It's almost that time again, if you consider cold treats to be a seasonal thing--time for ice cream and all those other tasty frozen treats! And if you're looking for ideas to make at home, Food52 has all the ideas you need. From ideas for no-churn ice creams to boozy ice cream treats, from milkshakes to popsicles to ice cream sandwiches, Food52 Ice Cream and Friends has it all.
And I do mean that this cookbook has it all. Not just the frozen treats, but all the accoutrements--magic shell, sugar cones, old-fashioned hot fudge, balsamic butterscotch, and even sprinkles. Yes, they include a recipe for sprinkles. You can add whatever flavor or color you like, because they're your very one homemade sprinkles! How cool is that?
So here are just a few of the 60+ recipes you'll find here: two-tone fudge pops, fresh ricotta ice cream, chocolate tacos, carrot cake ice cream, vanilla rooibos gelato, coffee frozen custard, mud pie with beer ice cream, s'mores ice cream, blood orange-negroni pops, cucumber sorbet, cherry snow cones, roasted peaches with lemon spoom (it's a sort of sorbet foam), and cinnamon roll ice cream. There is even a recipe for burnt toast ice cream.
And because it's Food52, they know all the ins and outs of making ice cream. Did your ice cream base break? They know how to fix it. They know how to temper chocolate so the texture is perfect for mixing it into ice cream. They know how best to store it, what kind of shelf life it has, and how to fix it when it gets too melty. They even have tips for dealing with that nemesis of all the frosty summer treats, The Brain Freeze.
Am I overselling here? Ya, I think I need to bring it down a little too. But here's the thing. Food52 Ice Cream and Friends is a fantastic cookbook filled with all sorts of genuinely creative ideas for grown-up, sophisticated, tasty frozen treats, both savory and sweet, both churned and not, and there is definitely something for everyone. And of course, the photography is so amazing you'll want to lick the pages.
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