Milkjam Creamery - Violent Skye

Violent Skye - Violent Skye - Toasted Coconut with Peanuts, Chili Pepper and Nutter Butter Cookies

Today we return to the Minneapolis-based Milkjam Creamery for a flavor that they have added this year called Violent Skye.  Their terse flavor description simply says "peanuts, nutter butters, chili, toasted coconut (and it's vegan )".  The packaging does not list any further details on the ingredients.  The nutter butter is a brand of peanut butter sandwich cookie, where both the cookie and the creme filling are peanut butter flavored and the cookie itself is shaped like a peanut.  As for the flavor name, I am a bit stumped.  I can usually google to find the pop culture reference even if it was not already familiar to me, but I couldn't find anything.  It sounds like the name of an old movie or maybe the name of a song.  Regardless, the flavor should be interesting.

Opening the pint, I see the off-white color of the peanut butter coconut base.  Some of the nutty mix-ins are visible as well as one of the pieces of chili.  Digging in, the ice cream has a bit of a gritty texture which is not uncommon in vegan implementation.  The flavor is good, though.  It is an interesting mix of a peanuts and coconut.  There are no chunks or strands of coconut but I can taste the coconut flavor.  The chili is very mild.  I checked with someone whose spice tolerance is not as high as mine and they agreed.  The chili is here just for a touch of mild spiciness every now and then.  The nutter butter cookie chunks and peanut pieces are fairly numerous inside and give something crunchy to chew on.  It is a relatively sweet flavor mix.  Something with this much peanuts and peanut butter could have gotten really rich and heavy, but enough sweet coconut milk is in the mix to keep that from happening.

I enjoyed this pint. Despite their namesake flavor containing three types of milk, Milkjam actually specializes in vegan flavors.  They don't focus on exactly mimicking the texture of dairy cream -- as I mentioned above, this pint is a bit on the gritty side -- but they come up with good non-dairy flavor blends.