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When it’s a million degrees outside there isn’t anything better than a big bowl of ice cream. This easy Peanut Butter Ice Cream Topping is the perfect addition to your summer sundaes!
I’ve gotta say, I love peanut butter sauce better than caramel or hot fudge sauce on ice cream!
I really, really miss Blockbuster. Same goes with Hollywood Video and all those mom and pop video rental places. Maybe I’m aging myself but there’s just something about walking into a video rental store and looking at all the options, picking up the DVD cases and reading the movie descriptions that I really miss.
Going to Blockbuster for a movie night was an event, right? Remember that? I could spend an hour in there perusing all the options. And I’d always find something good to rent, even when I knew nothing about any of the new release movies before walking into the store.
Now? Now I can spend hours (literally) on Netflix and Amazon trying to find something to watch on date night and nothing looks good. Being all digital totally makes you judge a DVD by its cover. And since I’m about 100 years old, or so it seems, I haven’t heard of any of the movies out and none of them look good at all.
So, last weekend, Mel and I gave up on finding a new movie to rent and we rented Pretty Woman instead.
You guys know that’s my favorite movie ever, right? And Mel wanted to rent it. #whyIlovehim
You guys, I’m not exaggerating when I say Pretty Woman is my favorite movie. It’s probably been 10 years since I watched it in full and I can still recite the entire thing.
This is how obsessed I was with the movie: when I was in college I literally wore out the VHS tape. As in, I was watching it and the tape broke and my boyfriend at the time had to go out and buy me a new tape that second because I had a meltdown. #truth
The only thing that would have made our date night Pretty Woman watching better is if we had eaten huge ice cream sundaes smothered with peanut butter ice cream topping. Because as obsessed as I am with that movie, Mel is that obsessed with peanut butter.
Peanut Butter Ice Cream Topping is the best sauce ever – perfect for any sundae or just eating with a spoon. It’s like eating liquid peanut butter!
If you have dreams of drizzling peanut butter over ice cream or just drinking liquid peanut butter then this is the recipe for you.
Now, if you just wanted thinned out peanut butter, all you have to do is pop it in the microwave. But if you want a sweet peanut butter sauce for pancakes or ice cream, then you need to make this recipe!
All I can think about is drizzling this sauce over ice cream along with my thick homemade chocolate sauce so that my ice cream will taste like a peanut butter cup.
Ingredients in peanut butter ice cream topping
This recipe has only 4 ingredients
- peanut butter
- sweetened condensed milk
- water
- vanilla
You heat them all together until a thick syrup forms. That’s it. It probably takes 10 minutes and you have the perfect sauce for ice cream, milkshakes, pancakes, and more.
When you’re choosing a peanut butter for this recipe I highly recommend a regular store bought peanut butter NOT a no-stir kind. Natural peanut butter (that separates) won’t melt correctly. You can use the “naturals” choices from Skippy or Jif or the other regular store brands, but those are natural no-stir peanut butters.
When choosing a sweetened condensed milk, you can use regular or fat-free for this recipe.
This is probably one of the easiest recipes you’ll ever make. Peanut Butter melts easy and the sauce comes together quick. It’s basically no-fail!
To be honest, this ice cream topping didn’t even make it to the ice cream. I *may* have eaten more of it with a spoon. And I *may* have put it in my coffee. <–That was a good decision, BTW.
Uses for peanut butter ice cream topping:
- Drizzle it on no churn ice cream
- Pour it over pancakes
- Use it on top of a cake
- Top cupcakes with it
- Put it into coffee like coffee creamer
- Better yet, turn it into a peanut butter cocktail
Other ice cream toppings you’ll love:
You don’t even need any special tools for this recipe, it’s that easy!!
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Peanut Butter Ice Cream Topping
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup sweetened condensed milk
- 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter don't use a Natural Peanut Butter
- 5 tablespoons water
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Place sweetened condensed milk and peanut butter in a small saucepan over low heat. Stir until smooth. Add water and stir until it is incorporated. Remove from heat then stir in the vanilla.
- Transfer sauce to a jar to cool. It will thicken as it cools. To make it pourable, just heat it in the microwave for a few seconds, then stir and drizzle or pour over your favorite ice cream. Store covered at room temperature.
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OMG I have so many memories of going to Blockbuster as a kid. It was pretty much the best Friday night EVER if we got to go there. Lol. And about this peanut butter deliciousness, I kind of want to slap myself for not thinking of this! Making this asap for my peanut butter obsessed family, they will put it on everything!
Our little town still has a video store. I don’t go there often anymore, but it seems like they still get good business.
This ice cream topping looks yummy, I can think of a million things to drown in it!
The thought of peanut butter topping makes me hungry. I am an ice cream purist ( preferably coffee ice cream, straight up, no sauce, no sprinkles) BUT I WILL be pouring this sauce over brownies, waffles, french toast and poke cake!
I’ve never thought of adding sweetened condensed milk to peanut butter topping. I usually just take some peanut butter out of the jar and place in a microwavable bowl, heat in the microwave until melted and then pour over ice cream. It is wonderful on ice cream. Also it is really good with the peanut butter, caramel and some nuts sprinkled on top. Some in my family add cool whip or whipping cream as well, but I think it is good with just the peanut butter topping.
Hubs & I just had a 30 min convo about how much we miss Blockbuster! It turned watching a movie into an event. SO TRUE that we have tons more right at our fingertips now but I’m so not satisfied with any of it. What the heck?! And kids now will never know that movie renting experience. Now, I’m sounding old 🙂 Anywho, I’m ready for a Jurassic park marathon this weekend (in prep for Jurassic World) while shoveling an insane amount of this peanut butter topping + ice cream into my mouth!
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