Here’s some Ben & Jerry’s ice creams that I’ve enjoyed and don’t hear much about.
Some have more vocal fans like Impretzively Fudged, Peanut Butter World, Strawberry Cheesecake, The Tonight Dough, Topped Raspberry Cheesecake. But I still think they deserve more attention.
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Especially Peanut Butter World (Target exclusive) is such an amazing flavor. Truly one of my favorites. I recommend for those who like especially dense ice cream.
Topped Raspberry Cheesecake is one I’ve ignored for a long time as I didn’t think I liked Ben and Jerry’s white chocolate ganache top. But I think it works in this pint because its sweeter flavor is balanced by the less sweet flavors of the pint. A natural tasting cheesecake ice cream (not artificial at all), and a natural tasting, country style raspberry swirl.
Mint Chocolate Cookie is probably my favorite version of mint chocolate ice cream. Graeter’s Mint Cookies & Cream is very similar and slightly better. But Ben & Jerry’s is much more available and also does a bang up job. I had their dairy free version which was amazingly just like ice cream. I assume the dairy version is just as good.
Vanilla is Ben and Jerry’s plainest flavor. Nothing but vanilla. But it’s spoon bending-ly super dense like Peanut Butter World. It’s a gentle flavor like the vanilla of Milk & Cookies. And tastes like really good milk similar to that flavor. Perhaps Milk & Cookies is the better pick because it has mix ins. But Vanilla is nice to eat slowly and just let the milk flavor melt in your mouth.
Peanut Butter Half Baked and The Tonight Dough are similar in that they are both half and half chocolate and vanilla. And both have peanut butter cookie dough, which might be my favorite Ben and Jerry’s mix in. But the peanut butter cookie dough makes more sense in Peanut Butter Half Baked, and there’s more of it. But I like The Tonight Dough because no other Ben & Jerry’s pint really has enough cookie crumble swirl for me. Even Milk & Cookies or Topped Chocolate Milk & Cookies. But it’s thick and flavorful in this pint.
Milk & Cookies gets a lot of love. But no one really talks about Topped Chocolate Milk & Cookies. This is like a chocolate bonanza that has all the texture that I didn’t get in Chocolate Therapy. Chocolate ice cream, chocolate chips, chocolate cookie swirl, chocolate ganache. A nice salute to chocolate.
Chocolate Therapy, Mint Chocolate Chance, Impretzively Fudged are all simple flavors of base ice cream + mix in that I think are done well. I think these would be great if building a trio of different flavors.
Churray for Churros is a unique, simple flavor that Ben & Jerry’s does better than Haagen Dazs. If you want a simple cinnamon ice cream, this is great.
Strawberry Cheesecake doesn’t taste much like strawberry or cheesecake. But it has the most amazing, massive graham cracker swirl that I loved to eat.
by Hallelujah289
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I forgot to mention Mousse Pie. A good all around flavor that’s a different chocolate than usual.
It’s supposed to be mousse pie flavor and it does taste like that. But imo it also tastes like whoppers
I didn’t think any of these were overrated.
How r all of these underrated?!
I can’t trust an underrated list with more than one topped flavor.
the churro one is my favourite
Man I gotta try chocolate therapy
I haven’t tried the churros one but there’s no way it beats cinnamon buns. I still can’t believe they got rid of it
The Churros one is so good. I wish they still had Cinnamon Buns but this is close.
I don’t see enough people talking about Impretzively Fudged and I have such a hard time finding it. So good!!
I just bought snowcone anygood?
If I recall correctly the original chocolate therapy had cake pieces in it which I feel like I liked better.
My take:
churray for churros is just a worse version of Oats of this Swirled (my personal favorite).
All the mint flavors don’t hold anything against Thick Mint.
The impretzilvely fudged is extremely good. I just polished off a pint last night.
They used to have an oatmeal cookie one that was insanely delicious.
I LOVE the tonight dough
Churray for Churros is so good, I wish cinnamon ice cream was more common I think it might be my favorite.
Churray for Churros is so good, I wish cinnamon ice cream was more common I think it might be my favorite.
I love Ben & Jerry’s strawberry cheesecake! It’s a perfect mix of ice cream and cheesecake imo. And the crunchy graham cracker parts are in there a perfect amount. You get a little of everything in every bite and it doesn’t feel stingy with any key ingredient.
And just recently realized they have it in non dairy and although it’s not *quite* as good as the dairy version, it’s really good, it’s close to the original, and it’s better than a lot of other ice cream, dairy or non-dairy, out there.
Huh. I just saw Peanut Butter World at my local grocery store this morning, so not sure if it is a Target exclusive anymore….
I loved Impretzively Fudged the first couple times I had it but now I think it’s too rich for me. Huge fan of Peanut Butter World and Strawberry Cheesecake, though!
Peanut Butter World is TOP TIER. Also B&J makes the BEST strawberry cheesecake ice cream on the market; I will die on that hill any day.
Americans Dream not being here is fine since that just means it’s not underrated. Everyone is aware of its greatness!
Chocolate Therapy and Tonight Dough are top notch. Regular choices when we visit the B&G in my town