Target's Exclusive Ben & Jerry's Flavors

For more than a month, Target has been promoting the coming arrival of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream flavors exclusive to Target stores. A few days ago, they finally arrived. The flavors are "Brownie Chew Gooder" which has vanilla caramel ice cream with brownie chunks and a caramel swirl. This is the best of the two new flavors in our opinion. The brownie pieces are very chewy. If you're the kind of person who likes the brownie in the corner of the brownie pan, you'll really like this ice cream.

The second exclusive flavor is called "Berry Voluntary". It has raspberry cheesecake ice cream with a raspberry swirl and white chocolatey chunks. You read that right, white "chocolatey" chunks, not white chocolate chunks. My best guess from looking at the ingredient list is that said chunks are made from coconut oil.

Ben & Jerry's Boston Cream Pie Ice Cream

I picked up this new pint of ice cream the other thinking fondly of the Boston Cream donuts they sell at Dunkin. Out of the gate Steph was not impressed with my flavor selection. Then she tried a spoon. She then declared, "this is good!" and proceeded to start digging around for the cake pieces (which she is prone to do)



I agreed - this is ice cream that is worth trying despite the fact that it has little chocolate bits in it. I'm not a fan of the little chocoloate bits as I think the cold ice cream invariably make them taste kind of waxy. B&J got this one right though.

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Out of these four flavors, I bought Boston Cream Pie. It's pretty darn good if you like boston cream. Erin was disappointed I didn't choose Milk & Cookies, so that'll probably the next flavor we try.

Mission to Marzipan

Ben & Jerry's has released a new flavor called, "Mission to Marzipan". It's a sweet cream ice cream with almond cookies and a marzipan swirl. Erin picked this up when I was in Las Vegas and found it to be weird tasting and basically inedible. I agree that it isn't the best B&J's flavor out there, but didn't have much problem eating the stuff.

We actually had to research marzipan to figure out what it was. Strangely, after reading about it, we're still not sure what it is. Here's the best description we could find:
"Marzipan is a confection consisting primarily of sugar and almond meal. It derives its characteristic flavor from bitter almonds, which constitute 4% to 6% of the total almond content by weight. Some marzipan is also flavored with rosewater."

Mission to Marzipan hits your tongue with a strongly flavored almond extract bite that rings a little weird. Maybe this is how marzipan always tastes. Who knows? At any rate, I'd say this flavor is for marzipan fans only, assuming marzipan fans exist.