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Brand
Flavor
Rating
8 of 10
Review
Disclaimer: Acme Valley sent me a complimentary box of 10 ice cream pints to review. Thanks, Acme Valley! While the free pints provide me with the opportunity for this review, Acme Valley has no control over the opinions expressed.
Chocolate Peanut Butter is a new flavor from Acme Valley—so new that, as I write this review, there isn’t even a page for the flavor on the Acme Valley website.
My new practice has been to start a review with the brand’s pint description. It helps set expectations. But this pint had no description on the pint—and as I mentioned, there’s no webpage yet. So, without further ado:
Chocolate Base: As you can see from the cross section pictures, there is a large air bubble on one side of the pint—a little disappointing, but these manufacturing defects happen to the best of brands as they scale up or add new flavors. And, as I mentioned, this flavor is new.
As with all Acme Valley ice creams, the recommendation is to let it temper for 10 – 15 minutes. The longer, the better, in my experience.
The reason: this is a very dense base. Even after tempering, expect it to still be thick. Acme Valley calls it stretchy, taffy-like, which I can see.
The ice cream science of it is that they add no air to the base. Cheaper ice cream is full of air, and air lacks flavor.
Acme Valley is the only one making ice cream this way that I’ve encountered, so expect a unique experience.
This base has a sweet, powerfully rich chocolate flavor. The ingredients include several types of chocolate—high fat cocoa processed with alkali, cacao, and semisweet chocolate. So it’s hitting chocolate notes from several different angles, obtaining a unique, concentrated chocolate flavor that is fairly delightful. An enjoyable chocolate ice cream regardless of the mix-ins.
Peanut Butter Chunks: There are chunks of peanut butter mixed in throughout the base—mostly small pieces, but I also got a few larger chunks.
They start out hard, but melt in your mouth quickly to a typical peanut butter texture. The chunks taste like peanut butter, not overly sweet, but maybe somewhat salty, or maybe the normal saltiness just stood out against the sweet chocolate base. Either way, the peanut butter is a nice contrast to the chocolate base.
Sadly, though, there just isn’t much peanut butter in my pint, not enough to stand up against the powerful chocolate base. Just look at the cross section pictures. Not much there. More peanut butter chunks would improve this pint significantly.
Overall: Chocolate and Peanut Butter is a classic combination. The combo works well in this pint, especially with the punchy chocolate base. But the peanut butter mix-in to base ratio needs to be increased to balance the flavors and meet the generous mix-in standards of today’s premium pints.
Score: 8
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Front blurb
Acme Valley
Full Strength Ice Cream
Chocolate Peanut Butter
Back blurb
Acme Valley’s unique full strength ice cream has more flavor & joy in every spoonful with no added air!
Calories
- 3 servings per container
- Serving size: 2/3 cup
- Calories per serving: 480
- Calories per container: 1260
Ingredients
Cream, Milk, Cane Sugar, Peanut Butter (Peanuts, Peanut Oil, Sugar, Salt, Cornstarch), High Fat Cocoa Processed With Alkali, Non-GMO Dextrose, Nonfat Dry Milk, Cacao, Eggs, Semisweet Chocolate (Cane Sugar, Unsweetened Chocolate, Cocoa Butter, Milk Fat, Sunflower Lecithin, Vanilla), Guar Gum, Locust Bean Gum.
CONTAINS: Milk, Eggs, Peanuts.
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Books
Need to know how Acme Valley does it? Well, you’ll have to figure it out on your own. Acme Valley hasn’t put out a recipe book yet! Come on, Acme Valley! What’s the deal? We love you and want to get to know you better—to know all your little ice cream quirks and secrets. Publish that ice cream recipe book already!
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Psst! You can make ice cream like Ben & Jerry’s, Jeni’s, and Haagen-Dazs at home. Here’s their secret ice cream base recipes!
