Review: Ben and Jerry's Home Sweet Honeycomb

With new Ben and Jerry's flavours coming to the UK in truckloads this year, I feel obliged to catch on with them and see what all the hype is about! It was refreshing to say the least when I first heard about this flavour. No cobbling together random chocolate or vanilla combos, no rebranding an old or American flavour and launching it over here. Something new! Properly, genuinely new!

On their website, Ben & Jerry's describe this as:

Sweet cream ice cream with a honey caramel swirl and milk chocolate covered honeycomb chunks

My first thought when reading this was of a Crunchie Bar, and thought that, if the chunks in here are anywhere near as good as that, this flavour will be an absolute winner. 

Texture: as always with ben and jerrys, the texture is smooth and easy to dig into. It's at its best when left to soften- I always think that softened ben and jerrys tubs acquire a special texture and taste to them that no other softened ice cream can achieve... or perhaps that is just me. As you may be able to see by the photo, this tub was absolutely jam packed with caramel swirl. One jab with a spoon and a great glob of it came oozing out. Now I only wish I'd have captured a motion picture of that baby because it was immensely satisfying to watch. The pieces of chocolate in in are relatively small, but fortunately there are enough of them so that you don't have to dig around long for one. They are nowhere near as abundant as in the Daim ice cream tub (but that's a story for another time ;) ). 

Taste: I was intrigued by the idea of 'sweet cream' ice cream, but it merely turned out to be a slightly less vanilla-y and slightly more creamy version of their vanilla. It compared more to Haagen Dazs' cookies and cream ice cream than your average Ben and Jerry's taste. This turned out to be fortunate though when paired with the powerfully sweet caramel swirls and the explosions of mega sweet chocolate honeycomb also present within the tub- the creaminess meant it wasn't too overwhelmingly sweet. The caramel had a slight hint of honey to it, and the chocolate pieces packed a decent punch of honeycomb to them. Their taste did actually quite resemble a crunchie bar, however the chocolate to honeycomb ratio is very much a different story.

Overall: not a bad addition to the Ben and Jerry's flavour range. Had the honey been a bit more discernible in that caramel, and the pieces of chocolate covered honeycomb a bit bigger, it would have provided a much more substantial honeycomb BANG and probably scored a bit higher. Saying that, the taste was still impressive nonetheless, and my sister LOVED it.

Rating: 7.5/10