![]() (Sidenote: this part of the recipe can be consumed by the handful in an addicitive frenzy, so just watch your back-it creeps up on you like that.)Ĭan you just imagine a scoop of this stuff on your holiday pies instead of plain old vanilla? Hoooo, boy. I opted to up the crazy further by caramelizing the cereal to a satisfying sweet-salty crunch with salted butter and brown sugar, which also keeps it from getting all soft when mixed into the ice cream. ![]() I needed to mix in some Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal. I needed to add some dimension and texture. ![]() But because I've become cranky and particular about my ice cream in my old age, I needed more than just plain cinnamon ice cream. So for quite some time I've been dreaming up my own cinnamon ice cream, one with all the spice and creaminess that I remember from the days of yore. And wouldn't you know it, those jerks don't even have cinnamon ice cream anymore? Geez. Stopping abruptly to avoid being killed by a racing streetcar full of Alcatraz sweatshirt-wearing tourists, I look up to see a flippin' Swensen's ice cream parlor! What?! Childhood memories came flooding back, filling my eyes with tears. Like when you promise them a cookie, like, seven hours ago.Īnyway, fast forward many years later and I'm cruising the highly dangerous, hilly streets of my new hometown of San Francisco. Funny how a small child can savor such fleeting moments so vividly. But I do very clearly remember a certain cinnamon ice cream they had that just about made my whole life, even though I probably really only had it a couple of times. It didn't stick around for too long into my childhood I think many of the Midwestern locations closed up shop at some point. Anyway, back in the little suburban town in Illinois where I grew up, there was a Swensen's ice cream parlor that I was obsessed with. I know it was definitely before my little sister came along and dethroned me, so for certain younger than five. Like, way back to when I was probably four or so, maybe. Then we're gonna mix the caramelized cereal into the ice cream.īefore I go any further, I need to take you back a bit. Then we're going to caramelize some breakfast cereal. First we're going to make one heck of a cinnamon ice cream. So go forth, fellow pizookers: go forth and be free (with any purchase of $9.95 or more).So let me tell you how this is all going to go down. If this post inspires even one person to brighten their Hump Day with a tall lump of cinnamon-sprinkled vanilla bean, then my whole week will have been worth it. Just don’t let any anchovies flop into the ice cream. This of course means you can double-fist some savory ‘za in one hand and a sloppily spicy-sweet handful of swirled cinnamon in the other. ![]() I’ll admit I dropped the ball on bringing you this news in a timely fashion-the CTC PZ actually released early this March, but I’ll claim justifiable ignorance, since the nearest BJ’s location to me is more than half a Mitten State away.īut today’s perhaps a better day than any for a penitent pizookie post, because it’s apparently National Free Pizookie Day (so practically Easter 2), and BJ’s is giving away free pizookies with any purchase of $9.95 or more. The latest in their line of deep and decadently dished cookie-pies is the Cinnamon Toast Crunch Pizookie. The pizookie, a pizza-shaped cookie, is a dangerous concept, for it implies the existence of cookie-shaped pizzas, an impulse dinne-ssert hybrid I would gladly dunk by the dozen into a mug-full of marinara before slam dunking my noggin into the nearest plush throw pillow.Īnd BJ’s, a national restaurant chain of 200+ locations, isn’t tempering my snack-splicing temptations. No word on whether this will naturally evolve into a Sugar Cookie Toast Crunch seasonal variant (but it should!). The Cinnamon Toast Crunch Pizookie tops a buttery sugar cookie with vanilla ice cream and cinnamon sugar.
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