These marshmallow flavor ice creams are too sweet and lack flavor.
Ben & Jerry’s introduced two new limited edition marshmallow ice creams and we should all be thankful they’re limited edition. While I bought them on sale at Safeway (regular price is now $7, or 40% more than the $5 they were before the pandemic), I disliked them so much that I feel ripped off – enough that I won’t buy another limited edition flavor without first reading reviews.
Marshmallow Sky consists of marshmallow ice cream with marshmallow swirls and gobs of chocolate chip cookie dough and chocolate chocolate chip cookie dough.
The ice cream itself has no discernible flavor. It was sweet and that’s all I can say about it. It didn’t even taste like sweet cream – just sweetness. The marshmallow swirls were very thin and just added extra sweetness – sweetness upon sweetness and no flavor. The cookie dough globs tasted like what you would expect them to. I’m not a huge fan of cookie dough, but here they were welcomed as they broke through the otherwise tasteless ice cream.
This bright blue ice cream seems to be geared towards children, and I can see them liking it. Adults should give it a pass.
PB S’more is a toasted marshmallow ice cream with peanut butter cups, graham cracker pieces and a marshmallow swirl. It suffered from the same basic problem as Marshmallow Sky, the base ice cream was sweet but otherwise mostly flavorless. The burn marshmallow flavor did give it the occasional caramel note which I did enjoy – as it broke with the monotony of plain sweetness -, so it made it slightly better than the other one, but not much. The marshmallow swirls were thicker, but all they managed to do was added extra sweetness. I like marshmallow fluff, but I think it’s better used on an ice cream with more bitter notes – chocolate, for example. The same can be said about the graham cracker swirl – the tiny crumbs can’t be call pieces. Still, they did add a new flavor. The peanut butter cups were good, as they always are, but discordant with the rest of the vibe of the ice cream. Peanut butter smores might be good – I’ll have to try them – but this ice cream did not make you think of smores at all. It made you think of putting it back in the freezer and drinking something to wash the sweetness away.
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