Peanut butter, peanut, peanut butter m&m ice cream

This is an idea that’s been floating around my head for a week or two.  I almost always have all the ingredients in the house.  The candy I buy in bulk and the other ingredients I have on hand because I make ice cream and cereal snacks and cereal bars on a semi- regular basis.  This recipe seems too easy because every ingredient needs little alteration.  Besides blending peanut butter and skim milk and chopping peanut m&m’s in half there really is next to no busy work.  Anyways without further ado, here goes nothing.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup smooth peanut butter
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1 2/3 cups skim milk
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 1 1/3 cup heavy whipping cream
• 1/2 cup peanut butter m&m’s
• 1/2 cup roasted unsalted peanuts

Instructions:

1.  Blend peanut butter, skim milk, and salt until incorporated.
2.  Mix sugar and cream in medium sized bowl with whisk.
3.  Whisk in blended mixture until mostly homogeneous.
4.  Prepare ice cream in ice cream maker according to manufacturer’s instructions.  This recipe is optimized to 1 1/2 qt machine.
5.  While ice cream is being made cut m&m’s in half.  Put halves in bowl with peanuts.  Mix.  Set aside.
6.   Pour bowl of mix-ins over prepared ice cream.
7.   Mix with spatula.  Portion.  Serve either immediately as soft serve or place in ice box serving later as hard serve.