Chocolate Peanut Butter Ice Cream

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I’m going to tell you a story. The other day I was driving home from my lake house and decided to stop on the side of the road to take a picture of cows. Yes cows. I’m in Wisconsin and take pictures of cows, don’t judge. Who knows why I just felt like it. But anyways I took pictures of cows for a good 20 minutes and it was actually really cool because all of the cows actually came toward me. Pretty soon I had 50 cows at the gate 5 feet away from me. Apparently cows like cameras. Or they saw the Culver’s cheeseburger I had in my car and were mad at me. I’m not sure. From all the cow craziness I forgot to turn off my camera and it died. Normally this wouldn’t be a problem but I left my charger in Illinois. So I sit here, cameraless, with nothing to share, since all of my pictures are still on my camera. But that doesn’t mean I haven’t been making tasty treats. And am I not supposed to share just because I don’t have a good camera? Nooo! So I have been taking pictures of food with my camera phone.

This ice cream was just too good not to share. There are chunks of peanut butter in there. It’s awesome. I may or may not have eaten this for breakfast yesterday. I couldn’t help it. Ice cream tastes better in the morning, I swear. I will note, however, that in the original recipe Michelle did a fudge ripple in the middle of the ice cream. I’m sure this would just make this ice cream that much more amazing. But, I didn’t have corn syrup on hand so I didn’t include it. Check out her recipe which I have linked to below for how to make the fudge ripple if you wish to include it. Look at that peanut butter chunk of goodness!

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Chocolate Peanut Butter Ice Cream

This chocolate peanut butter ice cream is so decadent with a rice chocolate peanut butter base and little peanut butter nuggets in every bite. 

Prep Time45 mins

Cook Time10 mins

Freezing Time8 hrs

Total Time55 mins

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Servings: 6 servings

Calories: 393kcal

Ingredients

Peanut Butter Nuggets

• 6 tbsp peanut butter
• 2 tbsp powdered sugar

Ice Cream

• 2 cups half and half
• 1/4 cup unsweetened Dutch-process cocoa powder
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• pinch of salt
• 1/2 cup smooth peanut butter

Instructions

For the Peanut Butter Nuggets:

• Mix together the peanut butter and powdered sugar until the sugar is well incorporated. Then, line a dinner plate with plastic wrap.
• Pinch off little bits of the peanut butter mixture onto the plate (about 1/2 tsp each). Then freeze.
• You can keep frozen peanut butter nuggets for up to a month in a air tight container.

For the Ice Cream:

• In a large saucepan over medium heat, whisk together the half and half, cocoa powder, granulated sugar, and salt.
• Whisk the mixture frequently while it heats up. Heat until the mixture comes to a rolling boil.
• Remove from the heat and mix in the peanut butter.
• Chill the mixture thoroughly. I chilled mine overnight just to be sure.
• Then freeze the ice cream in the ice cream maker according to the machine's directions. When the ice cream is finished churning, mix in the peanut butter nuggets with a spoon. Freeze until the ice cream reaches the desired consistency.

Nutrition

Calories: 393kcal | Carbohydrates: 35g | Protein: 12g | Fat: 25g | Saturated Fat: 8g | Cholesterol: 29mg | Sodium: 223mg | Potassium: 407mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 22g | Vitamin A: 285IU | Vitamin C: 0.7mg | Calcium: 104mg | Iron: 1.3mg

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