Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream

Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream is the one of the most popular ice cream flavors around.  And now you can make it homemade in your own kitchen!

My son and I were watching the Red Sox beat the Yankees last night, and the pitcher was literally dripping with sweat.  I said to my son, “Wow, it must be hot back East!”  We happen to live in San Diego, where the temperature is pretty mild all year long, and it’s currently only in the low 70’s.  So my son’s response was, “No way Mom.  It must be raining.” 

I guess it’s kind of difficult to comprehend that it’s already sweltering in places like Boston and NYC and Atlanta and Dallas… when we’re still feeling a slight chill in the air.  So for all of you experiencing that icky, HOT weather already, I made some Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream. You’re welcome.

Ingredients needed for Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream:

This is such a super simple ice cream recipe- only the ingredients you see here are involved.  You’ll need milk, cream, vanilla, peanut butter, sugar and peanut butter cups. There are no eggs in the recipe… which means no heating up and no custard-making and no waiting for the mixture to chill before you process it in your ice cream maker.  You have an ice cream maker, right??

If you’re a fan of peanut butter and chocolate together, you’re mostly likely a big fan of peanut butter cups.  And if you’re a fan of peanut butter cups, I’m sure you’ll agree with me that they are really, really awesome when they’re fresh out of the freezer.

So it’s really a no-brainer to put them in ice cream, where you can eat a piece of frozen peanut butter cup in every bite. Yep.

This is an easy ice cream recipe to make because you just mix the base ingredients together and you can put it in your ice cream machine right away.  You don’t have to wait for it to chill overnight.  Immediate gratification!

When I made this for the first time, I had a bite, or two, or more likely about 36. It was worth every calorie. It was worth every peanut buttery, slightly salty and chocolatey chunky bite. It was worth the extra miles I had to run at the gym and the salad I ate for lunch.

I suggest you make it, especially if you’re in one of those HOT places right now, or if you’re a Red Sox fan (because I like you), or if you’re just craving chocolate-peanut butter things. And just for the record, I like Yankee’s fans too (the nice ones) 🙂

Here are a few more ice cream recipes you might enjoy:

• Cookies n’ Cream Ice Cream
• Blueberry Cheesecake Ice Cream
• Snickerdoodle Ice Cream
• Cake Batter Ice Cream
• Low Fat Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream
• Toasted Marshmallow- Brownie Malt Ice Cream
• Peppermint Ice Cream
• Vanilla Bean Ice Cream

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Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream

By Lori Lange

What's not to love about a peanut buttery ice cream with chunks of peanut butter cup mixed in?

Prep: 12 minutes mins

Processing Time:: 30 minutes mins

Servings: 14 servings

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Equipment

• Ice Cream Maker

Ingredients

• ▢ 1¼ cups creamy peanut butter
• ▢ 3/4 cup granulated white sugar
• ▢ 1¼ cups whole milk
• ▢ 2 cups heavy whipping cream
• ▢ 1½ teaspoons vanilla extract
• ▢ 1½ cups chopped chocolate peanut butter cups (8 to 10 regular size PB cups)

Instructions 

MAKE THE BASE:

• In a medium mixing bowl, use an electric mixer to combine peanut butter and sugar until smooth. Add milk and mix on low until sugar is dissolved- a full two minutes. You don't want to be tasting crunches of sugar in your ice cream, so give it a chance to dissolve. Mix in heavy cream and vanilla and beat until well combined and smooth.

PROCESS THE ICE CREAM:

• Turn on your ice cream machine, pour the base in the freezer bowl (make sure it has been in your freezer for 24 hours), and let mix until thickened, about 25 to 30 minutes. A couple of minutes before you're ready stop the mixing, add in the chopped peanut butter cups. The ice cream will be a soft-serve consistency. You can eat it right away, or freeze to eat later. If you freeze it for later, it will be more ice-cream-scoopable. Let it sit out for a few minutes before you try to scoop it.

Notes

• *This recipe is GLUTEN FREE adaptable. If you're preparing this recipe as Gluten Free, make sure you use Reeses snack size or miniatures (those are known to be GF), and use a brand of peanut butter that is recognized as GF.
• *Here's an easy way to measure sticky peanut butter: Just spray the measuring cups with nonstick spray before you spoon the peanut butter into them. It'll slide right out!
• *Make sure you freeze your ice cream processor's freezer bowl for a full 24 hours before processing your ice cream.

Nutrition

Serving: 1g, Calories: 359kcal, Carbohydrates: 23g, Protein: 8g, Fat: 28g, Saturated Fat: 12g, Cholesterol: 49mg, Sodium: 163mg, Potassium: 237mg, Fiber: 2g, Sugar: 19g, Vitamin A: 541IU, Vitamin C: 1mg, Calcium: 64mg, Iron: 1mg

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

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