Sweet Science - Chocolate Peanut Butter

Chocolate Peanut Butter - Milk Chocolate Ice Cream with Ribbons of Peanut Butter

Today we return to the next pint from my recent choose-your-own-four-pack curbside pick-up from Sweet Science Ice Cream in Saint Paul.  I picked it up outside the Keg & Case Market.  The flavor is Chocolate Peanut Butter.  Chocolate and Peanut Butter are an extremely common combination in ice creams.  Sweet Science has done this combination before with a peanut butter base and chocolate mix-ins here and here.  The flavor today flips the switch -- chocolate is the base and peanut butter is the mix-in.  Let's check it out!

Removing the lid, I see the expected brown color of the chocolate base with some of the peanut butter swirls visible on top.  The texture of the top of the pint makes it look quite thick.  Digging in, I taste the milk chocolate right away and the peanut butter swirls are what makes it thick.  As swirls go, this is quite dense and chunky.  It's good peanut butter, but also quite filling!  The combination works quite well and the flavors remain complementary throughout the pint, but I must admit I am getting quite full.  I still managed to finish the pint in one sitting, but it took more effort than normal.

This is a well-done implementation of a chocolate peanut butter combination where the chocolate is the base.  Checking my reviews, the other way around is more common, but I have seen this combination a few times before.  Häagen-Dazs has this exact flavor with the same name while Ample Hills's PB Takes a Dip is quite close (a little chunkier) and Ben & Jerry's has Peanut Butter World (smoother, lighter peanut butter and an extra chocolate cookie swirl).  For the direct comparison, I did like this pint a bit better than Häagen-Dazs.  This Sweet Science pint is richer and more filling.  The other flavors have couple of more ingredients (cups, cookie swirls), so it is harder to compare.  These are all quite rich and decadent flavors, so if give this flavor a try you might want to eat a lighter dinner.