Post by thesolution on Feb 1, 2022 14:10:24 GMT -5
Salt & Straw Hunk-a Chunka PB&B
For the month of February Salt & Straw has brought back their Vault series and best flavors over the last 11 years. Chunka PB&B is a spin off of Elvis spening long nights with friends chatting the night away over a towering plate of PB&J-banana-bacon sandwiches. Since then, this combination has become a hit at sandwich shops around the country, and back in 2014, we joined rank. Much like The King himself, this is anything but understated.
Salt & Straw Hunk-a Chunka PB&B is labeled as "Marionberry jam rockets through a spiced honey banana ice cream, but it's peanut butter that steals the show– we melt the peanut butter into a white chocolate to create homemade stracciatella, then drizzle it in for a showstopper fit for a King."
The spiced honey banana is unliked a normal banana-flavored base. Being a consumer who is not fond of fruity flavors this one raised my eyebrow. When I took my first bite I was in awe how pure and rich the banana shines. Combine the spiced aspect gives this a burnt brown sugar enhancement that makes it stand out among the ice cream community.
The Marionberry jam is a Salt & Straw signature swirl included in many of their ice cream selections. As you can see the marionberry swirl is flowing to the top of the pint and breaching the surface. The swirl is in globs, not just swirls, i mean pools of marionberry stretch from the top to the bottom of the pint. The swirl even amplifies in size the further you dig until the very bottom was a pool of berry swirl. The flavor is a mix of a dense raspberry with a bold aftertaste Lastly the homemade stracciatella of white chocolate and peanut butter is a match made in heaven. You get the luscious backend flavor of white chocolate with a bold and rich peanut butter flavor. The peanut butter and banana combination truly shines when paired together as you would expect from Salt & Straw.
While this flavor is similar to "Happy Birthday Elvis" this is a slight deviance from this 2014 re-release. I personally like the inclusion of the stracciatella over the peanut butter cookie dough and bacon from Happy Birthday Elvis. It provides a better mouthfeel and mixture inside the ice cream without allowing any of the inclusion to lose its potency of flavor. I have never scooped this flavor until now, and this was fantastic.
Grade: B+
Found: www.SaltandStraw.com
For the month of February Salt & Straw has brought back their Vault series and best flavors over the last 11 years. Chunka PB&B is a spin off of Elvis spening long nights with friends chatting the night away over a towering plate of PB&J-banana-bacon sandwiches. Since then, this combination has become a hit at sandwich shops around the country, and back in 2014, we joined rank. Much like The King himself, this is anything but understated.
Salt & Straw Hunk-a Chunka PB&B is labeled as "Marionberry jam rockets through a spiced honey banana ice cream, but it's peanut butter that steals the show– we melt the peanut butter into a white chocolate to create homemade stracciatella, then drizzle it in for a showstopper fit for a King."
The spiced honey banana is unliked a normal banana-flavored base. Being a consumer who is not fond of fruity flavors this one raised my eyebrow. When I took my first bite I was in awe how pure and rich the banana shines. Combine the spiced aspect gives this a burnt brown sugar enhancement that makes it stand out among the ice cream community.
The Marionberry jam is a Salt & Straw signature swirl included in many of their ice cream selections. As you can see the marionberry swirl is flowing to the top of the pint and breaching the surface. The swirl is in globs, not just swirls, i mean pools of marionberry stretch from the top to the bottom of the pint. The swirl even amplifies in size the further you dig until the very bottom was a pool of berry swirl. The flavor is a mix of a dense raspberry with a bold aftertaste Lastly the homemade stracciatella of white chocolate and peanut butter is a match made in heaven. You get the luscious backend flavor of white chocolate with a bold and rich peanut butter flavor. The peanut butter and banana combination truly shines when paired together as you would expect from Salt & Straw.
While this flavor is similar to "Happy Birthday Elvis" this is a slight deviance from this 2014 re-release. I personally like the inclusion of the stracciatella over the peanut butter cookie dough and bacon from Happy Birthday Elvis. It provides a better mouthfeel and mixture inside the ice cream without allowing any of the inclusion to lose its potency of flavor. I have never scooped this flavor until now, and this was fantastic.
Grade: B+
Found: www.SaltandStraw.com