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Today’s junk food: Häagen-Dazs Limited Edition Peanut Butter Pie Ice Cream!

Häagen-Dazs Limited Edition Peanut Butter Pie Ice Cream: The Money Shot

First, let me say, when it comes to ice cream, I usually defer to my friends over at Crazy Food Dude, On Second Scoop, or Ice Cream Informant.  They are the experts.  But, I have been known to review ice cream myself from time to time, and especially Häagen-Dazs ice cream.  And I love peanut butter!  So when I saw this Häagen-Dazs Limited Edition Peanut Butter Pie Ice Cream, I had to make a move…

DROOL

Häagen-Dazs, if you wanted to make me shudder with happiness with your Limited Edition Peanut Butter Pie Ice Cream, you’re doing well so far.  I love Peanut Butter Pie, only because it’s always been the easiest way to get 3000 calories in me in one sitting.

Decent ingredients

This tub of Häagen-Dazs Limited Edition Peanut Butter Pie Ice Cream has over 1000 calories.  Yep, that’s about right.

Like a speckled moon

As soon as I opened up the tub of Häagen-Dazs Limited Edition Peanut Butter Pie Ice Cream, I could IMMEDIATELY smell peanut butter goodness.  It ebbed from the container like a radiator of flavor.  Really nice smell.  Onto the taste!

Spoon crater!

This Häagen-Dazs Limited Edition Peanut Butter Pie Ice Cream was pretty awesome.  Let’s break it down. The ice cream was smooth and tasted a LOT like frozen peanut butter, or rather, frozen peanut butter pie.  LOTS of peanut-y flavor that was cut with a good deal of creaminess.  Really tasty.

The ribbons of peanut butter were, at times, hard to carve out with the spoon, but they mixed well with the ice cream – nice huge splotches of peanut butter that were salty like a Reese’s.  Overall, I felt like the peanut butter didn’t feel like a separate ingredient from the ice cream at all – it felt like a burst of saltiness here and there that made my mouth water.

Dark and light

The Oreo-like chocolate cookie bits in this Häagen-Dazs Limited Edition Peanut Butter Pie Ice Cream were sweet and chocolatey, very dark tasting.  The almost bitter dark chocolate taste was a perfect contrast to the sweet ice cream and salty peanut butter.

Overall, the flavor was perfectly balanced, and didn’t feel like H-D was clubbing me over the head with any one taste.  Like many others who have tried this, tasted exactly like how I’d imagine a frozen peanut butter pie to taste like.  Simply, SPOT ON.

Here are the Ice Cream Informant’s review and Crazy Food Dude’s review of this same flavor.  Consensus is: IT’S DAMN GOOD.

PURCHASED AT: Harris Teeter

COST: I will admit, I did NOT buy this on sale, and holy cow it was like $4.70-$5.00. YIKES.

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Sincerely,

Junk Food Guy