Weekend Carnivore

I am on day two of a trip to the States. My mother has had knee surgery and my sister is too pregnant to be on recovery duty. So, I have come over from London to look after my mom in the early stages of her recovery. I thought while I was over here, I would share some of my Stateside vegetarian food discoveries with you all. Which, of course, will mean that all of you that follow Weekend Carnivore from the States will be going ‘duh, I know all about that!’ but hopefully you hang in there with the rest of us through our discoveries.

A number of months back, Jonathan Ross twittered about being on vacation in California. For a few days straight he would mention that him and his wife were going nuts on these ice cream cupcakes they had discovered.

Now, what about an ice cream cupcake doesn’t sound like a must try? Even if it is simply to have tried something that obscenely decadent. I would go so far as to say they would be the Las Vegas of cupcakes. More flash than you really need but yet you can’t help to buy into it when you are there.

ice cream cupcakes

The ice cream cupcakes were from the American ice cream chain Cold Stone Creamery (who really should make a play for the UK market because they would do well, I think) and I knew there was one near my parent’s house. So, I just couldn’t help but to try them out. I mean, it would be rude not to, right?

You can’t buy just one of the ice cream cupcakes. Instead, you have to buy them in a six pack which all but assures you won’t be able to have just the one naughty treat. Luckily for me, I am staying with my parents and I could share them out. The ice cream cupcake six pack includes three different varieties – sweet cream, red velvet cake batter delux and double chocolate devotion.

They all looked so good but I just couldn’t pass up the chance for red velvet anything let alone a red velvet ice cream cupcake. So, as much as it pained me to skip the other varieties I had to make the red velvet my vice for the night.

red velvet ice cream cupcake

The red velvet ice cream cupcake is so insanely indulgent that I almost feel dirty describing it. It starts off with a bright pink frosting topped with sprinkles. Bellow that there is a fluffy mound of white ice cream that tastes like red velvet cake frosting. The creamy kind rather than the cream cheese variety that some people insist on putting on red velvet cake. Then, there is a layer of actual red velvet cake that sits in the outlandishly decadent hard chocolate that sits where a paper cupcake wrapper would normally be.

The only real problem, other than the obvious complete diet violation, is that they actually taste every bit as good as they sound. Which, leaves me with the question of just how long I can hold out trying one of the three remaining ice cream cupcakes that are left in the freezer!