Ben & Jerry's · Desserts
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Ben & Jerry's says the brownies come from Greyston Bakery in Yonkers, New York, which hires without interviews or background checks: names go on a list and the next one up gets the job. The two have worked together since 1987. UK tubs don't name a baker, so that's the company's account rather than anything printed on the pot. In the tub it's the simplest thing the brand makes. Chocolate ice cream, brownie pieces at 12 per cent, nothing else, which puts all the weight on those pieces staying fudgy instead of turning to grit. A brownie manages that better than cake because it's high in fat and sugar and low in flour, and both of those keep it yielding at freezer temperature where a cakier crumb dries out and goes to pieces. The chocolate base is the constraint shaping the rest. Anything folded into it has to be darker and denser than what surrounds it to register at all, which is why this works with brownie and wouldn't with sponge. Fairtrade marked.
