Cookies and Cream
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Cookies and Cream is a variety of ice cream
and milkshake
based on flavoring from chocolate cookies. Often called the "King Kong of Ice Cream" because it immediately rocketed to the top of the World's Favorite Ice Cream Flavor list. The "Cookies and Cream" ice cream uses sweet cream ice cream (often vanilla) and chocolate wafer cookies of any type. The flavor is widely associated with the Oreo cookie
, a kind of cookie sandwich with a sweet, white cream filling commonly used in milkshakes and other frozen desserts such as Blizzards
, pies, etc. In August 2011, Consumer Survey published the results of their summer-survey of best ice cream flavors. Over 50% of the residents interviewed in Stuttgart, Germany voted for Cookies and Creme, just ahead of Pistachio.
There is some debate as to who first invented and marketed Cookies 'n Cream ice cream.
In 1983, Cookies 'n Cream became one of the top five best-selling flavors of ice cream.
Though traditional cookies and cream ice cream is made with vanilla or sweet cream ice cream, there are variations that use chocolate, coffee or mint ice cream instead.
Ice cream
Ice cream is a frozen dessert usually made from dairy products, such as milk and cream, and often combined with fruits or other ingredients and flavours. Most varieties contain sugar, although some are made with other sweeteners...
and milkshake
Milkshake
A milkshake is a sweet, cold beverage which is made from milk, ice cream or iced milk, and flavorings or sweeteners such as fruit syrup or chocolate sauce....
based on flavoring from chocolate cookies. Often called the "King Kong of Ice Cream" because it immediately rocketed to the top of the World's Favorite Ice Cream Flavor list. The "Cookies and Cream" ice cream uses sweet cream ice cream (often vanilla) and chocolate wafer cookies of any type. The flavor is widely associated with the Oreo cookie
Oreo
Oreo is a trademark for a popular sandwich cookie by the Nabisco Division of Kraft Foods. The current design consists of a sweet, white filling commonly referred to as 'cream' or 'creme', sandwiched between two circular chocolate or golden cookie pieces....
, a kind of cookie sandwich with a sweet, white cream filling commonly used in milkshakes and other frozen desserts such as Blizzards
Dairy Queen
Dairy Queen, often abbreviated DQ, is a chain of soft serve and fast food restaurants owned by International Dairy Queen, Inc, who also owns Orange Julius and Karmelkorn. The name "Dairy Queen" is taken from the name of their soft serve product, which the company refers to as "Dairy Queen" or...
, pies, etc. In August 2011, Consumer Survey published the results of their summer-survey of best ice cream flavors. Over 50% of the residents interviewed in Stuttgart, Germany voted for Cookies and Creme, just ahead of Pistachio.
There is some debate as to who first invented and marketed Cookies 'n Cream ice cream.
- In the fall of 1978, Huggs McShane made Oreo ice cream at Gelato Roberto in the Galleria Mall in downtown Portland, Oregon. He stood in the window of the shop and made ice cream as people in the street watched through the storefront window. After he had been working there for a while, he decided to experiment with new flavors and went to the grocery to get ideas. He bought some Oreos, put them in the vanilla mixture as it started to harden in the ice cream maker, and soon Oreo ice cream became a best seller.
- John Harrison, the official taster for Dreyer's/Edy'sDreyer'sDreyer's Grand Ice Cream Holdings, Inc., a subsidiary of Nestlé, is a United States-based producer of ice cream and frozen yogurt had originated in 1928 as Edy's Grand Ice Cream, a Northern California business under a partnership of Joseph Edy and William Dreyer. In 1947 the partnership dissolved....
Ice Cream, claims he invented it first for the company in 1982. - Blue Bell CreameriesBlue Bell CreameriesBlue Bell Creameries, founded in 1907, is the manufacturer of Blue Bell brand ice cream.Blue Bell sells its ice cream directly in only 20 states, mostly in the Southern United States, although Blue Bell ice cream has also been eaten aboard the International Space Station and at Camp David...
claim they first mass-produced the flavor two years earlier in 1980 after an employee tasted it in Houston ice cream parlor the year before; however, they do state "Blue Bell makes no claim to have invented it but certainly pioneered the flavor." Blue Bell Creameries is reported to have trademarked the name "Cookies 'n Cream" in 1978. - South Dakota State UniversitySouth Dakota State UniversitySouth Dakota State University is the largest university in the U.S. state of South Dakota, located in Brookings. A public land-grant university and sun grant college, founded under the provisions of the 1862 Morrill Act, SDSU offers programs of study required by, or harmonious to, this Act...
claims the flavor was invented at the university's Dairy Plant. - Another claimant is Steve Herrell of MassachusettsMassachusettsThe Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...
' Herrell's Ice CreamHerrell's Ice CreamHerrell's Ice Cream is a chain of ice cream stores across Massachusetts and New York.The colorful store features over 200 homemade flavors of ice cream, sorbet and frozen yogurt...
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In 1983, Cookies 'n Cream became one of the top five best-selling flavors of ice cream.
Though traditional cookies and cream ice cream is made with vanilla or sweet cream ice cream, there are variations that use chocolate, coffee or mint ice cream instead.