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    Home » Dessert Recipes

    Salted Caramel Peanut Butter Ice Cream Bars

    Published: Aug 18, 2014 Last updated: Aug 18, 2022 by Shelby Law Ruttan · As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

    Welcome to Ice Cream Week 2014! This year the event is hosted by Kim of Cravings of a Lunatic and Susan of  The Girl in the Little Red Kitchen. We have teamed up with 25 amazing bloggers to bring you ice cream treats all week long. I hope you have as much fun as we did. Break out those stretchy pants and celebrate Ice Cream Week with us. Be sure to go to the end of the post to see the other Ice Cream Week Participants as well as an amazing giveaway!
    Salted Caramel Peanut Butter Buster Bars #caramel #peanutbutter #IceCreamWeek
    One of my favorite treats as a child when we would go out for ice cream would be the Peanut Butter Buster Bar from Dairy Queen.  Now, as an adult, I don't really indulge in ice cream all to often because my system doesn't tolerate it well.  However, I love ice cream and I decided I would participate in #IceCreamWeek along with several blogging friends this year, and my first creation was an adaptation of the Buster Bar with the Salted Caramel Peanut Butter Twist!
    Salted Caramel Peanut Butter Buster Bars #caramel #peanutbutter #IceCreamWeek
    The DQ Buster Bar is layers of ice cream, spanish peanuts, and fudge.  The Salted Caramel Peanut Butter Buster Bar is layers of salted caramel flavored peanuts, a peanut butter caramel sauce, and ice cream, dipped in butterscotch!
    Salted Caramel Peanut Butter Buster Bars #caramel #peanutbutter #IceCreamWeekI had a little bit of difficulty coating the bars with the butterscotch as you can see from the quite rustic and messy look of these bars!  I tried to find a butterscotch flavored Magic Shell but was unable to find anything but rootbeer and chocolate flavors.  So I went with butterscotch chips that I melted down some with shortening to make the dip smoother.  For the peanut butter caramel I mixed together equal parts of crunchy peanut butter and caramel sauce.  To offset all the sugar in the caramel fudge and butterscotch chips, I went with a sugar free ice cream.  

    I made these bars when Chris was here for a short visit and he happily devoured one.  Grumpy thought they were too sweet.  I thought they were just right, however I ate mine by cutting off pieces at different times when I thought I wanted a taste rather than eating it all at once.  I would definitely make these again and I would do my best to find some magic shell to dip these in!

    Read on after the recipe for the links to other Ice Cream Week participants as well as the giveaway info!

    Salted Caramel Peanut Butter Buster Bars

    Published 08/18/2014
    Salteld Caramel Peanut Butter Buster Bars

    Ingredients

    • 3 cups vanilla ice cream (I used sugar free)
    • 1 cup salted caramel flavored peanuts
    • ½ cup chunky peanut butter
    • ½ cup jarred caramel sauce
    • 3 tablespoons solid shortening
    • ½ bag Butterscotch chips
    • 4 small coffee cup sized paper cups
    • 4 popsicle sticks

    Instructions

    1. Soften ice cream slightly by letting the box sit on your counter for about 10 minutes.
    2. In bottom of cup, place a layer of peanuts.
    3. Next layer with ¼ cup of ice cream. Place ¼ cup of peanut butter carmel fudge on top of ice cream.
    4. Layer ½ of ice cream on top of fudge. Place popsicle stick in cup until almost to bottom. Cover with plactic wrap and freeze overnight.
    5. When ready to coat buster bars, melt butterscotch chips and shortening over double boiler stirring until smooth. Remove from heat and carefully spoon butterscotch over buster bars. Immediately place in freezer.
    6. Note: If you can find a butterscotch magic shell, I highly recommend using this as it will not cause melting of the ice cream and you won't have a mess!

    Yield: 4 bars
    Prep Time: 00 hrs. 20 mins.

    Cook time: 08 hrs. 00 mins.
    Total time: 8 hrs. 20 mins.
    Tags: peanut butter, caramel, butterscotch, peanuts, salted caramel, ice cream, novelties, #IceCreamWeek

    Participants for Ice Cream Week:

    Make sure you swing by for a scoop from each of today's Ice Cream Week Participants:
    Pink Lemonade Ice Cream Pie by Cravings of a Lunatic
    Chocolate Peanut Butter Caramel Ice Cream Pie by The Girl in the Little Red Kitchen
    Surprise Ice Cream Treat by Scoop Adventures
    Raspberry Lemonade Ice Cream Pie by The Redhead Baker
    Coffee Ice Cream by Cookistry
    Salted Caramel Ice Cream by Life Tastes Good
    Salted Caramel Peanut Butter Buster Bars by The Life and Loves of Grumpy's Honeybunch
    Cherry Cheesecake Ice Cream by Hezzi-d's Books and Cooks
    "Fried" Ice Cream Pie by Renee's Kitchen Adventures
    Mint Chip Ice Cream by Crumb
    S'mores Ice Cream Pie by Love and Confections
    How to Make an Ice Cream Pie at Home by Farm Fresh Feasts
    Gluten Free Sandwich Cookie Ice Cream Pie by Gluten Free Crumbley
    Fudge Topped Chocolate Ice Cream Pie by That Skinny Chick Can Bake
    Salted Caramel Ice Cream Pie by The Spiffy Cookie
    Caramel Coffee Milkshake by Wishes and Dishes
    Strawberry Shortcake Ice Cream Pie by The Messy Baker
    Majarete (Dominican Corn Pudding) Ice Cream by Mind Over Batter
    Peanut Butter Crunch Ice Cream Cake by The Gunny Sack
    Dirty Girl Scout Ice Cream by Quarter Life (Crisis) Cuisine
    No Churn Low Carb Blueberry Cheesecake Ice Cream by Yours and Mine are Ours


    Other Blogs participating later this week:
    My Catholic Kitchen
    Noshing with the Nolands
    Cupcakes & Kale Chips
    Mother Would Know
    Special Guest for the Week is Lindsay Clendaniel of the blog, Scoop Adventures. We're very excited to have her join us. Lindsay is the author of Scoop Adventures which is chock full of ice cream goodness.
    Ice Cream Week Giveaway #caramel #peanutbutter #IceCreamWeek
    Our sponsors for the event have provided us with some great prizes. A huge thanks to Cake Boss, Anolon, Microplane, WÜSTHOF, Page Street Publishing and Quarry Spoon. Kim of Cravings of a Lunatic and Susan of The Girl in the Little Red Kitchen have tossed in a bonus prize of a Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker because they think everyone should own one!
    Ice Cream Week Giveaway #caramel #peanutbutter #IceCreamWeek
    Here's what is up for grabs, One Winner Takes All:
    1 Cuisinart Ice Cream Machine in White
    One Cake Boss Mechanical Ice Cream Scoop with Red Silicone grips
    One Cake Boss 4Pc Ice Cream Bowl Set, Icing Pattern
    One Anolon Advanced Bronze 2 Qt Covered Straining Saucepan with Pour Spout
    One Microplane Herb and Salad Chopper
    One Microplane Premium Classic Grater in White
    One WUSTHOF CLASSIC 9-inch Double Serrated Bread Knife
    One Copy of the Cookbook Making Artisan Gelato by Torrance Kopfer
    One Copy of the Cookbook Everything Goes with Ice Cream by Koralee Teichroeb
    One Copy of the Cookbook Vegan Scoop by Wheeler del Torro
    One Copy of the Cookbook The Great Vegan Bean Book by Kathy Hester
    One Copy of the Cookbook Eat More Dessert by Jenny Kellar
    One Copy of  the Cookbook The Perfect Scoop by David Lebovitz
    One Copy of the Cookbook Scoop Adventures by Lindsay Clendaniel

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    About Shelby Law Ruttan

    Shelby is the author/owner of Grumpy's Honeybunch. Established in 2007, she shares and preserves family recipes as well as recipes for cooking light and keto. She has authored the One-Pot Paleo Cookbook and The Pescatarian Keto Cookbook. She is an experienced, self-taught home cook who loves to share recipes with others. She also authors the websites Honeybunch Hunts and The Best Vegetarian Recipes. You can see her work on websites such as Veal Made Easy, Parade, Community Table, SoFab Food, Yummly, and FoodGawker.

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    1. Tessa Newman

      August 29, 2014 at 9:32 pm

      You can make delicious magic shell with coconut oil and chocolate(or butterscotch) chips! My favorite ice cream is salted caramel so I was overjoyed when I saw this approach 😀

      Reply
    2. Brianne @ Cupcakes & Kale Chips

      August 24, 2014 at 11:22 am

      OH MY GOSH! I want these! Try melting the chips with coconut oil to create a homemade magic shell. I know it works with chocolate chips, so maybe it will with butterscotch.

      Reply
    3. Life Tastes Good

      August 20, 2014 at 5:03 am

      Shelby, these sound amazing! I love the flavor combos and that you made them on a stick! I've never had the DQ version, but I'm sure yours are better anyway!! Thanks so much for sharing!

      Reply
    4. Lindsay @ Scoop Adventures

      August 20, 2014 at 12:19 am

      These look super tasty!

      Reply
    5. Erin

      August 19, 2014 at 9:00 pm

      Wow those look addictive!

      Reply
    6. Norma Dillon

      August 19, 2014 at 11:36 am

      Sounds wonderful! My favorite ice cream (I know...sounds boring!) has always been vanilla because there's so many things you can do with vanilla to jazz it up. And this Buster Bar.... well, it's right up my alley, too!

      Reply
    7. Kim Bee

      August 19, 2014 at 3:06 am

      Salted caramel and peanut butter, you are an ice cream genius. Thanks for joining us for this event.

      Reply
    8. Susan

      August 19, 2014 at 2:16 am

      This.Is.Incredible and I feel so deprived that I never lived by a DQ now. I'd rather make your homemade version because I'm sure it's a million times better anyway.

      Reply
    9. Terri Truscello Miller

      August 18, 2014 at 6:34 pm

      I have never had a Buster Bar but it sounds like it's right up my alley. Yum!

      Reply
    10. Tonia Larson

      August 18, 2014 at 2:51 pm

      We LOVE buster bars too! Your version sounds delicious!

      Reply
    11. Nora

      August 18, 2014 at 12:44 pm

      Oh. My. Word.-- these looks SO good!!!

      Reply
    12. Liz Berg

      August 18, 2014 at 12:40 pm

      Caramel, peanut butter, butterscotch? So much yumminess in every bite!

      Reply

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