Nutty Buddy Sundaes serves vanilla ice cream, in a waffle bowl topped with a homemade hard candy shell. Topped off with a bit of whipped cream and a cherry. A old-fashioned ice cream treat to make at home.

Nutty Buddy Sundae

Welcome to another addition of from Our Family Table. This week, we’re talking ice cream!
No churn, hand churn, gelato; how do you keep cool with ice cream during the heat of summer? What toppings and sauces do you make for your ice cream friendly family?

Thanks Christie from A Kitchen Hoor’s Adventures for hosting our ice cream social! 🙂

If you’ve never had a Nutty Buddy Ice Cream Cone, it was vanilla ice cream packed inside a sugar wafer cone, topped with a hard chocolate shell and loaded with chopped peanuts. The secret was that hard chocolate shell you could bite into.

The original cones disappeared from stores years ago. Now you can find a similar cone called drumsticks but that crunchy dark chocolate isn’t the same.
I bought sugar waffle bowls to make this into sundae. Maybe I just wanted some whipped cream and a cherry! 😉

If you can’t find waffle cone bowls, make it as an ice cream cone or break waffle cones as the base. It doesn’t matter, it’s all good!
Nutty Buddy Sundae My version of this classic treat uses dark chocolate chips and coconut oil to make that crunchy chocolate shell.

As a side note, different brands of coconut oil will yield different textures in the shell. You can easily adjust the thickness by remelting the mixture with more oil or chocolate chips!

Nutty Buddy Sundae

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Ingredients:

1 sugar wafer bowl or cone

1 to 2 scoops of vanilla ice cream

1 to 2 tablespoons chopped peanuts

1 cup dark or semi-sweet chocolate chips

2 tablespoons coconut oil

whipped cream and cherry optional

Instructions:

Fill bowl with desired amount of ice cream. Sprinkle with peanuts. Place back in freezer until ready to add shell topping.

Combine chips and oil in a microwave safe bowl. Melt 20 seconds at a time, stir, until thin enough to pour over ice cream.

Pour over ice cream. Allow to harden, (a few seconds to a half a minute). Place back in freezer if necessary to harden. Top with whipped cream and cherry if desired.