Ben & Jerry's - Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough - Vanilla Ice Cream with Gobs of Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough

Another old flavor reviewed to make up for the noted biased towards new or rare flavors in the reviews.  This week it is Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough which dates all the way back to 1984 and is still one of Ben & Jerry's most popular flavors.

I notice that Ben & Jerry's has recently temporarily renamed the flavor "I Dough, I Dough" in scoop shops in order to celebrate recent Supreme Court rulings supporting marriage equality:

http://www.benjerry.com/values/issues-we-care-about/marriage-equality/i-dough-i-dough

This was pure coincidence.  I had already purchased and eaten the pint before I noticed the link above, but I pass it along for your information.

Opening the pint, you see the white vanilla base on the top with a couple of hints of the cookie dough below.  Eating into the pint, you do indeed taste a strong vanilla flavor in the base.  Then you encounter the gobs of cookie dough.  They are soft and sugary.  The chocolate chips are flavorful as well and I note that several of the chocolate chips seem to have escaped the gobs of dough and were immersed alone in the vanilla.  I did not mind.  I wonder, has anyone ever tried to back the cookie dough that is used in these ice creams?

By modern standards, there did not seem to be quite as much dough as I expected but I think that might be due to the fact that its such an old flavor.  So many of the newer flavors are super-stuffed with mix-ins.  But a recent article by buzz-feed has found that Ben & Jerry's uses more dough than other popular cookie dough flavors:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/maitlandquitmeyer/which-ice-cream-brand-actually-has-the-most-cookie-dough#.sleK8OQElz

So I was wrong.  It is a very doughy pint which cookie dough lovers continue to love, but I guess I have graduated towards even more stuffed pints like The Tonight Dough or Half Baked or one of the cookie core flavors.