We had a birthday this week! Happy Birthday, S! This post is indulgent for many reasons, and I wanted to add it because I have always wanted to make an ice cream cake, and I finally did it, with some of my current favorite ingredients - ice cream (coconut) and brownies (protein rich, gluten-free).
Here is our pop flavor of the week. Watermelon has a naturally sweet, juicy disposition that lends itself well to smoothies and pops. So here is a quenching treat for the last hot days of summer.
If you love the flavor of coffee, or just like ice coffee and coffee ice cream, you just might enjoy this treat. It's simple to make and can be consumed immediately, or frozen for later.
Berries, berries, berries. We have strawberries growing from almost every dirt corner of our house. This year, I decided to rearrange my kitchen garden to grow more stuff I can consume. Out came a lot of climbing roses, columbine, and fragrant flowers, and in went herbs, tomatoes, peas, and a strawberry patch. The strawberries must be thinking, "uh, now she's herding us - that's ok, we'll do our thing here too."
You can just add pre-made chocolate chips to ice cream and they'll stay in the shape you added them in. Or, you can take a bit more time and create thin, irregular chips that seem truly authentic and an integral part of the ice cream experience (yes, I'm waxing eloquent about chocolate chips in ice cream). And you can use your favorite chocolate!
PS I'm pretty sure I learned this technique from David Lebovitz's website, but I can't find the page anymore.
I have been eating this ice cream après breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Since I don't drink coffee, it's kind of like my coffee fix - I know, I'm weird - I live in Seattle and don't drink coffee. I love coffee - in ice cream!
This ice cream is so decadent - a chocolate lover's delight. And I add raspberry syrup to the mix for even more sweet decadence. (It's hard not to be a berry fiend in the Pacific Northwest - has anyone anointed this area the "berry capital of the world" yet?)
Berry season is coming up (or it may already be with you). In any case, berry sorbets are so refreshing and so easy to make. This not only serves as a refreshing snack or dessert, but is great for whipping up strawberry smoothies.
I've been experimenting with flavors, but for the moment, I'm kind of stuck on berries and chocolate, if you haven't noticed. So here is a recipe for vanilla ice cream with swirls of chocolate and berry concentrate.
Ok, it's not exactly berry season - although California strawberries are beginning to trickle into markets here in Seattle. I'm using up my frozen berries from the summer of 2008, and what better way than with a creamy berry sherbet recipe - it's goes great with Valentine cookies, cakes, and chocolates!
The vanilla honey ice cream makes great ice cream pops. And it's not just the kids that like vanilla ice cream!
Happy New Year! This is a very simple recipe for vanilla ice cream using honey instead of sugar. It's sinfully simple.
