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Recipe: Balsamic Drizzled Ice Cream (Easiest Fanciest Dessert)

This week, to be quite honest, has been more about making a Flower Princess costume for our three year old than about cooking. We have ordered takeout both nights, my fingers have multiple stab wounds...

Creamy Decadence: Eight Ice Creams Perfect for Fall

We just acquired a new ice cream maker and there's no way we're waiting until next summer to put it to use! Besides, there are plenty of delicious seasonal ingredients that are just begging to be chur...

Autumn Recipe: Brown Butter Ice Cream

There are many desserts in the fall that beg for ice cream to accompany them. Apple pies. Peach crisps. Quince crumbles. Plum tortes, tarts, and clafoutis. They all need a little scoop of creaminess t...

Step-by-Step Instructions for One-Ingredient Ice Cream

Remember this amazingly creamy ice cream with just one ingredient? Well, in our eagerness to tell you all about it, we didn't give you very detailed instructions. Here, for those of you asked, are s...

Flickr Find: Ice Cream Gyoza

Ice cream for dinner, anyone? We spotted this photo of dessert gyoza, or potstickers, on Flickr and were instantly charmed. ...

Sweet Ice! How Sugar Affects Freezing
Food Science

Have you ever had a batch of ice cream that stays soft and slushy no matter how long you leave it in the freezer? Or the other extreme, an ice cream that freezes so hard that you can hardly dig your s...

Help Me Make a Delicious Ice Cream Cake
Good Questions

Q: My mom's birthday is coming up, and I wanted to make her an "adult" ice cream cake in the Dairy Queen style — all ice cream, no cake. I was hoping for some good ice cream combination ideas:...

Cool Inspiration: Stay Both Cool and Caffeinated!
Stay Cool!

Name: Whitney Location: Chicago, Illinois How are you staying cool? Keeping cool and caffeinated at the same time......

A Sweet Finish: How To Make Strawberry Chips

We are so enamored of this sweet garnish that we just spotted at Pastry Pal, a lovely and helpful blog. These strawberry chips are easy and special; read on to see how they're made! ...

Almost-Instant Sweet Wine Ice Cream
Recipe Review

We've talked about serving wine with ice cream before; what about wine in your ice cream? (Pssst ... no ice cream maker required!)...

Summer Sweets: 5 Twists on the Banana Split

The banana split is such a classic summer dessert. We have fond childhood memories of soft bananas cradling scoops of ice cream topped with mounds of whipped cream and fudge sauce. And a few maraschin...

Cool Recipe: Another Really, Really Simple Ice Cream
Stay Cool!

Name: Bill Location: Miami, Florida How are you staying cool? The world's simplest ice cream (and modular ceviche)...

Hibiscus Berry Sundae
Stay Cool!

We are really big fans of hibiscus flowers in syrup; we love their tangy, juicy taste and they are so pretty too! So when we received this recipe from one maker of these pretty little things we had to...

Recipe Review: Rick Bayless' Dairy Free Avocado Ice Cream

In accordance with last night's Top Chef Masters events, we thought we'd share a recipe from Mr. Rick Bayless himself. This is one of our favorites and unlike his 27-ingredient Oaxacan Mole, this re...

How To Make Creamy Ice Cream with Just One Ingredient!

Yes, that's right; you heard us. Creamy, soft-serve style ice cream with just one ingredient — and no ice cream maker needed! What is this one magic ingredient that can be whipped into perfectly...

Cold and Chocolatey: 11 Ice Creams with Chocolate Bits
Stay Cool!

Do you like your ice cream thick with nubbins of chocolate? Do you like to snap bittersweet shards between your teeth? If so, these recipes are for you. They're not chocolate ice cream — they'...

How To Make Ice Cream Sandwiches At Home
Street Fair Food Week

Do ice cream sandwiches make you think of the fair? To us, they are the ultimate street food. Whether they are served from a booth at the county fair, or from the back of an ice cream truck that jus...

Fresh Peach Frozen Yogurt with Only Four Ingredients

Frozen yogurt is not ice cream, and it's not even a substitute, no matter what TCBY says. It's another animal entirely, and when we stop comparing it to its richer cousin, we enjoy it oh so much more....

Recipe: Dark Chocolate Ice Cream With Fig & Cardamom

Summer is in full swing and there's nothing we crave more than ice cream. So when we found ourselves with some uneaten figs and a little free time, we whipped up a batch of this extremely decadent ...

How Do I Make an Ice Cream Cake From Scratch?
Good Questions

Q: I am going to attempt an ice cream cake from scratch for my boyfriend's birthday. I have an idea of how to proceed, but I was also wondering if anyone has any helpful suggestions. I plan to follo...

My Edible Escape: Ice Cream Straight from the Carton

While several of my colleagues here at the Kitchn have been escaping to Provence or Alaska (in their minds, at least), fueled by food memories, I've been sitting on my couch with a spoon in my hand an...

3 Tips for Mixing Brownies, Cake or Cookies Into Ice Cream

Do you love chunky ice cream? Are you thinking of whipping up some homemade ice cream with shards of fresh cookies or blocks of brownies? Here are three tips for getting great flavor and texture from ...

Picnic Helper: Insulated Ice Cream Pint Container

One of our favorite summer desserts is ice cream. Homemade ice cream is always a hit at parties and picnics; that peanut-butter-chocolate-cracker version was the life of the party on the 4th of July. ...

2 Quarts! New Cuisinart Stainless-Steel Ice Cream Maker

Do you have an ice cream maker? If you make ice cream at home, you know that many ice cream makers just churn out quantities of 1 quart or so. The most popular Cuisinart model can hold up to 1 1/2 qua...

Word of Mouth: Affogato

affogato: n. An Italian, coffee-based dessert consisting of vanilla gelato (or ice cream) topped with a shot of espresso. Affogato means "drowned" in Italian. This is a really quick summer dessert (...