Homemade Ice Cream with Cookie Butter and Chocolate Covered Pretzels

April 05, 2025

Happy Hour and Dessert in Capitol Hill

Happy Hour Street Tacos with Carne Asada and a Miami Vice from Poquitos. Poquitos is located in Capitol Hill and they're serving up authentic Mexican cuisine and cocktails. Their happy hour deal is a good one- during Ocho hour, everything on the happy hour menu is just $8! I went with a Miami Vice, a classic Pina Colada with Strawberry. This blended cocktail was so fruity and delicious. To eat I had two Carne Asada Street Tacos and a Birria Poquitos Burrito. The Burrito was small and served with a side of Consommé sauce. Both food items were tasty and satisfying. My husband also had some Street Tacos and a Margarita from the happy hour menu. My sons had a Cheese Quesadilla and beans and rice. Everyone enjoyed their dinner. I first visited Poquitos in 2012, also for happy hour, and I remembered liking it then, too. It was time for a meal there again. For dessert, we walked about ten minutes west to Voodoo Doughnut . The Seattle location opened late last ye...

Happy 2016! The future has arrived and I'm making ice cream. Forget this "new year, new me" stuff, I'm hungry. I know we still have sweets in every crevice of our kitchen, but we're out of ice cream and I had heavy whipping cream left from my French Toast Bake I made for Christmas. Since I have a lot of Cookie Butter from Trader Joe's, I thought, why not make Cookie Butter Ice Cream? We love it on our waffles and by the spoonful so ice cream would be delicious, too. I wanted to add another mix-in to give the ice cream more texture and flavor so I added chopped up chocolate covered pretzels, extras I had from Christmas when I dipped pretzels in melted chocolate and sprinkled them with candy cane pieces. I had some plain chocolate pretzels left, luckily, that did the job. I used the same recipe from last time, the homemade ice cream with the mini peppermint waffle cookies. I ended up loving the way it turned out and gave myself a pat on the back. Not only do I love how it tastes but it was so fun to make!