A Cook's Quest

As I have mentioned a time or two , peanut butter and chocolate are one of the combinations that everyone in my house loves.  Usually, barring any major baking catstrophes, if a recipe calls for these two ingredients it is sure to be a hit especially with my husband.  When I stumbled onto this recipe at The Farm Girl Recipes  I knew it was going into the Ice Cream Friday series.  This ice cream has a wonderfully smooth texture thanks to the creamy peanut butter and heavy cream.  It has the salty flavor one expects, but is balanced nicely with the sweetness from the sugar and the chocolate.  Oh, and I can't forget to mention the chunks of peanut butter cups throughout.   The only thing that could have made it better was a covering in hot fudge, but we didn't not have any.  So, my poor family suffered through and it all up without fudge and let me tell ya they were real troopers about it.  ENJOY! I'm linking up, go check so...

Did you know that July is National Ice Cream Month?  I sure didn't, but I'm so excited to find out because it makes the timing of this recipe perfecto, in fact I think I will use this National Ice Cream Month as the reason to post a new ice cream recipe every Friday for the rest of the month and maybe, just maybe, we will have ice cream for dinner as a sweet surprise. My family will be be so happy! I made this delicious ice cream last week with Br2.  She is my sidekick in the kitchen and has been requesting that we pull out the ice cream maker that Santa brought her (isn't he a smart guy to think of bringing her a real ice cream maker?), and make some delicious homemade ice cream.  Now that the temperatures have reached appropriate ice cream eating weather I couldn't say no.  Now, onto the ice cream.  If you like cheesecake and don't feel like heating up your kitchen, this is the dessert for you!  It is rich and sweet and creamy just l...