Ice cream & frozen treats Posts
No-Cook Strawberry Ice Cream
You can make this easy, no-cook strawberry ice cream in your blender. (No ice cream maker required!) The hardest part is waiting for it to freeze.
Blackberry Sorbet
One of my favorite ways to enjoy summer berries is to make sorbet. If you’ve never made sorbet, you may be surprised by how easy it is to do at home. You can’t beat the flavor. Nothing in the supermarket even comes close.
Orange Creamsicle Frozen Yogurt
When I was a kid, one of my favorite things about visiting my grandparents’ house was the ice cream truck they had in their neighborhood. The Good Humor truck just didn’t make it out to my neck of the woods.
To this day—in my thirties—people have seen me fly out the door at the sound of [...]
Raspberry Ice Cream Sundae in an Edible Chocolate Shell
What’s better than an ice cream sundae? How about an ice cream sundae in an edible chocolate bowl? Now that’s what I’m talking about.
Recently, I made a big batch of homemade peanut butter cups.
While I was playing with all that melted chocolate, I made a few extra chocolate shells.
This is a quick and easy way [...]
Oreo & Irish-Cream Milkshake
OK, I have no excuses for this one. It’s evil—and oh-so-delicious.
It’s rich. It’s creamy. It’s packed with crushed Oreo cookies and laced with booze. It’s one part dessert and one part cocktail. (And kind of ridiculous. I can admit that.) It’s also one of my favorite treats.
One drink. Two straws.
Make one and share it with [...]
Pomegranate-Orange Sorbet
When I was just a little mouse, my mom occasionally got me a pomegranate as a treat. It was fun to open, got you properly sticky and covered with ruby-colored juice, and glistened with sweet, deep red seeds that looked like jewels.
To this day, it’s still one of my favorite fruits. (For all the [...]
Chocolate & Vanilla Guinness Floats with Creme Chantilly
Vanilla Guinness Float
Guinness is the favored beer here at The Mouse House, hands down.
While we usually enjoy it at home straight out of the can, we do occasionally cook with it, too. (Mmmm, Guinness Stew with Sage and Ginger.)
One my all-time favorite things to do with this creamy, rich stout, however, is mix it with [...]
Hot Buttered Rum Pecan Sundae
The topping for this sundae has all the rich, buttery flavor of pecan pralines—without the time or trouble involved in candymaking.
Basically, this recipe makes a mini-batch of pecan candy by superheating a small amount of butter and brown sugar in a large pan, cooking the nuts in it, then flavoring it with a little rum. [...]
Chocolate Truffle Ice Cream
This week seems to be ice cream week. If vanilla ice cream is my favorite, chocolate is the next runner up.
This ice cream tastes like frozen chocolate mousse. It’s rich and creamy—with a boozy double dose of flavor from vanilla extract and chocolate liquor.
Chocolate Truffle Ice Cream
5 oz. bittersweet chocolate, chopped
5 egg yolks
1 whole egg
1 [...]
Spice Trader’s Reserve Vanilla Ice Cream
On the topic of vanilla ice cream, you can, of course, also make your own. It’s really easy to do.
I’ve found that the key to making really good vanilla ice cream is to start with the best ingredients you can get your paws on. If you can get your cream and eggs from a local [...]
