Three Twins - Butterscotch Pecan

Butterscotch Pecan - Butterscotch Ice Cream with Pecans

The northern California-based Three Twins brand makes todays flavor: Butterscotch Pecan.  It is a twist on the classic butter pecan flavor.  Butterscotch contains butter, of course, but it also contains brown sugar.  It is usually cooked to the "soft crack" stage, though, (I love these candy cooking terms) which tends to make it thick and taffy-like in consistency.  I'm curious as to how they'll smooth that into a base ice cream.  The front of the pint says "if we never come up with a better flavor, I'm sure you'll understand why".  So they seem to like it.  I can't wait to dig in.

After removing the lid, the base ice cream is a light peach color.  One of the pecans is visible already.  The first spoonful is lighter and fluffier than I was expecting.  The butterscotch flavor is on the mild side, but you could tell that it was butterscotch and not caramel.  The consistency was lighter than I expected.  A lot of the premium brands pride themselves on being extra thick and rich, but this pint went down easy.  Almost like a gelato, but it was still very fluffy like an ice cream.  It was quite good.  The pecans were plain (no coating) and distributed throughout the pint.

This was a very good pint of ice cream.  Butterscotch lovers should know what to expect here.  There are no thick swirls or chunks of butterscotch itself, but the way the butterscotch flavoring was worked into the base ice cream was very well done.  It was closer to a butter pecan with butterscotch flavor than a pralines and cream with butterscotch.  With that in mind, I really liked it.