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Brand
Flavor
Rating
7 of 10
Review
Base: The base has a mildly salty tang of cream cheese, which is subtle and delicious.
Pastry: The numerous pastry pieces are less substantial than Ben & Jerry’s cinnamon bun bites, more chewy, and unfortunately the pastry sometimes melts and disappears into the base. This seems to happen frequently with cake bits in Jeni’s pints, for examples see: Boston Cream Pie and Chocolate Blackout Cake. Protecting the pastry from dissolving in the base would have added a bit more texture. The pastry bits themselves seem a bit bland—they aren’t cinnamon rolls themselves, just gritty, base-soaked cake. Perhaps the pastry bits represent a missed opportunity to add another flavor note. Adding cinnamon and sugar to the pastry might have leveled up the pastry’s flavor while preventing the base from making the pastry mushy.
Caramel: The distinctively rich caramel sauce contains a hit of cinnamon as well. A little of this strong caramel goes a long way, and it’s portioned perfectly throughout the pint.
Overall: Base, pastry, and caramel all play well together; you can taste each element separately, none of them overwhelming the other. it’s an indulgent, sophisticated flavor. But we will have to taste test this back-to-back against a pint of Ben & Jerry’s Cinnamon Bun to confirm the winner of this flavor category. From memory, we are placing B&J’s over Jeni’s for now, thus the current score which may seem a bit harsh out of context. Perhaps we are grading too harshly because we had such high hopes for Jeni’s version of what is our favorite B&J’s flavor: Cinnamon Bun.
Front Blurb
“Dark caramel, cream cheese, pastry, and cinnamon (lots of it).“
Back Blurb
“In the cinnamon roll world, the cast-iron skillet version reigns queen. Cinnamon-scented brown sugar oozing from inside the roll caramelizes on the hot iron. And what would a proper cinnamon roll be without a thick layer of sweet and salty cream cheese frosting? Where I come from—The American Midwest—we place cinnamon rolls on the highest pedestal and serve them before the meal. Maybe you should move here.“
Nutrition
3 servings per container
Serving size: 2/3 cup
Calories per serving: 330
Calories per container: 1000
Ingredients
Nonfat Milk, Cream, Cane Sugar, Cinnamon Caramel Sauce [Heavy Cream, Brown Sugar, Sugar, Honey, Water, Corn Starch, Butter (Cream, Salt), Spices, Sea Salt, Lemon Juice Concentrate], Cream Cheese Icing [Cream Cheese (Pasteurized Milk and Cream, Salt, Carob Bean Gum, Cheese Culture), Tapioca Syrup, Sugar, Heavy Cream, Sea Salt, Citric Acid], Pastry [Unenriched Wheat Flour, Butter (Cream, Salt), Sugar, Eggs, Water, Natural Flavors], Tapioca Syrup, Sea Salt, Natural Flavor, Cinnamon Oil.
Purchase Location
Publix via Instacart.
Price
$8.85
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Books
Need to know how Jeni’s Ice Cream does it? Get Jeni’s cookbooks:
Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams at Home
and
Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams Desserts.
Related
Psst! You can make ice cream like Jeni’s at home. Here’s Jeni’s secret ice cream base recipe! (Her secret ingredient: 3 tablespoons of cream cheese in every pint!)
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Last Updated on August 29, 2022 by Ice Cream Admin
I had high hopes for this decadent ice cream. It looked more delicious than it tasted, which was a overly gooey cinnamon icecream. It was so obscenely cinnamon, that you could not taste the cream cheese base.
This is my favorite ice cream ever (except for the discontinued B&J Oatmeal Cookie Chunk). The overwhelming cinnamon flavor is the best part. That and the slightly salty cream cheese ice cream make this amazing. 10/10 from me.