The need for COOL. The hot days of summer are upon us. I’ve been sharing some cooler main dishes, but a little something sweet is always nice (although it’s hard to beat watermelon, cherries, strawberries and cantaloupe right now!) – if you’re looking for something quick and delicious that you may already have the ingredients for (2) keep reading!

You scream, I scream, we ALL scream for ice cream as they say. What actually got this idea started was Whole Foods 50% off ice cream the past few weeks. Not good, although I eat a small scoop (I use a tiny prep bowl usually) so it’s not too bad.

Chocolate or vanilla ice cream (or the Halfsies at Whole Foods which is half vanilla and half chocolate) and your nut of choice (peanuts!) chopped fine – so you get a nice crunch in each bite. I LOVE IT! If I run out of peanuts, I pass what’s left to Fred, ha ha…

I haven’t tried this but I saw a few dark chocolate peanut butter cups in the fridge (Trader Joe’s) and I thought, hmmmm! I could chop one up and sprinkle on top. I haven’t. Yet. I did take a small handful of dark chocolate semisweet chocolate chips and chop them up and we put it over our ice cream, it was good, but I like the peanuts even more!

What are your go to summer desserts in the heat?

🥜 Until next time…