Icing on the Cake: Baskin-Robbins was conceived in 1945 by ice cream lovers Burt Baskin and Irv Robbins. Being bored by their competitor's mundane options of vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry, they vowed to offer 31 unique flavors. Since then, Baskin-Robbins has introduced 1400 flavors, offering the perfect flavor for everyone and every occasion. It might come as a shock to some of my followers, but as much as I love ice cream, I've never had Baskin-Robbins (I blame all the excellent custard options in Milwaukee). Turns out you can get a free 4oz serving of any flavor for your birthday, so no excuse not for me to check it out. For my initiation I went with their appropriately themed Icing on the Cake flavor. It's a cake flavored ice cream layered with crumbles of soft yellow cake pieces, rainbow frosting flecks, and swirls of confetti frosting. Every component nailed birthday cake, but the biggest star was the super sweet confetti frosting swirl. It's nearly impossible to see because it's almost identical in color to the cake ice cream, but it makes its presence known by its powerful flavor alone. Of all the elements, the cake pieces are the sparsest. My scoop could have included a few more and it doesn't help that the cake pieces are some of the smallest I've encountered in various cake ice creams. Lastly, the rainbow frosting flecks add a colorful aesthetic to the otherwise plain ice cream, a faint but welcoming textural contrast, and more of that oh so lovely sugar. Some might find this flavor to be a little too one note and sweet, but I enjoyed it. Doughboy...
Read moreIf I could give a 0/5 I would. First bad experience, they didn’t have my item. Reached out to get a refund and never heard back. Finally weeks later they gave me my order. Tonight I ordered a sundae for $8 (outrageous) they didn’t have chocolate fudge and claimed to not have the Jamocha flavor even though I was looking right at it. Finally left and got home. No toppings THAT I PAID EXTRA FOR were on my sundae. I never write poor reviews and am usually very understanding but not in this case. This location needs to be shut down. They give Baskin-Robbins a bad name and reputation. It’s a joke over there. I’ll...
Read moreOrdered chocolate shake and when I got to the window they said they are out of chocolate ice cream and asked if I'd be okay with a different flavor, and that was fine. They handed me my shake, that they just made and it was completely liquid. It was the consistency of milk you mix chocolate powder into. It was like they took a big cup of milk and blended it was a teaspoon of ice cream. That is the second time I've been there and the second time I got poor product quality, and a standard menu item they had listed was...
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