Cookie butter ice cream ben and jerrys

Ben & Jerry’s knows you love cookie butter. The Vermont-based ice cream company knows about your late-night cravings, your cookie butter daydreams and your lack of self-control when it comes to eating the entire jar. And now, cookie butter is at the center of one of the company’s new core ice cream flavors.

Ben & Jerry’s Spectacular Speculoos Cookie Core, Boom Chocolatta! Cookie Core, and Peanut Buttah Cookie Core ice creams are the newest flavors in the company’s line of core flavors, which all feature a core of cookie, caramel, cookie butter and more surrounded by ice cream.

The Spectacular Speculoos Cookie Core incorporates caramel and vanilla ice cream with bits of Speculoos cookies and a column of Speculoos cookie butter in the middle. It’s like double-fisting a spoonful of cookie butter and a spoonful of ice cream followed by a bite of cinnamon spice cookies.

The Boom Chocolatta! Cookie Core is a mix of mocha and caramel ice creams with fudge flakes, bits of chocolate cookies and a cookie core that tastes like someone crushed up Oreo cookies -- just the cookie part -- and funneled it through the ice cream. Genius.

And last, the Peanut Buttah Cookie Core incorporates peanut butter ice cream with crunchy peanut butter sugar bits, peanut butter cookies and a peanut butter cookie core. Think a peanut butter cookie ice cream sandwich in a blender.

Unlike the previous Ben & Jerry’s core flavors, which we taste-tested early last year, these cookie core flavors have enough core to go around. And yes, in an act of public service, we sawed the ice cream pints in half so you could see the cores.

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As if a jar of cookie butter wasn't already one of modern life's greatest miracles, Ben & Jerry's has gone one further with its latest "Core" flavors: creamy, deluxe ice cream swirled around a thick cookie butter core, including Spectacular Speculoos, Boom Chocolatta and Peanut Buttah.

Feb. 27, 2015, 1:06 PM UTC / Updated Feb. 27, 2015, 1:06 PM UTC

/ Source: TODAY

As if a jar of cookie butter wasn't already one of modern life's greatest miracles, Ben & Jerry's has gone one further with its latest “Core” flavors: creamy, deluxe ice cream swirled around a thick cookie butter core, including Spectacular Speculoos, Boom Chocolatta and Peanut Buttah.

And while chocolate and peanut butter are rightfully part of the sweet treat pantheon, it's speculoos, aka Biscoff, that gets our hearts racing a little faster. (Or was that the pint of ice cream we just ingested?) This recipe for DIY cookie butter core ice cream shows you exactly how to get that sensationally sweet taste at home, and can be easily substituted with your favorite ice cream and cookie flavors.

Cookie butter ice cream ben and jerrys
Casey Barber

Cookie butter ice cream ben and jerrys

Casey Barber

This article was originally published Feb. 26, 2015 at 5:24 p.m. ET.

The ice cream company known for wacky flavors has just released three new ice creams that incorporate cookie butter spread.

For the uninitiated, cookie spread has the consistency of peanut butter but tastes like cookie dough and comes every imaginable flavor, including oatmeal, chocolate and rice krispies.

Cookie butter ice cream ben and jerrys

(Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream)

The new flavors,  Boom Chocolatta Cookie Core, Peanut Buttah Cookie Core and Spectacular Speculoos Cookie Core, all feature a core of cookie and cookie butter surrounded by ice cream, and are additions to Ben & Jerry's “core” ice cream line it debuted last year.

But Ben & Jerry’s says that the new cookie core line flavors have been in the works for years.

“I was traveling through Europe about four years ago and I stumbled across cookie butters and I was like wow these are really cool,” Peter Lind, an ice cream flavor developer at Ben & Jerry’s, told FoxNews.com. “I started making ice cream with it and showed it to R and D teams but we shelved it because nobody knew what it was.”

Fast forward three years and suddenly cookie butter is everywhere.

Lind, the flavor man behind hits like "Chubby Hubby," thought it would be a perfect compliment to the recently invented core product line-- but developing a middle that would stay spreadable when frozen proved to be challenging.

“It took about eight or 10 different tries we to make sure it was a similar texture to what someone would expect from their favorite cookie butter,” Lind said. They also experimented with several cookies, including chocolate chip and snickerdoodle but they ultimately just didn’t work as butters.

So what flavors made the cookie taste test cut?

Peanut Buttah has swirls of peanut butter ice cream, crunchy peanut butter sugar bits, crumbled peanut butter cookies and a peanut butter cookie core. Talk about peanut overload—if you’re the type of person who eats peanut butter straight from the jar, then you’ve found your ice cream soulmate. The ice cream isn’t too sweet on its own, but with a heaping spoonful of the cookie butter be prepared for a mega sugar rush.For chocolate lovers, Boom Chocolatta has mocha and caramel ice creams dotted with chocolate cookie bits, fudge flakes and a chocolate cookie core. The mocha ice cream is an awesome compliment to the sweet core and keeps the whole pint from being overly chocolately (if there is such a thing.) This was a big favorite of FoxNews.com staffers that fans of Phish Food and Coffee Toffee Bar Crunch will quickly devour.

Cookie butter ice cream ben and jerrys

(Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream)

Spectacular Speculoos is based off the original Speculoos cookie spread with caramel and vanilla ice creams and Speculoos cookie butter core. True to the flavor profile of the crispy German biscuit-like cookie, this ice cream is best described as “very sweet and cinnamon-y.”  It’s also pretty buttery and may be too rich for some.

Like all Ben & Jerry’s ice creams, these flavors are smooth and inventive but will they stand the test of time or end up in the infamous Flavor Graveyard?

Tell us what you think.

1. Half Baked. Half Baked is the best Ben and Jerry's flavor—fight us on it! But in all seriousness, this is actually relatively factual as two years in a row—2020 and 2021—Half Baked has taken home the #1 spot as bestselling Ben and Jerry's flavor.

How many flavors of Ben and Jerry's are there 2022?

The company has recently released two new flavors, Chocolate Milk & Cookies and Dirt Cake, back in January, according to Thrillist, so we can safely say the 98 flavors is now 100, and counting.

What is Ben and Jerry's topped?

Ben & Jerry's announced a new line of ice creams today called "Topped." It's made up of seven different ice cream flavors that are each covered with a velvety layer of chocolate ganache with chunks of other goodness too! Seriously, no matter what kind of flavor profile you enjoy you'll find something great here.

What does Ben & Jerry's milk and cookies taste like?

It has quite a strong chocolate taste when it's eaten alone but it doesn't really stand out in the pint. The texture is basically the same as the other cookie dough since it's rich and buttery with crunchy chips. They don't change the sate much but the crunch factor is there.