Peanut Brittle and Caramel Crunch Ice Cream Pie
This recipe serves 10. One serving contains 737 calories, 14g of protein, and 44g of fat. It can be enjoyed any time, but it is especially good for Summer. Only Head to the store and pick up water, vanilla bean, sea salt, and a few other things to make it today. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 45 minutes.
Instructions
Place cream in smallsaucepan. Scrape in seeds from vanilla bean;add bean. Bring just to simmer.
Mix in butterand sea salt; set vanilla cream aside.
Stir sugar, 1/3 cup water, and corn syrupin heavy medium saucepan over mediumheat until sugar dissolves. Increase heat;boil without stirring until syrup turns deepamber, brushing down sides with wet pastrybrush and swirling pan occasionally, about 12minutes.
Whisk in vanillacream (mixture will bubble). Set sauce aside.
Preheat oven to 375°F. Line9-inch-diameter pie dish with foil. Finelygrind graham crackers and brown sugar inprocessor.
Add butter and vanilla; blend untilmoist crumbs form.
Add nuts; blend justuntil finely chopped. Using plastic wrap asaid, press crumbs firmly onto bottom and upsides of foil-lined pie dish. Freeze 15 minutes.
Bake crust until brown, about 15minutes. Freeze 1 hour. Using foil, lift crustfrom dish; carefully peel off foil. Return crustto pie dish.
Drizzle 1/2 cup caramel sauceover bottom of crust. Freeze 30 minutes.Spoon 1 1/2 pints ice cream into crust; smoothtop.
Drizzle 3 tablespoons peanut butterover, then 2 tablespoons sauce.
Sprinklewith 1/2 cup brittle. Freeze 1 hour. Spoonremaining 1 1/2 pints ice cream over; smoothtop.
Drizzle 2 tablespoons peanut butterover, then 2 tablespoons sauce.
Sprinkle edgeof pie with 1/2 cup brittle. Freeze 4 hours.DO AHEAD: Pie can be made 3 days ahead;tent with foil and freeze. Cover and chillremaining sauce.
Cut pie into wedges. Rewarm sauce andpass separately.