Ben & Jerry’s Sundae: Dulce De-lish Ice Cream (Tesco) By @Cinabar

I may have bought more ice cream, despite the fact that the weather has turned colder again. We had a heavy frost this morning, and the central heating is on, but we are still having ice cream for dessert as I bought a new flavour. Here we have Dulce De-lish ice cream from the Ben & Jerry’s Sundae range. Inside the tub, we start with chocolate ice cream, and underneath this is a salt caramel ice cream base. Running through all of this are caramel swirls and chocolate chunks. 

When you have a tub of Ben & Jerry's, I’m assuming it is designed for sharing. My thoughts are that there are several portions in the pot. If you start scooping from the top, you kind of miss the magic of having the two flavours in the pot. I think layered ice cream in a tub should be sideways for the fix, but that is just my opinion. 

Anyway, we were sharing out several portions, so I had to steal a taste from the top, and my portion was mostly from the caramel sections. What they do wonderfully at Ben & Jerry’s is pack a lot of goodies in a tub, and this makes the whole thing wonderful to eat. But the chocolate and caramel sections of the ice cream were wonderfully flavorful and rich. The chocolate had loads of cocoa, and the caramel was wonderfully sugary and rich. The caramel swirls added a lovely touch of salt, and the chocolate chunks added extra sweetness and a touch of luxury. 

This Ben & Jerry’s Sundae: Dulce De-lish Ice Cream does what it says on the tub; it really is delicious. 

Ben & Jerry’s Salted Caramel Cookie Dough Chunks (Asda) By @cinabar

So this is a a Ben & Jerry’s product but it isn’t an ice cream, I’m not sure I’ve seen that before. It is also a cookie dough but you can’t bake with it, currently mind blown. I had to read the wrapper to work out what to do with it! I checked the packaging and you store this Ben & Jerry’s Salted Caramel Cookie Dough Chunks in a freezer and then just snack on them, it is a hot day so I thought I’d give it a go.

I poured a few pieces out and tried one, it was surprisingly good. It tastes like a salted caramel fudge, the texture was similar and I was quite impressed. Sweet with a little salt, nice and moreish. I have never thought about putting fudge in the freezer but this must be how that would turn out.

A little later I had another couple of pieces while watching Netflix (Cobra Kai which I have mixed feelings about) and I noticed the longer they were out of the freezer the more the texture became sticky. It is warm but the show was only half an hour and the pieces I had at the end were loosing the magic of the texture from when they were frozen. These are nice but I think need to be eaten fresh from the cold to be fully enjoyed, this rules out snacking on them during a film sadly.

Ben and Jerry’s Netflix and Chill’d Ice Cream (Ocado) By @Cinabar

Lockdown hit the UK and I was still quite late to the party in getting Netflix. I really didn’t watch that much TV before all this, but being in the house so much more and not having a commute meant I had a little time on my hands. I am also reading more, just saying.
I am loving Netflix though. I have watched multiple series of programs, and finally understood the hype about The Stranger. I just started Safe and we decided to have some ice cream while watching. I bought this on an online order and it is a ‘Netflix Original Flavour’ which made me smile. The ice cream is from Ben and Jerry’s and it is called Netflix and Chill’d, it contains peanut butter, chocolate brownie and salted pretzel. I love peanut butter so was keen to give this a try. Ben and Jerry’s ice creams are quite pricey but they are the place to go for creative flavours.
I took it out the freezer and left it a few minutes to warm up, just to make it easier to serve. There is plenty of interesting contents and I could immediately see the brownie pieces in the ice cream. The first flavour is peanut butter, this is a wonderful creamy nutty taste. There are bits of salted sections from the pretzel which makes a wonderful contrast, think sweet and salty popcorn. The chocolate brownie adds lovely firm gooey bits to the texture and a pleasing burst of chocolate. The ice cream was a delight to eat, sweet, salty, nutty, chocolatey, all boxes ticked. Ben and Jerry’s Netflix and Chill’d Ice Cream is pricey but worth it, so what does everyone recommended I watch next?

Green & Black’s Velvet Edition - two kinds (by @NLi10)

Ok, I admit it. There was a short while where I picked up far too many interesting chocolates and have got very behind on eating them. I think I was up to ten full size bars.

Here’s a couple I picked up from Cadbury’s World in the summer.

Essentially they are very similar, lovely Dark Chocolate, almonds and very flat. The only real difference is that the second one has orange in it, and I think the first he had more almonds.

Here is the just almonds version, nt too exciting visually, but the smell and taste is great. Lovely texture changes and deep flavours. But I’ll prrobably gift it to the office. Why? The orange version is just that little bit more special.

  

Looking pretty darn similar, but smelling and tasting of oranges makes this a win for me. Imagine a flat orange Toblerone and you aren’t far off. Lovely and festive without trying too hard. A nice little indulgence.

Ben and Jerry’s Cookie Dough ‘Wich (Ocado) By @Cinabar

Wow its hot, the sun is shining and even the heat at night isn’t something I am at all used to. So I decided to have a root around in the freezer and see if I could find any interesting ice creams stacked away. I spotted a box of these Ben and Jerry’s Cookie Dough ‘Wich, they are basically a sandwich of biscuits filled with a cookie dough ice cream filling, and they sounded perfect for this evening.
I opened up the box and found that there were three inside in light blue packets, and they seemed quite chunky. I opened up one of them and found that the swirl on the biscuit in the image wasn’t as smooth as the picture on the box, but otherwise they looked a decent size.
I gave one the taste test and found the biscuit sides a bit disappointing. They were soft, but not in the way that American style cookies are soft and gooey, it was chewy, but I found I didn’t like the texture. The coldness made them feel odd to me. The ice cream in the middle was lovely though, it was creamy, and sweet and had a good biscuit flavour. The biscuit sides were a good way to hold the ice cream, but in my heart of hearts I would rather have had the ice cream in a pot with a wooden spoon! Oh well, it did cool me down in the heat, and it isn’t going to be too tough a chore to finish the others, its just not something I’d buy again. I would happily buy a tub of Ben and Jerry’s Cookie Dough ice cream though!

Ben and Jerry’s Home Sweet Honeycomb Ice Cream (Ocado) By @Cinabar

Well this is a bit of an unusual occurrence, a hot and sunny bank holiday! We put the day to practical use, and mowed the lawn, then sorted through some more boxes, we moved house recently and this job seems endless. Still what better way to treat ourselves at the end of the day than a nice cold ice cream. I had a look in the freezer to see what we had in and had that wonderful moment of finding a forgotten tub of Ben and Jerrys ice cream.
This Ben and Jerry’s ice cream is called Home Sweet Honeycomb and consists of a sweet cream base, with a honey and caramel sauce with pieces of chocolate coated honeycomb, aka cinder toffee. We shared it out, and I could see that there was plenty of chocolate bits inside it, but the sauce was a bit more sparse and needed careful distributing.
The ice cream tastes very sweet, and I loved the tones of honey with the cream, the caramel added a slightly different twist, and part of me thinks I would have preferred a pure honey taste, but that might be just because I love the flavour. What I did like too was the mix of textures from the chocolate covered cinder toffee, this made the ice cream feel interesting to eat, and the chocolate was a nice addition. This was a lovely treat eating ice cream on a hot day, and a note for me to stock up on out ice cream in the freezer, here is hoping the next bank holiday is just as warm.

Ben & Jerry's Birthday Cake Ice Cream (Morrisons) By @Cinabar

It’s not my birthday, which made me feel a little strange buying Ben and Jerry’s new ice cream as it is Birthday Cake favoured. I don’t object to a cake flavoured ice cream, it just strikes me as a little weird to narrow this to birthday cake, it makes me feel like it should only be purchased to celebrate an actual birthday. If you were having a party with multiple guests, or a children’s party, I think Ben and Jerry’s isn’t the ice cream of choice really, it is a premium price, and the cost would soon rack up. It is the kind of ice cream I like to keep to myself! To be fair it is nearly £5 a tub, and a small tub at that, it isn’t really meant for sharing to a large party.

Anyway, it wasn’t purchased for a birthday party, or indeed ant birthday, but I still bought the ice cream and managed to open it and taste it without the need to celebrate. The ice cream is slightly pink in colour, as one of its extras its birthday cake fondant icing, there are also pieces of sponge cake mixed in. As someone whole loves a mix of texture I have to admit to enjoying the sponge cake cube mouthfuls, they were fluffy and full of vanilla baked cake flavour. The fondant icing was sweet and fruity, and added a good flavour of strawberry, much like a layer of jam in a birthday cake. Everything about this ice cream was sweet, cakey and delicious. It reminded me mostly of cupcakes, and it would have been much easier to buy without feeling weird if it wasn’t Birthday Cake but Cupcake flavour instead. As it, I feel I may need to google famous birthdays and find a celebrity’s special day to celebrate and give me an excuse to buy this again. It is a proper treat of an ice cream, and in retrospect I don’t think I’ll need much of an excuse.

Ben and Jerry's Topped Strawberry Swirled (Morrisons) By @Cinabar

I have to admit to enjoying the new ice cream season, aka summer. It is such an easy dessert, and there seem to be a rainbow of flavours that get released every year. Ben and Jerry's latest offering is this new Topped Strawberry Swirled. Under the lid you can see a thick coating of soft white chocolate sealing the tub, which of course is the inspiration for the name Topped. The ice cream consists of  creamy ice cream swirled with strawberry and marshmallow, containing white chocolate and shortbread pieces.

The base flavour of the creamy ice cream worked wonderfully swirled with the strawberry and this gave the flavour a lovely rich fruity flavour, it was summery too with its strawberries and cream. I liked that the flavour varied depending on how much strawberry there was, this kept the ice cream interesting. The addition of the shortbread pieces bought texture, and worked well with the other ingredients adding a nice buttery biscuit taste. The white chocolate topping was soft and very rich and sweet in flavour. I loved finding pieces of it in my bowl. The problem I guess is that I used up half the tub in two portions, and the way that it got served was that I used the top half and therefore all the white chocolate topping. I’m thinking the next serving isn’t going to be anywhere near as yummy as the first ones. Secondly the topping came away in quite big awkward pieces, which was ok but offered little benefit. The conclusion is that I loved the flavours and combination of ingredients but the actual style of the topping was more novelty than useful. I’d rather have had all that white chocolate from the topping in pieces like white chocolate drops mixed in the tub.

New Ben and Jerry's Cinnamon Buns Ice Cream (Waitrose) [By @Cinabar]

As regular readers will know I am a bit of a fan of cinnamon. The winter months seem to be cinnamons unofficial season, and as such I get to find lots of new products which use the spice. Ben and Jerry's have followed suit and their Christmas time launch of ice cream includes cinnamon! I picked up a tub thankful that it was on offer with a buy one get one half price, they make a good ice cream but they are a bit pricey.

I peeled off the lid to the tub and was a bit taken aback by the lack of aroma. There wasn't much smell at all to the ice cream, and I had been expecting something spicy. Scooping it out into bowls I noticed that there was cinnamon dough pieces in the ice cream and a cinnamon sauce swirled through it.
What it lacks in scent it makes up for in flavour. The ice cream is filled with the wonders of cinnamon, and is spicy and sweet. The dough pieces in the ice cream are firm, but give easily and feel slightly crystallised. More like a fudge, but the roughness of the texture is almost crunch like. They explode sweet warm cinnamon and are a pleasure to find on your spoon. The ice cream base is creamy and this tones down the cinnamon adding a smooth contrast to the warming spice. The sauce is pleasing sweet and adds a nice dimension to the flavour.
As a cinnamon fan I adored this ice cream, in a wanting to lick the bowl out kind of way. Having a cinnamon flavoured product is a nice excuse to have ice cream at Christmas time too, not that I need the excuse!

By Cinabar

Ben and Jerry’s Speculoos Specu-love Cookie Core (Sainsburys) [By @Cinabar]

I think it fair to say that I love those little spiced caramelised biscuits you often get as complementary treat with a coffee when you are out. I have purchased Lotus biscuits many times for home too, just because I loved the rich taste. Obviously when I heard that the new ice cream flavour from Ben and Jerry was in honour of those fab Speculoos biscuits I knew I had to give them a try.
As with all Ben and Jerry's ice creams this one has a slightly weird name; Speculoos Specu-love Cookie Core. I'm not sure they would ever call a variety just "Vanilla" but I tell you something trying to convince autocorrect to not change Speculoos to Spectator is proving a challenge on my iPad! :-D
The ice cream is part of the Core range where there is a special centre in the tub. As always with Ben and Jerry's I left the tub out of the freezer for a little while before serving, they do not scoop easily as I've discovered previously. Picture attempting to use your entire body weight on a spoon to desperately wedge some ice cream out and somehow just being left with a bent spoon. You'd need King Arthur to encourage it, or indeed ten minutes at room temperature.

The caramel based ice cream is flavoured with caramelised cookie pieces and a similarly flavoured core. The caramel does end up being the dominant taste along with a lovely rich creamy edge. The core is both gooey but also with crunchy spiced biscuit mixed in, I loved the playfulness with the textures. The soft caramel was nice with very rich tones but the crunchy bits of spiced biscuit were absolute heaven. The creamy flavoure countered it perfectly.  I absolutely loved the ice cream and the caramel and biscuit flavours. Perhaps Speculoos could be the new trend for this year, please - if you are a brand developer and someone is pushing you toward caramel think Speculoos instead - it is something I can really get on board with.

By Cinabar

Minter Wonderland Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream (Ocado) [By @cinabar]

As the season is changing there are lots of new items appearing on the shelves. It is difficult for an ice cream company when it comes to the cold time of year as ice cream isn't high on peoples priority list. It is more hot puddings and custard. Not to be put off Ben and Jerry’s have come up with a new themed edition for the season, Minter Wonderland.
The ice cream has a mint base and chunks of dark chocolate generously throughout. The ice cream is white not green like the ones I remember from my childhood. As usual with Ben and Jerry’s the tub needs to be out of the freezer for a few mins before you serve, it isn't an easy scoop product, they never are with this brand.
I was impressed by the pieces of dark chocolate, they were chunky and thick, made from a good quality chocolate. Biting into each piece released loads of cocoa and flavour, they also broke up the texture nicely. The pieces were just blocks in shape though.The minty ice cream was fresh and balanced just right with the peppermint. It was both creamy and smooth, sweet and with a lovely minty taste. Mostly though the silky sweet mint flavour was just a pleasure to eat.
In conclusion it is hard not to like this ice cream, the mint and chocolate combination are excellent. I wouldn't buy it again though, Ben and Jerry's are a premium brand and I do expect a bit more from them. Something unique that justifies the extra cost, be it a twist on the flavour, a few more added ingredients or even just cute shaped chocolate pieces. The chocolates are just blocks, not smart winter themed shapes. I hoped for more from Ben and Jerry's not just a, albeit very nice, mint choc chip. Plenty of brands do a fab mint choc chip already.

By Cinabar

Ben & Jerry’s Greek Style Frozen Yoghurt - Raspberry & Chocolaty Chunk (Sainsburys) [By @Cinabar]

I was actually in the ice cream section of Sainsbury’s looking for some of the new Core flavours from Ben & Jerrys, which I couldn’t find, but my eyes spotted the neat New label on this Greek Style Frozen Yoghurt.
The flavour was raspberry and chocolate, with a promise of proper chunks of chocolate which sounded rather good. Obviously when it came to opening the tub the battle began. The plastic seal around the tub had no perforations to allow me to tear into it. I tried and tried to rip it by hand, and my nails are quite good, but it wouldn’t give. I went and got the scissors but even with them I struggled as it was on so tight I couldn’t get the point of the scissors under the plastic very easily to work my way in. After a struggle I finally reigned victorious and got the lid off. This little delay meant that the ice cream was soft enough to scoop when it was opened. Well played Ben and Jerry’s a clever solution to selling ice cream that isn’t soft scoop. I do find a lot of Ben and Jerry’s quite solid and difficult to get out of the tub if it is fresh from the freezer.
The ice cream was a pale pink in colour, and it became apparent very quickly that the chocolate chunks really were proper chunks, they were huge, almost like pieces from a bar! The flavour was super tasty too. The raspberry was delicate, but still fruity. The greek yoghurt added a nice hint of sour, but a fresh flavour, with a creamy aftertaste. The berry’s stood their ground and it became reminiscent of a bowl of fresh raspberries with a spoon of greek yoghurt on top. The chocolate added another dimension, and were an absolute treat when you had one on your spoon. This was a full on chocolate hit, which mixed up the texture but also delivered a fab strong cocoa flavour, which was like magic. Did I mention the chunks were proper chunks?
I may not have been able to find the new Core flavours from Ben & Jerry’s but one thing is for sure with the Greek one being this good I’m going back to see there are any other flavours in that range. I just need to find a strategy to allow me to get into the packaging!

By Cinabar

Ben & Jerry's Core - Peanut Butter Ice Cream (Waitrose) [By @Cinabar]

Peanut butter is a funny thing. My taste buds tell me it should be served sweet, and that it goes well with chocolate. Here in the UK though peanut butter tends to be savoury, or served on its own spread on toast. There is a growing audience for peanut butter and the sweet toothed, with a Kit Kat being released, and more and more Reeses goodies on the shelves too, so I know I’m not alone. Since reading that NLi10 had tied out the Ben & Jerry’s peanut butter ice cream, I had been on the hunt for it to try out myself.
In theory, this sounds like it should be close to being my dream ice cream, it seems to be a good mix of flavours with a clever array of ingredients. When I took the lid of the ice cream and dug in, I could see that there were two tones of ice cream, one side vanilla and one side peanut butter, and the core, as they call it, was raspberry jam. This seems to have a bit more of the American influence as one of their famed sandwiches if PB&J, so popular it has its own abbreviation, peanut butter and jam! Wow! As I was scooping it into bowl, I soon spotted that the chocolate element hadn’t been forgotten, and there were chocolates filled with peanut butter scattered in the ice cream too.
I gave it a try, and found it was a total delight to the taste buds. There is so much going on here, but whatever combination of flavours the spoon picked up, it just worked. The vanilla ice cream was super creamy and indulgent. The peanut butter ice cream is rich and very nutty, the peanut flavour is distinct, and it almost has a salty edge to the taste. The jam core was well balanced, it was a strong raspberry taste, but it was sharp and zingy with a full on taste. I loved the chocolate peanut butter cups dotted throughout the ice cream too, they added that cocoa goodness, an element of fun to the texture, and delivered a purer shot of peanut butter. My only negative comment is I wished that there had been more of them in the ice cream, because they were a fab addition to it.
I think that this is the nicest Ben & Jerry’s ice cream combination I have tried, and to be fair I’ve never had a bad one! I loved the addition of the jam being the core, far more than I have like previous chocolate centres; it was very fresh and different and complemented the peanut butter perfectly. I think the American might just be on to something! This is my new favourite ice cream. :-)

By Cinabar

Ben & Jerry's Core Range - Blonde Brownie and Peanut Butter Me Up [by @NLi10]

Today we continue our dash through the Ben & Jerry's Core range (2013 Editions!) with two more varieties.

First up we have the Blondie Brownies.  This has a salted caramel core, with two colours of ice-cream with the brownies (or blondies) hidden inside the ice-cream as little chunks.  I wasn't over impressed with this.  It seemed a little ordinary, and as I'm not a massive caramel fan (but love brownies) I mostly ate around the edges and not the centre.

We still have the other half a tub of this to finish so maybe I'll get more enthused as summer approaches.  I guess I just like the fruiter cores!

Not sure what happened with the picture - I took two and must have deleted the good one!

Next we have Peanut Butter Me Up - which is essentially peanut butter and Jam (jelly if you are from the USA), and has mini peanut butter cups hiding in it!

While Ms NLi10 was busy digging out the salted caramel from the last one I was happy to be eating the peanut butter and fruity jam and hunting for the most intact choc bits for pictures.  I did like this one, but not as much as the Berry White variety (I'd even pay cinema prices for that one!).  The peanut butter had an odd aftertaste to it that I wasn't expecting, and almost tasted 'wrong' in this context.  As we'd been trying lots of flavours on the same day I put it down to a bad combo and figured we'd have to just have one tub at a time in future.

There are no bad flavours in the core range, but I think it's jus that some variations excited me more than others.  If I found one of these in the freezer then it would get eaten. It's as simple as that (but the fruitier ones would get eaten first!)

Ben & Jerry's Core - Berry White (Asda) [by @NLi10]

We ran a mini Ben & Jerry's promotion a while back called Capture Euphoria which resulted in us getting a few vouchers to be able to try out and review the new varieties of the Core range.

This one is Berry White, which has white one one side, red on the other and a brown core.

The white ice-cream has tiny hidden shards of white chocolate embedded within. This is probably my favourite bit of the experience, the texture changes. I think that all the ben and jerry things have odd textures and make it a little more exciting.

Next up was the pinky-red ice-cream which was a Raspberry and again had little bits of fruit to excite the senses. More lovely taste sensations.

THe core was odd. It's kind of a sorbet, but has an almost gritty feel to it. This is again quite nice as it's a big contrast to the ice-cream itself and begs to be dug into.

We slowly worked our way down the tub and both enjoyed it immensely. I'd rather have a tiny tub of something quality like this than a bigger tub of something unexciting. More flavours to follow!

Ben and Jerry's Core: Dough-ble Whammy (Sainsbury's) [By @Cinabar]

The weather is warming up and the new ice creams are appearing in the shops! This new one from Ben and Jerrys is part of the new Core range where there is a special centre in the middle off the ice cream. Dough-ble Whammy is a cookie dough, fudge and chocolate ice cream mix, perfect for a sweet tooth! The cookie dough element feels very American to me. I love cookies, and loved making them when I was a kid but never entertained the idea of eating the unused dough. Perhaps that’s the era I grew up in though, where raw eggs were seen as dangerous and so eating cookie dough was just never considered.
I realise that cookie dough is gaining in popularity as a flavour in its own right, and eggs are much safer now. I have heard of even sweets and chocolate being filled with cookie dough, so this new ice cream is a nice progression. You can see from the top of the tub the split which looks very smart, and means that there is going to be a nice jumble of flavours from the first scoop.
As ever with Ben and Jerrys I left the tub out for a little while before serving, it isn’t soft scoop and isn’t easy to get out of the tub if you try straight from the freezer, but it is worth waiting for! Once I got it into bowls I could see the three distinct sections. The white ice cream was super creamy, and the pieces of cookie dough added a biscuit taste whilst still remaining pleasantly soft. The chocolate ice cream was spot, loads of cocoa taste, sweet and the adding chocolate bits mixed in gave this a good full flavour. The only section I wasn’t that fussed by was the fudge core. The chocolate strength of it was so strong, it was just a bit overpowering. If you mixed a little with one of the other ice creams that flavour worked well together, but on its own the core was a tad darker than I would have liked. It reminded me of drinking chocolate milkshake syrup before its diluted (who hasn’t done that)!
All in all we enjoyed the tub, and the two main ice creams inside were top notch. I just found it a bit of a shame that the new ‘core’ aspect of it was the part that let it down a little.

By Cinabar

Ben & Jerry’s – Fairly Nuts Ice Cream (Sainsbury’s)

I think it is fair to say that one of my favourite flavours is nuts. Ideally nuts with chocolate, but nuts and caramel is by no means a bad thing. This ice cream combines a vanilla based ice cream, with nut clusters, and caramel sauce, so it certainly sounds like a winning combination.
The ice cream is wonderfully creamy, and the caramel is surprisingly flavoursome, without being overly sweet. The best things here though are the nut clusters. They are crunchy as they have sizable pieces of nuts, the coating is gorgeous though, adding a softer texture and a good hint of hazelnut. Wow, Ben and Jerry’s have completely nailed the subtle flavour of nut, caramel and vanilla and made a fantastic ice cream.
Also the ice cream is named ‘Fairly Nuts’ as it is in their fair-trade range too, so there is no guilt in buying it.
I always think that companies that have a specific fair trade range, sound like their other items aren’t fair trade? Or perhaps they are just working towards getting them approved (hope so).

Ben & Jerry’s Phish Food Frozen Yoghurt [Yogurt] Sainsbury’s)

Okay, at first glance you might be thinking that Ben and Jerry have been making Phish Food ice cream for quite a long time, and you would be right. However, this isn’t Phish Food ice cream, this is Phish Food frozen yoghurt. The concept is of course the same as the ice cream, a chocolate base with caramel, marshmallow and dark chocolate fish shaped pieces but lower fat. The chocolate yoghurt is rich and flavoursome, and does properly taste of chocolate. You would not be able to guess that it is in fact yoghurt from the taste, as it is too tasty for that. The extras add nice taste and texture too, there is nothing quite like finding a chocolate fish, and the marshmallow is gooey and generously proportioned.
The one thing I do have to say though is that it is not quite as creamy as regular Phish Food, but it is still superior to many full fat alternatives. It makes a yummy dessert and it is a bonus that it is lower in fat too.

Ben & Jerry’s Baked Alaska Ice Cream (Sainsbury’s)

This ice cream had a ‘new’ symbol on it in my local super market, I suspect it was probably ‘new’ in Summer (the concept of leaving a ‘new’ label on an item past the acceptable ‘newness period’ is something that winds me up)! But anyway I hadn’t tried this flavour before, so it is still new to me!

The ice cream comes with a message about global warming, and is designed to raise awareness about environmental issues. I liked the pun on the packet: “if it’s melted it’s ruined” in reference to the melting ice caps, but also the ice cream!

So on with the ice cream itself… it is a vanilla based ice cream, with white chocolate polar bears (cute) and marshmallow swirls (allegedly). It’s a very mild ice cream, as the flavours are all quite subtle. The vanilla flavour is pleasant and the white chocolate is of a good quality. I can’t really tell you about the marshmallow swirls, as I couldn’t really locate any, they are rather well mixed in! The ice cream is nice enough, but I prefer some of Ben and Jerry’s more exotic flavours.

Finally, isn’t a Baked Alaska supposed to contain meringue?