McConnell's - Double Peanut Butter Chip

Double Peanut Butter Chip - Central Coast, grass-fed milk and cream meets savory, salty nuttiness in this especially well-balanced blend of rich, creamy, salty peanut butter folded into smooth and indulgent peanut butter ice cream. Then comes the capper. Copious amounts of bittersweet chocolate. Peanut butter ice cream lovers? We've heard your pleas.

We return to the Santa Barbara-based McConnell's for a peanut butter-themed pint: Double Peanut Butter Chip.  As with other McConnell's flavors the simple description reads a lot like romance copy.  The short description says it has peanut butter in the base, a peanut butter mix-in (hence the 'double') and a bittersweet chocolate mix-in as well.  Sounds good.

The back of the carton contains real romance copy.  I love it when these passages go on wild tangents but here they're just describing the flavor.

On to the ice cream!  Removing the lid shows lots of peanut butter and chocolate pieces on top already.  Eating my way into the pint, the peanut butter very crunchy and flavorful and yes you can taste a little bit of salt in there.  In other McConnell's flavors, the bittersweet chocolate has a bit of a melt-in-your-mouth type consistency, but here these are flakes with a bit of a crunch.  So, both mix-ins are a bit crunchy.  The carton says that the base ice cream is peanut butter flavored, but I didn't notice it that much.  No matter, though, as there are so many crunchy peanut butter pieces that I did not feel like it needed more peanut butter.

I liked this flavor.  Simple, but well done.  Chocolate and peanut butter is a classic combination.   I enjoyed this flavor much more than Peanut Butter Cup.  If you're in the mood for smooth with more of a chocolatey bias, you could go for Peanut Butter World but if you like your chocolate and peanut butter mix-ins on the crunchy side with a peanut butter bias, this is the way to go.