PEANUT BUTTER ICE CREAM FANTASY PIE

INGREDIENTS:

Crust:

1 package Nutter Butter

½ cup butter

Filling:

1  (1.5 quart) container Peanut Butter and Chocolate Ice Cream

1 (1.5 quart) Breyer’s Blast Reese’s Peanut Butter Ice Cream or Vanilla Ice Cream

2 (2..1 oz.) Butterfinger Candy Bars (crushed)

1 Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup (cut into small pieces)

Garnish:

Chocolate Sauce (I made ganache by melting milk chocolate chips with a little whipping cream)

1 (2..1 oz.) Butterfinger Candy Bars (crushed)

DIRECTIONS:

Crush the Nutter Butter Cookies(I used a food processor) .  Pour the Nutter Butter cookie crumbs into a 9”springform pan.  Melt butter.  Mix butter into the crumbs and press down with a fork (or your clean hand).  Place in the freezer for about 5 minutes.  Meanwhile, let ice creams soften.  Using a mixer, soften peanut butter and chocolate ice cream.  Place over the crust. Place in the freezer for about 10 minutes as you let the vanilla or peanut butter ice cream soften.  Crush the butterfinger candy bars.  Using a blender, soften the vanilla ice cream.   Add the crushed butterfinger.  Mix in.  Remove the pie from the freezer and smooth the vanilla ice cream over the peanut butter and chocolate.  Sprinkle the crushed butterfinger candy bar over the top of the ice cream pie.  Let freeze overnight.  Remove pie from freezer about 5 minutes before serving.  Run a knife around the edge of the springform pan, then release the sides of the pan carefully.  Drizzle Chocolate Sauce over pie to garnish.

Ingredients

Nutter Butter Crumbs

Adding Butter to Nutter Butter Crumbs

Peanut Butter and Chocolate Layer

Softened Peanut Butter Ice Cream

Second Layer

Butterfinger Crumbs

Ready to Freeze

FRESH RASPBERRY PEACH SLUSHY - SMOOTHIE

INGREDIENTS:

6 medium peaches, peeled, sliced, pureed

6 oz. fresh raspberries, washed and drained

4 cups crushed ice

6 tablespoons sugar

8 tablespoons light corn syrup

DIRECTIONS:

In a food processor, puree the peaches, add the raspberries, puree.  Add the sugar and mix in.  Take one cup of the fruit mixture and add to a blender.  Add 4 cups ice and light corn syrup.  Repeat the process with the remaining fruit mixture.  Garnish with a raspberry and whipping cream (optional). Serve with a straw or a spoon/straw.   Makes about 8 servings.

Raspberry Peach Puree

Ready to Blend

Ready to Serve

IT’S A ROCKY ROAD ICE CREAM PIE

INGREDIENTS:

CRUST:

1 container Oreo Cookies (I used the birthday cake Oreos)

½ cup butter

Filling:

1  (1.5 quart)container Rocky Road Ice Cream

2  (1.5 quart)containers Vanilla Ice Cream

Garnish:

4 oz. semi sweet chocolate (I used Ghiradelli baking chocolate)

3 tablespoons whipping cream

20 marshmallows

Yellow food coloring

Sprinkles (green pearlized sprinkles, gold pearlized sprinkles, black pearlized sugar – all of the ones I used were by Wilton)

DIRECTIONS:

Crush the Oreo cookies (I used a food processor) .  Pour the Oreo Cookie crumbs into a 12” springform pan.  Melt butter.  Mix butter into the crumbs and press down with a fork.  Place in the freezer for about 5 minutes.  Meanwhile, let the rocky road ice cream soften.  Using a mixer, soften the rocky road ice cream.  Place in the middle of the springform pan, forming a circle.  Place in the freezer for about 10 minutes as you let the vanilla ice cream soften.  Using a blender, soften the vanilla ice cream.  Remove the pie from the freezer and shape the vanilla ice cream around the circle of rocky road ice cream (so the vanilla ice cream forms the perimeter of the springform pan.  Let freeze overnight. 

To Garnish:  Melt the semi sweet chocolate and the cream  in a double boiler or a heavy sauce pan over low heat  - stirring constantly – remove from heat just before it is completely melted.   Continue stirring.  Let cool.  Make the “street” by spreading the chocolate around the vanilla ice cream, adjacent to the rocky road circle – leaving enough room around the sides for the “grass”.  Sprinkle the green pearlized sprinkles around the perimeter for the grass.  Add the marshmallows to a bowl.  Add yellow food coloring.  Mix with a spoon until coated.  Put two marshmallows together and place in the center of the road….continue this pattern leaving a space between each set of yellow “lane dividers”.  In the center, cover the Rocky Road with the chocolate.  Sprinkle gold pearlized sprinkles for the “ground”.  Add car toys to the pie for extra fun.

Ingredients

Crushed Oreos

Oreos Crushed

Blended Ice Cream

Rocky Road Center

Softened Vanilla Ice Cream

Ready to Freeze

Marshmallows with Yellow Food Coloring Drops

Yellow Marshmallows

Melting Chocolate and Cream

Melted Chocolate

Chocolate Road

Chocolate Road with Marshmallow Dividers

With Grass

With Cars

With Gold Sprinkles for Ground and Cars

Just Out of the Freezer

Slice Out

STRAWBERRY SLUSHY – NON ALCOHOLIC DAIQUIRI

INGREDIENTS:

1 ¼ cups strawberry puree (about 12 oz. strawberries, hulled and pureed)

3 cups crushed ice

6 tablespoons sugar

2 tablespoons light corn syrup

Whipping cream for garnish

DIRECTIONS:

Wash and hull strawberries.  In a large bowl, hand mash or in a food processor, puree the strawberries.  In a blender combine the crushed ice, strawberry puree, corn syrup and sugar.  Blend until it is smooth and slushy.  Serve with a straw or a spoon/straw.   Garnish with whipping cream.

Ingredients

strawberries

PEANUT BUTTER COOKIE DOUGH BITES (Peanut Butter Powder)

Ingredients:

½ cup butter, softened

1 cup peanut butter

1 2/3 cup powdered sugar

½ teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon vanilla powder or vanilla extract

6 tablespoons powdered peanut butter powder (PB2)

1 ½ - 2 teaspoons Watkins peanut butter extract – to taste, optional (I found it at Walmart)

1/3 cup whole wheat pastry flour

1 ½ cups all purpose flour

¼ cup mini chocolate chips

Directions:

Mix the butter and peanut butter until smooth and creamy.  Add the sugar, salt, peanut butter powder, peanut butter extract (optional) and vanilla.  Mix well.  Mix in the flours.  Mix in the chocolate chips.  Roll into 1 inch balls.  Store in the refrigerator.  Enjoy.

Ingredients

Adding the powdered peanut butter and sugar

Ready for the chocolate chips

chocolate chips

ready to serve