Cold Stone’s Nintendo-themed ice cream sundaes are a sweet way to beat the heatwave

digitaltrends.com:

It’s the hottest summer on record, and gamers are looking for ways to cool themselves down (and their consoles, as both Nintendo and Valve have warned that their systems can overheat). To help beat the heat, Cold Stone is selling Nintendo-themed ice cream sundaes inspired by Kirby and the Forgotten Land, Mario Party Superstars, and Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

Naturally, I had to review them. For journalistic purposes, of course.

Let’s get one thing straight: I’m not trying to become the next Anthony Bourdain here. The only food and beverage item I’ve ever written about was the Unicorn Frappe from Starbucks that took the internet by storm in 2017, much to the dismay of the overworked baristas. Today, five years later, I’ve taken it upon myself to write about the Nintendo-themed ice cream collection for two reasons. First, we recently reviewed the Kirby-flavored boba tea, which sounds delicious. Second, Nintendo recently announced Kirby’s Dream Buffet, which features multicolored Kirbys racing against each other through four rounds of food-themed courses, most of which are made out of desserts.

Kirby’s Dream Buffet doesn’t come out until later this summer, but its announcement perfectly aligned with Cold Stone’s Nintendo-themed ice cream flavors. I bought the ice cream cups last Friday night and brought them home to eat over the course of the weekend (as much as I love ice cream, there was no way I was going to eat all three large cups of ice cream in one night). While it left me with some late-night insomnia (I’ll get to that PSA later), the ice cream flavors are all sweet treats that are worthy of the games they’re based on.

Kirby is the star of this show with his eponymous flavor, The Mighty Pink Puff. It consists of