The best ice-cream cookbooks on the planet
As a simple treat on a hot summer afternoon, or an elegant finish to a special meal, ice cream is a versatile dessert. I present to you a handpicked collection of the best ice-cream cookbooks that every ice cream lover should own. Highly recommended for your cookbook collection / library, you'll be using these books for years to come. Must have cookbooks for your kitchen, these books are a great resource for every summer event. Go ahead, wow your friends with unique frozen desserts, sweet, creamy, indulgent, and homemade.Your Fav Creamery & Ice Cream Parlors
1. Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream & Dessert Book
Ben and Jerry, in this cookbook show you how to make their most popular, scrumptious ice creams, including 11 of their greatest hits. These are great tasting recipes, specially adapted to make at home, of ice creams made with fresh ingredients - fruit, chocolate, candies and cookies. Almost all the recipes require no cooking at all. The author's sense of humor makes it a very enjoyable read. The recipes are excellent, easy-to-use, simple to make, they are the stars of this cookbook. This is a great ice cream book for your family, with recipes that can be adapted to your particular tastes, and that come out perfect on your very first try.
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2. Sweet Cream and Sugar Cones - 90 Recipes for Making Your Own Ice Cream and Frozen Treats from Bi-Rite Creamery
San Francisco’s Bi-Rite Creamery, an artisanal ice cream shop, share their recipes for making delicious ice creams. The step-by-step instructions are clear, accompanied by beautiful, clear photographs. Helpful explanations and tips are there throughout the recipes. The book is well organized and new techniques are introduced with in-depth instructions and photos before being referenced by the recipes. The recipes are surprisingly simple, straight-forward, easy to understand, easy to make. And the ice creams - delicious and flavorful.
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3. Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams at Home
Winner of the James Beard Award, this cookbook helps you create perfect, creamy, silky smooth, firm, scoopable ice cream at home, that's full of flavor. It presents 100 of Jeni’s delicious signature recipes, with no-egg ice cream base, and interesting flavor combinations. The recipes are well written, the instructions are clear and easy to follow. Follow the recipes exactly and you'll get ice cream that has the right texture and depth of flavor. The photography is beautiful, and you get a good feel of what the finished ice cream is supposed to look like.
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