Happy Happy Thursday y’all!  Even though it’s been a short week due to the holiday and all, I still feel like it’s been dragging, I guess I’m just anxious for the weekend…again, hehe.  Let’s get to the good stuff shall we?  Ample Hills Creamery is this ice cream place in New York, which BTW they also have a location at Disney’s Boardwalk, which I hope to get to on our next trip, anyways, and I kept hearing about how delicious their stuff was.  Well, I then also heard that they ship ice cream straight to your door, holy cow!, isn’t a great time to be alive? I mean, ice cream delivered to your door?  Well, anyways, I immediately ordered a 4 pack of their most delectable sounding ice creams and waited longingly at my door for it to arrive haha, not really, but close enough.

First we have the Snap, Mallow Pop…

mmmmm…

So this ice cream is basically marshmallow ice cream with real chunks of Rice Krispie Treats throughout.  Y’all this ice cream flavor ended up being my absolute favorite one! Holy cow, the krispie treats somehow magically stayed crispy and there was no shortage of them throughout.  The ice cream base was rich and creamy, and I’m pretty sure the Rice Krispie Treats were the best I’ve ever had.  I had literally planned on just trying some of this flavor but ended up eating half the pint, woops.  This stuff is amazing, it easily gets a 10 out of 10.

Next, we have the Ooey Gooey Butter Cake…

definitely looks promising…

So, by name only, this ice cream was the one that I was the most excited to try.  I’ve made butter cake a million times over the years and it’s always as incredibly delicious as the first time I had it, and I heard over and over again about how this is Ample Hill’s most famous one and how it’s a must try.  Well, this is a great ice cream, absolutely, I just don’t think it’s their best.  My biggest peeve was that the gooey butter cake was really, really chewy.  I totally understand that that might happen due to the whole being frozen part, but it was soo chewy I was having to dig it out of my teeth, which is always cute haha.  So this is a rich and decadent ice cream, but I bet I would give it a much higher score if I had it fresh from one of their stores instead of from a super frozen pint.  I will give this one a 7.5 out of 10. 

Thank y’all so much for stopping by and I hope you all have a wonderful rest of the week!

Happy Happy Thursday y’all !!! Welcome to another junk food review! So a few weeks ago I was wandering around Target, like we all do, and I happen to come across a few bags of these Smashmallows.  I happen to be a big fan of marshmallows, in stuff, on stuff, all by themselves…so I thought these might be fun to try.  I picked up the Cinnamon Churro flavor because it definitely sounded the best of all of them.

seems promising…

Wow, y’all these were crazy, crazy disappointing.  From the moment that I opened the bag, the smell that came wafting out was not one that I had expected.  I was hoping for delicious cinnamon & sugar and instead the smell that came out was almost medicinal, or like a cleaning product.  Well, despite the off putting smell I still tried one, and though it tasted better than it smelled, it was just not good at all.  I really have no idea how something as seemingly simple as a sugar and cinnamon covered marshmallow could taste so gross and nothing like any of those ingredients is beyond me.  Basically, if you see these guys hanging around Target, just keep walking.  I hope you all are having a wonderful day and thank you so much for stopping by!

Happy Happy Wednesday y’all!!! Just in case y’all were not aware yet, Valentine’s Day is exactly a week from today.  Like with most holidays, the best part to me is the food.  I personally think that Valentine’s Day has some of the best food items, because everything is chocolate, strawberry and red velvet, mmm.  Also, I happen to think that desserts that are pink and red taste better, pretty sure that’s a scientific fact hehe.  Anyways, I’m going to wave my hillbilly flag a little bit and admit that I love Little Debbie snack cakes, I know, I know, I should only be enjoying fancy, fresh from the bakery desserts, but there’s just something about their little snack cakes.  When I saw these Be My Valentine Strawberry Cakes in the store, there was no hesitation in buying them because for one, they’re heart shaped, omg, and second, they’re strawberry, and I have had a life long love of strawberry cake…

 so cute!

So, first off, these didn’t disappoint even a little, actually they far exceeded my expectations.  In typical Little Debbie fashion these are inexplicably soft and moist.  I don’t know what magic they possess, but really, how do they keep these delectable little cakes so fresh tasting in a little plastic bag?  The strawberry flavor these have is spot on, and the super duper creamy filling pairs perfectly with the flavorful cake.  I thought the frosting on the exterior of the cake might end of being white chocolate, but it’s your standard vanilla which was perfectly delicious.  If you come across these little cakes in your local grocery store, absolutely pick up a box or two, especially since these are limited edition.  I give these a solid 9 out of 10.  Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!!!

Happy Thursday and Happy 1st day of February! Since it is officially 2 weeks until Valentine’s Day, I thought I might review a new Ghiradelli Chocolate.  Ghiradelli has always been one of my absolute favorite brands of chocolate.  A personal favorite is the milk chocolate with the caramel filling, so I was pretty darn stoked when I saw this new milk chocolate vanilla caramel.

mmm, look at that amazing caramel filling…

Ok, y’all these did not disappoint even a little, holy cow these are delicious. It’s like everything that I looove about the regular milk chocolate with caramel filling is just amplified with the addition with the very potent vanilla flavoring. These chocolates are absolutely delectable, go get them, maybe even 2 bags of these because you’ll eat all of them like I did haha. These absolutely get a 10 out of 10, another great job Ghiradelli! and thank y’all so much for stopping by!!!

Happy Happy Thursday and welcome to another junk food review.  I have to say I really love doing these reviews.  My opinion of any of these food items probably matters to no one,  but I figure if I’m already eating all of this delicious stuff on my cheat days, I might as well right?

For anyone who has read even one of my blog posts is probably going to know that I’m obsessed with doughnuts, pretty much any kind imaginable.  What some of y’all may not know is that I’m almost equally as obsessed with cereal, always have been.  I have to save eating cereal for my cheat days, even the healthy kind, because having a serving of cereal just isn’t going to happen, I just love it too much and will continue going back until the entire box is gone, whoops.

When my feed became inundated with this cereal a few weeks ago, I absolutely knew that I had to give it a try because peanut butter and chocolate! yes please!

I knew the odds of this being a hit or miss were going to be pretty good on the miss because let’s be real, I love Cheerios but they do have a certain level of Cheerio ‘funk’.  Y’all know what I’m talking about, that Cheerio after burps taste possibly being mixed with peanut butter and chocolate might have just been too much for me.  For reals though, they knocked it out of the park with this cereal.  Truly the perfect blend of peanut butter and chocolate with neither overpowering the other.  Not too sweet, not too bland. I give this a solid 9 out of 10.  I will just go ahead and admit that I did in fact eat this whole box in one cheat day…I told you I have no self control when it comes to cereal haha.  Anyways, thanks for stopping by and listening to the ramblings of a junk food addict haha, hope y’all have a wonderful day!

Happy Friday and Happy first day of December!!! I cannot begin to tell y’all how fast I ran to my local Dunkin Donuts on the first cheat day after I saw these bad boys on Instagram.  I am pretty much down for anything Christmas related, especially when it comes to food, so I was giddy at the thought of gingerbread and sugar cookie doughnuts.  I know, Dunkin gets a lot of flack for not being as good as Krispy Kreme, but I love doughnuts so much I’m not at all that picky haha.  Anyways, let’s get to it…

First we have the Sugar Cookie doughnut…

the middle…

 

So this doughnut has a vanilla glaze, sugar cookie pieces (or something like that) and a supposed cookie dough filling.  First off, I was very happy to discover that this doughnut was a yeast doughnut because I feel like most specialty flavored ones are cake, and yeast doughnuts are just better (don’t argue, you know I’m right).  The sugar cookie pieces didn’t exactly taste like sugar cookie, but still tasty, especially with the vanilla glaze.  The ‘cookie dough’ filling didn’t taste remotely like cookie dough, it was really just a super sweet cream filling, not bad just waaay sweet.  Overall this was a good doughnut, I did eat 2 after all, it’s just extra extra sugary sweet, if that’s your thing, you’ll love it.  I give this a 7 out of 10.

The next doughnut was the gingerbread doughnut…

 

With this doughnut, I was pleasantly surprised to find that it is too a yeast doughnut.  It’s not a filled doughnut, but it has a really nice caramel topping with pieces of gingerbread cookie on top.  This was my favorite of the two, you could really taste the gingerbread flavor and the caramel added just the right amount of sweetness to balance out the spice of the ginger.  The only problem were that the pieces of gingerbread cookie had the potential to be slightly stale or overly hard, but it wasn’t too bad.  I would recommend this doughnut for sure and give it an 8 out of 10.

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful weekend!!!

 

Happy Happy Thursday and a very happy junk food review day! I know, it’s been a hot second since I’ve written one, but, life happens, so there you go.  I know for a fact I have mentioned my complete and total obsession of doughnuts, and I’m always, always, on the hunt for local doughnut places, because some of the most fun and delicious flavors come from local places.  I would like to make mention that, ever since I saw a crème brulée donut at a bakery in New York, I’ve been obsessed at finding one in my area.  My gazillion searches showed nothing, and I finally had to admit I was just going to have to try and rig my own, and then a friend just happened to casually mention Doughnut Dollies with the assumption I had obviously heard of it.  The fact that I didn’t know about this particular place (that is literally down the road from me) until a couple of months ago is ridiculous, like how does that happen? When I got on their website, I about freaked because,  low and behold they had a crème brûlée donut !!!.  Why did google deceive me and not show me this delectable place before? Oh well, anyways, I know about it now and have been there on every cheat day since, haha.  Let’s get to these beauties…

there are vanilla glazed, salted caramel, cereal bowl, strawberry, cinnamon sugar, old fashioned and s’more…

as you will see, I pretty much bought every flavor because #innerfatkid…

you can see the awesome birthday cake donut better here…

mmmm…

crème brûlée, peach cobbler, dulce de leche and y’all that big one is called The Mickey, it has a maple glaze, with a piece of candied bacon and is filled with espresso cream, it tastes like breakfast in one delicious treat…

double mmmm…

alrighty, so let’s get to the donut that I was obsessed with trying, The Dollie, look at that burnt sugar top…

you guys, that middle filling is real crème brûlée pudding, droool…

y’all, it is a s’mores donut sandwich!!! and that is their homemade marshmallow!!!

this one is basically a peach cobbler donut sandwich, and yes that is housemade peach cobbler filling, you could taste how fresh it was…

that is a freeze dried strawberry and freeze dried strawberry dust sprinkled on top and put into the glaze on the donut…

their apple fritters are not only the size of your face, but they’re absolutely incredible, it was so big I couldn’t get it all in the frame, or begin to finish it, but that’s what family is for haha…

If it wouldn’t have made this post 4 billion years long, I would have taken close up photos of every single donut because they were not only works of art to look at, but absolutely freaking delicious.  The Dollie was absolutely mind blowing, it tastes just like a crème brûlée, but in donut form, which means it’s perfection.  Their yeast donuts are all brioche dough, which means they’re so thick and soft, just amazing you guys.  The salted caramel on top of the salted caramel donut has to be freshly made, it just tasted too amazing not to be.  There is one donut I totally didn’t get a picture of for some unknown reason, but it’s called The Sweet Jane, which is this absolutely incredible Swiss Vanilla Cream sandwiched in between a brioche donut and covered in powdered sugar, pure decadence y’all, if you go to Doughnut Dollies it’s a must get.  All of the doughnuts here were wonderful, but their brioche ones really shine.  I have in recent months really gotten to like certain cake donuts, and the ones here are good but not what I go back for.  Overall though, their donuts are quality, with fresh ingredients and everything made in house, I am soo obsessed.  The whole donut shop gets a 10 out 10.

 

Happy Happy Thursday everybody! Another day and another junk food review, woohoo!

You will see below that one item that I’m reviewing is in fact not a snack cake but it dawned on me that I needed to hurry up and review it because it is a s’mores food item.  Being that is it is the middle of August, S’mummer is coming to a quick close and I better go ahead and review it.  I personally will eat anything s’mores year round but not everyone is as awesome as I am haha. 

First up we have the Peanut Butter Ho-Ho’s…

looks yummy…

So I will preface this review with the fact that I do love a good snack cake (there’s my redneck tastebuds coming out again) and throw in some peanut butter then I’m way excited.  Well, this cake would have been awesome had there been any discernible peanut butter in this cake, sigh.  This literally just tasted like a regular chocolate snack cake, tasty, but nothing special this gets a solid 5 out of 10.

Our next snack cake is the Little Debbie S’mores cake…

 this looks pretty awesome…

I gotta say, Little Debbie y’all did a pretty darn good job on this little snack cake.  The cake part has a really good underlying graham cracker flavor, and for once a s’mores product put the right amount of chocolate where it’s not overwhelming the entire treat.  The only thing I would have changed is have the cream filling taste more marshmallowy, basically it tastes like most vanilla cream fillings in snack cakes, yummy, but not like marshmallow.  I liked these a lot, I mean as good as cake from a little plastic baggie is going to taste haha.  I give these a 7 out of 10.

Last but not least we have a very non snack cake item, but as I mentioned earlier it is s’mores and it’s getting a bit late into summer to be reviewing that kind of stuff so here we go…

mmm…

delicious…

This Great Value Graham Cracker Marshmallow swirl was something I had been waiting for forever to try.  I believe this item was/is exclusive to Wal-Mart and honestly I don’t get super excited to go peruse around that store, but I was willing to do so to get this stuff.  I initially tried this straight off of a spoon like a savage and was pretty grossed out by what I tasted.  I guess I had expected the perfect balance of marshmallow fluff and chocolate but instead I got an overwhelming spoonful of just sickening sweetness.  I was this close to just throwing the whole thing out but instead decided to try it on a graham cracker like it was most likely intended to be eaten.  Well, I don’t know what happened, but on a graham cracker, this magically transforms into a delicious s’mores treat.  If you really really want to turn up the awesome, dip pretzels into this stuff and you will get the perfect sweet & salty treat.  I give this stuff (on graham crackers or pretzels) a solid 9 out of 10.

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope everyone has a wonderful day!!!

Hello again everybody! and welcome to Part 2 of my local ice cream review. Seriously, there was just so much awesomeness (ATL represent!) I just couldn’t fit it all in in one post.

Today we have a local company called Honeysuckle, and they make the most incredible gelatos I have ever tasted in my entire life, for reals.

Stumbling upon their products was such a happy accident, because I was in Whole Foods specifically to find something (which they didn’t end up having, sigh) but because I love food, I still walked by the freezer section to stare, because basically I am a dessert creepshow.  The name ‘Snacks on a Plane’ on this container made me pick it up, but the ingredients in it made me buy it.  Again, I realized it was a local company so there was no doubt I needed to grab another one too.

Speaking of ‘Snacks on a Plane’…

looks so tasty already…

mmm, look at all of those ingredients…

As you can see, this stuff is a Biscoff Gelato, pretzels, peanuts and caramel.  Seriously, I love allll of these ingredients and I was so hoping that they would come together perfectly and OMG did they ever.  You can really taste the Biscoff flavor in the gelato which is amazing, the peanuts are not small tiny little pieces, they are half and full sized which I loved.  There was the perfect amount of caramel swirled throughout and the only complaint that I had was that the pretzel pieces were slightly soggy, which honestly is to be expected since they’re sitting in gelato, but it didn’t ruin this by any means.  This is the perfect mix of sweet and salty, and the gelato is so deliciously creamy.  This gets a solid 9 out of 10.

Next, we’ve got this Banana with Peanut Butter Caramel gelato…

mmm…

OMG…

Have any of you ever been rendered speechless by how delicious something is?  Well, I don’t think I ever have until I tried this gelato.  Y’all, this freaking gelato is freaking phenomenal.  Just imagine liquid banana bread with the richest caramel-esque peanut butter swirled throughout, with small little chunks of real bananas in it too, ddrrooolll.  Now I know that not everyone is keen on bananas with peanut butter, but since that’s one of my favorite combos ever, this is pretty much perfection in my opinion.  Honestly, this stuff is so delicious I can’t even think of anything else to say because now all I want to do is go eat more of this haha.  This obviously gets a 10 out of 10 from me.  Y’all go get you some of this if you can.  

Thank you so much for stopping by and have an absolutely wonderful day!!!

Happy Happy Wednesday everybody!!! I am sooo excited to review today’s products y’all, you just don’t even know.  I am all about some gourmet ice cream with unique flavors, and I had kept seeing this cool looking new ice cream at Publix called High Road Craft , offering equally cool flavors, so not too long ago I picked up a couple of pints to try.  Well, after I got home I was scrolling through Instagram, and because my feed is pretty much only animals, food and fitness (they do know me very well), the ice cream I had just bought popped up in my feed, and after going to their page I realized their headquarters are literally down the road from me, OMG.  I was already looking forward to trying these cool new ice creams my next cheat day, and after seeing that they are an Atlanta based company I was extra thrilled.  Anyways, let’s get to it…

First off, we have the Bourbon Burnt Sugar—oh yes, it just sounds incredible already right?

mmm…

Okay, so I’ll be honest, I was a bit surprised that there were not any little fillings in this ice cream like there normally are with other fancy ice creams, but y’all it is NOT needed here.  Holy freaking crap, I mean, they had me at Bourbon Burnt Sugar, but this is just magic.  It is sooo rich, and sooo creamy, and you can totally taste where the 16% butter fat comes in, droooool.  There is just a hint of the Bourbon, seriously just the most perfectly subtle hint, and you never go ‘omg that tasted like burnt sugar’ but again it’s just this underlying flavor that makes this ice cream sooo freaking decadent.  This ice cream stands on it’s own 100% do not ruin it by putting it on anything, except a spoon that goes directly into your mouth.  I literally had to stop myself from eating every single bite before I could take a picture of it haha.  This ice cream gets a solid billion 10 out of 10.  

Next, we have their Vanilla Fleur de Sel… 

do not be fooled by it’s simple appearance…

I don’t know how they did it, like seriously, I guess since it’s made by chefs, they have some kind of magic joo-joo they do on this ice cream because OMG.  I never in a million years thought that I would ever use the words decadent & luxurious to describe vanilla ice cream, but I am now.  This ice cream too, totally stands alone, do not even think about defiling this gorgeous vanilla ice cream with chocolate syrup, or cookies, or some cruddy store bought caramel, seriously.  It’s soo thick and creamy, and I was fully expecting to get big tastes of Fleur de Sel, but I didn’t, again, just perfect, with the Fleur de Sel really bringing out the richness,  sweetness and vanilla-ness of this decadent ice cream.  Another 10 out of 10 from me for this ice cream, well done High Road, I believe you are capable of bringing world peace with your ice cream 😀

I am pretty sure that they are starting to expand where their products are carried, so totally check out their website  and y’all go get you some haha.  Thank you so much for stopping by and everyone have a wonderful, wonderful day!