Ben & Jerry's - Coffee Toffee Bar Crunch

Coffee Toffee Bar Crunch - Coffee Ice Cream with Fudge-Covered Toffee Pieces

Today we review the second Toffee Bar Crunch flavor - Coffee Toffee Bar Crunch.  Its is actually the original toffee bar flavor introduced back in 1986 -- the vanilla flavor was just introduced in 2012.  I have reviewed them out of order here.  The flavor name did not always rhyme.  It was called Coffee Heath Bar Crunch for many years, but in 2014 they removed the Heath Bar brand name as part of a push to remove GMO's (genetically-modified organisms) from Ben & Jerry's ice cream.

Opening the pint, I see the dark tan color of the coffee base.  There's a little bit of frost on the top.  It has been uncharacteristically humid here of late which may explain that.  There was also a small air pocket which is rare for Ben & Jerry's (I've seen it with other brands) but it is very small and appears to be an anomaly  Eating into the pint, the coffee base is quite noticeable but not too strong.  The toffee bar pieces are very large.  Larger than I remember them being in the vanilla version of the flavor.  I had trouble fitting some of them on the spoon to take the photos.  The toffee bars were quite good though.  Crunchy, but brittle enough not to be jawbreaking.  The coffee and the toffee go well together.  Looking online, I see that toffee-flavoring is not an uncommon coffee flavoring so I guess that makes sense.

I did enjoy this flavor.  It's a bit of a niche flavor in that there are a number of people who don't like coffee and a number of people who don't like toffee, but if you are a nut for coffee and a nut for toffee -- or you just like things that rhyme -- then this is the flavor for you.