Ice Cream Floats are a fizzy drink made with ice cream. They are similar to but not the same as Ice Cream Sodas. Floats are simpler to make than Ice Cream Sodas. They are just pop and ice cream. The flavoured soda pop acts as a substitute for the soda water and syrup that is…
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Orange à la Norvegienne Recipe
A classic but still impressive recipe.
Agnes Bertha Marshall
Agnes Bertha Marshall was a celebrity cook during the second half of the 1800s, and wrote four cookbooks with many illustrations. She was particularly known for her work with chilled desserts, and is credited with inventing the first portable, edible ice cream cones (which she called “cornets”). Marshall even patented a machine to make ice…
Orange à la Norvegienne
Orange à la Norvegienne is a French dessert, reminiscent of a Baked Alaska. It is made of oranges stuffed with ice cream. You chill the oranges till they are very cold. Meanwhile, you make a meringue from egg whites and sugar. You cut open the oranges around the tops and scoop out all the pulp,…
Alaska Florida
Alaska Florida Charles Ranhofer, the American chef of Delmonico Restaurant fame, gave a recipe for a dish resembling Baked Alaska in his 1893 book “The Epicurean.” He referred to the dish as “Alaska, Florida”, and gave directions for it to be made in individual portions. The recipe uses two flavours of ice cream, vanilla and…
Strawberries with Pepper and Whiskey Recipe
This is a fantastic tasting dessert. It actually looks very cool in a glass tumbler, ideally the kind you would serve whiskey in.
Ice Cream Scoops
An Ice Cream Scoop is a half-bowl attached to a long handle used for serving ice cream, frozen yoghurt, gelato, and sorbet. The bowls come in different sizes. Small ones (1 inch / 2 1/2 cm) mean that you have to make more scoops to make up a serving of ice cream, but they can…
Ice Cream Forks
Ice Cream Forks have a flattened bowl remiscent of a spoon, but with tines cut into the tip of the spoon. With the handle, they will be about 5 to 6 inches (12 1/2 to 15 cm) long. They are for eating with, not serving. They make it easier to eat cake and ice cream,…
Spumoni
Spumoni is a dessert, but there are two quite different types: Italian, and American.
Fürst-Pückler-Eis
This could be thought of as a German version of the French “Tranche Napolitaine.” It is an ice cream dessert. Ice cream is layered into a long spring-form pan, then frozen into layers. One layer is usually chocolate, with the other two layers usually being any two of the following: vanilla, pineapple, strawberry, maraschino, amaretto….
Ice Cream Cones
Ice Cream Cones © Denzil Green An Ice Cream Cone is a edible cone that ice cream is served in. Traditionally, the outside will have a waffle pattern imprinted on them. A usual cone is a soft-textured one, made from sugar and flour. They may be long with pointed ends, or short and square with…
Tortoni
Tortoni is a frozen Italian dessert, created by Italians — or more precisely, Neapolitans — in Paris. It is flavoured and sweetened whipped cream, garnished with something almond flavoured such as chopped almonds, chopped maraschino cherries or crumbled amaretti cookies. The cream can be flavoured with rum or sherry, or a liqueur such as Amaretto….
Banana Split
A banana split is a chilled dessert made from split bananas, ice cream, and sweet sauces and garnishes. It is traditionally served in a long dish.
Ice Cream Soda
An Ice Cream Soda is a foamy, non-alcoholic drink made with ice cream that ends up as a fizzy slurry drink. The foaminess is a result of the ice cream interacting with the soda water. You don’t mix either of them to make a harmonious blend, instead, you want a contrast in tastes and textures….
Baked Alaska
Baked Alaska is a flat sponge cake topped with ice cream, covered in raw meringue and baked for a very short period of time in a very hot oven, so that the meringue browns but the ice cream stays solid and cold. It is very impressive and festive, even though it is very simple. The…
Banana Split Day
Go on, treat yourself on Banana Split Day. After all, how many times in your life do you have a banana split?
Butterscotch & Bourbon Sauce Recipe
Nice served warm (but not hot.) Good with ice cream, over slices of white cake, etc.
Butterscotch Sauce Recipe
This sauce is so dead easy to make — it really would be more work to go to the store to buy it!
Barbequed Bananas Recipe
This is a dessert that you make partly on the barbeque grill, which is handy, as there are very few dessert recipes that involve actually using the barbeque. It’s also a really good dessert, and not all that fattening .