Tesco Fully Loaded Choco Cookie Dough Ice Cream

What is it?

Cookie dough in ice cream is edible raw dough, not baked biscuit, and that distinction is the whole flavour. Baked biscuit softens against a frozen base, where a dough piece stays dense and chewy because it has no crumb structure to collapse. It's made without raw egg and with heat-treated flour, which is a food safety measure: flour carries the E. coli risk and egg the salmonella one. What makes the pieces sweeter and denser than dough from a mixing bowl is the recipe, built without leavening and with more sugar and fat so it stays chewy when frozen. The Choco in the name belongs to the chips and the sauce swirled through it, not to the base, which stays pale. That leaves the dough visible in the tub as well as findable in the spoon.