Peanut Butter Ice Cream is an old-fashioned flavor. However, making ice cream at home during the summer is an old-fashioned past-time. A peanut butter flavored ice cream makes sense!
Old-Fashioned and Delicious
I would highly recommend buying a modernized ice cream freezer. I remember the old, electric ice cream churn that my grandmother used. She would spend the entire afternoon loading it up with rock salt and ice. Of course, the result was worth the effort.
These days you can buy ice cream makers that don’t require ice nor salt, such a convenience when you live out in the country like we do.
There is a booklet of recipes that comes with the ice cream freezers. I noticed that many of the recipes are not cooked like my custard based Peanut Butter Ice Cream recipe. I have tried uncooked ice cream recipes, without much success. Cooking a French style custard for a ice cream always has a smoother, richer texture, in my opinion. The ice crystals seem less noticeable. However, for convenience sake, I might try an uncooked recipe again in the future.
Smooth, nutty texture
But for the this recipe, I wanted as rich and smooth of a texture as possible, so I cooked it. Also, be warned that natural peanut butter is not recommended for this recipe. Use a conventional type of peanut butter, the type that includes a vegetable shortening on their ingredient list. Those types of peanut butter will not separate and will contribute to that smooth riche texture we are going for.
Also, try pairing this recipe with Chocolate Shell Topping and a few chopped roasted peanuts for an excellent sundae. If your ice cream is well made, however, it doesn’t need a lot of fanfare. A single scoop of home-made Peanut Butter Ice Cream is all you need to have a wonderful summer ice cream memory.
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