Ben & Jerry's - Peanut Buttah

Peanut Buttah - Peanut Butter Ice Cream with Crunchy Peanut Butter Sugar Bits, Peanut Butter Cookies & a Peanut Butter Cookie Core

Brace yourself peanut butter lovers, we now review "Peanut Buttah", the third and final cookie core flavor which was introduced by Ben & Jerry's earlier of this year.  As mentioned in the other two reviews, a cookie core flavor is similar to the core flavors that were introduced the previous year in that there is a cylindrical non-ice cream "core" in the center of the pint.  Here the cylindrical core is cookie butter which is baked cookies which have been grounded up and made into a spreadable paste -- usually by adding condensed milk.  Peanut Buttah uses cookie butter made from peanut butter cookies.

Reading the list of ingredients, everything is peanut butter.  Usually the core flavors have split base flavors -- one base flavor on each side to provide a variety of complementary tastes  to the core filling -- but not here.  The base is all peanut butter.

Opening the pint, I was not surprised to see a lot of tannish orange.  The cookie butter core was visible right away as was one of the cookie pieces.  There were also little brown specks scattered across the top.  I did not know what these were at first, but these turned out to be the peanut butter sugar bits.  As I ate my way into the pint, the peanut butter base tasted a bit lighter and creamier than the peanut butter bases in other pints.  That could have been just a contrast to the even more peanut buttery fill-ins used here.  The peanut butter cookies were relatively numerous.  They were chewy and had a rich peanut butter flavor.  The cookie core was very thick and peanut buttery.  I googled for peanut butter cookie recipes and I guess there must be some flour and eggs in there too, but it just tasted like peanut butter sugar paste.  The peanut butter sugar bits were small and dispersed evenly thoughout the base.  The sugar bits acted like flavor crystals which injected the occasional sweetness into what would otherwise be a very thick and heavy pint.

I am not a peanut butter junkie, yet I still enjoyed this peanut-butter-loaded pint.  I think the sugar bits rescued it for me.  If you are a peanut butter junkie then you should at least try this flavor so you can compare it to scooping the Skippy right out of the jar.