Ben & Jerry's - Half Baked

Half Baked - Chocolate & Vanilla Ice Creams mixed with Gobs of Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough & Fudge Brownies

The previous two reviewed flavors, Chocolate Fudge Brownie and Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough are among the top five most popular Ben & Jerry's Flavors.  What is number 1?  Half Baked.

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Introduced in 2000 when memories of the 1998 Dave Chapelle stoner comedy flick were more fresh, Half Baked is really just Chocolate Fudge Brownie and Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough ice creams swirled together into a single flavor.

Opening the pint, you see the swirled chocolate and vanilla bases right away on the top.  As you eat into the pint, the chocolate flavor definitely dominates the vanilla.  Vanilla can have such a bright flavor by itself but when you mix it with chocolate, it doesn't really stand a chance.  Then submerged in the pint are gobs of cookie dough and chocolate fudge brownies.  As mentioned in several flavors already, the brownies really are excellent.  Flavorful and full of chocolate plus managing to stay soft while frozen.  The cookie dough was quite good as well, although the chocolate chips in the cookie dough lose a bit of their effect with the chocolate base underneath it.  Still good though.

Combining two popular flavors does not always make another good flavor but here the bases and mix-ins complement each other quite well.  I think I prefer the further complexities of the Peanut Butter Half Baked or the Tonight Dough, but this flavor from fifteen years ago was the one that started the trend towards busy combinations of mix-ins.