What's your favorite flavor of Wizarding World ice cream?
That's the question that I set out to answer for myself today, as Florean Fortescue's Ice-Cream is now open inside The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios Hollywood.
Universal opened its original installation of Florean Fortescue's Ice-Cream in Universal Studios Florida's Diagon Alley. In Hollywood, the ice cream shop occupies the former Zonko's space inside Honeydukes sweet shop. This is the new west coast home for Universal's Butterbeer soft-serve ice cream, along with nine other flavors.
In addition to the Butterbeer soft serve, Florean Fortescue's serves:
Prices are $7.29 for the ice cream in a cup, $8.29 in a waffle cone, and $10.50 in a souvenir glass. Universal invited me out today to try the new ice cream, so I figured... why not try them all?
The individuals flavors here are swirled within vanilla soft serve, except - of course - for the vanilla, which stands on its own. Judging the other flavors, I am discounting Butterbeer, as it is its own thing. I prefer the liquid Butterbeers - Cold, Frozen, and Hot - to the solid ones, but the soft-serve Butterbeer ice cream is my favorite among the hard-pack version and the Butterbeer Potted Cream and Butterbeer Fudge.
As for the other ice cream flavors, to my surprise, I enjoyed the tartness of the Granny Smith Apple flavor best, followed by the savory hint of the Pistachio. The Orange provided a delightful nostalgic note for me, reminding me of an old Dreamsicle pop. There were no flavors that I would not happily try again, but it would be hard to keep me from selecting one of these top three over the others. Your mileage may vary, of course.
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The strength of Florian Fortescue's at Diagon Alley at USF is it's broad variety of flavors. However, I suspect that the line at USH's location will move much faster. On the positive side, it looks like you have been spared from the horror which is clotted cream. It is truly a crime against humanity that I wouldn't wish upon my worst enemy. :-)
I'm pretty surprised they aren't producing an Earl Grey flavor here, especially since it doesn't have any chunks/pieces in it, which are nearly impossible to produce in a soft serve machine. Maybe they couldn't get it to work in soft serve without making it overly sweet.
Robert - Are these actual real ice cream, or are they fro-yo or another non-dairy product?
It's dairy-based soft serve, but if we want to have a debate on whether soft serve is real ice cream or not, let me put on my asbestos underwear for that flame war.
They have a hard packed Chili chocolate...
It is awesome...
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I'm salivating. Such delicious flavors, but the Toffee Nut/Apple sounds like winners to me. Sucks they don't offer any of the hard ice cream options like at USF. The sticky toffee pudding mixed with the salted blondie is a winner.