Magnum Double Raspberry

Magnum is entering the new ice cream for the new year fray with their new Double Raspberry bars.  These bars are

Raspberry ice cream dipped in a chocolatey coating, raspberry sauce with other natural flavors, and milk chocolate.

I didn't love Double Peanut Butter, Magnum's 2015 new flavor, so I was a little hesitant to pick up Double Raspberry, but decided to do it when I saw they were on sale.  I'm glad I did, as I feel like Magnum is back on track with the Double Raspberry bars after an off year in 2015.

These reminded me a bit of the divine Haagen-Dazs Pomegranate Dark Chocolate Bars (which at one point were limited edition, but now look like they are part of the main line) with the tart berry flavor against the rich chocolate.

The raspberry ice cream gave off a mild, but present raspberry and cream vibe, and was the perfect ice cream bar texture.  It was airy enough that I could bite through it, as opposed to very dense ice cream where it is difficult to separate a bite.  That, combined with a crumbly hard chocolate shell, often leads to disaster.  It was not so airy that it felt low quality.

The raspberry sauce had a tarter, zingier raspberry flavor, which was a really nice contrast to the raspberry-and-cream base.

The chocolate was great, as it always is in Magnum bars.  It was a milk chocolate, but a very dark and rich milk chocolate.  Here, milk chocolate was definitely not synonymous with lower quality.

The new-for-2016 Magnum Double Raspberry bars are definitely worth picking up!