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| Boots on the Moooo'n - A Universe of Milk Chocolate Ice Cream with Fudge Cows & Toffee Meteor Clusters Orbiting a Sugar Cookie Dough Core |
Ben & Jerry's has released another Netflix-themed flavor called Boots on the Moooo'n! I was not expecting a new one so soon. The first Netflix flavor was about the streaming service itself and is called Netflix & Chilll'd and flavors after that are limited batch releases based on specific Netflix shows. The first show to get a flavor was Nailed It! with its Chip Happens flavor. Boots on the Moooo'n is the second show-themed flavor and is based on the Space Force comedy with Steve Carell. Looking at the flavor description, this appears to be a "core" flavor where a thick mix-in occupies a central cylinder of the pint with ice cream and additional mix-ins surrounding it. Here, the central core is sugar cookie dough, the base ice cream is chocolate and there are additional toffee pieces (in the shape of meteor clusters) and fudge pieces (in the shape of cows). Why cows? Maybe a Hey Diddle Diddle reference (The cow jumped over the moon)? Or maybe it's just because it is Ben & Jerry's and they love cows. Ben & Jerry's has used a sugar cookie dough core before with Sweet Like Sugar but other flavors were totally different (almond and cherry). Let's see how this all blends together.
Removing the lid, I see the brown color of the chocolate base with some of the sugar cookie dough core visible on top. I have discussed in the past about how Ben & Jerry's is delivers chocolate much better though their fudge chips and chunks than their chocolate ice cream base. That is definitely the case here. The fudge cows are great which a strong flavor but the chocolate base is just decent. I encounter the toffee pieces next. These are interesting. I don't think I have seen another Ben & Jerry flavor with this type of toffee before. They are tasty and crunchy but not in a jawbreaking way like in their signature imitation-heath-bar flavors (here and here). They are almost chewy and crunchy at the same time. The sugar cookie dough is gritty and chewy like it is in the Sweet Like Sugar flavor but it is interesting to see how it interacts with all the chocolate. Sugar cookies do not have a very strong flavor themselves and blending but I am not used to them being mixed with chocolate. Usually sugar cookies are served plain or with a decorative vanilla frosting. It works though. Next time I have sugar cookies, I might try adding chocolate frosting.
This is an interesting and eclectic limited batch flavor from Ben & Jerry's. There's a lot of different things going on here, mixing sugar cookie dough and chocolate, a new chewy-crunchy toffee mix-in plus the old reliable fudge chips (in the shape of cows). On the whole it is fairly good it can have a bit of a "kitchen sink" effect where there's so many ingredients that it is hard to enjoy each one individually. But sometimes one in in the mood for that type of flavor. I am looking forward to seeing if this toffee mix-ins returns in future flavors.
Removing the lid, I see the brown color of the chocolate base with some of the sugar cookie dough core visible on top. I have discussed in the past about how Ben & Jerry's is delivers chocolate much better though their fudge chips and chunks than their chocolate ice cream base. That is definitely the case here. The fudge cows are great which a strong flavor but the chocolate base is just decent. I encounter the toffee pieces next. These are interesting. I don't think I have seen another Ben & Jerry flavor with this type of toffee before. They are tasty and crunchy but not in a jawbreaking way like in their signature imitation-heath-bar flavors (here and here). They are almost chewy and crunchy at the same time. The sugar cookie dough is gritty and chewy like it is in the Sweet Like Sugar flavor but it is interesting to see how it interacts with all the chocolate. Sugar cookies do not have a very strong flavor themselves and blending but I am not used to them being mixed with chocolate. Usually sugar cookies are served plain or with a decorative vanilla frosting. It works though. Next time I have sugar cookies, I might try adding chocolate frosting.
This is an interesting and eclectic limited batch flavor from Ben & Jerry's. There's a lot of different things going on here, mixing sugar cookie dough and chocolate, a new chewy-crunchy toffee mix-in plus the old reliable fudge chips (in the shape of cows). On the whole it is fairly good it can have a bit of a "kitchen sink" effect where there's so many ingredients that it is hard to enjoy each one individually. But sometimes one in in the mood for that type of flavor. I am looking forward to seeing if this toffee mix-ins returns in future flavors.
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