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.
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!
Table of contents
Ingredients
- Milk
- Smooth peanut butter
- Granulated White Sugar
- Heavy cream
- 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
This peanut butter ice cream recipe yields about 2-2.5 pints of ice cream. That’s about 10 quarter cup servings.
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.
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.
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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Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream
Ingredients
- 1-½ cups Smooth peanut butter
- 1 cup Granulated White Sugar
- 1-½ cup Whole milk
- 2 cups Heavy cream
- 1 cup Mini peanut butter cups chopped
Instructions
- 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.
Notes
- Yield – This recipe yields about 2-2.5 pints of 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.
Nutrition
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Katy
Hello – can I still add the egg yolks to add the creaminess/prevent the crystallization? Like is this eggless for allergy reasons or because it’s not necessary? I’ve only used recipes with eggs so I’ll try the eggless but I’m just curious 🙂
Thanks!!
Katie
Hi Katy, thanks for reaching out. You can add in egg yolks although you will need to cook them into the milk/sugar base prior to churning. I found it wasn’t needed and added an extra step since you will need to cool the egg/milk mixture for hours before churning. Hope that makes sense. Either way –hope you enjoy this recipe.
Brandi
Delicious!
Katie
Thanks Brandi for taking the time to leave a 5 star review.
Roze
delicious Dessert !
It’s my favorite! Love this!
Katie,
As you have told about Kitchenaid ice cream attachment. Can I buy this ice cream maker attachment in India?
Is kitchenaid available in India?? What about KitchenAid website In India?
Katie
Thanks Roze–I’m not sure if it’s available in India! Sorry–I wish I could be of more assistance!
Danielle
The kitchen aide attachment has a 2 at capacity. Flavia S you could try to make 1/2 or 3/4 of the recipe in your Cuisinart.
Flavia S
Do you know how many quarts this recipe makes? I have a Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker and it makes up to 1.5 quarts. The simple ice cream recipes in their booklet call for 1 cup milk and 2 cup cream. I’m looking for a simple peanut butter ice cream recipe to make my next batch (I’ve done vanilla and chocolate a few times already and I’m looking to explore). Thanks.
Katie
Hi Flavia, I do not know off the top of my head. It’s been a while since I’ve made this ice cream. I use the KitchenAid Ice Cream Bowl attachments and am unfamiliar with the Cuisinart.
Jessica@AKitchenAddiction
Oh my! Peanut butter ice cream is my favorite! Love this!
Rachel
SO jealous of your ice cream maker! If I had one, this ice cream would be first on my list. My obsession with Reeses is only slightly out of control 😉
Katie
Hi Rachel, Not sure if you already entered… but I’m giving away a KitchenAid Ice Cream Maker Attachment!
Rachel
Would love to enter, gotta win (or buy, haha) myself a KitchenAid Mixer first!
Ali @ Gimme Some Oven
Oh my goodness — Reece’s ice cream is my total weakness!!! I may have to try it homemade. Sounds delicious!