Ben & Jerry's - Peanut Butter Cup

Peanut Butter Cup - Peanut Butter Ice Cream with Peanut Butter Cups

Peanut Butter Cup is one of the older flavors in the Ben & Jerry's line.   It originated in the original scoop shops back in the 1980s.  Jerry used to buy whatever candy was on sale and mix it into the ice cream.  Reese's Peanut Butter Cups was such a popular mix in a the scoop shops that it was promoted to a full-time pint flavor in 1989 and has remained a favorite flavor ever since.  Its a very simple flavor, peanut butter ice cream base with peanut butter bups mixed in.

Opening the pint, you see the peanut butter base with a few of the chocolate-covered cups visible on top.  As I at my way into the pint, I was surprised by how large the peanut butter cups were.  They are full-sized cups!  I had gotten used to them using smaller cups in other flavors.  I don't think they use Reese's anymore so that they can remain GMO-free and fair trade and all that, but its about the same size and as the Reese's cups that you get at the store.  The cups are broken up a bit -- mostly quarters but a few halves (see picture) and some smaller sized.  As with other peanut butter flavors the base has a noticeable peanut butter flavor but is not too heavy or overpowering and serves as a good background for the heavier mix-ins.

There are so many permutations of peanut butter & chocolate in the Ben & Jerry's line these days and its fun to think that this is probably the one that started them all.  I can see why this has been so popular over the years, but to be honest some of the newer chocolate and peanut butter concoctions have been even more flavorful for me.  Peanut Butter World, Peanut Butter Half Baked, and I am very curious about the Peanut Butter Fudge Core flavor which is slated to be reviewed in the next week or so.  Still, if you are a fan of peanut butter cups, then you should try this (and you probably already have).