Vanilla, strawberry, chocolate, coffee: Everyone has a favorite flavor of ice cream. As a simple treat on a hot summer afternoon or an elegant finish to a special meal, ice cream is a versatile dessert that is delightfully easy to make at home.
Williams-Sonoma Collection Ice Cream offers more than 40 recipes for rich ice creams, tangy sorbets, and flavorful granitas. When delicious combinations of ingredients -- fresh cream, fruit at its peak of ripeness, fine-quality chocolate -- are combined and frozen in an ice-cream maker, the results are always sublime. From the crunch of ice creams made with candy, cookies, or nuts to those as smooth as caramel, there are plenty of irresistible choices inside these pages. In addition, an entire chapter devoted to more elaborate ice cream dishes will inspire you to use your favorite flavors to make impressive frozen desserts.
Tempting, full-color photographs of each ice cream make it easy to decide which one to prepare, and photographic side notes highlight essential ingredients and techniques, making Ice Cream more than just a fine collection of recipes. A comprehensive basics section and a detailed glossary will also provide you with everything you need to know to make delicious homemade ice cream your new favorite dessert.
From a scoop of creamy, old-fashioned ice cream to a dish of sweet sorbet or a spoonful of rich gelato -- iced desserts are a refreshing way to enjoy an infinite array of wonderful, sweet flavors.
Williams-Sonoma Collection Ice Cream offers more than 40 easy-to-follow recipes that allow you to make all-time favorites as well as delicious new flavors. Whether you crave an irresistibly rich chocolate-hazelnut gelato, a light and tangy lemon sorbet, or the best vanilla ice cream you have ever tasted, the recipes inside will inspire you to serve ice cream for any occasion. This vividly photographed, full-color recipe collection promises to become an essential addition to your kitchen bookshelf.
"Once you have sampled the flavors inside, you will realize that homemade ice cream is simply the best there is!"
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Not as good as other ice cream books.:
This book had some nice pictures, but the recipes were not as interesting as those in some other Ice Cream/ Gelato books offered by Amazon.
Best Ice cream is at home!:
I got an ice cream maker for Christmas, and I have to admit: I was very skeptical. But the sales lady recommended this book and I thought, that she just wanted to make a sale. But... this is the best book in my whole kitchen library! It is easy to make the sorbets and ice cream, they taste wonderful, no, actually WONDERFUL. Never again did I buy ice cream from the store. I prepare the ice and you can keep it up to 1 week, depending on the receipe.
I would recommend this to everyone, young or old who... more info
DELICIOUS:
i just got this book and an ice cream maker. the recipes in this ice cream cookbook are DELICIOUS!!! the people who complain about the recipes are nuts - they dont like waiting or the ingrendients invloved- then don't make ice cream- that's like complaining about making bread because you dont like waiting for the bread to rise. the bottom line is there may be other recipes out there and they are probably good too, but if you use these recipes you will not be dissapointed. i have made made a few ice... more info
Great ice cream cookbook!:
William Sonoma cookbooks tend to be strong and this one is no exception. Their recipes prioritize quality over short cuts and convenience and you can taste the difference. The recipes are more labor intensive than some of the basics, but the qualitative difference is worth the extra work. Many recipes are custard based which creates an added step, but results in creamier, richer textures.