According to the brand, they evaluated over 100 artisan products before settling on the six artisans featured.
Here are the six flavors and the artisans that inspired them:
- Tres Leches Brigadeiro - Paula Barbosa of My Sweet Brigadeiro in New York, worked with Häagen-Dazs to deconstruct her Happy Couple brigadeiro--basically a Brazilian bonbon/truffle --to make a sweetened condensed milk and cocoa sauce, which is then swirled it into tres leches ice cream.
- Banana Rum Jam - A vanilla bean ice cream with a banana, rum and lime swirl inspired by Drunken Monkey jam (a variant of Bananas Foster) from The Jam Stand in Brooklyn, New York.
- Chocolate Caramelized Oat - Chocolaty, caramelized oat clusters in caramel ice cream made in collaboration with San Francisco’s Clairesquares and inspired by their caramelized oat bars, drizzled in chocolate.
- Spiced Pecan Turtle - Chocolaty-spiced pecans and swirls of caramel in chocolate ice cream, made in partnership with Christopher Elbow Artisanal Chocolate in Kansas City, Missouri and inspired by their spiced pecan turtle chocolates.
- Ginger Molasses Cookie - Vanilla cinnamon ice cream with ginger molasses cookie pieces inspired soft-baked ginger molasses cookies from The Good Batch in Brooklyn, New York.
- Applewood Smoked Caramel Almond - Haagen-Dazs worked with Cruz Caudillo of Praline Patisserie in San Diego, California to come up with swirls of applewood-smoked caramel and roasted, salted almonds in sweet cream ice cream.
Haagen-Dazs Artisan Collection is currently being rolled out and should be available nationwide by April 2015. All flavors come in 14-oz cartons with a suggested price of $5.29. Tres Leches Brigadeiro also comes in 3.6-oz cups with a suggested price of $1.49 each.
