Haagen-Dazs Non-Dairy Dark Chocolate Crunchy Peanut Butter TRIO (NEW!)
Haagen-Dazs is currently at the top of the grocery-store-ice-cream-brand-starts-making-non-dairy-ice-cream game. That is a very specific game with basically only two participants: Ben and Jerry's and Haagen-Dazs. All kidding aside, Haagen-Dazs' non-dairy ice creams, which they introduced last year, are actually quite tasty, and not just tasty-for-non-dairy-tasty. Boy, I'm really into hyphens today. This year, Haagen-Dazs introduced two non-dairy TRIO flavors.
About Crunchy Peanut Butter, Haagen-Dazs says
Layers of smooth peanut butter brimming with chocolate-covered peanuts are stacked between rich, velvety chocolate and sheets of crispy dark chocolate for a delightfully textured non-dairy experience.
The peanut butter 'ice cream' has a nice, round, full texture. (Cornstarch will do that!) It has a pretty strong peanut butter flavor with a nice balance between salty and sweet. The peanut butter flavor was strong enough that I could taste it against the crunchy chocolate layers.
I am a huge fan of mixing dark and light chocolate. The dark chocolate vs. light chocolate debate can be quite polarizing, so its easy to forget that THEY CAN MIX! The bitter notes from the dark chocolate and the smooth, sweet, creamy notes of the milk chocolate combine to make a more layered and complex flavor than either dark or milk chocolate would have alone.
In my last two reviews of TRIO flavors, I bemoaned a lack of balance. The chocolate-covered peanuts convinced me that the TRIO flavors are missing mix-ins! I still think there should be fewer crunchy layers let the ice cream base shine through, but the chocolate covered peanuts united the flavors of the base and layers. It gave an extra pop of salty peanut taste and a more brittle, sharp crunch than the chocolate layers.
I give this š¦š¦š¦/4
About Crunchy Peanut Butter, Haagen-Dazs says
Layers of smooth peanut butter brimming with chocolate-covered peanuts are stacked between rich, velvety chocolate and sheets of crispy dark chocolate for a delightfully textured non-dairy experience.
The peanut butter 'ice cream' has a nice, round, full texture. (Cornstarch will do that!) It has a pretty strong peanut butter flavor with a nice balance between salty and sweet. The peanut butter flavor was strong enough that I could taste it against the crunchy chocolate layers.
I am a huge fan of mixing dark and light chocolate. The dark chocolate vs. light chocolate debate can be quite polarizing, so its easy to forget that THEY CAN MIX! The bitter notes from the dark chocolate and the smooth, sweet, creamy notes of the milk chocolate combine to make a more layered and complex flavor than either dark or milk chocolate would have alone.
In my last two reviews of TRIO flavors, I bemoaned a lack of balance. The chocolate-covered peanuts convinced me that the TRIO flavors are missing mix-ins! I still think there should be fewer crunchy layers let the ice cream base shine through, but the chocolate covered peanuts united the flavors of the base and layers. It gave an extra pop of salty peanut taste and a more brittle, sharp crunch than the chocolate layers.
I give this š¦š¦š¦/4
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