McConnell's - Peanut Butter & Jelly Sando

Peanut Butter & Jelly Sando - Sweet Cream with Chunks of Salty Peanut Butter, Swirls of Strawberry Jam and Hunks of House-made White Bread

 

The fourth and final pint from my recent shipment from the Santa Barbara-based McConnell's Fine Ice Creams is called Peanut Butter & Jelly Sando.  The flavor is a limited batch flavor that has been rotated off their menu since I ordered it, but here is a link to a California TV station's article about the flavor.  I bought it online and it is not available in Minnesota grocery stores.  The flavor has a sweet cream base with swirls of peanut butter and strawberry jam and pieces of white bread.  I have had a few peanut butter and jelly themed pints from Graeter's, Ben & Jerry's and Ample Hills -- all either limited-batch or merchant-specific releases that are no longer available.  Today's flavor from McConnell's is also a limited release and it's the first one to actually include bread with the PB&J.  I can't want to see how that turns out.

Opening the lid and peeling back the seal, I see big sections of the swirl of strawberry jam on the top of the pint.  Beautiful.  Digging in, I quickly encounter the peanut butter chunks as well.  These chunks are small in size but deliver quite a bit of salty peanut butter flavor.  The strawberry jam is delcicious.  It tastes a lot like the strawberry used in their recent Seavee's Sprinkled with Pride flavor.  The white bread mix-ins are quite interesting.  The bread is very soft and blends in with the base flavor-wise but provides a bit of a soft and chewy texture.  Checking the ingredient list, it looks like cream-cheese is in in the bread which I am guessing helps give it its fresh and doughy texture?  Anyhow, it's quite good.

This is an excellent peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich flavor from McConnell's.  Peanut butter and jelly go really well together and the delicious strawberry jam here complements the strong-flavored peanut butter chunks quite well.  The hunks of white bread I find to be quite a fun addition to the mix.  They don't provide a lot of flavor (neither does white bread) but it's adds a bit of authenticity to the mix.  Like all the other peanut butter and jelly flavors, this flavor has been rotated off the menu already.  It is an appealing combination, though.  Someone should make this a regular flavor.