Maple Valley Ice Cream

I am such a sucker for I locally made products, and I so desperately wanted to love this ice cream. I picked up 2 pints at my local Roche Bros. Prices were fair. I chose 2 flavors, but today I am writing on the maple walnut. At first the maple flavor is quite present but quickly fades out. There is defiantly a good amount of walnuts in the ice-​cream which is nice. However the flavor is simply to bland and there seems to be a lot of air whipped it.

I picked up a pint of Maple Valley vanilla ice cream at Serio’s Market the other day — the first time I’ve tried it. Unfortunately I can’t recommend it. I noticed something amiss right away — the container was remarkably light in weight, which indicated a fairly high «overrun,» meaning the ice cream had had a lot of air whipped into it. Maple Valley vanilla is what’s known as «Philadelphia-​style.» It contains no eggs — just cream, milk, sugar, and vanilla flavoring. It’s considerably less rich and dense than, say, Ben and Jerry’s or Haagen-​Dazs. In this respect, Maple Valley is more like ordinary supermarket Breyer’s vanilla ice cream, except that the former is at least twice as expensive as the latter. Tastewise, the Maple Valley vanilla flavor was muted, it was quite sweet, and it had a slight «cooked milk» thing going on. Overall, the flavor reminded me a lot of marshmallow fluff. It was also a little icy.

Really excellent and fresh-​tasting ice cream.