We spotted this ice cream serving idea at Salty Caramel, the official Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams blog. We really like this idea: Slice a pint of ice cream!
You know we are all huge fans of Jeni's ice cream (it's based in Columbus, Ohio). She makes wonderful seasonal flavors and deliciously unusual things like this Influenza Sorbet. We especially like this sweet corn and black raspberry flavor that just came out for the season, and we really like this idea of serving ice cream in slices.
Jeni says you can just dump out a pint and slice it and serve. It's a little more elegant than scoops, and you can lay the slices flat on a plate with a fresh sauce or berries.
• Read more: Sweet Corn & Black Raspberries at Salty Caramel, the Jeni's blog
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This is why Chapman's ice cream comes in cardboard boxes. (Especially the checkerboard kinds)
this is not actually a new idea. Ice-cream used to come in brick-shaped boxes (as I recall from my childhood in the 60's) and it was normal to unfold the box and slice it. Easier than scooping!
Yes, msmezzo, I remember that, too! I had forgotten all about it until now. Also, the boxes had serrations to help cut the slices evenly.
Great childhood memory!
Heh, they used to have "ice cream axes" for serving ice cream when it was first invented. They're the coolest piece of serveware ever.
Yeah, there were 12 of us, my father sliced ice cream all the time. And come to think of it, the ice cream was in a box. I do recall him using a spoon periodically. He would wet the spoon with each one or two dip, and he did bend quite a few spoons. That's probably when he went for the knife. Never saw him ruin one of those!
In India, we still can find our ice-cream in cardboard boxes that have to be sliced. They bought several of those to serve at weddings and other events all the time. You had to work quick because melted ice-cream made the cardboard soggy and everything went down hill after that. I remember wishing as a child that it came in a bucket I could eat out of instead, now I wish I could find some thing I could slice. Go figure!
i love doing this and serving the slices between cookies for a beautiful ice cream sandwich
When we were children my grandmother would place a slice of vanilla ice cream on a waffle and top it with strawberries for dinner on really hot days. Happy memory!
Pints of icecream are still commonly found as a brick wrapped in cardboard so are regularly sliced. You can also buy thin wafers in the shape of the end of the brick so that you can put one on each end of the slice and hold the slice in your hand.
Sorry, meant to add that this is fairly common in Europe. Some luxury brands of ice cream tend to be in pint pots.