Name: Halo Top Birthday Cake
Description: Cake Batter Flavoured Ice Cream with Coloured Sprinkles (1.5%) with Sugars and Sweeteners
Made in: No idea
Bought in: Morrisons, UK
Cost: £3.50 (usually £5)

It’s been hot this week in the UK, so what better time than to try another of the Birthday Cake ice creams that has been clogging up the freezer.

Halo Top make low calorie ice creams that taste… quite normal, and this was one of the first flavours they bought to the UK when they launched a few years ago. It’s also about the only one that’s stuck about all that time.

Weirdly, it’s listed as “cake batter flavoured ice cream”, which… I mean it’s a flavour I guess. In fact I’d say that it does actually taste like cake batter – which might mean it actually tastes like a birthday cake, even if it’s really not birthday cake flavour. The flavour feels more creamy and buttery than vanilla, if that makes sense.

The texture is nice but a bit odd – because it’s a little sandy. I’ve had other Halo Top Ice Creams in the past, and I don’t remember that being a feature so I am guessing it’s either part of the cake batter feeling or the hot weather wasn’t behaving nicely with it.

The sprinkles are, frankly, few and far between and useless. They appear to be single “grains” of sugar coloured pink or yellow. (The back cover lists six ingredients that look like natural colours, including spirinula, so I guess the other colours were muted by their size). They do not taste of anything except sugar and disappointment, and finding a whole one rather than a smear of where one was is quite hard.

Overall, it’s a really nice, creamy, tasty ice cream. Especially so when you consider that it’s a “diet” product, and each pot has only slightly more calories than a standard Magnum.

It might even be the “most birthday cake” ice cream we come across. But it’s not a birthday cake ice cream.

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Cake-o-meter: 🎂🎂