It is never too cold for ice cream and it’s certainly never too cold for this Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Ice Cream. In all honesty, I shot these images ages ago at the height of the Cape Town summer but somehow the recipe got left behind when posting here on heinstirred.

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Ice Cream

The recipe is a classic vanilla ice cream from David Lebovitz’s book The Perfect Scoop (love the new updated cover). I really like David’s recipes and I always refer to his ice cream recipes in The Perfect Scoop for inspiration and to use his recipes as a base for experimentation. For this version I added 100g crunchy peanut butter, a handful roughly chopped Afrikoa 70% dark chocolate chips and some chopped salted and roasted peanuts to add texture and more peanut flavour.

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Ice Cream

This Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Ice Cream is a custard based ice cream, using a cooked egg custard as the base. It is a rich ice cream as it contains 6 egg yolks.

I have been experimenting with other ice cream bases like no churns that use condensed milk as a base but I think my favourite base has to be the Philadelphia style base. Consisting of cream and milk and no eggs, it is a lighter ice cream, less rich and quicker to make but by no means less delicious. I have a bitter orange and marzipan ice cream in the freezer made in that style, waiting to be tasted, photographed and shared here soon.

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Ice Cream

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Ice Cream

I think peanut butter and chocolate is such a classic combination of flavours and this ice cream is delicious scooped on its own or as a topping on a baked pudding like these Boozy Chocolate Coffee Puddings.

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Ice Cream

I hope you enjoy this recipe for Peanut Butter Choc Chip Ice Cream. If you’ve made the recipe share it with me by tagging @heinstirred on Instagram or Facebook with the hashtag #heinstirred

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Ice Cream

Peanut Butter Choc Chip Ice Cream

Ingredients
  

  • 250 ml full cream milk
  • 150 g sugar
  • 500 ml cream
  • good pinch of salt
  • 1 vanilla bean split lengthwise
  • 6 large egg yolks
  • 100 g chunky peanut butter
  • handful dark chocolate chips roughly chopped
  • handful salted and roasted peanut roughly chopped

Instructions
 

  • Warm the milk, sugar, half the cream and salt in medium saucepan
  • Scrape the beans from the vanilla bean and add with the pod to the milk
  • Cover and steep for 30 minutes
  • Pour the remaining cream in a large bowl and set a mesh strainer on top
  • In a separate bowl, whisk the egg yolks
  • Slowly pour the warm mixture into the egg yolks, whisking constantly and then pour it back into the saucepan
  • Stir the mixture constantly over a medium heat, scraping the bottom as you stir until the mixture thickens and coats the back of a wooden spoon
  • Pour the custard through the strainer and stir it into the cream
  • Add the peanut butter and whisk until combined
  • Chill the mixture thoroughly (preferably overnight) and churn as per the manufacturer's instructions
  • Once the ice cream has been churned, add the chocolate chip and peanuts and mix well
  • Freeze the mixture until solid

A few more of my favourite ice cream recipes :

Salted Fudge and Tahini Ice Cream (no churn)

Salted Fudge and Tahini Ice Cream (no churn)

Miso Butterscotch Swirl Ice Cream

Miso Butterscotch Swirl Ice Cream

Frozen Tiramisu

Frozen Tiramisu


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