Originally Posted By friendofdd We always enjoyed fantasia ice cream, too. As I understand it, Carnation was bought by another company (Dreyer? Breyer?)and ice cream is no longer distributed under the Carnation name. I suppose the new owner could make the recipe, but they choose not to.
Originally Posted By LuLu There is a recipe for you on this page, Shiva (scroll down): http://www.mouseplanet.com/parkupdates/dlr/dlr041227.htm I'm just so curious about this, uh, concoction, I had to look up more info!
Originally Posted By TiggerPooh1973 I've never had the Fantasia ice cream.......and now that I hear what it was it just doesn't sound like a good combination to me. It could be that to me ice cream, and dessert for that matter, really isn't worth it without some kind of chocolate going on. The exception would be cheesecake I guess....or creme brulee.
Originally Posted By ShivaThDestroyer <<There is a recipe for you on this page...>> LuLu, thanks for trying but I've seen this one and several others similar to it. I actually have a collection of 6 different recipes for Fantasia that I have scoured the internet for over the past couple of years. The funny part is that no two are the same, nor do all of them even list the same ingredients. What I am looking for is a bonafide recipe that lists all the original ingredients in the correct proportions. None of the recipes I have come across list any proportions at all and that is so critical to Fantasia. One quote I found on-line decribes it all. "It is FANTAstic. An unexpected symphony of flavors, textures, and colors, it is ambroSIA ... food of the Gods" Thank-you so much for trying, it still isn't what I am looking for but it's the thought that counts. : )
Originally Posted By seanyoda << As I understand it, Carnation was bought by another company (Dreyer? Breyer?)and ice cream is no longer distributed under the Carnation name. I suppose the new owner could make the recipe, but they choose not to. >> That's not exactly true. In 1985, Nestlé purchased Carnation but chose to keep the brand around. In 1997, Nestlé management decided to de-emphasize the Carnation ice cream brand. You might recall that this was when the Carnation Ice Cream Parlor was closed. Carnation as a brand was regulated to evaporated milk and non-dairy creamers (hence we still have the Carnation Cafe). I'd venture to guess that this is around the time that Nestlé purchased Häagen-Dazs. In 2002, Nestlé purchased a controlling interest in Dryer's (Edy's for those of you in the eastern half of the US) and made Dryer's the umbrella organization for its ice cream operations in north America. Fantasia ice cream went off into Yesterland when Nestlé and Dryer's management decided that it was not worth the effort to produce Fantasia ice cream. Considering that it was only sold at Disneyland (and later DCA), it had to be produced in small batches (well, small relative to the amount of other ice cream flavors). When managers at WDW refused to offer Fantasia ice cream in Florida, and when the pin promotion at Disneyland failed to boost sales, the fate of Fantasia ice cream was sealed. The only way I could ever see Fantasia making a return would be for Dryer's (which has its California connection in that it was founded in and is still based in Oakland) to open an ice cream demonstration facility in DCA and then use the location to make batches of Fantasia ice cream.*
Originally Posted By Schmitty Good Vibes I had the Fantasia Ice Cream. Didn't care for it myself. I'm torn between orange sherbert or choclate ice cream as my favorite flavors. This wasn't in that spectrum. Gimme a Dole whip anyday.
Originally Posted By califtink Hmmm- I really gave this some thought. Luckily, I did try the Fantasia ice cream once before it disappeared, and I was glad I did. However, I do not remember candied pineapple, which I hate. Maybe I picked it out. Within the last 2 months, we found Banana Nut ice cream by Dreyers at our store. It isn't even on their website now- whatever. I think you could get sort of close to Fantasia by taking vanilla ice cream and mixing in some mashed banana, and also add a bit of banana extract and a bit of yellow food coloring, take Dreyers Spumoni ice cream (seasonal flavor?), take out of the carton only the pistachio and cherry flavors if possible -no chocolate-, then take those and sort of layer it (softened) into a Pyrex loaf shaped dish. Then let it harden again and, when you scoop it, you would get some of all three flavors swirled together, but not BLENDED together. Oh yeah-and add gross candied pineapple and/or cherries if you must. Seems like this MIGHT kinda sorta come out similar? Just an idea. I don't know who makes a banana ice cream anymore - Schwan's used to have it, and my husband loved it, but last time he asked for it the driver said it was discontinued. If you can find banana ready-made, that would be best, I imagine. So, that's my 2 cents - worth at least that much??
Originally Posted By califtink Then again - your idea of taking the flavors from Cold Stone sounds like it would be a good combination. I would still rather get them individually and sort of swirl or layer them - rather than having them really all mixed up together?
Originally Posted By ShivaThDestroyer califtink, That's the 2nd part of the problem. Once I have the right combination and proportions, I'll have to figure out a way to blend them without actually mixing them together. I thought the Stone Cold paddle approach might work. That way I could get the layering effect you referred to without turning into one rather strange mix of flavors. Sorry if I didn't make myself clear in my first post.
