Milkjam Creamery - Butter Pecan

Butter Pecan - Brown Butter Ice Cream with Caramelized Pecans and Butterscotch Sauce

 

Milkjam Creamery's July flavors are out.  Their theme this month is "American Classics, Reimagined" (instagram link here).  I went down to their scoop shop on Lyndale Avenue in South Minneapolis to pick them up.  This will be interesting because Milkjam is one of those places which specializes in off-beat flavor combinations with interesting ingredients so although all four flavors this month are fairly standard at most other ice cream parlors, I don't think I've seen most of them at Milkjam.  The first flavor is Butter Pecan (instagram link here).  I just reviewed a butter pecan from Grand Ole Creamery last week (review here).  There, I briefly mention other butter pecan or brown butter pecan implementations from Graeter's, Talenti, Häagen-Dazs and Sweet Science.  Here, Milkjam jazzes up the mix by caramelizing the pecans and adding butterscotch sauce.  That reminds me of a butterscotch pecan flavor I had from the now defunct Three Twins a while back.  Let's see what Milkjam does with this classic flavor.

Removing the lid, the base ice cream has an yellowish-white color to it and I can see a couple of the the pecan mix-ins right away.  Digging in, I can taste notes of the caramelized flavors (brown butter and butterscotch) but it is fairly subtle.  The pecan mix-ins are dispersed throughout the pint.  These are crunchy and delicious.  They is a little bit of a coating to them, but like in the base the effect is fairly subtle.  These are not candied pecans and there's no ribbons of caramel here.  Still, the effect is delicious and this is a bit more flavorful than the usual butter pecan implementation.

This is a solid, implementation of a slightly jazzed up butter pecan ice cream.  The flavor description made it sound like the flavor is more exotic than it is.  The butterscotch is pretty well blended into the base and the caramelized coating on the pecans is fairly subtle -- though maybe this effect varies from batch to batch?  Traditional butter pecan fans will enjoy this flavor.