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Good luck resisting snickers ice cream: peanut butter ice cream swirled with luscious caramel sauce, and bursting with pieces of snickers bars. Sometimes you just need to indulge yourself!
Candy Bar Ice Cream
There are many ice cream manufacturers who make some version of Snickers ice cream, but there’s nothing in the grocery store freezers that equals the deliciousness of homemade! Don’t be intimidated by the idea of making it either, it’s beyond simple!
And if you are chuffed by your success with the Snickers ice cream, you should definitely try out this Twix ice cream that’s bursting with chunks of cookies, caramel, and chocolate. Or, perhaps you’ll give my Butterfinger ice cream a try, where creamy, sweet vanilla ice cream is swirled with flakes and bite-sized chunks of the classic peanut buttery candy bar.
Don’t forget Nutty Bars Ice Cream too! It is a rich peanut butter ice cream loaded to the absolute max with chunks of Little Debbie’s classic Nutty Buddy Wafer Bars.
The most popular question I get is whether it’s possible to make ice cream without a machine. The answer is YES. You can make ice cream without a machine. Find the full directions here!
Snickers Ice Cream Recipe
To make this snickers ice cream recipe, you’ll need the following ingredients:
- peanut butter
- brown sugar
- kosher salt
- heavy cream
- milk
- vanilla extract
- Snickers bars
The instructions call for thinly slicing fun sized Snickers bars because they add more chocolate to each bite. If you need to, you can substitute full sized Snickers bars, chopped into small bite sized pieces.
Snickers Ice Cream
Stir together the peanut butter, brown sugar, and salt in a mixing bowl. Stir in the cream and whisk smooth.
Slowly add the milk and vanilla, whisking until smooth. Pour into the ice cream machine and freeze according to the manufacturer’s directions.
When the ice cream finishes churning, transfer about a third of the ice cream to an airtight container and drizzle with a third of the caramel sauce.
Top with pieces of Snickers. Repeat the layers twice more and swirl with a knife just a couple of times to mix throughout.
Cover with a lid and place in the freezer until firm enough to scoop. For an even more amazing treat, drizzle each serving with additional caramel sauce when ready to serve.
With over 160 ice cream recipes here to choose from, there’s sure to be an ice cream for everyone! If you’re new to making ice cream, the best and easiest vanilla ice cream is a great place to start.
These are my favorite inexpensive containers for storing ice cream. They’re perfect for gifting (who doesn’t love homemade ice cream?) storage, re-using, etc. I write the flavors on the lids with a sharpie and it washes off with dish soap.
I have more ice cream scoops than I can keep track of at this point and I definitely play favorites. This ice cream scoop does the best job ever of cutting through firm ice cream and still delivers a pretty scoop. It gets bonus points for being one of the least expensive scoops I own as well.
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Snickers Ice Cream
Ingredients
- ⅔ cup creamy peanut butter
- ¾ cup light brown sugar
- ¼ teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1⅓ cups milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ⅓ cup caramel sauce room temperature
- 6 fun size Snickers bars sliced thin
Instructions
- Stir together the peanut butter, brown sugar, and salt in a mixing bowl. Stir in the cream and whisk smooth. Slowly add the milk and vanilla, whisking until smooth. Pour into the ice cream machine and freeze according to the manufacturer's directions.
- When the ice cream finishes churning, transfer about a third of the ice cream to an airtight container and drizzle with a third of the caramel sauce. Top with pieces of Snickers. Repeat the layers twice more and swirl with a knife just a couple of times to mix throughout.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
I was skeptical about this recipe simply for the fact that it wasn’t custard based and I thought custard was the only way to make ice cream. I now stand corrected. I didn’t have any Snickers so I used plain M&Ms and this ice was fantastic!!! So smooth and creamy and completely not what I had expected! I am so glad I was short on time and found this recipe! I can’t wait to make it again, it was so so good! Thank you!!
I’m thrilled that you like the ice cream, Marina!