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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Enjoy!

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324 Comments
    1. lifeloveandsugar@gmail.com

      Hi Stacy! Yes you can – just leave out the peanut butter and add 1-2 tsp of vanilla extract.

  1. shamene@sayitwithcake

    Hi Your cake looks amazing!! I want to try to make it soon, I can’t wait!! How high above the pan is the cake while it is freezing? After it is done freezing, do you have to dowel it or does it stay on its own? Pinning it!!!

    1. lifeloveandsugar@gmail.com

      Hi Shamene! Thank you! It’s probably an inch or so above the top of the pan (I just use parchment paper that goes up that high). No need to dowel it – once it’s frozen it doesn’t budge. 🙂 Thanks for sharing it!

  2. Anika

    O.M.G. This looks amazing. I have little to no baking skills, but I might even be able to manage this. I have to try it. Thanks for sharing.

  3. Tasha

    I am making this cake tomorrow for my husbands birthday and I am super excited about doing it. But I have come to a stand still on assembling the cake I have two 8 inch springform pans and they are about 3 1/2 – 4 inches tall, do you layer it in one pan. How do you keep it to hold shape?

    1. lifeloveandsugar@gmail.com

      Hi Tasha – yes, I layer it in an 8×3 inch pan usually. I put parchment paper around the edges that sticks up above the sides and it holds it all fine. The ice cream mixture is pretty thick. Here’s a link to show you.

  4. Bill

    I’m not sure I have any words to describe my reaction to this cake other than to say I need some right now! 🙂 I’m adding this to my to do list right now. Awesome post and great photos!

  5. Daisy

    I am planning to make this cake, and I have one question:
    can I buy ice cream and place it on cold brownies instead of making an ice-cream with whipped cream?
    Thank you!

  6. Laura

    Everyone loves this,better than DQ ice cream cake.I use a little extra chocolate and Carmel sauce .I also frost sides with chocolate peanut butter ganash.It gives it that finished look.Awsome is all I can think of .Thank-You

    1. lifeloveandsugar@gmail.com

      You can, but you may want to make a little more of the ice cream, depending on how tall of a cake you want.

  7. Winnie

    AWESOME cake !
    This is definitely a cake I must make
    I made a Snickers Cake (which the most viewed post on my blog) but it’s different from yours.

  8. vickibensinger.com

    OMG this looks incredibly delicious! Both my kids have birthdays coming up and I’d love to make this only I don’t know that they’re fans of Snickers – but I am! Great recipe and interesting way of making ice cream, I’ve never seen a recipe like that before. Can’t wait to try it.

  9. vickibensinger.com

    OMG this looks incredibly delicious! Both my kids have birthdays coming up and I’d love to make this only I don’t know that they’re fans of Snickers – but I am! Great recipe and interesting way of making ice cream, I’ve never seen a recipe like that before. Can’t wait to try it.

  10. Jade

    Oh my goodness, pure bliss. I found your recipe from Pinterest and made it today. Posted the end result to Facebook and boy did it cause a stir. Everyone loved it, It looks so yummy and tasted just wonderful. Between my family and a few friends, it has almost gone already and we didn’t even get it completely set in the freezer. Was too tempting to wait. Thanks for a new awesome dessert to add to my favourites. Looking forward to trying a few others.

  11. Jade

    Oh my goodness, pure bliss. I found your recipe from Pinterest and made it today. Posted the end result to Facebook and boy did it cause a stir. Everyone loved it, It looks so yummy and tasted just wonderful. Between my family and a few friends, it has almost gone already and we didn’t even get it completely set in the freezer. Was too tempting to wait. Thanks for a new awesome dessert to add to my favourites. Looking forward to trying a few others.

  12. welshsparx

    I’m an absolute novice! used the whipped cream as cant find cool whip (said like stewie, haha) in the uk. AWSOME!

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