A warning about this ice cream- don’t make it if you’re not prepared to eat the entire batch in one sitting and feel sick afterwards. Don’t do it. Don’t even think about making this ice cream if you think this is the kind of dessert that sits in the freezer waiting for after dinner, or company. This ice cream isn’t the one.
This Double Chocolate Peanut Butter Ice Cream is the kind of summer time dessert that you eat, sitting on your patio at sunset saying hello to your neighbors as they come home from work while you watch episodes of Big Love on your laptop. This is that dessert.
If you’re trying to exercise self control, don’t make this ice cream. If you’re trying to set an example for your children about moderation, turn away now.
BUT! If you’re looking for the most amazingly decadent, lick your finger, lick the spoon, lick the scoop, lick the bowl, go back for more and lick it all again ice cream. Well friends, this is the one.
Peanut butter and chocolate. I’ve died and gone to heaven. It reminds me of being a kid and ordering a scoop at the local shop. It makes me so happy that I’m an adult and can have as many scoops as I like.
What a world.
Seriously.
This ice cream is proof that God loves us.
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Double Chocolate peanut Butter Ice Cream
2 1/2 cups whole milk
1 cup sugar
1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
pinch of salt
3 Tablespoons cornstarch
1/2 cup heavy cream
3/4 cup semi sweet chocolate chips
1/2 cup smooth salted peanut butter ( I like the all natural peanut butter)
In a sauce pan over medium heat, stir together 2 cups whole milk, sugar, cocoa powder and salt. Heat until the milk start to steam, but before it starts to boil.
In a small bowl, stir together the remaining 1/2 cup of whole milk and the cornstarch. Stir until no lumps remain.
Add the cornstarch mixture to the heated milk and chocolate mixture and bring to a low boil. Boil until thickened. The mixture will look the consistency of chocolate pudding. Remove from flame.
In a small sauce pan, heat 1/2 cup of heavy cream. Once boiling, remove from heat and pour over the chocolate chips. Let sit for 1 minute, then stir the cream and chocolate mixture until incorporated.
Stir the cream and chocolate mixture into the cooling chocolate ice cream base. Place in a bowl, covered with plastic wrap or a lid, and put in the fridge until cool.
Once cool, follow the manufacturers instructions on the ice cream maker to churn ice cream. Once the mixture has chilled and thickened in the ice cream maker, slowly drizzle in 1/4 cup of peanut butter. Don’t over mix. You want a nice ribbon of peanut butter running through the ice cream.
Transfer the ice cream into a freezer safe container and fold in the remaining 1/4 cup of peanut butter. Cover and freeze until solid.
Yum!
150 Responses
How do you drizzle peanut butter?
Heat it up in the microwave for 20-25 seconds.
How much does this make? I’d like to make as much as my ice cream maker can in one batch (6 qt) but need to know by how much to quantify it. Thanks! And I’m really looking forward to making it. And eating it ????
I had no luck with this in my old fashioned (but motor churned) ice cream maker. First this morning as I was making up the mix I realized it was way too small a batch to serve my guests tomorrow. So I made a 2nd batch and chilled the mixture as directed. Put it in the ice cream freezer and it won’t turn at all; I suspect it is the gooey chocolate chips that is stopping it. Sorry to say it didn’t work and we won’t have homemade ice cream for dessert
Is there a way to do this without the ice cream maker? For instance, Martha Stewart has a recipe for making vanilla ice cream without an ice cream maker, and it just has you put the ingredients in a loaf pan in the freezer for 6 hours. Would that suffice?
How much does this recipe yield?
I’ve tried this recipe before and it was delicious, but I can’t get that nice thick peanut butter swirl.
In this recipe you say drizzle the peanut butter in; does that mean I should heat it first so it’s liquid enough to drizzle?
Trying again tonight!
I’ve made this ten million times. Love love love.