This flavor is inspired by the fact that I get sick all the time. A cup of chamomile tea with lemon and honey hits the spot when I’m on the couch, under a blanket, binge watching The Crown. I found dried chamomile flowers at our local home-brewing shop in Austin, but you might also find…
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The rosemary flavor is really nice during the winter holidays, especially if you’re stuck in Texas with no snow and no Christmas tree. So I’m sharing this now in the hopes that you make some this season for your friends and family, who will mock you for saying things like “subtle notes of evergreen on the nose”.
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Happy Halloween! Here’s a spooky treat for y’all. But don’t be scared away–it’s not as spicy as it sounds, and you can easily make it less or more spicy on your own terms.
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Stracciatella is an Italian gelato flavor that is perfect in its simplicity. Finely shaved chocolate in a sweet cream ice cream base. After Ben and Jerry’s invented chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream in 1991, unfortunately, many ice cream producers have been either too lazy to make the cookie dough, or too lazy to to…
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Moose Tracks is an ice cream flavor invented in 1988 in Michigan, featuring vanilla ice cream, mini peanut butter cups, and a fudge swirl. It quickly spread along with the peanut butter craze of America, so if you’re a 90’s kid from the American Midwest, chances are, you probably grew up obsessed with Moose Tracks. The…
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I recently had an amazing meal at Aviary in Austin, where the waiter recommended their pasta featuring blistered shishito ricotta. It was a subtle but unique twist on a milk product–something I’m always going for in my ice cream flavors–so I decided to recreate it in the form of an ice cream. Blistering shishitos sounds…
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This ice cream recipe is inspired by my recent trip to Maine, where the blueberries are famous, but not quite ripe yet. Nevertheless, I picked up some homemade blueberry jam at a roadside farm stand, and came home to blueberry season here in Texas.
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Ben & Jerry’s Chunky Monkey is officially breakfast food. It’s banana-bread-meets-milk-and-cereal. All wrapped up in ice cream. I don’t have a favorite flavor, but every time I eat Chunky Monkey, I think crazy-ice-cream-lady thoughts, like, “If I had to marry one, this would be my life partner.”
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After hearing about this combo on Gastropod, I had to make this flavor into ice cream. When I blind taste tested this on 3 different people, the first person said this ice cream tasted just like raspberries, the second said it was “extra fudgey,” and the third person still doesn’t believe that it wasn’t peanut butter. All I know is that it’s really, really good.
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Made by an aerospace engineer, the Midnight Scoop has been dubbed the Ferrari of Ice Cream Scoops, it’s featured on Oprah’s gift list, and the creator raised nearly ten times the amount he asked for on Kickstarter. It claims to literally be “bomb proof.” But perhaps more importantly, it’s dishwasher proof. I put it to the test against the Zeroll Scoop.
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