Dough! I ate too much (Ben and Jerry's Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Light)

Member Name: abbadabbado

Product:	Ben and Jerry's Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Light
Date:	05/12/07 (116 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: tastes gorgeous

Disadvantages: very fattening, expensive

Seeing a tub of ben and Jerrys on offer at 2 for £5 instead of each tub costing £3.89 persuaded me to buy a tub of ice cream that i would normally walk past very quickly, as the tubs are so small I can never usually justify the guilt of buying something that wont last me very long.

Cookie Dough flavour is basically vanilla ice cream with chunks of chocolate chips and pieces of uncooked dough hidden in-between all that creaminess of the ice cream.
The theory behind this flavour according to the B+J website is that apparently Americans like uncooked dough more than they like the cookies after being cooked. It's been made since 1986 and was the first ever cookie dough ice cream!

My tub of 500ml looks very tiny and I know it's not going to last me too long in the freezer. The tub, made out of cardboard which upon a little bit of research I found that its made of 90% renewable paper stock coated to stop it leaking.
Past experiences have taught me the best way to eat a tub of B+J is to eat it straight from the tub. None of this messing around portioning into bowls. This way you don't realise how much you are eating either!

As the tub comes out of the freezer, it's great to put your spoon around the sides of the tub, getting the little bits of melting ice cream as it starts to defrost against the edges. It's also good to give the tub a bit of a squeeze and see the ice cream ooze over the top of the pot a little bit.
All this before I've even tasted it!

First impressions show that there is a lot of chocolate chip chunks been added, and you can almost guarantee getting one in every spoonful no matter how small. The contrast between the dark chocolate and pure white ice cream is vibrant, and I can't wait to delve in once it's defrosted a bit more.

Settling for scraping across the top of the tub, I get a small portion of just vanilla ice cream. The cold creaminess explodes into my taste buds, as it slides down the back of my throat. B+J really do have vanilla done well. None of this synthetic taste you get from cheaper brands, but instead you can almost taste the full fat cream that is so bad for you the moment it hits your palette.
The chocolate chinks are a good size, usually around a centimetre. It's enough to know you've got something you can bite into rather than a teensy piece of chocolate lost in-between everything else.
Blobs of cookie dough are fewer and farther between, but they are there nestled in-between the ice cream, providing you with a nice chewy texture within the melting mess in your mouth.

As you can imagine all that creaminess cannot be very good for the waistline, and indeed it's not with every 100g providing you with a whopping 14g of fat. I'm not going to spoil you dream of eating this by providing more nutritional information. If you need to know it, it's on the back of the tub and may well deter you from buying when you find yourself in the supermarket later today after reading this.

The only way I have found I can make this last a bit longer and save myself having to buy a bigger size in jeans, is to share share share with your friends or family.
It's a massive treat to have this in my house, and I probably wouldn't buy it at full price unless I really wanted comfort food, but on the half price offer it's definitely worth stocking up while you can.

Please note this review is also posted on Ciao where I am also a member.

Summary: a creamy ice cream