Disclaimer: Ben & Jerry’s sent me free pints of the Topped line prior to their release. Receiving free product didn’t affect my review, as I’ve poo-pooed plenty of products I received for free.
When it comes to ice cream in the freezer aisle, Ben & Jerry’s can’t be topped.
Or CAN it?!!?
Ben & Jerry’s Topped
Every day I have to look in the mirror and live with the fact that the above intro was my best.
Look, we all know the ice cream itself is great, but what keeps us coming back to Ben & Jerry’s? It’s the load of mix-ins swimming freely throughout the pint (well, maybe not freely… picture a bunch of chubby kids crashing into each other inside an inflatable pool). Ben & Jerry’s knows this too, so you know what they did? They said f*ck it, we’re not even gonna make you wait; we’re just gonna throw a bunch right on top.
Introducing Ben & Jerry’s Topped, a new line of seven loaded pints that have a layer of spoonable chocolatey ganache (and sometimes other mix-ins) greeting you immediately under the lid.
Looks like I’m gonna need a bigger inflatable swimming pool!!
This review is part of a series. Today’s Ben & Jerry’s Topped flavor is:
Ben & Jerry’s Topped – PB Over the Top
Ben & Jerry’s Topped PB Over the Top features chocolate ice cream with peanut butter cups, all topped with a chocolatey ganache and more peanut butter cups.
That’s right, they put peanut butter cups on top of our peanut butter cups.
Right off the bat, the chocolatey ganache is very impressive. It’s much thicker and more decadent than the “crackly” candy shell in Magnum pints, and offers a rich and and creamy chocolate flavor. It starts out a little hard straight out of the freezer but is still spoonable, and it continues to soften further as it tempers.
Bravo to B&J’s on this ganache. ?
On top of that you have some delicious mini peanut butter cups. These have a sweet, milk chocolate exterior compared to the much darker chocolate in the ganache, which breaks things up a bit. As does the salty peanut butter, of course.
Underneath, you have chocolate ice cream. Cutting through the fancy presentation with the ganache, the rest of the pint is essentially a remix of Ben & Jerry’s Peanut Butter Cup where the peanut butter ice cream has been replaced with chocolate ice cream, and peanut butter swirls have been added.
My favorite part of PB Over the Top are the firm peanut butter swirls, and they gave a good amount. I also appreciate that they doubled down and mixed in more peanut butter cups throughout the base. This comes in clutch considering there’s a pretty good chance you already ate all the ones on top of the ganache by now.
You’ve probably noticed that this review uses the words “chocolate” and “peanut butter” a billion times, because that’s really all there is to this ice cream. If there was ever a product that could be crazy delicious while also putting you to sleep, this is it. You may get sleepy due to boredom, but you’ll definitely get sleepy because you just ate a gigantic, 1300-calorie frozen peanut butter cup all by yourself.
How you choose to attack the ganache topping is up to you: you can gobble it all first like a candy bar appetizer, or break it up and portion it throughout the pint. I found the best way was to use a fork (yes, a fork) and eat down in sections, periodically breaking off a piece of the ganache to enjoy mixed with the ice cream.
The Ben & Jerry’s Topped line is a bona fide winner in my book, and PB Over the Top delivers exactly what it says it will.
Inflatable Swimming Pools Rating: 8 out of 10
Inflatable Swimming Pools After Your Fat Ass Breaks It Rating: 0 out of 10
Overall Rating: 7.5 out of 10
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