Ice Cream Treats: Easy Ways to Transform Your Favorite Ice Cream into Spectacular Desserts

By Charity Ferreira and Leigh Beisch (Photographer)

Book Overview

Mmmm . . . imagine all that yummy ice cream just waiting to get yummier. All it takes is some store-bought ice cream and this fantastic little book to churn out 65 sweet sensations worthy of dinner parties, birthday celebrations, and unexpectedly fancy treats any day of the week. These cool ideas for layering cakes, filling pies, blending frothy shakes, and stacking sandwiches will have jaws dropping and spoons lifting all around the table. And in the quick-fix category, scoop up some of these scrumptious sundae suggestions -- they rival the best ice cream parlor in town. With beautiful photographs and a neopolitan design, this creamy treat is as easy on the eyes as it is deliciously inspiring.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811841022
• ISBN13: 9780811841023
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Length: 95 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.2" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

Mmmmm

This was bought for me by someone who believed that it was mostly a book of various homemade ice creams. Though there are four listed in the back, this is not the strong suit of the book - I recommend David Lebovitz's The Perfect Scoop for that - I really enjoy the book, so far. There are several nice recipes, for cakes and other 'ice cream accessories' - I love the idea of a lemon meringue pie with lemon sorbet - cool riff on a baked alaska. There are many good recipes for ice cream sauces. My only complaint would be that some of the recipes are rather uncreative - espresso milk shake is coffee ice cream, milk, and espresso. Genius. But those are in the minority. Every ice cream sandwich recipe includes a recipe for some kind of cookie or something. Some of them are the usual, but many of them are really cool. I haven't tried them yet, but the cocoa nib meringues look delicious, especially the way they are pictured with raspberry sorbet. This is great for ice cream desserts, like they say, but don't look for ice cream recipes here.

Scrum-Didley-Umptous!

I don't know if this is cheating, but I just bought the book yesterday and have not tried anything out of it. HOWEVER, with all the photos and the ingredents listed, I don't think you can go wrong. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who loves ice cream and desserts.

5 star desserts!

I bought this book because my husband and I love anything ice cream. A friend of ours loves German chocolate cake so I made the German chocolate ice cream cake and his family loved it. It does take a few hours to make the cakes but the recipes are easy and YUMMY!!!! If you love ice cream then you will love this book.