Not a bold statement: The defining trait of a Twix bar is the cookie.
There’s chocolate, caramel and/or peanut butter going on there, for sure, but that’s not why you buy a Twix.
You buy a Twix because of the crunch from that sweet-ass cookie.
[Ed. note: Alternatively, you very well buy a Twix because there are two of them because you love to eat things in prime numbers or you are a mother/father of two young children who do NOT need to eat a whole candy bar right now.]
With that basic Twix principle understood, one would think that when developing a Twix ice cream bar, the ice cream bar developers would make sure they nailed the cookie part.
#nope.
The Twix Ice Cream Bar is very similar to the Snickers Ice Cream Bar [Ed. note: ICB will be the preferred term here on out, in the proper sense], with a few key differences:
- The ice cream filling is straight-up vanilla. Not some tan/caramel/gently chocolate facsimile (as featured in Snickers ICB). Polar-bear/first-communion/most-useless-crayon-in-the-box white vanilla.
- In lieu of the peanut, the Twix ICB features small bites of the aforementioned sweet-ass cookie interspersed atop its caramel-sauce layer.
- The Twix ICB is slightly narrower.
Otherwise, though, the bars are the same: thin outer chocolate layer, caramel sauce, made of ice cream.
Those differences, ahem, make all the difference.
Focusing first on the cookie bites, because, duh: Man, do they ever leave you wanting more. Continue reading
Breaking Off A Piece 