SOUTHERN CHOCOLATE SUNDAES WITH BUTTERSCOTCH SAUCE AND PEANUTS (four)
½ cup salted roasted peanuts, chopped coarse
3 tablespoons Southern Comfort
1 cup butterscotch sauce (buy commercially prepared or make your own)
1 pint super-premium chocolate ice cream
whipped cream for serving (optional)
- Reserve about 3 tablespoons peanuts for sprinkling. In a saucepan stir remaining peanuts and Southern Comfort into butterscotch sauce and cook over moderately low heat, stirring, until heated through.
- Scoop ice cream into 4 sundae dishes and spoon sauce over it. Sprinkle sundaes with reserved peanuts.
from Gourmet Magazine, May, 1995
