OC Food Reviews

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Sometimes inspirations to review something come from unexpected circumstances. Such was the case last night when dessert at my work’s Christmas party was provided by the brilliant architects from CoolHaus. CoolHaus follows on the heels of the trendy foodie fad of serving gourmet food from a truck, a fad I’m personally starting to love! I recently reviewed the (apparently) originator of the fad, Kogi BBQ here.

CoolHaus’ idea, as most ingenious ones are, is simple: Serve gourmet, made-to-order ice cream sandwiches out the back of an ice cream truck. Brilliant! They have several flavors of cookies and ice cream to choose from. You pick your cookie, you pick your ice cream flavor and they assemble a sandwich for you and wrap it in an edible rice paper like wrapper.

I tried the ginger cookie with cinnamon ice cream which was delicious and very holiday apropos. The cookies are just the perfect consistency for ice cream sandwich making, not too crumbly and not frozen solid as most ice cream sandwiches are since it’s prepared for you right on the spot. I wish I had room to try more than one!

Their flavors range from the traditional like vanilla ice cream and chocolate chip cookie to the more exotic like brioche cookie and green tea or apple pie ice cream. The nice man staffing their table let me try some bacon ice cream! It’s seriously good though maybe a little too decadent. Check out their menu at their website.

CoolHaus, like most of these foodie trucks, is on twitter. Your assignment is to follow them and hunt their truck down ASAP. I don’t think they’re here in Orange County too often, but next time they’re in town I certainly am!