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Blue Bell Brings Back Cookies 'N Cream Cone Ice Cream for Limited Time

January 29, 2022, 1:45 AM·1 min read

Blue bell cookies and cream cone ice cream

Cookies 'N Cream Cone Ice Cream

Courtesy of Blue Bell

Earlier this month, Blue Bell thrilled fans with the return of the beloved Mocha Almond Fudge flavor, and now they're once again sweetening our days with the announcement of another favorite flavor's return.

Cookies 'N Cream Cone ice cream is back! Inspired by Blue Bell's Cookie Cone novelty dessert, the flavor combines vanilla ice cream with chocolate crème-filled cookie crumbles, dark chocolate-coated cone pieces, and a chocolate fudge swirl. Fans of traditional cookies and cream ice cream can't resist this decadent, leveled-up version of the classic flavor.

Cookies 'N Cream Cone debuted as a rotational flavor in February 2021 and was an immediate hit, flying off shelves faster than it could be unpacked. Just like last year, Cookies 'N Cream is only around for a limited time or while supplies last. Find it in your grocery freezer section in half gallons and pints.

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With more than 100 years in business, this Southern company named for the Texas bluebell wildflower certainly knows the way to our hearts. Any time a new or archived flavor returns—which thankfully is often—you can catch us with a half-gallon or two tucked into our buggies.

Blue bell cookies and cream cone ice cream

What is Blue Bell Cookies ‘n Cream Cone?

It’s the newest flavor from Blue Bell and is described as, to quote the packaging, “vanilla flavored ice cream with chocolate crème filled cookie crumbles, dark chocolate-coated chocolate cone pieces and a chocolate fudge swirl.”

If you’re counting, the word “chocolate” is mentioned four times in the description but not once in the product’s name. And if you are a stickler for punctuation, you might wonder why chocolate-coated is hyphenated, but not vanilla flavored or crème filled. I have no answer for that, and it will probably keep me up tonight.

How is it?

Blue bell cookies and cream cone ice cream

My first thought upon popping the top was that the quartet of chocolates in the description was not enough because all I saw was a small island of vanilla-ish color in the middle surrounded by a sea of chocolate.

Blue bell cookies and cream cone ice cream

However, after some excavating, it turned out that there just happened to be a thin layer of the fudge swirl on the top. A full scoop has more of a traditional cookies’ n cream look.

Blue bell cookies and cream cone ice cream

As for the taste, it was quite good and not overly chocolatey. The cookies’ n cream part was basically your standard cookies’ n cream flavor, but the fudge swirls added a nice chocolate boost and tasted a lot like Hershey’s syrup.

Blue bell cookies and cream cone ice cream

The cone pieces provided some extra taste and texture, although they were hard to distinguish from the cookie pieces. The label was not kidding when it said “crumbles” either, as I didn’t find many cookie pieces of significant size. The cone pieces were larger but still fairly small. Overall, the flavors and textures all worked together splendidly. It would have been nice to have some more sizable chunks of both cookies and cone, however.

Anything else you need to know?

In my dedication to providing you with the most comprehensive information available about this product, I actually read — OK, I skimmed — a press release about it. According to it, this new flavor is an homage to Blue Bell’s Cookie Cone product that launched in 1997, was sold mostly in school cafeterias, and discontinued in 2015. That product had a complete cone with a scoop of chocolate-coated ice cream, along with the same overly happy fake Oreo guy on the package.

Conclusion:

This is not the fanciest or most daring ice cream flavor out there, perhaps because Blue Bell sees itself as a more traditional ice cream maker. The packaging on this product is flashy by its standards, as most of its other flavors have just a solid color with the kid leading the cow logo. So if you want ice cream with Pop Rocks, Sour Patch Kids, or something like that in it, you have plenty of other options, but if you just want some good cookies’ n cream ice cream with a little something extra, this one is for you.

Purchased Price: $6.34
Size: Half-gallon
Purchased at: H-E-B
Rating: 8 out of 10
Nutrition Facts: (2/3 cup) 280 calories, 15 grams of fat, 8 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat, 30 milligrams of cholesterol, 120 milligrams of sodium, 34 grams of carbohydrates, 1 gram of fiber, 27 grams of sugar, and 5 grams of protein.

Is Blue Bell cookies and cream cone discontinued?

Blue Bell introduced the Cookie Cone in 1997, and it was mostly sold in school cafeterias. The product has not been available since 2015.
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"This very merry flavor combines your favorite holiday cookies – chocolate chip, snickerdoodle and sugar –in a tasty sugar cookie ice cream with red sprinkles and a green icing swirl throughout," Blue Bell says. It's available in the half gallon size while supplies last.