The Big Muddy Ice Cream Blog

Sanders is a new to me brand that makes chocolates and candies as well as ice cream.  They have several shops in Michigan, but seem to do mostly wholesale and online commerce. Loaded Peanut Butter Cookie is Vanilla ice cream loaded with Peanut Butter Caramel, Chocolate Chunks, and Cookie Dough. Let's start with the not so great and work our way up to the pretty good.  The vanilla base was pretty bland. I just don't understand this. If you want a plain base to let other flavors shine through, then make a decent sweet cream, but if you're going to make a vanilla base, then make a decent vanilla base.  This ice cream was also fairly airy. The mix-ins were much better than the base.  The peanut butter caramel infused the base with a strong peanut butter flavor. The swirl itself was thick with a slight graininess from the peanut butter.  I really, really like the peanut butter and caramel combo; it's a way to add sweetness to peanut butter and saltin...

On a recent trip to Target I was lamenting the fact that I had tried all of the Haagen-Dazs flavors on offer and most of the Ben and Jerry's flavors when I decided to take a look at the available Archer Farms flavors. There were a few that sounded interesting, but Peanut Butter Caramel really caught my eye. I thought that this was a rare flavor combination, but one that had the potential to be really good.  This ice cream is Vanilla ice cream with a caramel peanut butter swirl, peanut butter cups and chocolatey dipped waffle cone pieces. I didn't read the flavor description at the store; instead, I just assumed this would be something simple like a peanut butter ice cream with a peanut butter caramel swirl, so I was quite surprised when I did finally read the description. To be honest, the base was absolute rubbish. I almost spat out the first bite because it tasted like chemicals.  Once you get a few bites into the flavor and the mix-ins start coming into play the ...