it. NOT NEEDED. Thank you.