New Discovery!

So last night Queen and I decided to make the strawberry shortcake recipe. Queen however does not like whipped cream so she choose to pick up vanilla gelato instead. Then again why would someone pick up one tub of gelato when you could pick up three, all different flavors of course! Now the price might deter some, but when its on sale no woman can resist a seeminly impressive bargin. So alas three jars (yes I said JARS - they have screw caps to boot!) of Talenti Gelato; Vanilla, Double Chocolate and Red Raspberry.
The double chocolate was great. It was silky and sweet, it was dense yet light on the tongue. The dark chocolate chips were the size of mini chips, for a small bang of deep chocolate flavor against the background of the chocolate gelato itself.

The raspberry was more like a sorbetto. Slightly tart, not really creamy at all, with seeds of the fresh raspberries mixed in - a good hint to real fruit ingredients! Half a spoon full of raspberry and half a spoonful of chocolate and you had the taste fixins mimicing any of the highest quality raspberry filled chocolates in the world!

The real gem of the three was the vanilla though. Neither Queen nor I are huge vanilla fans. We find it very uneventful and/or too sweet but the Talenti Vanilla Gelato did everything but roll over and playing dead. The creamy gelato was not just speckled with vanilla bean flecks it was chock-a-block full of vanilla bean particles and subsequently chock-a-block full of true vanilla bean flavor. There was no harsh sweetness or hint of alcohol aftertaste (from the artifical flavoring). This vanilla gelato was the real deal and definately a key component in the strawberry shortcake recipe!