Decadence in Summer: Chocolate Peanut Butter Ice Cream with Brownies and Cherries

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Chocolate Peanut Butter Ice Cream with Cherries

What's better in the summer than ice cream?  Strange to say that I would like ice cream, since I don't like cream, butter, cheese, or any dairy products in my food.  But I do like ice cream and chocolate milk.  It has been so hot these days that there's nothing better than feeling the surge of coldness creeping up as the ice cream slowly melts in your mouth.  Besides, chocolate and cherries always go well together.  Since I like things with peanut butter (except peanut butter & jam sandwiches), I added some peanut butter to the ice cream to make chocolate peanut butter ice cream!

A Sprinkle of Cranberries

Or you can be more moderate and have fewer scoops of ice cream but more dried fruit, in this case cranberries!
But I like mine with many many scoops of ice cream, the more the merrier, as they say.  Oh, and did I tell that there are brownies in the ice cream as well?  Yes, it's truly quite decadent, and I just had to restrain myself from adding a large brownie at the bottom, as a "dish."  (Of course, you can add brownies on the bottom plus sprinkle nuts on top!)

Recipe
Chocolate Peanut Butter Ice Cream with Brownies
4 oz chopped semi-sweet chocolate (use Ghiradelli)
2/3 cup unprocessed cocoa powder
1 1/2 cups (whole or 2%) milk
1 1/2 cup turbinado sugar
3 cups cream
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup (creamy or crunchy) peanut butter (I like Crazy Richard's)
***AS MANY BROWNIES AS YOU WANT***

Place cocoa powder, sugar, milk, and cream into a large mixing bowl and whisk beat the mixture until the sugar has finally dissolved.  Stir in the vanilla.  Cover the bowl with cling wrap and refrigerate overnight.

Whisk in peanut butter before transferring the chilled mixture to a ice cream maker and churn for 30 minutes.

Add in the chopped chocolate about 5 minutes before you finish churning.  Then fold in the brownie pieces (break up the brownies first).

Enjoy!

Am I Enticing Enough?