The origins of cherry crumble date all the way back to th –
Junk Banter’s One Reader: “NOBODY CARES!!”
*Sigh*, here’s some new ice cream from Ben & Jerry’s…
Ben & Jerry’s Cherry Crumble
Lately it’s typical for Ben & Jerry’s to use their limited batch flavors to promote really great causes, something new on Netflix, or Jimmy Fallon’s face for some reason. None of this is the case with Ben & Jerry’s newest flavor, where the only message sent is “We f*ck with Cherry Crumble.” Simple, straightforward, and me too.
Ben & Jerry’s Cherry Crumble features a buttery ice cream with cherries & swirls of oat crumble. When I say simple I mean it. For the base, they literally chose butter. Just good ole’, artery-clogging butter. For the cherries, they just chopped ’em up and threw ’em in there. Same cherries you’ll find in Cherry Garcia. And for the swirl? Oats!
Now that’s not to say simple is a bad thing – especially not when simple looks like this:
The buttery base is Ben & Jerry’s Cherry Crumble is a surprise star of the show. It has more depth than say a brown sugar or sweet cream ice cream, and there’s a touch of cinnamon adding a bit more personality to every bite.
I’m also not complaining about this tasty oat crumble swirl. It’s not quite what I was expecting since a crumble usually has a crunchy, granola-like component, but that doesn’t change how good it tastes. Its texture is like a sugary grit that tastes like a cinnamon oatmeal cookie or maybe even a snickerdoodle.
And it pairs wonderfully with butter, as things often do.
But, then there’s the cherries…
Listen, the issue I have with the cherries isn’t the cherries themselves; it’s the choice to only use dried cherries. When you eat cherry cobbler, you get delicious, syrupy cherries in every single bite. Like cherry pie filling. And while the dried cherries in Ben & Jerry’s Cherry Crumble are big and busty and plentiful, you have way more bites without any cherry than you do with. That just doesn’t fit the cherry cobbler narrative.
This could have been next-level if it could included both dried cherries and a cherry jam swirl.
Cherry criticisms aside, I’m here for the butter and this is a tasty summer treat.
Burning Questions:
- Can you finish the cherry crumble origin story? Someone got lazy while making cherry pie.
- Cobbler is supposed to be warm. Then heat it up.
- But ice cream is supposed to be cold. Then cool it off.
Place of Purchase: Harris Teeter
Rating: 7 out of 10
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