Post by thesolution on Jan 23, 2016 12:22:02 GMT -5
Ben & Jerry's Peanut Butter & Cookies
Ben & Jerry's Peanut Butter & Cookies is labeled as "Sweet Cream Ice Cream with Chocolate Sandwich Cookies and a Crunchy Peanut Butter Swirl". After seeing some feedback with the new walmart exclusive the hopes have not been high. Ben & Jerry's has been on a roll at the end of 2015 moving into 2016 with good limited edition flavors. They also released Cake My Day being a target exclusive. With a label of chocolate cookies and a PB Swirl this could have potential to be a good one.
Upon opening the pint there were small specks of chocolate cookies and a hint of a peanut butter swirl. The sweet cream base is a step up from the basic vanilla ice cream Ben & Jerry's does offer. You get the sensation of a cream filling of an Oreo to a lesser extent. It does not provide the quality frosting flavoring like a sweet cream filled cookie would provide, but it has an extra kick to the base to give it an edge over vanilla. I would like to see B&J continue to utilize the sweet cream base in the future to help upgrade some of the basic vanilla flavors.
The Chocolate Sandwich Cookies and Crunchy Peanut Butter swirl are not really noticed upon lifting the lid. After a few bites you start to get chunks of cookies starting to surmount in the pint. Sometimes Ben & Jerry have very inconsistent pints from top to bottom, and the mix-ins are very scattered. The cookies had a similar texture and taste to those of Ample Hills in chocolate cookies and cream. They tasted a bit off , and did not have a genuine oreo/cookie taste like found in Graeters Cookies and Cream. The Peanut butter swirl could of been bigger and stronger in taste. It was a good addition to a cookie and cream base/mixture, but the presence of the swirl needed to be bigger to stand out. The peanut butter provides a nice salty aftertaste to a dense peanut butter flavor, but nothing as strong as PB Pie from Haagen Dazs.
Overall it was a good pint, but nothing great from a limited edition flavor of ben and jerry's. They should continue to keep the sweet cream base around as it is a major improvement from a lot of their other flavors.. The mix-ins both needed improvement. The cookies needed a denser flavor and consistency.The Peanut Butter swirl tasted good, but needed to be larger since the cookies overpowered this aspect. With some small tweaks to the mix-ins this could have potential.
Grade: B-
Found: Walmart
Erie, PA
Ben & Jerry's Peanut Butter & Cookies is labeled as "Sweet Cream Ice Cream with Chocolate Sandwich Cookies and a Crunchy Peanut Butter Swirl". After seeing some feedback with the new walmart exclusive the hopes have not been high. Ben & Jerry's has been on a roll at the end of 2015 moving into 2016 with good limited edition flavors. They also released Cake My Day being a target exclusive. With a label of chocolate cookies and a PB Swirl this could have potential to be a good one.
Upon opening the pint there were small specks of chocolate cookies and a hint of a peanut butter swirl. The sweet cream base is a step up from the basic vanilla ice cream Ben & Jerry's does offer. You get the sensation of a cream filling of an Oreo to a lesser extent. It does not provide the quality frosting flavoring like a sweet cream filled cookie would provide, but it has an extra kick to the base to give it an edge over vanilla. I would like to see B&J continue to utilize the sweet cream base in the future to help upgrade some of the basic vanilla flavors.
The Chocolate Sandwich Cookies and Crunchy Peanut Butter swirl are not really noticed upon lifting the lid. After a few bites you start to get chunks of cookies starting to surmount in the pint. Sometimes Ben & Jerry have very inconsistent pints from top to bottom, and the mix-ins are very scattered. The cookies had a similar texture and taste to those of Ample Hills in chocolate cookies and cream. They tasted a bit off , and did not have a genuine oreo/cookie taste like found in Graeters Cookies and Cream. The Peanut butter swirl could of been bigger and stronger in taste. It was a good addition to a cookie and cream base/mixture, but the presence of the swirl needed to be bigger to stand out. The peanut butter provides a nice salty aftertaste to a dense peanut butter flavor, but nothing as strong as PB Pie from Haagen Dazs.
Overall it was a good pint, but nothing great from a limited edition flavor of ben and jerry's. They should continue to keep the sweet cream base around as it is a major improvement from a lot of their other flavors.. The mix-ins both needed improvement. The cookies needed a denser flavor and consistency.The Peanut Butter swirl tasted good, but needed to be larger since the cookies overpowered this aspect. With some small tweaks to the mix-ins this could have potential.
Grade: B-
Found: Walmart
Erie, PA