Sweet Science - Brown Butter Pecan

Brown Butter Pecan - Brown Sugar and Brown Butter Ice Cream with Toasted Pecans

Today we return to the Saint Paul-based Sweet Science brand for the second of their monthly flavors.  The January flavors are both very popular staple flavors.  The previous pint was Cookies and Cream and this pint is their implementation of a butter pecan which, believe it or not, is the third-most popular ice cream flavor behind chocolate and vanilla.  They call it Brown Butter Pecan because it includes both brown sugar and brown butter in the base.  Brown butter is unsalted butter which is cooked at low heat until it turns brown.  It can be used in both savory dishes and desserts.

Opening the pint, the base color is yellow in color.  A couple of pecans can be seen right away.  Digging in, the ice cream is buttery as expected and I can indeed taste a little brown sugar in it.  Not too much, but enough to notice.  The pecans pieces are distributed throughout the pint.  They are bare, roasted pecans (no coating) and they taste pretty good.  Crunchy and nutty and goes very well with the buttery base as is the case with most butter pecan implemenations.

This is a very good implementation of a butter pecan ice cream.  For the most part, it tastes like butter pecan, so lovers of that popular ice cream will certainly like this.  The twist of using brown butter and adding brown sugar was fairly subtle, but still noticeable.  I eat a lot of ice cream so I appreciate any twists that brands add to make themselves stand out from other implementations but I will admit that this twist is fairly minor.  That's not necessarily bad, though as you don't want to mess too much with a successful flavor like butter pecan.  This pint is very good.  Enjoy.