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.
Oh! On the savory side- check out this simple Caesar Salad I made. It’s over here!
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!
Akiva
How do you drizzle peanut butter?
joythebaker
Heat it up in the microwave for 20-25 seconds.
Niki
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 ????
Kate
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
Jillian
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?
April
How much does this recipe yield?
Eva
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!
Amanda
I’ve made this ten million times. Love love love.
Alana Skelly
Can you make this without an ice cream maker?
Paola Parsons
There are more simple ways of making ice cream, involving ice and rock salt. You should Google it!
Amy @ Elephant Eats
Just took my virgin ice cream maker for a spin with this recipe, and oh.my.god….my dinner party guests and I were speechless at how freaking good it was. Awesome recipe that I will be making again and again!
Annie
I know this is an older post, but it came up during my search for a choc pb ice cream. I used fat free organic milk instead of whole, it was what I had on hand. But let me just say, this is hands down the best ice cream I have ever had. And, whenever I go to ice cream shops/factories/anywhere, this is the flavor I get. Amazing. I am trying to moderate my food and learn self-control and so I am just laughing at your description. Thanks so much for posting!!
Mariam
Oh My God!
Chocolate. Peanut butter. Ice cream. Chocolate peanut butter ice-cream! Probably my favourite flavour ever! When we have vanilla ice-cream in the freezer, I stir in cocoa and peanut butter!
I have to give this a try, even though i’ve made at least 4 batches of ice-cream this week with my brand new ice-cream maker, i’m so gunna get fat! And I love that it’s not custard base, so much easier and quicker and I already have too many egg whites sitting in my fridge!
Alison
Made this for a girls night in. My friends loved it! Definately a keeper. Thanks
Jeanette
Best ever!! This is one of the families favs!
Debbie
This is a great recipe! I love Baskin Robbins Peanut Butter and Chocolate ice cream, and this is really close! I cut down the calories a little by using 2% milk and half &half. It worked fine. Also used reduced fat peanut butter. I heated half the peanut butter for about 20 seconds and then drizzled it in the ice cream maker when it was almost completely done. Then with the other half of the PB, after I transferred to a continer for the freezer, I added little spoonfuls in as chunks. Everyone loved it!
Shelley
Not sure what happened…I tried making this just now and it never froze (not even to soft serve consistency). I have made ice cream before (even using the cornstarch method), and not run into this issue. Very disappointed.
Eric
I used coconut milk to make this today, thus dairy free. It was better than ANY icecream we have ever eaten. Oh my! Thanks for the recipe.
Mark
So I know that I should know this, but to drizzle peanut butter, you just warm it up a bit? Cannot wait to make this, sounds fantastic. – Mark
joythebaker
If you use an all-natural peanut butter, it should be more liquidy and easy to drizzle. You won’t find this is the more processed varieties – Jif, Skippy, etc.
Helen
I can’t wait to make this & have just bought all the ingredients but how do I do it without an icecream maker? Thanks : )
joythebaker
you need an ice cream maker.
Brooke (The Flour Sack)
Made this today. Completely, insanely, ridiculously, and TOTALLY amazing.
Hannah
How much does this recipe make? We have a 4-gallon ice cream maker that’s about 20 years old, and it’s just not worth getting dirty for anything less than 3 gallons. I’ll happily make that much and then hide it behind the bags of frozen vegetables, but I have to figure out how many recipes I’m making at once first.
Thanks!! I’m really looking forward to trying this.
Lisa
I love choc and peanut butter, especially ice cream! when I saw this I couldn’t wait to make it. I am making it now, but I burned the cocoa, sugar and milk mixture :-( was I supposed to be stirring it the whole time I was boiling it? It still tastes good but tastes burnt. I want to try again because i know this will tast even better when I don’t burn the chocolate! :-)
Crystal
Yes. My mama would have me stir for her when she had to step away. Bc it burns very very easily. As for when to know when to quit I don’t know bc I’ve never tried on my own. Now we or I for that matter have yet to try this recipe. But want to so bad. I was just reading the reviews and saw yours and wanted to answer you.
Amy Kirschner
I made this ice cream this weekend – loved the chocolate flavor. But, no matter how careful I tried to be, the peanut butter didn’t “drizzle” and I couldn’t create ribbons – it just got somehow mixed in with only one or two turns. How do you create these ribbons?
LR
This recipe is amazing and super rich! Even my husband who doesnt love chocolate loves this one!!
Ashley
I just made this recipe today and it is AH-MAZ-ING! We’re having a hard time letting it completely freeze.
Joey Diana
Hi Joy,
I just love this recipe and have made it at least a half dozen times since finding it. Now summer is here and fruit is coming in season. I would like to use the same kind of eggless creamy-licious base you have going here but then add seasonal fruit. Can you make any recommendations as to tweaking.
Sanctuary much!
Joey
Queen of the Sol Kitchen
Michelle Cox
Made this tonight, in the freezer,, so far so good. Cant wait to try it tomorrow. Only thing I would add is that you need to double the recipe to get a full canister in an ice cream maker :)
stacy
Made this a few days ago- whoa nelly! So yummy, but be forewarned. Its super rich. I mean, super rich. I didn’t even felt like a had a big serving, and I almost had to go lie down! It was worth it though!
Hadeel
I just had some a little while ago, and it was one of the best ice creams I ever had! This was my first try at homemade ice cream, and I honestly can’t believe I made it myself! :) Excellent recipe.
Tami Southern
I made this ice cream last summer for my husband, who is a HUGE chocolate peanut butter ice cream fan. I also shared some of the ice cream with some friends of ours. Everyone raved about how good this was. I have to agree that it looked fantastic! I am not a chocolate peanut butter fan so I didn’t have any personally but, I am going to make it again today. I can’t wait! This ice cream is awesome and incredibly rich and creamy. By far my most favorite ice cream recipe ever!
Michelle Blackburn
Although I don’t have an ice cream maker I made this ice cream today the old fashioned way and it was simply divine! I think this recipe has inspired me to buy an ice cream machine! Thank YOU ;-)
Nadine
I think I am going to make a pie out of this at the pudding stage. How do you get peanut butter to drizzle though? It is usually in a big lump when you take it from the jar.
joythebaker
pie!? amazing. try thinning the peanut butter with heavy cream or half and half… a bit of salt and a bit of sugar. let me know how this goes for you!
oh! and you should totally top your pie with whipped cream!
Melanie
Mmmmmm, thank you SO much for this awesome recipe! I received an ice cream maker for Christmas & was dying to try it out…this was my first attempt & it.was.perfect! YUM! Chocolate peanut butter is my favorite ice cream flavor to begin with & this recipe ROCKS! Thank you & Happy New Year!
Julie Anne Rhodes
I’m making my salted caramel ice cream tomorrow – dad’s request for Xmas (along with chocolate waffles and hot fudge sauce), but mom loves chocolate and peanut butter, so may just have to make a second batch. Thanks!
Anita
how do you make salted caramel ice cream? I recently tried salted caramel chocolates made by ghirardelli and they are insanely good!
Georgia Icecream
Wooooow! I can feel the smell in the photos! Love this!!
I love your comment that this ice cream is the proof that God loves us :)))
Sophie Peters
Made this and went to heaven. Had to fight the kids off with my spoon!
Anonymous
This ice cream didn’t even last long enough to become ice cream! We ate it before it froze, as pudding. It is the best chocolate peanut butter pudding I’ve ever had, and ever will have! Next time, we’ll freeze it though.
blackberryqueen
cornstarch, really? can you sub anything? cornstarch just sounds so…. anti-ice cream. i’ve never seen it in an ice cream recipe before. please joy, make me a believer?
xo blackberryqueen
Myron
hey blackberryqueen, you can sub egg yolks instead of corn starch. You will need at least 6 (more like 10) to thick the ice cream correctly
h
@blackberryqueen I used tapioca starch in place of the cornstarch which is in quite a bit of commercial ice creams and it worked wonderfully. It was quite thick after cooking it but upon retrieving it the next day to finish the recipe the cooked sauce had a nice looser pudding consistency.
I think next time I might add a few salted pretzels and frozen banana chunks you know to really take it over the edge!!
Jordana
Do you think potato starch would work equally well?
joythebaker
i haven’t tried this and i’m not sure how potato starch thickens.
Sara Redlin
Dear Blackberry Queen,
Cornstarch really is used in a lot of modern homemade ice cream recipes. It works very well because it bonds to any free (non-emulsified) liquids and prevents those liquids from turning into ice crystals which are not good because they cause your ice cream to become grainy rather than smooth.
Tracey
Joy – This recipe is AMAZING. We are all calling it a Reese’s Cup on steroids! The luxuriously thick texture is unlike any other ice cream I have ever made. Beware – You will find yourself consuming this quickly!
Sassy Molassy
THis looks ‘off your rocker’ amazing! I want some.
Cookie
This is my go-to ice cream recipe. And I go to it FAR too often. It is magic!! You can’t buy ice cream this good. I would curse you but I would rather kiss you. :-)
Brian @ A Thought For Food
Heaven in the form of ice cream!
yum.chocolate.peanut.butter
YUMYUMYUM. This ice cream was so amazing (:
Katie
Oh my, this looks soooo good. I will be making this soon because not two minutes ago I finished off my carton of Chocolate Peanut Butter ice cream from the local shop. To make it from scratch would make me so happy, I write back when I’m done making it!
Michele
This ice cream is SO rich and delish, thanks for the recipe Joy!
Michele
Oh, my, I’m in the process of making this right now and I could have sat down and ate the warm chocolate ice cream base, it was like the best chocolate pudding ever. I resisted and put it in the fridge to cool, but I’m dying to open the fridge and take a spoonfull. Since I keep the natural peanut butter in the fridge, I pulled out 1/4 cup to soften while the base cools and put the rest back in the fridge to stay cold so that I can have a ribbon of peanut butter and some chunks too. I’m so besides myself I can’t wait.
Gena
Oh my goodness!!!!! I made this recipe and it was sooooooo good!!! It reminded me of baskin robbins recipe that I have always loved. I served it to our dinner guests and they were so impressed! Thanks so much Joy the Baker!
Britany
It’s soamaaing for us! Thanx!
Tiffany
I followed this recipe exactly and it was absolutely wonderful!
And it was the first ice-cream I ever tried making. Thanks so much!
Rodney
I wnder if you use lactose free milk if that will make a diffrence cause I am lactose intallerant so is some others of my friends
Rodney
ha ha I tryed this once did not do to well anyhow will stick to my ready frozen stuff from the Baskin Robins nice and chunky PB or buy my own chocolate Ice cream and add my owne PB to it.
Jojo
Thank you so much for this recipe! I couldn’t believe how difficult it was to find a chocolate peanut butter ice cream recipe. Your description absolutely sold me on this recipe, though.
I gave it a try earlier this evening, and it was simply decadent. I’m glad you gave us all of those warnings because they were spot on! I ended up eating a bowl of the ice cream before it was even fully set, and I am waiting impatiently for it to hurry up and freeze properly.
Seriously, this recipe gives Baskin Robbins and Haagen Daas a run for their money. Yum!
Megan
I made this yesterday and linked to you today. Delicious.
Julie
I made this and served it to my guests at a lunch party, and they all loved it! Thank you for sharing the recipe!
al fair
my peanut butter doesn’t ‘drizzle’. do you heat it first?
whubbard
al fair asked about pb drizzling. currently my chocolate base is in the ice cream maker. I will be adding pb soon. I would like ribbons and chunks. Should I heat half the pb for drizzle and spoon remaining pb.
Mari
Good lordy lord!!! I’m fantasizing about using chopped up mini Reese’s as add-ins!
Colleen
Joy…. wow! I made this over the weekend and all I can say is thank you! You made me a hero to my husband.
Tammyfaye
This is amazing. Thanks so much for sharing the recipe. I’ll be making this again, and again, and again…….
Susan from Food Blogga
Oh, when it gets all melty like that, it makes me crazy.;)
Julie
Oh wow, I can’t wait to try this. It looks just like the chocolate-peanut butter ice cream at Baskin Robbins. That was my Uncle Sonny’s fave. He and I used to sneak there and get ice cream. I miss those times so much with him. I’ll definitely be making this in honor of him!!
aforkfulofspaghetti
Oh. My. Good. Lord. This I have to have. Now.
Jessica@Foodmayhem
Thanks for the warning! I have no self control!
Food Rockz Man
You are the sole reason that I pulled the trigger and ordered a replacement for the ice cream maker that died a few months ago. This time I went with the Kitchen Aid ice cream maker attachment for my stand mixer. I’ll be scouring your blog in coming weeks for ice cream recipes. Keep ’em coming!
snooky doodle
this is to die for !!!!!!!!!!! yummy
joythebaker
Hi Sadie and JB. I didn’t have a problem getting my peanut butter to drizzle. I used the all natural peanut butter that has the oil separated from the nut… do you know what I mean… you stir the oil into the peanut butter and it comes out a great consistency for a drizzle. I wouldn’t suggest a skippy or jiff kind of peanut butter, those are super thick. Have I answered your question? Hm….
JB
This looks fantastic, but like Sadie I was wondering if you are supposed to heat the peanut butter before you add it to the ice cream. How do you get it into a ribbon instead of giant lumps? Looking forward to answers and ice cream experiments …
sadie
I just made this and had one question… How do you drizzle peanut butter? I even microwaved mine but I couldn’t get it to a drizzle consistency… so my icecream turned out a bit lumpy. It was still fantastically good, but not as pretty as yours.
Also I’m a dark chocolate lover so I used Hershey’s Dark Chocolate cocoa powder. Wow! It was extremely rich and dark.
Mmmmm, thanks for a great recipe!
Katie
Oh wow that sounds amazing. Peanut butter and chocolate are a match made in heaven.
Beth
Wow! I NEED that!
Jaime
i LOVE PB and chocolate!!! i sooo wish i had an ice cream maker
Alicia
That is my favorite kind of peanut butter!
dawn
Oh my stars. Do you have any idea that that is my favorite combination of ice cream? I like Haagen Daaz PB & Chocolate but they really need to add more PB. Your fruit-of-the-Gods creation here is waaaaay better. Oh how I wish I had an ice cream maker I would so make this. I know you enjoyed this one, you have be crazy not too.
Mrs. L
Holy ice cream Batman, that looks incredible! Chocolate, peanut butter? Yum!
Jennifer
This looks amazing! I love peanut butter! :)
Ps. Are you still sending out those yummy black and white (red velvet) cookies. I was choosen by you a few months ago…..
I love your work — you are so talented.
Have a great weekend !:)
Maria
My husband is allergic to PB so I will have to make this one on my own…and eat it all by myself! I can’t wait:)
megan
Oh Lordy, help me! I think this ice cream could cause a fight between my husband and I. Think I’ll try it and see who wins! (said while dusting of the ice cream maker)
Paula
Ohhh chocolate and peanut butter ice cream, now that’s my kind of comfort food! yummm!
Kevin
Peanut butter and chocolate ice cream sounds so good! I will have to make a half batch so that I can eat it in one sitting.
Jaina
Okay, now I really need to go buy an ice cream maker so I can make this and have my own little piece of heaven…
Mike
If I were there, I’d have no choice but to steal the entire batch and run off into the sunset, sloppily downing it all as I go. Chocolate and peanut butter is a match made in heaven and this looks like my kind of ice cream!
Ivy
No Way! This looks sooo rich and too crazy for me.
I have got to get ice cream making!
Nice picture too. :)
sadie
Ummm, Yum! I think my diet just flew out the window.
Sara
Damn you chocolate ice cream. Just when I am starting to go on my diet. =[ That makes me so sad. One day I shall return for you!
Sweetcharity
All I can say is Yum!
Clumbsy Cookie
Thanks so much for your honest advice. I will NOT make it then… Although I really really want to :(
Amy
Just clicked “print”. Its only 10:15 AM and now I’m craving ice cream! Thanks a lot Joy! :-) This looks…..wow.
cindy
this reminds me of eating ice cream on the deck with my grandpa, one of his favorite flavors. i love it, it is like pure frozen nostalgia!
Katie
I am up to the challenge I think I can polish it off in one sitting. Although I probably won’t be able to eat anything else for that whole day. But it looks fantastic.
sharon
Your waving my lack of self restraing in my face! Of course, I can’t help but eat the whole batch…but, am I supposed to pretend like I didn’t see how scrumptious this ice cream looks?! Ahh, what’s a girl to do?
S for Kitchen Confit
oh yum – this may need to be the next ice cream I make!
Culinarywannabe
OMG! I am so very very happy that I just happened to throw the ice cream bowl attachment into the freezer last night “just in case.” I can already taste it!
michelle @ TNS
i’m in love – pb and choc is possibly my all time favorite ice cream.
Kristin at The Kitchen Sink
Chocolate? And peanut butter? And ice cream? And Big Love? Wow, you are a lucky woman.
Leslie
Oh yes…God really does love us!MMMMMM
grace
your warnings are duly noted and promptly ignored. :)
looks and sounds AMAZING.
Mary
proof that God loves us. Hillarious! I must make this ice cream. But I think first I will have to find fancy peanut butter, and maybe order some good cocoa. Or go to the store and buy regular cocoa.
Jeanine
OH YUM!!! Wow! THIS is on my list of things to do! Beautiful job!
Kathleen LeMaire
Amazing recipe! I have made it several times and it has been fail proof for me! Thank you so much for this amazing recipe!
Karen
Why, oh why, did I sell my ice cream machine??????????????
The reality is that my freezer is way to small for the canister (I’d have to give up real food to make space), but after seeing this recipe…it would be well worth it.
When I was a teenager and had the munchies(!), I would get the jar of peanut butter and vanilla ice cream and stand in front of the freezer taking a bit of the peanut butter and a swipe of ice cream. Everyone thought I was crazy – but hey, this was before Ben & Jerry’s started coming out with outrageous mixes.
Chocolate and peanut butter – heaven on earth.
steph (whisk/spoon)
geez–i will have dreams about this!
Susan
I think I need an ice cream maker.
Miri
Joy, this looks and sounds truly decadent! Great job at tempting me so early in the morning :)
peabody
Oh my yes!!!!
Melody
Oh my!!! This is my favorite post of yours yet! I love it!
Amanda
Joy, this post made my life. I’ve been fighting ice cream cravings all week, and lo and behold, what am I eating as I read this post? ICE CREAM. It may not be as good as yours (Mint Karaoke cookie is the name) but it will do me for right now. Until I can get my hands on an ice cream maker:)
brilynn
Umm… I think I’m that way with ALL ice cream. It’s sort of a problem… Yours looks especially good though so maybe I’d just devour it in record time!
Evan
I do believe I’ll be making it as well! Yes, Sarah, an ice cream maker has the potential to replace bad friends, bad boyfriends, and bad days. Its definitely a good thing!
Vanille
I knock my head against the monitor ! It’s true I can not leak the screen…it’s no good to tempt me like this !
Deb
oh my god…the picture alone has me wanting to lick my computer screen…chocolate and peanut butter HEAVEN…I must find the pieces that go to my ice cream machine! If I can’t find the pieces, I’ll BUY one!
Mary Coleman
big fat major yum!!!
Erin
Oh, wow, this looks incredible! I think I could polish off the entire recipe’s worth in one sitting. Chocolate and peanut butter is my favorite dessert combination and this looks perfect. I am definitely bookmarking this to make soon!
sarah
want to come to my house and bring this ice cream? we can be bestest friends forever?! seriously, this looks amazing. yet another reason why i need to buy an ice cream maker!