Test Kitchen Tips
Offbeat Ice Cream Topping
It’s easy to love gorp, the “healthy” mix of chocolate, coconut, nuts and raisins that people take along on hikes and other outdoorsy excursions for quick bursts of energy. But it’s also delicious on ice cream, and even though most people don’t hike while eating ice cream, there’s no reason not to feel good about eating it this way. Frasca’s Gorp is a great recipe.
Ice Cream Lit
There are two stellar ice cream books from San Francisco institutions. The first is the Humphrey Slocombe Ice Cream Book, from the wildly innovative ice cream makers; look for kooky flavors like Secret Breakfast (cornflake cookies and bourbon) and Red Hot Banana. The other book, from Bay Area neighbor Bi-Rite Creamery, is called Sweet Cream and Sugar Cones; recipes cover everything from custardy vanilla and chocolate to ice creams with herbs, spices, berries, nuts and tea.—Kate Heddings
Homemade Ice Cream Recipes
Vanilla Bean Ice Cream
This exceptionally creamy ice cream relies on two unexpected ingredients: corn starch (to help thicken it) and cream cheese (to make it scoopable).
Guinness Ice Cream with Chocolate-Covered Pretzels
This ice cream has a strong, malty Guinness flavor that goes supremely well with salty, milk chocolate-covered pretzels. If you don’t want to make the chocolate-covered pretzels, they’re easy enough to buy.
Roman’s Dairy-Free Chocolate-Coconut Ice Cream
Rori Trovato of Rori’s Artisanal Creamery in Santa Barbara, California, creates all kinds of ice creams. Ironically, her son, Roman, has become lactose-intolerant. “Poor guy,” Trovato says. “His mom opens an ice cream shop and he can’t have any!” That’s why she created this dairy-free flavor.
Once-a-Year Cheesecake Ice Cream
Most of Leslie Newman’s family meals end sweetly but sensibly with fresh fruit, simple sorbets, frozen yogurt and a plate of cookies. But once a year they just have to have cheesecake ice cream, a fabulously rich dessert that’s very easy to make and very hard to stop eating.
Superquick Strawberry Ice Cream
Ferran Adrià popularized savory ice creams in flavors like polenta. Here, he shows his inventiveness in a different way, by revealing how to make a delicious helado without an ice cream maker; he just purees frozen fruit in a food processor. It doesn’t get much simpler.
More Homemade Ice Cream Recipes
Ice Cream Sundaes, Sandwiches and More
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