I used a food processor, and added the melted butter right into the canister and pulsed once more to combine. HereвЂ™s a great little hack to soften ice cream evenly: Put the carton of ice cream in the refrigerator for about 45 minutes, and it will be perfectly softened for scooping and spreading!ДЄfter youвЂ™ve put your ice cream in the fridge to soften, start to assemble the dessert by crushing the Nilla wafers into a fine crumb. If you leave the ice cream on the counter to soften, or try to microwave it, the outside will be melty while the inside is still frozen solid. One of the hardest parts of ice cream desserts is scooping all the ice cream out of the carton and spreading it into the pan. YouвЂ™re a good person.If youвЂ™ve ever made a Dairy Queen run on a hot summer night to enjoy their royal treat, the Peanut Buster Parfait, this oneвЂ™s for you! IвЂ™ve added a buttery Nilla Wafer crust as the foundation for the vanilla ice cream, fudge topping, and crunchy peanuts to make a sliceable, make ahead dessert that will feed a whole crowd! This Peanut Buster Ice Cream Dessert is sure to be a hit at your next summertime get together. IвЂ™m living vicariously through you at this point.

So please make these and enjoy a couple for me. They melt together so deliciously and the swirl is just too artistic for words. So with having all the right things in the fridge, I decided to make a couple for Ben and I. They were my step-dadвЂ™s favorite, and what my sister would usually steer herself towards, too. On the odd days that I would change things up, it was all about the peanut buster parfaits. Usually I was a Nerds Blizzard kind of kid вЂ“ I would suck all the ice cream out of the Nerds, then deposit the Nerds back into the cup so I could eat them on their own at the end. These homemade peanut buster parfaits are one of them, because they harkin back to my childhood when we would go out to the local DQ after a long, happy week and have a treat. So I was focusing on some ice cream favorites this summer that would help get me through the heat wave that Seattle is currently experiencing. BUMMER! But that strawberry milkshake sure was good. In all hopes that it would be a gold star, we found out today, it was my just-in-case-you-fail meal. After not eating for 14 hours, we opted for one last hooorah, as a gold star for starving half the day, and a just-in-case-you-failed meal of cheeseburgers, fries and milkshakes.

Saturday Ben graciously decided to join me at the clinic while I did my two hour glucose test. The universe just thought that we should tack this onto the end of my pregnancy instead.

To be fair, I escaped morning sickness and most of the nausea. *pause for the dramatic pause, andвЂ¦* UGHHHHHHHHHHHHH. There is mixed berry cobblers coming your way, strawberry skillet cakes, cheesecake bars with summer fruits, and probably more but right now IвЂ™m focused on these homemade peanut buster parfaits вЂ“ and the fact I will have to be abstaining for the rest of summerвЂ¦Д«ecause well, guess whoвЂ™s got two thumbs and just found out she has gestational diabetes.

Right now I am reveling in the fact that I have a bunch of dessert recipes backlogged to share with you for the rest of summer. Bring back that fast foot treat to your own house with these easy homemade peanut buster parfaits! YouвЂ™ll never have to go out again!

Peanut buster parfait