Mucci Mini Gelados de Baunilha, Caramelo Salgado e Noz-Pecã

We bought this 8 pack of mini salted caramel vanilla ice creams with walnut pieces at Aldi in Portugal and here’s what we thought:

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Independent Grocery Review
This is an independent grocery review by Traveling Through Food, based on firsthand experience with the product. We purchase and try products ourselves, and our reviews reflect our honest opinions and whether we would buy them again.

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Ingredients

Ingredients in English via google translate:

• vanilla bourbon ice cream (55%) (skimmed milk, whey protein concentrate, sugar, coconut fat, skimmed milk powder, emulsifier: mono and diglycerides of fatty acids; carrot concentrate, stabilizers: carob gum, guar gum; natural vanilla-bourbon flavor, ground extracted vanilla pods),
• milk chocolate (35%) [sugar, cocoa butter, skimmed milk powder, milk fat anhydrous milk (milk), cocoa mass, whey powder, emulsifiers: lecithins, polyglycerol polyrycinoleate; vanilla extract],
• salted caramel sauce (5%) [glucose syrup, sugar, medium-fat condensed milk, water, salted butter (4.9%) (butter (milk), salt (milk), salt), stabilizers: pectins, carob gum; natural butter flavor (milk)],
• caramelized nuts (5%) [sugar, nuts (43%), butter with salt (butter (milk), salt), glucose

Allergen Warning: May contain traces of nuts (almonds, hazelnuts, walnuts, cashew nuts, pistachios, Brazil nuts, macadamia nuts).

Nutrition Facts

Nutrition facts for Mucci Salted Caramel with Caramelized Pecan Ice Cream per serving (1 ice cream stick 37g)

• 128 Calories
• 7.8g Fats
  • 5.2g Saturated Fats
• 13g Carbohydrates from sugar
• 1.4g Protein
• 0.09g Salt

What It’s Like — Expectations vs Reality

Looking at the ice cream bar beside the image on the box it’s actually pretty impressive how consistent the product is compared to the idealized image.

When I took the first bite I was a little bit disappointed because it seemed like I was biting into just vanilla ice cream.

Where are those nice caramel swirls as seen on the box?

Never fear!

We persevered…

Our Review — Worth Buying?

As you can see, the caramel ribbons revealed themselves in the subsequent bites.

Well done Mucci!

If you like salted caramel ice cream you will enjoy these ice cream bars!

The walnuts tasted a bit caramelized, not simply walnut chunks in milk chocolate, which was a pleasant surprise to me.

Would we rebuy Aldi Mini Gelados de Baunilha, Caramelo Salgado e Noz-Pecã again? Yes!

Rating: 4/4 Love it!

Try something similar ->

-> more reviews of Aldi Ice Cream Products (tons from Aldi in Europe -> Portugal)
-> What is ice cream like in Portugal?

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