Recipe Index: Ice Cream

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Butter Pecan Ice Cream
Butter Pecan Ice Cream
An ice cream loving friend was in town this weekend, giving me the perfect excuse to make this batch of butter pecan ice cream. Butter pecan is one of my all time favorite flavors. In this recipe the butter flavor...
Caramel Sauce
Caramel Sauce
Making your own caramel sauce from scratch is a lot easier than you might think, and it takes practically no time at all. This recipe comes from my friend Suzanne who is a baking genius. I've watched her make caramel...
Chai Ice Cream
Chai Ice Cream
According to historian Lizzie Collingham in her terrific Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors, the English popularized tea drinking in India in the early 1900s as a way to expand the market for the tea they were growing there...
Champagne Sorbet
Champagne Sorbet
I love cooking with friends, so when Garrett came over with a bottle of champagne in hand and a suggestion to make champagne sorbet for New Years, I was all over it. Unfortunately, our first two attempts were miserable failures...
Cherry Ice Cream with Chocolate Chips
Cherry Ice Cream with Chocolate Chips
Every year about this time, I'm invited to pick Bing cherries at our next door neighbor Pat's yard. Pat picks all she can freeze and eat for the year, and anything left is for friends or the birds. There is...
Coffee Ice Cream
Coffee Ice Cream
I love coffee ice cream, but rarely get it because the caffeine does a number on me. If I have coffee or even mocha ice cream after dinner I'm jittery until 3 am. So, when I opened David Lebovitz's new...
Coffee Oreo Cookie Mount Gay Ice Cream
Coffee Oreo Cookie Mount Gay Ice Cream
Some things, prepared with delightful results in the exuberance of our youth, when made again 10, or 20 years later, don't quite live up to the blissful memory. This coffee, oreo cookie, Mount Gay ice cream is not one of...
Easy Pumpkin Ice Cream
Easy Pumpkin Ice Cream
Most of the ice cream recipes we have on this site involve making a custard base. This approach results in a creamy and smooth homemade ice cream, but requires several extra steps and extra time. If you don't use an...
Eggnog Ice Cream
Eggnog Ice Cream
Admission, I love eggnog. When I was a kid my parents would get a couple cartons at a time, which they still had to ration, because I, like my 5 siblings, could easily drink a carton apiece. These days I...
French Vanilla Ice Cream
French Vanilla Ice Cream
Years ago I remember my father making vanilla ice cream for all of us with an ice cream maker that required a lot of crushed ice and salt. Can't remember now if it was hand crank or electric. But man...
Lime Mango Sorbet
Lime Mango Sorbet
Lime, mango, sugar, a dash of tequila. These ingredients are just destined to be together in a sorbet. Unlike lemon sorbet which can be quite tart, this lime mango sorbet has the smoothing influence of the mango. The addition of...
Mexican Chocolate Ice Cream
Mexican Chocolate Ice Cream
There is one image from my childhood that is seared into memory, that of the yellow octagonal box of Mexican chocolate on the top shelf of our kitchen pantry. I can still remember my mother making pots of hot chocolate...
Meyer Lemon Sorbet
Meyer Lemon Sorbet
Making lemon sorbet is like making lemonade with a detour through the ice cream maker. Easy. We pulled down several Meyer lemons last week to avoid the freeze that hit here in California and I've been thinking up things to...
Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream
Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream
"This is the best mint chocolate chip ice cream I've ever had in my whole life." This, straight from the mouth of my nine-year old nephew, who, since mint-chocolate-chip is his favorite ice cream flavor, has probably had more mint...
Peppermint Ice Cream
Peppermint Ice Cream
I love peppermint ice cream! Too bad around here the grocery stores only stock it during the holiday season. This week I decided to make my own and got some great advice from the king of desserts himself, David Lebovitz...
Strawberry Frozen Yogurt
Strawberry Frozen Yogurt
When fresh strawberries come into season, and we can get flats of them for only a few dollars, that's when we start looking for everything and anything to do with them. This strawberry frozen yogurt is a terrific way to...