Ben & Jerry's Cake My Day Ice Cream

[By Nick, New for Early 2016] First off, I need to thank my awesome co-workers for making this review possible. See, Dubba and I have known about the names of a couple of new Ben & Jerry's flavors since the beginning of the year and have been on the look out ever since. I was talking with my co-workers on Monday about my extensive hunt to find some of these new 2016 products with no luck. Come the next morning, they bring in a pint off Cake My Day for me that they had found hidden at a Shop-Rite near them. They obviously made my day for sure. Okay, time for the first review of a brand spanking new ice cream product for 2016!

Ben & Jerry's Cake My Day Ice Cream

Vanilla Cake Batter Ice Cream with Vanilla Cake Pieces, Buttercream Frosting & Raspberry Swirls
(I apologize for the bad photos, my normal camera somehow went missing in action)

The description sounds pretty amazing to me. I quite enjoy cake batter, buttercream frosting and raspberries so there's nothing about this that isn't appealing. However, I'm not sure if I'd like them all together. Let's dig in to find out!

Oh how I love the color of their raspberry swirl. You can't really decipher the buttercream frosting from the vanilla cake batter base all that well but you can definitely see the cake chunks. The base is a tad on the sweet side but the vanilla notes keep it in check. It's definitely not as sweet as their normal cake batter base for sure.

The buttercream frosting, while not all that visual does have a distinct buttery yet sweet flavor. I think the butteriness helps tame the sweetness of the base as well. There's even a thick, frosting texture going on as well which is a plus.

The cake chunks are well, cake chunks. Nothing surprising from Ben & Jerry's and are, as always, a respectable mix-in. They're denser than traditional cake but I find that I prefer those anyway. They do have a nice vanilla quality to them so they live up to their description.

If you've noticed, I've described this flavor as "sweet" a lot. Well, the raspberry swirl turns this flavor into sweetness overload. Don't get me wrong, I love Ben & Jerry's raspberry swirl. It's natural, sweet, fresh and all the things I'd want from a fruit swirl. The problem is, this ice cream is already so very sweet. This swirl takes it too a new level that I just can't quite handle. I have a huge sweet tooth but this one just takes the cake (see what I did there) as possibly the sweetest ice cream I have encountered from Ben & Jerry's at least.

This ice cream could've benefited from a more bitter swirl, such as fudge or espresso. That would've made for a better contrast and compliment in flavors. There's just far too many sweet components going on here at once. I give props to Ben & Jerry's for starting out the year on a creative foot but this one is a little too sweet for me.

If you're wondering, I said "sweet" in some sort of form 12 times in this review.

Dubba's Note: Now I've only had one serving so far, but I would like to add or clarify Nick's thoughts. He keeps talking about sweet a lot and while I think that's a fair description, I don't know if that's the word that would of come to my mind. I would have struggled more. Weird isn't the right choice, nor is potent. I almost want to say there is this eggy-ness to it. It just struck me as like some kind of custard dessert more than their regular offerings >>> OSS: meh, eggy is the wrong word too, how about if I say the swirl is bold? I'm not saying it's a horrible thing but now I get where he was trying to go with this review. Once you get a chance to track it down, be sure to let us know how this flavor strikes you.

Verdict?  For those with a far bigger sweet tooth than me
Buy Again?  not likely