Häagen-Dazs - Chocolate Peanut Butter Pretzel

Chocolate Peanut Butter Pretzel - Chocolate Ice Cream with a Peanut Butter Swirl and Crunchy Pretzel Pieces

The next flavor in Häagen-Dazs' City Sweets Collection is called Chocolate Peanut Butter Pretzel.  This features a chocolate ice cream with a swirl of peanut butter and pretzel pieces.  Pretzels are relatively new for Häagen-Dazs.  They use them in one of their Spirits Collection, but it is not present in any of their other standard flavors.  Checking the pretzel tag on my archive, combining these three ingredients (chocolate, peanut butter, pretzels) is not uncommon, although usually a vanilla or peanut butter base is used instead of chocolate.  The closest flavors I can find is Coolhaus's Midnight Munchies.  It will be fun to see how this compares.

Removing the lid, I see the familiar brown color of Häagen-Dazs' chocolate base with darker chocolate pieces (the pretzel pieces appear to be chocolate colored) and perhaps hints of the peanut butter swirl.  Digging in, the chocolate base is the same as their simple Chocolate flavor and it is delicious.  The peanut butter swirl becomes more evident as I dig further down (see photos below).  The peanut butter flavor that it adds is noticeable and well-done.  The chocolate-covered pretzels provide something to chew on and a little bit of salt.  They are not soft but they are not as crunchy as some pretzel mix-ins.  It is hard to get pretzels to stay super-crunchy when it is inside ice cream for long periods of time.

This is a solid and successful chocolate-peanut-butter-pretzel flavor from Häagen-Dazs.  The stars of the show here are the chocolate and the peanut butter -- those flavors simply go very well together.  The pretzels add some textural difference which is fun, but the pretzels were not the main attraction here.  There is nothing not to like about this flavor, but I will be curious to see if it stands out above their other chocolate-and-peanut-butter flavors.