what's cooking wednesday - peanut butter cup ice cream

I got an ice cream maker! I got an ice cream maker! For Christmas from Papa and Grandma Linda, but I am still THAT excited about it. My only problem now is my lack of freezer space. We only have the top freezer in our fridge. It was fine when we were a family of two and even three, but in the past year since I've been doing more couponing and bulk buying, well..... real estate in there is at a premium in there.

So I have an ice cream maker, what's the first thing I had to make? Peanut butter ice cream, of course! It's the girls' favourite.




1 1/8 cups good quality peanut butter
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1 1/4 cups whole milk
2 cups heavy cream
1 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
1 cup chopped peanut butter cups

Using a mixer or a whisk to mix peanut butter and sugar until it's smooth. Add the milk and mix on low speed  for 1 to 2 minutes or until the sugar is dissolved. Next stir in the heavy cream and vanilla. Turn the ice cream machine on and pour the mix into the freezer bowl and let it do it's thing until it's thickened. It should take about 25 - 35 minutes. Add the chopped peanut butter cups 5 minutes before the mixing is finished. Store in an air tight container in the freezer.

Well the end result was delicious. The kids loved it, but it hadn't really thickened into ice cream by the end of the mixing phase. I had my freezer bowl in the the freezer, but I think I took it out too early. In the end it froze up just fine in the freezer. The girlie girls have already asked for me to make this again.




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