Snickers Peanut Butter Brownie Ice Cream Cake

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This ultra decadent Snickers Peanut Butter Brownie Ice Cream Cake has layers of fudgy brownie, chopped Snickers bars, peanut butter ice cream, caramel sauce and chocolate sauce! It’s your favorite candy bar in ice cream cake form.

A Snickers Ice Cream Layer Cake with Two Slices Removed

Snickers Peanut Butter Brownie Ice Cream Cake

Just looking at these pictures makes my mouth water. Imagine what it’s like in person! As I was making it, the hubs said he wanted to put his face in it. As fun as that would have been to see, ‘face’ isn’t really an ingredient in this particular cake. 🙂

This cake was actually made to celebrate the birthdays of a couple people in our small group. We had a little par-tay at the house and I actually made this, as well as my chocolate chip cookie cake, which was requested.

That cookie cake is easily the most viewed recipe on my blog and gets rave reviews whenever I make it, but dare I say this ice cream cake stole the attention completely away from that cookie.

A Slice of Snickers Ice Cream Cake on a Plate with the Rest of the Cake in the Background

The peanut butter ice cream is really the star in this ice cream cake show. Despite my clearly stellar dessert making abilities everyone seemed surprised to know that I’d made it from scratch.

Either they just don’t know me well enough yet, or the ice cream is THAT good.

I prefer to go with it’s just THAT good. 🙂

A Peanut Butter Brownie Ice Cream Cake Topped with Chopped Snickers, Caramel Sauce and Chocolate Sauce

This baby is rich. Perfectly rich. It rocks 4 layers of awesome:

1. Brownie
2. Caramel and chocolate sauce
3. Chopped snickers
4. Peanut butter ice cream

A snicker lovers dream.

A Slice of Snickers Cake on a White Plate in Front of a Stack of Other Plates

It’s also nice and easy to make. There’s no ice cream machine needed and I used a boxed brownie mix and store-bought caramel and chocolate sauce to make it even easier. Once you have the brownies made, it’s just a matter of layering and freezing. Piece of cake. 😉

A Collage of Pictures of a Slice of Snickers Ice Cream Cake and the Whole Cake

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A Snickers Ice Cream Layer Cake with Two Slices Removed
Recipe

Snickers Peanut Butter Brownie Ice Cream Cake

  • Author: Lindsay
  • Prep Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
  • Cook Time: 20 minutes
  • Total Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
  • Yield: 14
  • Category: Dessert
  • Method: Oven
  • Cuisine: American

Description

This ultra decadent Snickers Peanut Butter Brownie Ice Cream Cake has layers of fudgy brownie, chopped Snickers bars, peanut butter ice cream, caramel sauce and chocolate sauce! It’s your favorite candy bar in ice cream cake form.


Ingredients

  • 1 box brownie mix, plus ingredients required on box
  • 1/4 cup milk
  • 8 oz cream cheese, softened
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1 1/2 cups peanut butter
  • 8 oz Cool Whip, thawed (OR 1 recipe of homemade whipped cream)
  • 1 20 oz bottle chocolate sundae syrup (Here’s the one I used)
  • 1 20 oz bottle caramel sundae syrup
  • 1 11.5 oz bag mini snickers, chopped, divided into three groups

Instructions

NOTE: An 8-inch springform pan is best for this recipe so that you can easily remove the cake once it’s been assembled. If you do not have a springform pan, line your pan with clear wrap before adding your parchment paper and cake board. You can use the clear warp to lift your cake out of the pan once it’s assembled and frozen.

BROWNIES:

1. Make brownie dough according to instructions on back of box.
2. Grease two 8-inch pans (preferable springform pans, see above) and line the bottoms with parchment paper to allow for easy removal. Bake at temperature on box, reducing baking time to about 20 minutes (You can also bake 1 big brownie – which would cook for the normal time – and cut it in half, but cutting a brownie in half isn’t super easy).
3. When brownies are done baking, allow to completely cool.

ICE CREAM:

1. Combine milk, cream cheese, sugar and peanut butter together in the bowl of a stand mixer, or with a hand mixer. Mix until completely combined.
2. Fold in the cool whip.

ASSEMBLING IT ALL:

1. Line the sides of an 8-inch springform pan with parchment paper. The parchment paper should stick up above the top edge of the pan, since the cake will probably be a little taller than your pan. If you want, put a cardboard cake circle in the bottom of the pan.
NOTE: You should be using the same 8-inch pan you used for the brownies. Not all 8-inch pans are exactly the same size. Your brownie needs to fit in this pan.
2. Put the first brownie layer in the bottom of your pan.
3. Spread 1/2 cup caramel sauce and 1/2 cup chocolate sauce over the brownie. Top with first group of chopped snickers.
4. Top with half of the peanut butter ice cream.
5. Add second brownie to the pan, on top of the ice cream.
6. Again cover with 1/2 cup caramel sauce and 1/2 cup chocolate sauce. Top with second group of chopped snickers.
7. Top with remaining peanut butter ice cream.
8. Allow ice cream cake to freeze completely.
9. When frozen, remove from springform pan and remove parchment paper from sides.
10. Top with additional caramel sauce and chocolate sauce, allowing it to drizzle down the sides.
11. Cover with remaining chopped snickers and a little more caramel and chocolate sauce.

Notes

Serves 12-14.

Nutrition

  • Serving Size: 1 Slice
  • Calories: 979
  • Sugar: 97.5 g
  • Sodium: 739 mg
  • Fat: 47.4 g
  • Carbohydrates: 129.7 g
  • Protein: 15.2 g
  • Cholesterol: 46.8 mg

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324 Comments
  1. Brendon Callaghan

    I am planning on making this for my wife’s birthday, now seeing as I’m for Australia and can’t get a hold of cool whip could I just use whipped cream????

  2. Brendon Callaghan

    I am planning on making this for my wife’s birthday, now seeing as I’m for Australia and can’t get a hold of cool whip could I just use whipped cream????

    1. Life, Love and Sugar

      Hi Brendon! Yes, you can. I’ve had that question a few times so I tried it out. It worked well for me with 1 cup of heavy whipping cream, 2 tbsp of powdered sugar and 1 tsp of vanilla.

      1. Brendon Callaghan

        thanx heaps, do you just put all those ingrediants in together and mix or is there a method??

      2. Life, Love and Sugar

        I’m actually working on a post for that at this moment! You want to put the metal bowl and whisk you’ll be using to make it in the freezer for about 15-20 mintues to get it good and cold. When it’s ready, add the heavy whipping cream and powdered sugar (sifted) to the bowl and mix with a mixer (or whisk by hand) on medium speed. It will get kind of bubbly at first and then start to thicken. Once it’s started to thicken, add the vanilla extract. Keep mixing until it’s totally thickened and you have soft peaks (to tell if you have soft peaks, pull the whisk out and if you get a peak that barely folds over at the top, it’s done). The mixing should take about 5-7 minutes total.

  3. Marion Lowings

    Hallo
    I am enquiring about your snickers peanut butter brownie ice cream cake….
    I am not familiar with oz’s. You mentioned an ingrediant ‘8 oz cream cheese…how much is it in millimeters, grams or cups? And what is cool whip?
    Hope to hear from you soon
    Kind regards
    Marion

    1. Life, Love and Sugar

      Hi Marion! I just went and measured for you – 8 oz of cream cheese is 225 grams. Cool Whip is a whipped cream you can buy in grocery stores in the U.S. If you can’t buy it where you are, you can use whipping cream. Since I’ve had that question a few times I tried it out and it worked great with 1 cup of heavy whipping cream, 2 tbsp of powdered sugar and 1 tsp of vanilla.

  4. apriljoannea

    I want to make this today but im confused by one thing, in your picture the cake looks fairly tall, but I dont think I can stack the two layers of ice cream and brow ie in my standard 8 inch cake pan and have it look that width, is your pan a different depth? maybe it just looks thicker in the picture?

    1. Life, Love and Sugar

      It is a fairly tall cake. I used an 8 inch by 3 inch cake pan (from Michaels). But if you line your pan with parchment paper that sticks up above the top of a standard 2 in tall cake pan, you should be fine. The ice cream is fairly thick even before freezing and will stand up well. Of course you can always freeze it in 2 sections and then combine them if you want.

      1. Leo

        I’m a little confused as to how you lined it. How did you make it to stay> Can you describe it in detail? thanks

      2. lifeloveandsugar@gmail.com

        Hi Leo, here is a picture of the general set up. I have the parchment paper around the outside and in the bottom of the pan. I also sometimes put a cardboard cake circle in the bottom of the pan so that it’s easy to lift the cake out. I hope that helps!

    1. Life, Love and Sugar

      You could, but the brownie box mix may end up making really thin layers and the ice cream layers would also be thinner.

  5. Aviva

    Hi “SINFUL” what more can i say!!!!!! Question how long can this be kept in the freezer? I would like to make it ahead of time, does it hold up well? Like maybe wrapped in plastic wrap/foil and kept in pan till i need and how do you feel about scratch brownies or not worth the time in this cake because everything else is so decadent? I will be making this with fresh whipping cream, i saw your measurements for that! Thanks

  6. Aviva

    Hi “SINFUL” what more can i say!!!!!! Question how long can this be kept in the freezer? I would like to make it ahead of time, does it hold up well? Like maybe wrapped in plastic wrap/foil and kept in pan till i need and how do you feel about scratch brownies or not worth the time in this cake because everything else is so decadent? I will be making this with fresh whipping cream, i saw your measurements for that! Thanks

    1. Life, Love and Sugar

      Hi Aviva! I haven’t had it last long enough to say how long is best in the freezer, but I’d image like most frozen things you’d want to watch out for freezer burn. If it’s wrapped well I would think it’d be fine for a couple weeks. I think scratch brownies would be great. I don’t know how much you’d notice though given everything else around them and that they’re frozen.

    1. Life, Love and Sugar

      You’d definitely lose some volume without the cool whip. I don’t know how whipping cream would do. I’m not sure if it would hold up or not.

    2. Life, Love and Sugar

      Hi Katie, just wanted to let you know that after getting this question a few times I decided to test it out this weekend and whipping cream works great! I used a cup of heavy whipping cream, 2 tbsp of powdered sugar and 1 tsp of vanilla.

      1. Brittany

        So I was completely excited about this yummy looking cake! I just made it and it was a complete failure…haha but on the upside, the chocolate gooey goodness tasted pretty good….lol

      2. Life, Love and Sugar

        Hi Brittany, I’m sorry to hear that! Can you describe what seems to have happened – I’d be happy to try and help. Did it freeze long enough? I made it again this past weekend and it seemed like it took forever to freeze all the way because I couldn’t wait to eat it!

      3. Kiri

        This looks incredible!! Here in Australia we don’t have cool whip so I don’t know anything about it. In substituting the whipping cream (and this may be a silly question) do you whip it into peaks first?

      4. Life, Love and Sugar

        Hi Kiri! That’s not a dumb question – you do whip it into peaks first. I’ve actually gotten this question a number of times so I tested it myself and used 1 cup heavy whipping cream, 2 tbsp powdered sugar and 1 tsp vanilla.

  7. Mirliisa

    Looks heavenly!!! A definite must try!!
    Curious… is it hard to cut? Concerned it might squish when trying to slice it… or the opposite… too hard to cut??

    1. Life, Love and Sugar

      Thank you! It actually is fine to slice. No different than any other ice cream cake. It definitely doesn’t squish and it’s firm enough to cut without feeling like you’ll break your arm 🙂

    1. Life, Love and Sugar

      Hi Rez! To make vanilla ice cream you can use the same ingredients, but don’t use the peanut butter and add 1-2 tsp of vanilla extract.

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