Ben & Jerry's - Confetti Cake

Confetti Cake - Vanilla Cake Batter Ice Cream with Sprinkles, Cake Pieces & Vanilla Frosting Swirls

A new Ben & Jerry's flavor!  They've cycled their exclusive flavor with Walmart retiring the Pecan Sticky Buns flavor in exchange for a new cake-based flavor called Confetti Cake.  Long time readers will know that Ben & Jerry's is the brand that started it all for me.  It's been a while since there has been a new flavor and it is nice to come 'home'.

Opening the pint shows the light color of the vanilla base with a few small cake pieces visible right away and some purple sprinkles also in view.  Digging in, its a relatively sweet pint as the frosting swirls are blended into the base ice cream.  They were blended together pretty well, it was hard to tell them apart most of the time.  The cake pieces were of decent size and were generously dispersed throughout the pint.  They were soft and cakey despite being frozen and immersed in ice cream.  The sprinkles added some additional doses of concentrated sweetness but otherwise their impact was mainly visual.  

All in all, it was another successful cake flavor.  If you have a sweet tooth and like a cake-based flavor then this is a good pint for you.  It was similar to the Cake My Day limited batch flavor from last year.  Cake My Day had a raspberry swirl instead of sprinkles.  I guess which one you would like better depends on how much you like raspberry -- some people have strong opinions on raspberry.  If you liked the raspberry there, you might miss not having it here, but if raspberry is not your thing you may look forward to a cake-based flavor without it.  It is interesting that these cake-based flavors are common in these limited batch flavors.  I wonder if they're experimenting with the right mix before they promote one to full time.