Ben and Jerry's Cake Batter nothing like the real thing.
I have a confession to make, I love yellow cake batter more than actual cake. There is just something so delicious about licking a whisk that is dripping with the super sweet batter. Yes, I know it contains raw eggs and yes I know it’s meant to be eaten after it comes out all golden brown from the oven, but if given the choice I will take several spoonfuls of batter before a piece of cake any day.
I take comfort in the fact that I must not be the only cake batter lover out there since Ben and Jerry’s has devoted a whole flavor to it. Described as cake batter flavored ice cream with a chocolate frosting swirl, B&J’s Cake Batter immediately caught my eye in the freezer isle at Stop & Shop.
Ben and Jerry’s makes some of my favorite premium ice creams including Phish Food and most recently Chocolate Therapy, which I will be reviewing at some point, but I’ve never been a fan of their non-chocolate variety of ice creams. I was hoping this sweet concoction would change my mind, but alas, it failed, oh so miserably.
When you first pop the top of the ice cream you are hit with a blast of sweet yellow cake batter. Peeking out from the mellow yellow ice cream is a thick chocolate frosting swirl. This ice cream smelled so much like the real deal that I couldn’t imaging it being anything less than perfect, but something was off and I couldn’t quite put my finger on it.
The chocolate frosting swirl is perfect, it tastes exactly like store bought chocolate frosting would taste if you put it in the fridge for a few hours, cold but still smooth and creamy.
The problem here is the ice cream. The first bite was reminiscent of yellow cake batter, but with a metallic aftertaste. At first I thought maybe something was wrong with my spoon, so I switched to a plastic spoon instead, but the metallic taste persisted. Looking at the ingredients it seems like your everyday ice cream recipe of cream, milk, sugar, and then I saw it, the ingredient list includes turmeric for coloring. I don’t know why but I’ve always found turmeric to have a metallic taste and I think that’s what’s ruining this treat for me.
Very rarely do I throw away a pint of ice cream, but there is no way I was going to be able to finish this one. I couldn’t event get through a bowl of it. I just can’t recommend this flavor. I give it one scoop only because the frosting was dead on.