I don\u2019t remember the first time I was given that \u201cmagic shell\u201d stuff instead of regular chocolate syrup. While nothing can beat hot fudge or gooey melted caramel, there\u2019s something a bit silly, silky, and texturally interesting about the syrup ice cream shell. And if anyone in the ice cream world owns the experience, it\u2019s the Dairy Queen herself. She runs the dip game. Hard. And every once in a while, the Queen goes a little mad and lets in a little extra flavor.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In an act of delicious corporate synergy (not to mention quite possibly the most audacious attempt to turn ice cream into breakfast we\u2019ve ever seen), DQ partnered up with General Mills to create the limited-time only \u201cCinnamon Toast Crunch Dipped Cone<\/a>.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n Our Thoughts<\/p>\n Pros: We heard about this collab all the way back in January<\/a> and have been excited ever since. THe first thing this cone has going for it is kind of a must: texture. The Dairy Queen hardened \u201cdip\u201d is the cr\u00e8me br\u00fbl\u00e9e of magic shell experiences. Seriously, when I used my elongated (yes, red plastic) spoon to \u201ccrack\u201d into that hardened caramel-brown chemically magical coating, I felt just a little classy. Main point: DQ\u2019s been at it so long, they have the texture down\u2015after your choice of vanilla, chocolate, or swirled soft serve is dipped and that magic chemistry happens, you\u2019ll have a \u201chardened\u201d (cinnamon-speckled) shell. But one tap of the spoon is all it takes to crack. And unlike some generally well-regarded tempered chocolate makers out there (we\u2019re looking at you, Lindt), the shell here melts perfectly. It gently gets buttery. There\u2019s no waxiness or plasticy vibe.\u00a0<\/p>\n If you let the shell melt on your tongue (and why not) the whole deal kind of tastes like you ate Cinnamon Toast Crunch in heavy cream. As for the flavor itself, yes, it\u2019s a simple gambit. But Cinnamon Toast Crunch is a nostalgic flavor\u2015thus, a slightly\u2026 sensitive moment DQ\u2019s trying to transfer here, in more ways than one<\/a>. (Remember childhood? And Saturday morning cartoons?). But they carry it off in the flavor. Just try not to weep too much salty nostalgia into your cup (or cone).\u00a0<\/p>\n Cons: For some ridiculous reason I panicked and got swirl. Cinnamon and chocolate are a beautiful pair, but if you\u2019re going for breakfast verisimilitude (which sounds like the worst hipster band of all time), go vanilla soft serve. It\u2019ll taste like breakfast, a happy childhood, churros, and hope.\u00a0<\/p>\n Another tiny con\u2015and yes, it\u2019s a ridiculous thing to write as an adult\u2015but there was no apparent presence of Cinnadust on the shell. <\/p>\n Our Final Verdict<\/p>\n Not the most inventive or mind blowing thing. But it works at what it does. For the most breakfasty ice cream or ice creamy breakfast experience your dietician never wants you to know about, go vanilla soft serve and insist on that Cinnadust. But either way, it\u2019ll taste like a good kind of yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I don\u2019t remember the first time I was given that \u201cmagic shell\u201d stuff instead of regular chocolate syrup.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-332105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}