Azuki Red Bean ice cream (East Asian style)
The red Azuki bean is a treasured dessert ingredient in many East Asian sweets. From the Chinese moon cakes to Japanese Daifuku rice cakes, its sweet red bean paste stands ready to provide a...
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The Perfect Watermelon sorbet
Watermelons – refreshing, tasty and beloved but often quite a challenge for the ice cream maker. But that won’t stop us! Read on, and learn how to make a really nice sorbet! And …...
Midsummer Blueberries ice cream
Midsummer has a very special place in my heart. At Swedish altitudes, the Summer Solstice – the shortest night of the year – seldom turns completely dark, and experiencing such a white night can be...
Summer Strawberries ice cream
Strawberries … few would argue that this might be the most “summery” of all ice cream flavours! As the stalls near me began to showcase the first summer strawberries, there was only one thing...
Raw Chocolate gelato à la Modica
In these pandemic times, lock-downs, travel restrictions and social distancing will most likely put a stop to any prospects of visiting the Italian city of Modica on Sicily. But what is so special about...
Apple sauce sorbet – quick and great in trying times!
Making ice cream can help keep up the spirit at home in these pandemic times. But as many of us are struggling to cope with worries, quarantines, and social distancing, lengthy searches for exotic...
Banana ice cream (the infused way!)
Bananas must be among the most beloved of all fruits (to be botanically correct, it is actually a berry!). For ice cream lovers, the attraction is obvious – good, genuine banana ice cream is...
Polka (stick candy) ice cream
Stick candy – most of us have probably cherished memories of sucking at lollipops and their hard likes. So why not mix some of this candy into a delicious ice cream? And we’ll be...
