Gelato di crema (and on gelato in general)
Gelato di crema – sometimes described as “vanilla ice cream without vanilla”! Following in the footsteps of the late great Marcella Hazan and her recipe from a restaurant in Bologna, we’ll be testing out...
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Honeycomb ice cream (Hokey Pokey)
Save the bees! – all you’ll need to create these deliciously sweet honeycombs is sugar, syrup and a little baking soda (!) Honeycomb ice cream is basically vanilla ice cream in which small,...
Presidential ice cream – Thomas Jefferson’s Vanilla
Like most of us, several US Presidents have expressed their love for ice cream: something which began much earlier than with the well-known ice cream fans Biden, Obama and Reagan! The records show that...
Cosmopolitan (cranberry) sorbet
Cranberries are in season, we have a new year to celebrate and if you long for some tangy and slightly less sweet fare after all the sweet Christmas stuff – why not test a...
Christmas Pudding ice cream
Christmas is coming, so why not celebrate with a very British Christmas pudding ice cream! But doesn’t it take weeks to bake one of those puddings? That’s true so unless you already have one,...
Mochi ice cream
Mochi ice cream is a quite young frozen invention! Luckily for us, wrapping tasty Japanese rice dough around ice cream is very easy to do at home too: get hold of the proper sweet rice...
The Lady in Vanilla White – Belgium’s iconic Dame Blanche
The Lady in White – Belgium’s signature ice cream dessert has a haunting name, but it is easy to see why this particular combo of sweet, pale vanilla and rich, dark chocolate has enjoyed...
Mochaccino ice cream (vegan)
This ice cream version of the famous coffee-choco drink combines flavours in a way capable of seducing even non-coffee lovers. Yes, the happy marriage between the chocolate and the coffee flavours is a winner,...
