Ice Cream Fridays: Loaded Peanut Butter Ice Cream

Welcome to another edition of Ice Cream Fridays. Every Friday during the next few months (or until I get tired of it) you can look forward to a new ice cream recipe which will hopefully inspire you to break out your old dust covered ice cream maker that is hiding somewhere in a closet (yes, I'm talking about you). Since I'm always looking for inspiration and ideas, feel free to leave me a comment here on my blog or on my facebook page, and let me know what ice cream flavor you would like to see. Who knows, you might just get lucky and it will be featured the following week.

Last week you could find Super Lemon Ice Cream on this blog which was incredible and very refreshing tasting. This week I'm going into a totally different direction. This weeks pick is dedicated to my peanut loving husband and middle child. Both of who could eat a whole pint of peanut butter ice cream, and I was told when I started this weekly feature that I "HAD" to include a peanut butter ice cream for them.

Enter the incredible David Lebovitz yet again. I found his recipe for peanut butter ice cream one of the quickest, easiest recipes I could find, and the flavor was out of this world. I decided to kick it up another notch (thank you Emeril for that wonderful phrase) by adding chopped up Reese's Peanut Butter cups during the last few minutes that my ice cream maker was churning away.

My husband was kind of leery if peanut butter on top of peanut butter wouldn't be too much of a good thing, but all of his concerns were gone as soon as he tasted it, and so was the ice cream.

Not one complaint was heard, but rather a whole lot of moaning was going on, as him and my child chowed down giant bowls of this frozen delicacy!

Few ingredients, quick preparation, and amazing taste, make this recipe a triple winner in my book! If you like peanut butter as much as my family does, then go ahead, don't wait, and fix this one today! You won't regret it!

Loaded Peanut Butter Ice Cream

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Ingredients:
3/4 cup (180 g) smooth peanut butter
3/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons (180 g) sugar
2 2/3 cups (660 ml) half-and-half
Pinch of salt
1/8 teaspoon vanilla extract
8 (.55 ounce each) Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, chopped

Directions:
Puree the peanut butter, sugar, half-and-half, salt, and vanilla in a blender or food processor until smooth.

Chill the mixture thoroughly in the refrigerator, then freeze it in your ice cream maker according to the manufacturer's instructions. During the last few minutes of churning, add the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup pieces.

Adapted from: The Perfect Scoop