Right before Ryan and I left for Jacksonville on Friday evening, we received a special delivery courtesy of the Foodbuzz Tastemaker Program.
Häagen-Dazs®ice cream. Jackpot!
I brought several of the pints of ice cream to Jacksonville with me to share with my friends during Saturday’s barbeque (BIG hit!), but left two at home to enjoy as a special treat.
Ice cream never lasts long in our house, as it is both Ryan and my favorite food. Make that ice cream the extra creamy and incredibly flavorful Häagen-Dazs® crème brulée ice cream and it doesn’t stand a chance.
Less than 20 minutes after we arrived home from Jacksonville this evening, Ryan and I were digging into one of the remaining pints of ice cream.
Since we both ate the crème brulée ice cream yesterday at the barbeque, I wanted to enjoy it in a slightly different way and put the lid back on the pint, threw it back in the freezer and told Ryan to give me 20 minutes of playtime in the kitchen to try to make something yummy to serve as a topping for the ice cream.
I initially thought about making bananas flambé, but we didn’t have any fresh bananas on hand. Knowing that we had a bunch of frozen bananas in the freezer, I changed my tune and looked in the pantry, grabbing cashew butter and vanilla extract, thinking I could make something incredibly delicious with these three ingredients.
I then Googled peanut butter ice cream topping, figuring I could use that as recipe inspiration and came upon a recipe from In Katrina’s Kitchen. I changed Katrina’s recipe to incorporate the flavors I wanted and ended up with the most delicious vanilla banana cashew butter ice cream sauce.
Vanilla Banana Cashew Butter Ice Cream Sauce
Description
A yummy, decadent ice cream treat that will have you craving a second bowl!
Ingredients
- 1/2 can (7 ounces) sweetened condensed milk
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 1/4 cup all natural roasted cashew butter
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 frozen banana
- 1/2 cup Häagen-Dazs® crème brulée ice cream
Instructions
- Heat sweetened condensed milk through vanilla extract on the stovetop over low-medium heat until ingredients are melted together.
- Microwave frozen banana until banana is warm and very soft, about 40 seconds. Mash banana thoroughly with a fork.
- Stir banana into cashew butter sauce on the stove top until adequately incorporated into the sauce.
- Pour two tablespoons of the sauce over ice cream and immediately enjoy.
- Store remaining sauce in an airtight container or jar and enjoy within one week.
Notes
(Adapted from In Katrina’s Kitchen’s Peanut Butter Ice Cream Topping)
The hot sauce melts the ice cream fast, so eat it fast! Though that shouldn’t be a problem…
Disclaimer: As part of the Foodbuzz Tastemaker Program, I received a stipend and coupons for free Häagen-Dazs® ice cream
My intense love for ice cream is purely my own.
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OMG! I am literally eating ice cream as I sit here reading this post in my email and am going to go get my butt off of the couch and make some of that deliciousness to top it off right now! I just happen to have all of those ingredients on hand (except almond butter instead of cashew butter) You just made my Sunday night 🙂
oooh! let me know how it tastes with almond butter!
I’m dying for this right now. Looks awesome. Makes me wish I wasn’t feelin so lazy today. I’d totally make this
it only takes about 5 minutes… 😉
I was totally lazy yesterday but haven’t stopped thinking about it since last night… I’m headed out to the store in a bit. I’m buyin up all the ingredients and making this for our dessert tonight. mmmmmhhhmmm
YUM! Gonna make some tonight!
Oh my goodness, Haagen Dazs ice cream is exactly the kind of product that I want to review!! 😉 I could write pages and pages about my love for their ice cream haha! This looks delicious, Julie!
Aww thanks for the link love 🙂 It is quite tasty. I’ll be right over for a bowl!
That looks amazing!
Mmm…way to make something already decadent even better 🙂
I just tried to sign up for the Foodbuzz tastemaker program, but I have to get a self-hosted wordpress website to participate 🙁
i had to do the same thing. i think it’s worth it though b/c it really does allow your site to be a lot more dynamic in other ways, too. 🙂
this looks incredible! can’t wait to try 🙂
this looks awesome!!
My favorite is Baileys Haagen Daas with Baileys poured over top! Baileys over vanilla Haagen Daas was a common occurrence years and years ago before I left my parents place….but when my mom found the Baileys ice cream it took it over the top. God I want some now….
Darn I just looked and the Baileys is no more…oh well I guess vanilla will have to do!
that sounds so, so good!
I want to try to make something with bananas, peanut butter, and chocolate..
or white chocolate caramel.
Ice cream is the best!
I could easily eat ice cream or froyo every day.
you and me both, my friend.
This looks amazing! What a perfect flavor combination. Makes me want ice cream right now!!!
YUM!!!! That looks so heavenly!
Very creative!! Sounds so good!
Very very solid. Nice impromptu
I love cashew butter, and I love ice cream! Cashew butter + ice cream = heaven!
I made homemade rocky road tonight! Summer and ice cream are perfect together!
do you add the butter and cashew butter in the first step?
yes!
Cashew butter is the best nut butter out there. This sounds delicious. Of course I only have the cashew butter and that’s it, guess I need to go on a grocery shopping trip
I would do without the banana, but the rest sounds AMAZING ! I am an ice cream LOVER 🙂
Ice cream is my weakness…I’d give up all the dessert in the world for it! Have you tried the Haagen Dazs flavors Cappucino & Truffle or Caramel Biscuits & Cream? Both are ah-mazing!
no! oh my gosh those sound fantastic!
Very creative way to top ice cream! I’m impressed. And the creme brulee ice cream flavour sounds delicious!
Oh my, my husband would absolutely love this! Creme Brule is his favorite and we’ve had the Ben and Jerry’s version but I had no idea Haagan Daaz made one. Sounds delicious!
Oh my god this is too much deliciousness for one post! My favourite flavour is Pralines and Cream . I literally stood leaning up against my fridge freezer spooning this straight from tub to mouth last night 🙂
That looks delicious! I love how you described your thought process behind coming up with the recipe. I often do the same thing…I’ll find a recipe, and then adjust with whatever ingredients I have or want to incorporate. This one looks like a huge success! Cashew butter is one of my faves 🙂
NEED this in my life! That would be gone in 10 seconds. maybe less. yum!!