Ben & Jerry's - Karamel Sutra

Karamel Sutra - Chocolate & Caramel Ice Creams with Fudge Chips & a Soft Caramel Core

Karamel Sutra returns the ice cream reviews to the "Core" line of Ben & Jerry's flavors.   In a core flavor, there is a central cylinder of a thick goopy mix-in such as fudge, jam or in this case caramel.  Most of the current line of core flavors was introduced last year, but Karamel Sutra comes from a previous generation of "core concoction" flavors which was introduced way back in 2002.

Opening the pint, you see standard core flavor view, the two bases on each side with the caramel core visible right away on top.   Digging into the pint, the caramel ice cream itself does not have a strong flavor -- but you can definitely tell that it is not vanilla.  The fudge chips are only on the chocolate side and they had a bit of a crunch to that side of the pint.  The caramel core itself is excellent.  It is thick, but still soft and gooey.  The standard way eating a core pint is to "eat around" the core.  That works really well this time but the caramel is quite good by itself.  My only quibble here may be why they chose a caramel base instead of vanilla for one of the halves of the pint  Vanilla, caramel & fudge has been a winning combination in the past and you could see this being another successful permutation of that.  

A successful core flavor nonetheless, I can see how this one survived multiple generations of core flavors as its the standard caramel core flavor.  It'll be interesting to see how this compared to the salted caramel core flavor which is slated to be reviewed in the next couple of months.