Ben & Jerry's - Peanut Butter Fudge Core

Peanut Butter Fudge Core - Chocolate & Peanut Butter Ice Creams with Mini Peanut Butter Cups & a Peanut Butter Fudge Core

Peanut Butter Fudge is a standard 'core' flavor from Ben & Jerry's which was introduced with most of the rest of the core flavors in 2014.  As you may recall a 'core' flavor features a solid cylinder of am unswirled goopy fill-in such as caramel, jam, cookie butter, or in this case fudge.  Here the core is listed as 'peanut butter fudge' so it will be interesting to see what exactly that is.  I wonder if they do the core flavors at the scoop shops.

The top of the pint looks a lot like the other core flavors.  The two ice creams are on opposite sides and the fudge core is visible right away.  Digging in, the peanut butter base is a little bit nutty, but not overpowering.  The chocolate on the other side was the standard chocolate.  The mini peanut butter cups were mainly on the peanut butter side.  When the cups are that small, the chocolate coating makes up a larger percentage of the nugget but you still got a burst of peanut butter flavor as you bit into one.  The peanut butter fudge core tasted mostly like fudge.  Its possible there was a hint of peanut butter in there, but chocolate was by far the dominant flavor.  It did have a thicker and slightly doughy consistency to it which was in contrast to the hazelnut core which had sort of a thick syrup consistency but flavor-wise it was basically chocolate.  The core of fudge was still tasty.  I did my standard eat-around-the-core method where I tried to get a bit of the core into each spoonful, but because of this, chocolate was far and away the dominant flavor of the pint.

Overall, it was a satisfying pint, but peanut butter lovers may be slightly disappointed that peanut butter plays a supporting role.  The name of the flavor is a bit misleading.  Amongst all of the chocolate and peanut butter permutations, this one is probably three parts chocolate and one part peanut butter.