Recipes
Soy Milk Ice Cream
I know a couple of people that can’t drink milk, which means they suffer a fate worse than death: not being able to eat ice cream. The solution? Make ice cream from soy milk.
But I discovered that there are two problems with making soy milk ice cream. First, soy milk has almost no fat in [...]
German Chocolate Cake Ice Cream
When I talk to friends about ice cream, the conversation invariably turns into a brainstorming session about all the various kinds of dessert that could be made into an ice cream. So when my cousin’s son made a special request for German Chocolate Cake ice cream, it sounded like a great challenge. Chocolate ice cream with coconut, pecans, and caramel. How hard could it be?
Stabilizers in Ice Cream Part 2: Strawberry Ice Cream
Icy chunks of frozen strawberries in ice cream are the culinary equivalent of fingernails on a chalkboard. Blending the fruit helps, but all the water in the juice still makes for an ice cream that tastes more cold and frosty than smooth and creamy. After my previous experiment with stabilizers in vanilla ice cream, I [...]
Making the Ultimate Chocolate Ice Cream
There’s a particular chocolate ice cream recipe that I’ve nicknamed “Oh My God Chocolate”, because those are usually the first words spoken by any female that tries it. It’s deep, rich, and creamy, and makes my wife’s eyes roll to the back of her head when she eats it. But when I used [...]
Guinness Ice Cream
When I drink beer while eating ice cream, I’m never sure if the strange looks I get from people are because they think it’ll taste disgusting or because they think I’ll get sick — or both. So when I heard about beer ice cream, well, how could anyone say drinking beer with ice cream was [...]
Peppermint Ice Cream
I love peppermints. I’m not into the super-strong mints, and definitely not the wintergreen kind — just the red and white ones you see in a bowl as you’re leaving a restaurant. I’m one of those people that grabs a handful instead of just one. My wife even bought me a big bag of them [...]
Cinnamon, Oatmeal Cookie, Chocolate Chunk Ice Cream
I started wondering one day what would go together with cinnamon and chocolate in an ice cream. The combination with oatmeal cookies just seemed to be a perfect match, so I tried it. It’s become the most-often requested ice cream I’ve made, and one of the easiest to make. It turns out Ben & Jerry’s [...]
Spicy Peach Chocolate Chunk Ice Cream
Ok, so you’re at a restaurant eating a fantastic dessert when that thought hits you like it has so many times before… “I wonder if I could make this into an ice cream?”
My wife and I had the most incredible dessert at a Cajun restaurant once. Half of a peach, grilled with butter, and served [...]
Sweet Cream Base
The place to start when making ice cream is with the Sweet Cream Base. It contains the basic ingredients for lots of recipes, and then you can add flavorings to make whatever you want.
A great book to start with is Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Ice Cream & Dessert Book. It’s filled with no-nonsense [...]
