The Ultimate Ice Cream Book contains enough recipes to fill your summer days with delicious frozen desserts -- but after acquainting yourself with this book's hundreds of tempting concoctions, you'll want to use it every day of the year. With over 500 recipes, author Bruce Weinstein has put together the most comprehensive cookbook of its kind, covering just about every conceivable flavor of ice cream, sorbet, and granita; dozens of different recipes for shakes, malts, and other cold drinks; how to make your own ice cream cones; and toppings galore.
If you ever worried that you might not get full use out of your ice-cream maker, cast your doubts aside. Ice cream recipes feature such unusual flavors as lavender, chestnut, rhubarb, and Earl Grey tea. Even Weinstein's vanilla ice cream is anything but plain, with variations like Vanilla Crunch, Vanilla Rose, and Vanilla Cracker Jack. There is also a plethora of light, refreshing recipes for sorbets and granitas, with flavors like Apple Chardonnay, Coconut, and Kiwi. Top everything off with the author's recipes forhomemade sauces. Whether it's a special event or a midnight snack, The Ultimate Ice Cream Book has what you need to make any occasion a little sweeter.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
The Ice Cream Encyclopedia:
This book has the widest selection of good standard recipes, as well as new imaginative ones, including frozen yogurt. I highly recommend it.
There is problem with Kindle edition:
The recipes in the book are interesting, but the Kindle edition is missing the list of ingredient with their quintiles that one would need to make any of the recipes. A glitch perhaps?
the ultimate ice cream book:
Enjoyed this book well worth having in your kitchen.It covered so much more then just making ice cream.Lots of fun testing new recipes and the variations. THANKS
Kindle version specific review...:
I think others have covered the content well, it's basically a gigantic book of delicious recipies, common and not so common, that will give you a lot of ideas to use with your ice cream maker. The aim of my review is to add some info specifically for those Kindle users out there. The problem with the Kindle version is the table of contents is limited to the very high level chapter headings. So you can easily go right to the main chapters: Ice Cream Cones, Ice Cream, Sorbet, etc. but not to a... more info
