We are a family of peanut butter lovers! We go though more peanut butter in a week than most families use in a month. We have peanut butter in on sandwiches, in desserts, on pancakes and yes, it even gets eaten right by the spoonful at times. The ice cream shop in our town recently did a renovation and we found out that they took Zack’s favorite ice cream sundae with peanut butter topping off the menu! So, I decided to make a peanut butter ice cream. This week I am joining a group of lovely bloggers to celebrate Ice Cream Week! We are all sharing ice cream recipes and there is a HUGE giveaway at the bottom of the post that you don’t want to miss. I will be sharing three ice cream recipes with week, starting with this Peanut Butter Crunch Ice Cream Cake!
This recipe starts with the peanut butter crunch, which is crunchy, peanut butter coated Rice Krispies. Mix together light corn syrup, granulated sugar, peanut butter and salt in a saucepan. Bring to a boil and then cook for 3 minutes stirring constantly. Pour over Rice Krispies in a large bowl and quickly stir to coat. Spread onto a piece of parchment paper. Break apart the large pieces and allow the peanut butter crunch to cool.
Next, make the Nutter Butter crust. Combine crushed Nutter Butter cookies with melted butter.
Press into the bottom of a 9 inch springform pan.
Working quickly, make the peanut butter ice cream by mixing together slightly softened, vanilla ice cream, 2 cups of peanut butter crunch and 1 cup of peanut butter. Scrape into the springform pan and spread it out.
Top with remaining 2 cups of the peanut butter crunch and gently press into the ice cream cake. Cover the springform pan and place the ice cream cake in the freezer for 4-6 hours or overnight to harden. When ready to serve, remove from the freezer and carefully remove the sides of the springform pan.
If you have a difficult time removing the sides of the pan, run a thin knife around the edge first.
Leave the bottom of the springform pan in place and set the entire thing on a platter or plate. To cut the peanut butter ice cream cake, dip a knife in very hot water, quickly dry it off and use the hot knife to cut the ice cream cake.
I brought this peanut butter crunch ice cream cake to my sister’s house yesterday. She had a bunch of company over so it was the perfect time to share. Everyone loved it and I came home with an empty platter. I call that a success!
- 1/2 cup light corn syrup
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup peanut butter
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 4 cups Rice Krispies
- 24 Nutter Butter cookies crushed
- 5 tbsp butter melted
- 1/2 gallon vanilla ice cream softened slightly
- 1 cup peanut butter
- 2 cups peanut butter crunch from above
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Mix together light corn syrup, peanut butter and salt in a saucepan. Bring to a boil and cook for 3 minutes stirring constantly. Pour over Rice Krispies in a large bowl and quickly stir to coat. Spread onto a piece of parchment paper. Break apart the large pieces and allow the peanut butter crunch to cool.
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Combine crushed Nutter Butter cookies with melted butter. Press into the bottom of a 9 inch springform pan.
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Working quickly, make the peanut butter ice cream by mixing together the slightly softened, vanilla ice cream, 2 cups of the peanut butter crunch and 1 cup of peanut butter. Scrape into the springform pan and spread it out.
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Top with remaining 2 cups of the peanut butter crunch and gently press into the ice cream cake. Cover the springform pan and place the ice cream cake in the freezer for 4-6 hours or overnight to harden. When ready to serve, remove from the freezer and carefully remove the sides of the springform pan. If you have a difficult time removing the sides of the pan, run a thin knife around the edge first. Leave the bottom of the springform pan in place and set the entire thing on a platter or plate. To cut the peanut butter ice cream cake, dip a knife in very hot water, quickly dry it off and use the hot knife to cut the ice cream cake.
Recipe inspired by Biscoff Crunch Ice Cream Cake from A Family Feast
Make sure you swing by for a scoop from each of today’s Ice Cream Week Participants:
- Pink Lemonade Ice Cream Pie by Cravings of a Lunatic
- Chocolate Peanut Butter Caramel Ice Cream Pie by The Girl in the Little Red Kitchen
- Peppermint Fleck Ice Cream by Scoop Adventures
- Raspberry Lemonade Ice Cream Pie by The Redhead Baker
- Coffee Ice Cream by Cookistry
- Salted Caramel Ice Cream by Life Tastes Good
- Salted Caramel Peanut Butter Buster Bars by The Life and Loves of Grumpy’s Honeybunch
- Cherry Cheesecake Ice Cream by Hezzi-d’s Books and Cooks
- “Fried” Ice Cream Pie by Renee’s Kitchen Adventures
- Mint Chip Ice Cream by Crumb
- S’mores Ice Cream Pie by Love and Confections
- How to Make an Ice Cream Pie at Home by Farm Fresh Feasts
- Gluten Free Sandwich Cookie Ice Cream Pie by Gluten Free Crumbley
- Fudge Topped Chocolate Ice Cream Pie by That Skinny Chick Can Bake
- Salted Caramel Ice Cream Pie by The Spiffy Cookie
- Caramel Coffee Milkshake by Wishes and Dishes
- Strawberry Shortcake Ice Cream Pie by The Messy Baker
- Majarete (Dominican Corn Pudding) Ice Cream by Mind Over Batter
- Peanut Butter Crunch Ice Cream Cake by The Gunny Sack
- Dirty Girl Scout Ice Cream by Quarter Life (Crisis) Cuisine
- No Churn Low Carb Blueberry Cheesecake Ice Cream by Yours and Mine are Ours
Here are a few more of my ice cream recipes for you to try:
Raspberry Swirled Peach Ice Cream
Fruity Pebble Crunch Ice Cream Cake
Hi, I'm Tonia, a lover of food and photography! Fill a gunny sack with delicious ingredients, tie on an apron and let's get cooking!
I like the mint chocolate chip
Home made peach ice cream, so good!
When I can find it, I’m a total sucker for coconut ice cream!
I have a bout 6 favorite flavors, but my long time fav is mint choc chip-the kind that has tons of thinly shaved choc throughout.
This looks amazing! I love butter pecan ice cream. 🙂
Chocolate Peanut Butter (under the stars)
I love mint chocolate chip ice cream!
I love mint chocolate chip
Yum!
I love chocolate ice cream the best of all!
Coffee flavored ice cream!!!!
Rocky road
Mint chocolate chip
My favorite flavor of ice cream is vanilla.
We are huge peanut butter fans too! How sad they took his fave off the menu, but this cake is beautiful! Sounds like it was a good replacement 🙂
Wowowowow! This is amazing, Tonia!
I love just about any ice cream, but if has chocolate and marshmallows, I am all in!
Salted caramel with chocolate chunks.
Would have to say that it would be Strawberry
Strawberry and Chocolate. Either Separatly or together. Both ways taste great.
My favorite ice cream goes to old fashioned vanilla, love it and can add topping and change it if you want
I am DYING over this. The crunch, the peanut butter, the ice cream. We go through a lot of PB in our house too and this would be a huge hit!
Good thing for the extra large size container of peanut butter, right? Thanks, Dorothy!
Butter pecan is my favorite!
I love good old fashioned vanilla, but I usually like it topped with caramel!
I never came across an ice cream flavor that I didn’t like haha..I love strawberry the best!! & pistachio….lol
Thank you for the chance to win this amazing prize pack!!! I love the recipes/pics above too!
Joey J.
I hear you, Joey! I don’t think I’ve ever tried pistachio ice cream, though. I’ll have to give a try sometime.
you MUST!! lol..I recently tried it for the 1st time in my life and am addicted haha
Either mint chocolate chip or teaberry.
My favorite ice cream is butter pecan.
I love chocolate coconut brownie!
My favorite flavor of ice cream is “Caramel Cheesecake.” Yum! kristiedonelson(at)gmail(dot)com Thank you.
Oh my, our pie looks delicious! AND you used one of my favorite store bought cookies…the Nutter Butter!
Chocolate with peanut butter swirled in.
I love mint chocolate chip!
I have way too many favorite flavors of ice cream to count! But peanut butter chocolate is one of them! This ice cream cake looks DELISH! I would love it if you would come share it at my recipe link party The Yuck Stops Here. It starts Tuesday evening at 8pm ET on Hot Momma’s Kitchen Chaos. I hope I win the ice cream prize and I hope you’ll swing by the party! HUGS
Chocolate ice cream with lots of mix-ins is my favorite ice cream.
loved the ice cream and step by step pictures…they really help
I love Cookie Dough ice cream
My favorite is Mud Pie (coffee ice cream with hot fudge added in) –
This cake is simply beautiful. I love the sound of peanut butter crunch!!! You can pretty much never have too much pb – it’s the best 🙂
Yup! I agree 100%! Thanks, Kathi!
This just looks so awesome!!!
Thanks, Julianne!
Oh, my gosh, this looks crazy good! I’m not sure if that pb crunch would ever make it onto the pie…it might go straight to my mouth!!
Yes, I’ve got to admit that there was some sampling going on!! 🙂
I like cookie dough.
I seriously need some of that peanut butter crunch. On a spoon. Heading into my mouth. Love!
I agree! I love the crunchy peanut butter part! Thanks, Terri!
My favorite ice cream flavor is butter pecan.
i love chocolate
Chocolate mint chip. Mmmm
Blueberry Cheesecake!
I dream about Pralines & Cream….
My favorite would have to be strawberry.
I love blueberry cobbler ice cream and cinnamon crumble. So delicious!
oh MY goodness, hand me a spoon or a fork and let me dig right in!
Unfortunately I’m a diabetic, therefore supermarket sugar-free varieties are minimal in our area. However we do have a Stewart’s Coffee Shop that carries a mint ice cream with cookie crumbs to die for!
I love Jamoca!
My favorite ice cream flavor is vanilla bean.
That ice cream dessert Looks so Yummy.
My favorite ice cream would be Mint Chocolate Chip
Love them all (no coconut flavors :P). If have to choose, it’s between Vanilla Bean and Snickers
Love this!! Anything peanut butter wins in my heart, but the texture of the crunch is also great.
Yes! I love the combination of creamy and crunchy!
This looks amazing. I love anything with PB!
Yeah, so do I, although I usually combine it with chocolate! 🙂