Milkjam Creamery - Peanut Butter Moose Tracks

Peanut Butter Moose Tracks - Non-Dairy Peanut Butter Ice Cream with House-Made Peanut Butter Cups and Chococate Peanut Butter Fudge Swirls

 

Today's flavor from the south Minneapolis-based Milkjam Creamery is the second in the American Classics series (instagram link here) and is called Peanut Butter Moose Tracks (instagram link here).  From a previous review, "moose tracks" is what the Michigan-based Denali Ice Cream calls the way they do their chocolate chips.  Here, Milkjam puts their own twist on the flavor.  First, this is a non-dairy/vegan flavor.  It is a peanut butter, almond milk and coconut base.  Next they have house-made peanut butter cups -- not the standard one that other flavors use.  They also have chocolate-peanut butter swirls as an additional mix-in.  Let's check it out.

Removing the lid, the non-dairy peanut butter base has a light beige color to it.  Digging in, I can tell from the texture that is is non-dairy -- it is not quite as soft.  Peanut butter is usually easier to implement as a non-dairy flavor because the peanut butter adds its own creaminess, but I can still tell the difference here.  The flavor is quite good.  It is mostly a peanut butter flavor, the almond and coconut flavors are mainly just accents here.  As I dig down, I encounter some chocolate pieces which are tasty.  Then I encounter some small peanut butter pieces and they are also pretty good.  Then I see what the source of these pieces are -- these really nice house-made chocolate-covered peanut butter "cups".  Unlike the traditional cups, they chocolate layer is a bit thinner and there is no emphasis on requiring that the chocolate completely cover the peanut butter.  That makes for a "cup" with a higher peanut-butter content.  They reminded me a bit of the excellent house-made cups in Ample Hill's PB Wins the Cup flavor which uses the same philosophy of extra peanut butter which is not completely covered in chocolate.  They are delicious.

This is a very well done non-dairy peanut butter and chocolate flavor from Milkjam Creamery.  For non-dairy fans who like peanut butter this is a must.  It is very delicious and these house-made peanut butter cups are excellent.  Dairy fans may quibble a bit with the slightly gritty sorbet-like texture of the base, but the flavor is still good and I would still recommend it for peanut butter fans.