Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream

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Creamy homemade Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream has chunks of chopped Reeses peanut butter cups throughout. This small batch sweet ice cream is perfect for a hot summers day.

Peanut Butter Ice Cream w/ Chopped Peanut Butter Cups

If you love Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups you are going to love this Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream recipe. This easy ice cream recipes starts with a base of peanut butter ice cream that have chopped mini peanut butter cups throughout. If you are a peanut butter lover–this might just be your dreams come true. This is an eggless ice cream recipe that you can make right away as long as your ice cream attachment is frozen!

As a kid I wasn’t a fan of fancy ice creams like this one. I loved me some plain old vanilla ice cream. As I began to grow older I started becoming adventurous with my ice cream flavors. And, well now… I make all sorts of concoctions in my kitchen.

I got the idea for this recipe a few months back when I picked up a BOGO of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. They didn’t have my favorite chocolate chip cookie dough, so I opted for a peanut butter ice cream with peanut butter cups. It was amazing but oh-so-sweet. One scoop was a perfect serving size. My adapted version is just the same… a few scoops and it will put you over the top!

Ingredients
Directions
FAQs
Tips & Tricks
Ice Cream Recipes
- Craving peanut butter? Try these recipes.

Ingredients

Milk
Smooth peanut butter
Granulated White Sugar
Heavy cream
Peanut Butter Cups

Peanut Butter Ice Cream with Peanut Butter Cups

Directions

Using a KitchenAid Stand Mixer, fitted with a whisk attachment, cream the peanut butter sugar together until smooth (about one minute on medium speed).
Turn the mixer off. Then pour in the whole milk. Mix on low until most of the liquid has mixed with the peanut butter mixture–mix for a good 2-3 minutes until it’s a thinned out peanut butter consistency. Add the heavy cream and mix for 1 minute or until incorporated.
Pour ice cream mixture into ice cream machine and churn according to manufacturers directions (about 25-30 minutes for most ice cream machines). The ice cream will be the consistency of soft serve.
Once the ice cream is done churning, carefully, fold in chopped peanut butter cups. Freeze for at least 2-3 hours before eating. Store in an airtight container in the freezer for up to one week.

FAQs

How much does this ice cream recipe make?

This peanut butter ice cream recipe yields about 2-2.5 pints of ice cream. That’s about 10 quarter cup servings.

How many calories are in the peanut butter cup ice cream?

I am not a registered dietician and use an app to help calculate calories. My peanut butter cup recipe is about 637kcal per quarter cup serving. A little goes a long way since it’s filled with a lot of calories.

Can I use full size peanut butter cups for this recipe?

Yes, if you happen to have full size peanut butter cups and not the mini peanut butter cups you can definitely use them instead. You will want to use about 8-10 regular sized peanut butter cups.

How long does homemade ice cream take to harden?

Most home ice cream machines do not churn out perfectly frozen ice cream. You will most likely need to refrigerate for 2-3 hours until the ice cream hardens.

Tips & Tricks

Here are all my tips and tricks when making peanut butter ice cream.

Ice Cream Machine – I use the KitchenAid Stand Mixer fitted with the KitchenAid Ice Cream Maker Attachment and this batch churned for 25 minutes.
Storage – Each ice cream season I’ll purchase 25-50 disposable paper pint cups to store my ice cream in. I also have two reusable 1.5 quart Tivoli Ice Cream containers, because let’s face it. I like to make a lot of ice cream!
Peanut Butter Cups – If you happen to have full size peanut butter cups and not the mini peanut butter cups you can definitely use them instead. You will want to use about 8-10 regular sized peanut butter cups.
Ice Cream Cake – Easily turn this peanut butter cup ice cream into an ice cream cake. You can try my Peanut Butter Chocolate Ice Cream Cake or my Peanut Butter Fudge Ice Cream Cake.

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