There are Ben & Jerry's flavors with a vanilla or a chocolate ice cream base (both very common), and then there are flavors with a coffee or peanut butter ice cream base (I'm in heaven!)... and then there is Rockin' Blondies. The official description of this Ben & Jerry's flavor reads, "Buttery brown sugar ice cream with blonde brownies and butterscotch toffee flakes." Not just brown sugar ice cream, buttery brown sugar ice cream. Sounds like it will melt in my mouth just as quickly and as sweetly as a pat of butter on a steaming stack of pancakes. But I must admit that I was somewhat disappointed to find that Ben & Jerry's brown sugar ice cream tastes suspiciously like their rich, delicious vanilla ice cream, with just a hint of something extra. The flavor is sweet, creamy and utterly enjoyable, combining quite well with the butterscotch toffee. And I personally appreciate the subtlety of the butterscotch flavoring, since I really don't like butterscotch at all. But in the end, this is one of those ice cream flavors that ends up being too subtle, with barely a difference between what is supposed to be "buttery brown sugar" and your plain jane vanilla ice cream. Maybe my expectations are too high, but Rockin' Blondies just doesn't deliver the kind of unique brown sugar flavor that I was expecting and anticipating with a fair bit of excitement.
Another important thing to note is that before I sampled Rockin' Blondies, I had been thinking that if this turned out to be the butterscotch/blondie version of Ben & Jerry's Chocolate Fudge Brownie flavor (one of my favorites), I could pack up and go home right now. This review would write itself. But Rockin' Blondies is a different type of experience from Chocolate Fudge Brownie, not only in terms of flavor, but also in terms of chunk size and "mouth feel" (a food industry term that means exactly what you would expect it to mean - how a food feels in your mouth and how its texture contributes to the overall enjoyment of that food).
Special note: this flavor is carried exclusively at Target.
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