One Of The Most Fun And Accurate Ice Cream Treats: Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream Bars!

The Good: Wonderfully accurate flavor, Generally good ingredients, Fairly affordable
The Bad: Still pricier than most ice cream.
The Basics: Good Humor Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream Bars are a surprisingly good rendition of peanut butter cups in ice cream form, which makes them a real winner!


My local grocery store is pretty incredible. Because I live in a pretty small community, our grocery store gets in a lot of products that they stock without the consumer base responding to. As a result, I get a good number of cool products on clearance. I tend to try products that are on clearance here, knowing that in most marketplaces, they are still full price, but being a cheapskate, I usually only adventurous enough to try them on half price. As such, one of the best compliments I can think of to give a new (to me) product is that I would pay for the product at full price.

Good Humor Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream Bars are worth paying full price for.

Basics

Good Humor Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream Bars come in a package of six 3.3 ounce ice cream bars that are individually wrapped and come with the round chocolate-covered ice cream "bars" on their own. These are a frozen treat with a simple white plastic wrapper in an orange box that is indicative of the Reese's peanut butter brand. These are exceptionally easy to enjoy, but they have to be kept completely frozen or else they melt.

Each Good Humor Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream Bar is a disc with scalloped edges (more wavy than the traditional Reese's Peanut Butter Cup). Each Good Humor Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream Bar is a disc that is 3“ in diameter and 7/8“ thick.

Ease Of Preparation

Good Humor Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream Bars are a pretty wonderful frozen dessert. They come frozen and must be kept that way. The only way these lasted for us was using our deep freeze freezer (reviewed here!) to keep the Good Humor Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream Bars entirely solid!

Because they come in the individual wrappers, one must simply unwrap each Good Humor Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream Bar and then eat them. That is it.

Taste

The Good Humor Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream Bars smell pretty strongly of Reese's Peanut Butter. The peanut butter scent is strong and recognizable as the overly-sweet peanut butter that defines Reese's peanut butter. The Good Humor Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream Bars smell strongly of peanut butter and not at all the chocolate that coats each ice cream peanut butter cup.

Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream Bars have a fairly mild milk chocolate flavor to the thin, chocolate coating that surrounds the ice cream. As the thin chocolate coating melts away in the mouth as a sweet introduction to the ice cream, the dry peanut butter ice cream takes over to dominate the flavor palate. The Good Humor Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream Bars are satisfying for anyone who loves peanut butter flavoring as these have peanut butter flavored ice cream, not just a lame peanut butter swirl underneath the chocolate coating. These are a dry, but very satisfying ice cream treat that might well be the best possible incarnation of Reese's Peanut Butter in ice cream form!

The Good Humor Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream Bars leave a very slightly sweet aftertaste in the mouth after the last of the treat is consumed, without lingering very long.

Nutrition

The Good Humor Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream Bars are a frozen dessert. Each 69 gram bar is a single serving. In the 1 bar serving, there are a whopping 260 calories, 150 of which come from fat, and they have 17 grams of fat. Each bar accounts for 50% of the RDA of saturated fat from the 10 grams of saturated fat. One serving also has 25 grams of carbohydrates (that’s 8% of the RDA!) and 125 mg of Sodium (5% RDA). There are a smattering of other significant nutrients in the Good Humor Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream Bars, most notably 6% of the RDA of Calcium and Iron.

Good Humor has quality ingredients, which is good for frozen treats. Made primarily of nonfat milk, milk chocolate flavored coating, and Reese's peanut butter swirl, Good Humor Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream Bars are not a bad frozen dessert! There is nothing unpronounceable in the ingredients list and there are no allergy notes on the box. Obviously, these ice cream treats are not for those with a nut allergy or who are lactose intolerant. These are, obviously, not vegan-compliant.

Storage/Clean-Up

Good Humor ice cream bars are, obviously, milk-based, so when it is not frozen, it spoils exceptionally quickly. The Good Humor Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream Bars we found on clearance at the beginning of the year had a February 7, 2017 expiration date on the box and what was truly surprising was that well after the expiration date, these still taste exceptional.

The Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream Bars are chocolate-coated and will certainly stain light clothing, at the very least. When the frozen dessert melts and gets onto fabrics, it will require one to wash it right out. On nonporous surfaces, the fluid wipes off exceptionally easily.

Overall

Good Humor Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream Bars are a delightful version of peanut butter ice cream that is a very accurate to what it is supposed to be at a reasonable price.

For other frozen desserts, be sure to visit my reviews of:
Edy's Vermont Maple Syrup ice cream
Ben & Jerry’s Pistachio Pistachio ice cream
Magnum Mint Ice Cream Bars

9/10

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