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H-E-B- CREAMY CREATIONS PUMPKIN PIE ICE CREAM

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Welcome to day 7 of Tag Sale Tastes’ Pumpkinpalooza 2020!

Although temperatures have cooled a bit here in Houston, it’s still fairly warm, and a dish of ice cream sounds pretty good.  So today I bring you H-E-B Creamy Creations Pumpkin Pie Ice Cream:

It’s churned in the heart of Texas:

The container sports a few leaves and a fat little pumpkin — a plumpkin, if you will:

There’s also a picture of a slice of pumpkin pie to drive the flavor home (unlike the sad forkful of pumpkin pie on the Lenny & Larry’s Pumpkin Spice Complete Cookie):

The ingredients include graham cracker swirl (what’s a good pie without a graham cracker crust, right?), whipped cream swirl (’cause pumpkin pie needs a dollop of whipped cream, right?), and pumpkin puree:

And here it is:

Whoa — that’s some orange ice cream!  No mistaking this is pumpkin flavored.  Let’s dish it up and give it a taste:

Well, by “graham cracker swirl” and “whipped cream swirl” I think what they meant was “swirled in.”  There was no swirl that I could see.  But it didn’t matter, because the ice cream was great — sweet, creamy, pumpkin-y, pleasantly gritty from the graham crackers swirled in, with a nice amount of pumpkin spice and no pumpkin spice aftertaste.  I thought it would have been even better with a drizzle of caramel, or perhaps some Heath bits, but my husband thought it was really great all by itself.  Life is gourd.  🙂

Rating:  5 pumpkins (out of 5)

LENNY & LARRY’S PUMPKIN SPICE COMPLETE COOKIE

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Welcome to day 6 of Tag Sale Tastes’ Pumpkinpalooza 2020!

Today we’ll take a look at Lenny & Larry’s Pumpkin Spice Complete Cookie:

I have so many questions.

First, who are Lenny and Larry?

I think they may be related to Carla Hall:

Second, what’s up with the “Holiday Recipe” surrounded by snowflakes?  What “holiday” are they talking about?

So wrong

Third, while nearly every pumpkin product I’ve found has at least one pumpkin on the packaging, this one doesn’t have any.  The only “pumpkin” thing on the wrapper is this:

Be honest — did you know what that was at first glance?  I didn’t.  But after studying it for a few seconds I realized it’s a forkful of pumpkin pie.  They couldn’t even spring for a wedge of pie?

The cookie is a “complete package” that contains no soy, dairy, egg, high fructose corn syrup, artificial sweeteners, or sugar alcohols:

So what is in it?  Well, there’s pumpkin puree and cinnamon (and chicory root fiber?):

I was kinda surprised to see that one cookie is a whopping 440 calories (you and I both know that no one is going to eat half a cookie):

And here’s the complete cookie:

I didn’t like this cookie at all.  Although it had a pumpkin flavor, it also had a grassy flavor, I assume from the chicory root, and it was damp and cold and gummy, no doubt due to the addition of vegetable glycerine, guar gum, and xanthan gum.  I wouldn’t recommend blowing 440 calories on this cookie for breakfast — not when you can have an Egg McMuffin for 300 calories.  Then again, I’m not vegan.

Interestingly, however, my dogs went bonkers for this cookie, staring my husband down until he shared.  Maybe the H-E-B pumpkin dog snacks whet their palates for pumpkin.  Or maybe it’s just because they’re pumpkin-colored dogs.

Rating:  1 pumpkin (out of 5)