Häagen-Dazs - Peanut Butter Salted Fudge

Peanut Butter Salted Fudge - Peanut Butter Ice Cream with Swirls of Salted Fudge and Chocolate Covered Peanuts

The next new Häagen-Dazs for 2017 is Peanut Butter Salted Fudge.  This appears to be a standard combination of chocolate and peanut butter which is pretty common across all brands.  It turns out that Häagen-Dazs already has a classic flavor with this combination called Chocolate Peanut Butter.  How is this flavor different?  Well, the classic flavor is a chocolate ice cream with a peanut butter swirl, the new flavor is a peanut butter ice cream with a chocolate swirls -- plus chocolate covered peanuts.  So the new flavor is sort of the old flavor turned on its head.  I'm looking forward to checking it out.

After removing the lid, the top of the pint shows the expected creamy color of the peanut butter base but with lots of fine chocolate swirls.  It is an almost marbled look.  The peanut butter is relatively mild.  It does taste like peanut butter but it has a light texture to it.  Some peanut butter bases are quite heavy, not this one.  The fudge swirls have a soft texture to them.  They were billed as being salted fudge but they did not seem noticeably salty.  The crunch is saved for the mix-ins.  The chocolate covered peanuts are quite good, I like peanuts.  Extra pictures were taken of these which you can see below.  The nuts created a little bit of a candy bar sensation but it not as much as pints which also contained gooier chocolate or caramel.

All in all, it was a pretty good pint.  It is hard to go wrong with the chocolate-peanut butter combination.  It is not quite my favorite of that combination.  For this combination, I prefer McConnell's and Jeni's, but those are also twice the price and the way that chocolate and peanut butter are mixed is a bit different for each.  I am always amazed at how many ways similar ingredients can be combined in ice cream.  If this particular combination intrigues you, then check it out.