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Beyond the Bowl
Scooping with Flair
Scoop one kind of ice cream, then midway through the scoop, move to a second flavor and finish the motion. You get one ice cream ball swirled with two flavors.
Tempting Tartufo
Scoop and freeze ice cream until it's nice and hard. Dip the ice cream into lukewarm melted chocolate, then freeze until semi-hard. Roll the chocolate-covered ice cream in chopped pistachios, shredded coconut or chocolate shavings.
Fancy Floats
Cook up nouveau soda fountain creations for dessert. Try peach ice cream with cream soda, mango ice cream with ginger beer or vanilla ice cream with orange soda.
Hot Fudge Sauce
Microwave 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips on HIGH, stirring occasionally, until melted, about 1 1/2 to 2 minutes. Stir in 2/3 cup sweetened condensed milk, 1/4 cup light corn syrup, 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract and a pinch of salt until smooth. Serve warm or at room temperature.
Top Four Ice Cream Tips | Make the easiest dessert even simpler
Dairy Freezer 101 | Understand an ice cream label
As if choosing a flavor isn’t daunting enough, ice cream now also comes in an entire array of varying quality and calorie levels. We can’t help you with the flavor part, but here is the scoop on what the different labels mean:
- Premium ice cream has more fat than the minimum government requirements and often comes in unique and interesting flavors. It is richer, creamier and more expensive than regular ice cream with substantially higher calories and fat. It also weighs more ounce-for-ounce, which can help justify the price.
- Regular ice cream is less dense than premium (it contains more air) and usually is sold in the more familiar and standard flavors. Some people prefer the texture — it is less creamy — and it works well in shakes and frozen dessert recipes. It’s good choice when you don't want the ice cream to overpower the rest of the dessert.
- "Light" ice cream means that there is either 50% less fat or 33% less calories than leading brands or the company’s own brand. But, if you read the labels carefully, you might notice that a premium brand's light ice cream still has more calories than a regular or economy ice cream.
- "Reduced fat" ice cream has 25% less fat than comparable leading brands or the company's own brand.
- Gelato is Italian ice cream. The flavors can be very pure and rich as it is denser and contains less butterfat than American ice cream.
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