There are few desserts as instantly gratifying as ice cream. While cakes and cookies have to bake and then cool, ice cream is best enjoyed immediately from your freezer—in fact, it has to be. Plus, today’s ice cream aisle has something for basically everyone. You can select your favorite flavor, favorite brand, preferred container size, and even whether you want to enjoy the frozen treat as a scoop or a novelty dessert, like a bar or cone.
While so many brands have nailed down one or the other, few ice cream makers offer both traditional ice cream and novelty treats, be it a bar, sandwich, or cone. But, Tillamook does.
In addition to its family-sized containers of favorites, like Vanilla Bean or the newly released Strawberries & Cream, and pints, Tillamook has been selling ice cream sandwiches for 10 years. The sandwiches feature favorite flavors, like Oregon Strawberry and Mint Chocolate Chip, between two waffle cone cookies held together with a layer of chocolate.
The sandwiches may be less well-known than Tillamook’s premium ice cream, which might be why the brand has decided to phase them out in place of a new novelty style: bars. That’s right, Tillamook is joining Häagen-Dazs and Ben & Jerry’s in the freezer aisle with four brand-new ice cream bars.
Tillamook Launches New Ice Cream Bars
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The new ice cream bars are made with Tillamook’s creamy, premium ice cream in four fan-favorite flavors, including Vanilla Bean, Cookies & Cream, Mint Chocolate Chip, and Tillamook Mudslide. While the flavors aren’t one-to-one with the sandwiches, you won’t see Oregon Strawberry or Salted Caramel Ice Cream Bars on shelves (at least not yet), but Mint Chocolate Chip and Tillamook Mudslide both made the crossover.
Cookies & Cream features French vanilla ice cream and chocolate cookie pieces; the Mint Chocolate Chip flavor is made with mint ice cream and chocolate chips; Tillamook Mudslide is a decadent chocolate ice cream with ribbons of fudge and chocolate chips; and Vanilla Bean is a classic, no frills vanilla ice cream.
Each ice cream bar is dipped in a layer of chocolate coating and sold in a four-pack.
Tillamook’s new ice cream bars should be hitting retailer freezers soon, likely at the same grocery stores as the sandwiches. While you may see both on shelves for a while, the new ice cream bars will eventually replace Tillamook’s ice cream sandwiches in the permanent portfolio.
We’re already making room in our freezer because, when we see the new ice cream bars, we’re buying one of each flavor.
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