Chocolate-Peanut Butter Ice Cream Sauce

This is the perfect "hot fudge" type sauce. It's best served warm, and will turn into awesome chewy yumminess on your favorite ice cream! When cold, it's the consistency of fudge (fight over eating the leftovers with a spoon).

This recipe came about when I had the hankering for something chocolate-PB flavored and we had a bunch of ice cream in the freezer. I searched online for a good recipe but nothing really struck me. Then I remembered the frosting from my chocolate-cherry cake and how I always thought it would make good ice cream sauce. I used that recipe, making it a little thinner to use as sauce, and added the peanut butter. I used crunchy the first time I made it and it was amazing! I then tried it with creamy and it was just as good.

For the record, one of my kids doesn't like crunchy PB and was leery of that batch - but agreed that the nut chunks really made it.

We served it with banana slices and fresh cherries! Yum!!

Recipe:

1/3 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup milk

Bring these to a boil and simmer for 1 minute, stirring constantly. Remove from heat and add:

1 cup chocolate chips
1/3 cup peanut butter

Stir until melted and completely incorporated.

Cool until just warm. Serve over your favorite ice cream.

Edit to ADD: We thought this would be great with butterscotch chips, but it really was WAY too sweet. I guess those chips are just sweeter than chocolate. I was going to try white chips, too. Someday I will play with it and see how to adapt the sugar - but it really needs the sugar for the texture, so I don't know.