Category: Coming Soon

Ben & Jerry’s has two new flavors you’ll be seeing in the freezer aisle soon with names that may make you say to yourself, “That’s soooo Ben & Jerry’s!”

Truffle Kerfuffle features vanilla ice cream with roasted pecans, fudge chips, and a salted chocolate ganache swirl. Urban Bourbon has burnt caramel ice cream with almonds, fudge flakes, and bourbon caramel swirls.

While pecan, almonds, fudge chips, and bourbon aren’t new to the Ben & Jerry’s universe, the salted chocolate ganache swirl and burnt caramel ice cream are. Also, it appears the Flavor Gurus at Ben & Jerry’s REALLY like bourbon because they’ve included it in a couple of flavors over the past year or so.

Hat tip to our friend Candy Hunting for letting us know about these new flavors.

Ice cream pints are not the only frozen treats Hostess plans to roll out next year. Impulsive Buy reader Monica W sent in this photo she took at the NACS Show in October of Hostess Ding Dongs frozen novelties.

According to the packaging, it’s a vanilla frozen dairy dessert sandwich with a chocolatey coating. Sadly, it doesn’t sound or look as good as the Hostess Ding Dong Ice Cream Sandwich that fast food chain Carl’s Jr. sold in 2015.

This year, we saw Hostess expand out of the baked goods aisle with the introduction of Deep Fried Twinkies in the frozen food section. Next year, we’ll see more Hostess-branded products in the freezer aisle when Hostess Ice Cream hits shelves.

According to Berry on Dairy, Hostess is partnering with Nestle to offer ice cream pints that feature popular Hostess products. The three varieties are Cupcakes, Sno Balls, and, of course, Twinkies.

Twinkies Ice Cream features sweet buttercream-flavored ice cream, sponge cake pieces, and a vanilla frosting swirl. Cupcakes Ice Cream combines chocolate ice cream, cake pieces, and a cream frosting swirl. Sno Balls Ice Cream has a marshmallow-flavored ice cream, chocolate cake pieces, and a whipped coconut swirl.

Wondering about Nestle’s ice cream history? It owns Häagen-Dazs, Dreyer’s/Edy’s, Skinny Cow, and Drumsticks.

Dunkin’ Donuts has teamed up with Coca-Cola to bring ready-to-drink coffee beverages to grocery and convenience stores. The new drinks debuted at the NACS Show earlier this month. The line of refrigerated coffee will be made using Arabica coffee blends, come in 13.7-ounce bottles, and available in four flavors — Original, Mocha, Espresso, and French Vanilla.

Dunkin’ Donuts bottled iced coffee will be hitting shelves early next year.

(Image via Coca-Cola/CSP Daily News)

7UP has one.

Mist Twst has one.

And soon Sprite will be offering a cherry version of their lemon-lime soda. Welcome to the cherry party, Sprite, where everyone is dressed in red and the only trick the clowns are able to do is tie cherry stems into knots with their tongues.

The new flavor was announced at this year’s NACS Show and it’ll launch nationwide in the first quarter of 2017. There will also be a Sprite Cherry Zero and both beverages will be available in 20-ounce bottles. The flavor was inspired by the popular Sprite flavor combination on Coca-Cola Freestyle machines.