This Creamy Peanut Butter Ice Cream is so good! Perfect for a hot summer day.

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PEANUT BUTTER ICE CREAM

I GIVE UP! It’s impossible to photograph ice cream in Florida. I literally had this ice cream outside for 20 seconds and it turned into this!

This peanut butter ice cream is my brother-in-law Ryan’s favorite and he introduced it to us a couple of years ago and we’ve been making it ever since. This is my favorite ice cream. I’m all about texture and this is the creamiest ice cream you will ever eat.

It’s so easy and most likely you will have all the ingredients on hand. What? You don’t always have a pint of cream in your fridge like me?

I used to think that every ice cream recipe I made would be fabulous because I first started making homemade ice cream with this recipe and my Oreo Cheesecake ice cream. Over the years I’ve been making other ice cream recipes and they have suffered greatly in comparison.
So I am sticking with these tried and true recipes. This recipe is just for plain peanut butter ice cream but I had a couple (more like 20) extra peanut butter cups lying around from my peanut butter cup trifle (see honey I told you I would find them a home) so I threw some in to make it more decadent.

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Creamy Peanut Butter Ice Cream

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Making your own ice cream is so fun as you can control the texture and sweetness.
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Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Freeze: 14 hours
Total Time: 14 hours 20 minutes
Servings: 8 servings

Ingredients

Instructions
 

  • In a medium mixing bowl, beat the sugar into the eggs until thickened and pale yellow (a couple of minutes). Set aside.
  • Bring the milk to a simmer in a heavy medium saucepan. Slowly beat the hot milk into the eggs and sugar. Pour the entire mixture back into the pan and place over low heat. Stir constantly with a whisk or wooden spoon until the custard thickens slightly. Be careful not to let the mixture boil or the eggs will scramble. Remove from the heat and beat in the peanut butter. Pour the hot custard through a strainer into a large, clean bowl. Allow the peanut butter custard to cool slightly. Stir in the cream and vanilla. Cover and refrigerate until cold or overnight.
  • Stir the chilled custard then freeze in your ice cream machine according to the manufacturers instructions. When finished, the ice cream will be soft but ready to eat. For firmer ice cream, transfer to a freezer-safe container and freeze for at least 2 hours.
  • Double Peanut Butter Ice Cream: Add 1 cup of crumbled peanut butter cups to the machine when the ice cream is semifrozen. Allow the machine to mix in the candy.

Notes

Source: The Ultimate Ice Cream Book by Bruce Weinstein
Cuisine: American
Course: Dessert
Author: Christy Denney
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Christy Denney
Christy is the voice behind The Girl Who Who Ate Everything! She is no stranger to making meals that kids and adults will love. She grew up in Mesa, Arizona as the youngest of ten kids. She can always be found in her kitchen with music playing and cooking with her kids. She published her first cookbook in 2014. She loves party food that gets the conversations going!
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