soft serve at tastee freeze - its delicious!

[Rina]

wanting to learn more about the process of chocolate dipping for soft serve ice cream, I was recently at the tastee freeze ice cream store and ordered a soft serve ice cream and was offered to have chocolate dipped coating, it was great!
Does anyone know why this process works? I understand the chocolate has to be warm or in liquid state, and how come it does not melt the ice cream when dipped? just curious...

[katiepie]

I use to work in an ice cream parlor and it's mostly wax... they also have cherry, butterscotch and peanut butter flavors. Yum!!

[ML8000]

The dipping chocolate has a high percentage of wax which explains how it hardens fast. A friend in high school worked at a Tastee Freeze and when the boss was gone, everything was dipped in there, french fries, burgers...mostly because it was there.

[sing me a bar]

As a soft serve junkie, I thought I'd weigh in on the scarcity of Carvels and Dairy Queens in NYC. I think Ben & Jerry's soft serve is fantastic. It blows away Tasti-Dlite or the Smoochie's of yore or Mary's Dairy, which held the crown for a while. Somethings you just can't get at home, and the chocolate hard coating may remain one. It's hard to even pull off a hot fudge as good as one gets at the shops. I end up freezing the soft serve and retempering later, which never really works, but is better than none at all. The less I say about frozen yoghurt the better. That stuff is vile.

[leanneabe]

You can buy Magic Shell toppings at the grocery store and it's almost the same thing. You pour it over ice cream and it immediately forms a thin hard "chocolate" coating. I haven't looked at the ingredients in a long time, but I'm inclined to think there's quite a bit of paraffin in it to keep it liquidy but set fast on the ice cream.