Chocolate Pretzel Peanut Ice Cream Bars

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If the operation of chill and creamy vanilla crystal cream, fudgy, heavy cocoa ganache, salty pretzels and crunchy peanuts sounds similar thing you tin get behind, this casual crystal pick barroom dessert is for you.

Inspired by 2 Dairy Queen treats, the Dilly Bar (vanilla crystal pick dipped successful chocolate) and the Buster Bar (vanilla crystal cream, positive peanuts and swirls of fudge dipped successful chocolate), cookbook writer Jessie Sheehan’s snack barroom dessert is each that, and past some. The no-bake pretzel crust is layered with softened store-bought crystal pick (Sheehan likes vanilla here, but you bash you), followed by a furniture of coarsely chopped, roasted and salted peanuts and topped with a silky cocoa ganache.

To finish, Sheehan sprinkles much chopped peanuts and crushed pretzels implicit the chocolate, giving the bars other brackish and crunch. After a fewer hours successful the freezer, the dessert is sliced into bars to fulfill each the salty, sweet, creamy, crunchy oregon chocolate-y cravings.

The bars tin beryllium frozen successful a zip-top container for up to 2 weeks.

The crust tin beryllium wrapped successful integrative wrapper and frozen for up to 3 days.

From cookbook writer Jessie Sheehan.

Ingredients

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Servings: 16 (2-by-3-inch bars)

For the crust and filling

  • 1 cupful (8 ounces/226 grams) unsalted butter, melted, positive much astatine country somesthesia for greasing the pan
  • 2 1/2 cups (8 ounces/226 grams) finely crushed pretzels (about 4 1/2 cups full pretzels, crushed successful a nutrient processor oregon crushed successful a zip-top container with a rolling pin; spot NOTE
  • 6 tablespoons (75 grams) packed airy brownish sugar
  • 3/4 spoon good salt
  • 1 1/2 quarts (27 1/2 ounces/783 grams) store-bought vanilla crystal cream

For the ganache topping

  • 9 ounces (255 grams) chopped semisweet cocoa oregon cocoa chips
  • 1 cupful (240 milliliters) dense cream
  • 2 tablespoons airy maize syrup
  • 2 cups (about 9 ounces/254 grams) roasted and salted peanuts, astir chopped
  • About 1 tablespoonful each finely chopped peanuts and crushed pretzels, for sprinkling

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (one 2-by-3-inch slice)

  • Calories

    501

  • Fat

    35 g

  • Saturated Fat

    18 g

  • Carbohydrates

    43 g

  • Sodium

    480 mg

  • Cholesterol

    72 mg

  • Protein

    8 g

  • Fiber

    3 g

  • Sugar

    25 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From cookbook writer Jessie Sheehan.

Tested by Suzy Leonard.

Published June 14, 2022

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Updated March 17, 2026

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