Ample Hills - PB Takes a Dip

PB Takes a Dip - Chocolate Ice Cream with a Peanut Butter Swirl and Peanut Butter Cup Pieces

Today is the final pint from my four-pint shipment from the Brooklyn-based Ample Hills Creamery.  This one is called PB Takes a Dip which is a clear flip on their popular PB Wins the Cup flavor.  Both flavors contain peanut butter cup pieces.  The original wins-the-cup flavor uses a vanilla base while the newer takes-a-dip flavor uses a chocolate base.  This flavor was added alongside Fluffernutter Fudge to their main line last fall.  This should be fun.  (Note to Minnesota readers that this is only available online and in areas that carry Ample Hills (NYC, SoCal, Florida).  This is not carried by grocery stores in the Twin Cities.)

Removing the lid, the ice cream is a very deep brown flavor -- it looks super chocolatey.  Digging in, it is very chocolatey -- that said, this is Ample Hills and their standard recipe includes adding skim milk powder to the base and I can definitely taste that as well.  It is a very milky chocolate.  It's not long before I encounter the peanut butter.  There is a lot of it!  The peanut butter cups here are the same ones used in PB Wins the Cup and they are excellent.  The best part of these cups is that they do not try to fully cover the peanut butter -- that allows for a much higher ratio of peanut butter to chocolate.  The extra peanut butter is extra welcome here as the base has so much chocolate.  This is delicious.

This is a great pint of ice cream!  I wouldn't have guessed that Ample Hills could match their PB Wins the Cup flavor but this arguably has.  The rich and decadent chocolate and peanut butter combination reminded me of the excellent Target-specific Ben & Jerry's flavor Peanut Butter World except this flavor also has extra large peanut butter chunks in it.  This likely won't replace PB Wins the Cup.  If you want mostly peanut butter with a little chocolate in a lighter vanilla base, that's the way to go.  Today's flavor is for chocolate lovers.  Enjoy.