I know I’m not the only one who has made some flavors that ultimately aren’t amazing, or not worth the amount of work that goes into them. I don’t mean in the sense of the formula not working out— only that the flavor sounded more appealing or interesting than it turned out to be.
Recently I worked on a cornbread and honey ice cream and after several tries to get the balance right (honey is a very potent flavor and a very small amount is all it takes when you want a background flavor), I got it, but just didn’t think it was worth the trouble of
Toasted milk ice cream while tasty, tastes pretty much exactly like dulce de leche ice cream, which is understandable because dulce de leche is milk that undergoes the Maillard reaction and ends up with concentrated milk solids. Toasted milk powder is milk solids undergoing the Maillard reaction. Between the two I prefer to just make the dulce de leche ice cream since it’s easier to make and I ultimately think the flavor is better. When I see viral “triple toasted ice cream” I’m not the least bit tempted because I’d rather have either a caramel ice cream, a vanilla ice cream, or a dulce de leche ice cream, but all together they end up competing.
And I want to make a key lime ice cream at some point, but Dana Cree’s key lime frozen yogurt was the kind of thing that tasted good but I didn’t want to eat at all. It was a little too much for me, and I generally love citrus desserts.
I once made toasted cream and I don’t know what it was about the cream sold here when going through that process, but it just had a strong barnyard flavor and smell that scared me off from trying to make toasted cream again. 😂 I did still manage to make a very tasty burnt honey ice cream with it, but the honey being so potent is what saved that particular experiment.
So, what have you made that was just kind of mediocre or an outright disaster?