Ben & Jerry's · Desserts
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Sweet cream is the plainest base the brand uses, closer to unflavored dairy than to vanilla, and it's chosen here so the core has nothing to argue with. Salt is doing chemical work as much as anything. It suppresses bitterness, which caramel has plenty of once the sugar has been taken far enough to be interesting, and it stops the sweetness reading as flat. Cold complicates that, since low temperature blunts sweetness while leaving saltiness roughly where it is, so a frozen salted caramel is balanced differently from a sauce. Blonde brownies are the other inclusion, a brownie made without cocoa, so they bring the density of a brownie without another chocolate note in a tub that has none.
