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{{short description|Ice cream variety flavored with chocolate sandwich cookies}}
{{other uses|Cookies and cream (disambiguation)}}
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| name = Cookies and cream
| image = Cookies and cream.JPG
| image_size = 250px
| caption = Cookies and cream ice cream
| alternate_name = Cookies 'n cream, cookies 'n creme, cookie cream
| country = [[United States]]
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| course = 
| type = [[Ice cream]], [[milkshake]], [[yogurt]], [[cheesecake]]
| served = 
| main_ingredient = Ice cream (usually [[vanilla ice cream|vanilla]]), chocolate cookies (usually [[sandwich cookie]]s or similar)
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'''Cookies and cream''' (or '''cookies 'n cream''') is a variety of [[ice cream]], [[milkshake]], and other desserts that includes chocolate [[sandwich cookie]]s, with the most popular version containing hand or pre-crumbled cookies from [[Nabisco]]'s [[Oreo]] brand under a [[brand licensing|licensing]] agreement, or else, containing crumbles of a similar cookie of a different brand or private label. Cookies and cream ice cream generally mixes crumbled chocolate sandwich cookies into [[vanilla ice cream]]. However, variations exist which instead use [[chocolate ice cream|chocolate]], [[coffee ice cream|coffee]] or mint ice cream.

==History==
There are competing claims as to who first invented and marketed cookies and cream ice cream.
* Malcolm Stogo, an ice cream consultant, claimed to have created the flavor in 1976,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.malcolmsicecream.com/about-malcolm.html |title=Who is Malcolm? |publisher=Malcolm Stogo Associates |year=2010 |access-date=2016-03-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161030182917/http://www.malcolmsicecream.com/about-malcolm.html |archive-date=2016-10-30}}</ref> 1977<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/eats/dairy-chilled-astoria-frozen-dessert-line-article-1.1790505 |title='Godfather of Ice Cream' introducing made-in-Astoria nondairy frozen desserts |author=Justin Rocket Silverman |work=New York Daily News |date=May 14, 2014 }}</ref> or 1978.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://icecreamuniversitydesserts.com/pages/our-story |title=Our Story |publisher=Ice Cream University Desserts |access-date=2021-02-11 |archive-date=2021-09-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210920025933/https://icecreamuniversitydesserts.com/pages/our-story |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[South Dakota State University]] claims the flavor was invented at the university's dairy plant in 1979 by plant manager Shirley Seas and students Joe Leedom and Joe Van Treeck.<ref>{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180413002500/https://www.sdstate.edu/dairy-and-food-science/history-sdsu-ice-cream |archive-date=2018-04-13 |url=https://www.sdstate.edu/dairy-and-food-science/history-sdsu-ice-cream |title=History of SDSU Ice Cream |url-status=dead |website=Sdstate.edu |access-date=2018-08-15}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.dakotanewsnow.com/content/news/SDSU-celebrates-invention-of-Cookies-n-Cream-flavor-40-years-later-508624121.html |title=SDSU celebrates invention of Cookies 'n Cream flavor 40 years later |date=April 15, 2019 |work=Dakota News Now |publisher=Gray Media Group}}</ref>
* In a 2005 press release, [[Blue Bell Creameries]] claimed they were the first company to mass-produce the flavor, in 1980.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20051122142326/http://www.bluebell.com/press/newflavor_pbj.htm Blue Bell's Peanut Butter and Jelly Ice Cream New Treat For Summer!]. bluebell.com. Retrieved on 2012-07-06.</ref> In 2006, ''The New York Times'' reported that Blue Bell made "no claim to have invented it but certainly pioneered the flavor."<ref>R. W. Apple, Jr. (2006-05-31). [https://web.archive.org/web/20080708211854/http://www.bluebell.com/The_Little_Creamery/What_Folks_Say/folks_nytimes.aspx Making Texas Cows Proud]. The NY Times. Retrieved on 2012-07-06.</ref> However, as of 2020, the company's website proclaimed, "We were first to create this innovative flavor."<ref>[https://www.bluebell.com/product/cookies-n-cream/ Cookies 'n Cream Ice Cream]. bluebell.com. Retrieved on 2023-06-02.</ref> Blue Bell Creameries applied to register the trademark "Cookies 'n Cream" in 1981.<ref>[http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=73315746&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=statusSearch Trademark Status & Document Retrieval (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office)]. uspto.gov. Retrieved on 2015-06-18.</ref>
* [[John Harrison (ice cream taster)|John Harrison]], the official taster for [[Dreyer's|Dreyer's/Edy's]] Ice Cream, claims he invented it first for the company in 1982.<ref>Sara Fiedelholtz (2003-07-11). [https://web.archive.org/web/20070311024915/http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20030711/ai_n12510856 Taster's career made from ice cream]. ''Chicago Sun-Times''. Retrieved on 2012-07-06.</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070311041453/http://www.edys.com/johnthetaster/index.asp?b=105 Edy's John Harrison]. edys.com. Retrieved on 2012-07-06.</ref>

In 1983, cookies and cream became one of the top five best-selling flavors of ice cream.<ref>[http://www.makeicecream.com/hisoficecrea.html The History of Ice Cream] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080704131533/http://www.makeicecream.com/hisoficecrea.html|date=July 4, 2008}}. Makeicecream.com. Retrieved on 2012-07-06.</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Hershey's Cookies 'n' Creme]]

==References==
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[[Category:Flavors of ice cream]]
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[[Category:Sandwich cookies]]