My coffee table is home to several magazines full of fall recipes that I can’t wait to make. My plan had been to try a couple over the weekend and review them here. Then I woke up with the flu on Saturday morning. This, of course, shot all my weekend plans, culinary and otherwise. The only good thing to come of it is that a sore throat is a great excuse to eat ice cream.
Normally, I stick to ice cream flavors that involve chocolate, peanut butter or coconut. Saturday’s cold, rainy weather put me in the mood for something a little more seasonal. Enter Ben & Jerry’s Cinnamon Buns ice cream. Like all of their ice cream, Cinnamon Buns comes in a colorful container festooned with graphics of cows and clouds. The ice cream itself is caramel with swirls of streusel and cinnamon bun dough in it. It tastes like brown sugar and cinnamon with a creamy background. I had wondered if the caramel would be too much. Surprisingly, it works perfectly with the cinnamon and sugar streusel swirl. The dough reminds me of the chocolate chip cookie dough that they put in ice cream, which is what I had expected. My only real complaint with this ice cream is that it’s almost too sweet. This is probably a good thing since it means I can’t eat too much of it in one sitting. Overall, though, it’s very good and something I’ll buy again.
