A few months ago when some of us in the Milk Bar Monday group heard our friend Krissy was pregnant, we decided to plan a little virtual baby shower for her.
Since Krissy is having a boy and her husband is a baseball player we all tried to find some cute ways to incorporate those things.
I went with blueberries. And yes, I know blueberries are not exactly blue but I think you get the idea.
A few weeks ago (when I made this ice cream) the 2 lb carton of strawberries were buy one get one free at my local grocery store. Since strawberries are one of our favorites, I stocked up.
We ended up eating quite a few and I froze some for smoothies, but the rest were bound to be ice cream.
Ice cream was in fact my original plan. But this frozen yogurt seemed easier and quicker. Plus, I had a few strawberry yogurts to use up.
This frozen yogurt recipe is one of my new favorites. I imagine you could make almost any fruit flavored frozen yogurt with this recipe.
Welcome to another Milk Bar Monday! Today I am the host.
I chose the sweet corn cereal milk ice cream pie for a multitude of reasons.
This recipe isn’t is as hard as it seems. Some of our past Milk Bar Mondays have had crazy steps and ingredients, but this one is pretty tame in comparison. The only thing I had to find was freeze-dried corn. I got mine on Amazon but I think you can also find it at Whole Foods and other health food stores.
You start by making the corn cookies, which are surprisingly corny and sweet but not as strange as they seem. They will be a new favorite in this Indiana household.
Then you start your “ice cream” base by making some of the famous cereal milk. I think this is our first recipe that uses it, but it was worth the wait. It’s a sweetened milk full of delicious cereal flavor. For this recipe we made Cap’n Crunch cereal milk but the recipe is pretty much the same for which ever cereal you decided to use.
While your cereal milk is soaking you take the delicious corn cookies and make the pie crust! Yes, we are getting to be all sorts of corny for this recipe.
Once your cereal milk is ready to go you make a corn pudding sort of mixture, let it cool, then fold it with some whipped heavy cream and sour cream. Pour it all into your pie crust and let it freeze for a few hours.
I topped my finished pie with some pureed peaches for an extra kick of summer flavor. But they great thing is summer has so many wonderful fruits to offer that you can’t go wrong with anything you chose. A few that I want to try are strawberries, blueberries, and cherries.
See? Not too crazy for a Milk Bar Monday.
And 2 super bonuses when your pie is done – there are extra cookies & extra cereal milk! I recommend using the cereal milk in your coffee..mmm…
So what are you waiting for, check out the recipe below and celebrate the fourth with a super summery ice cream pie!
Don’t forget to check out Audra’s Pie over at The Baker Chick! You can also follow our conversation on Twitter and check out past recipes and pictures on Pinterest. [Read more...]
Today Holiday Recipe Club is celebrating the Queen’s Diamond Jubliee.
The required ingredients were tea, jam or Worcestershire sauce.
As you can see, I ended up going the tea route. But I was very tempted to do a homemade jam.
This chai ice cream was inspired by a black currant tea ice cream recipe in my favorite ice cream book, The Perfect Scoop.
Welcome to another love bloghop! This month we are making ice cream.
As i’ve said before, David Lebovitz’s The Perfect Scoop is one of my favorite cookbooks and I never pass up a chance to use it.
His recipe for gianduja gelato has been one my list of things to make. Hazelnut and chocolate combinations are a weakness for me.
I haven’t had a chance to try real gianduja but I figured gelato couldn’t be a bad substitution.
David’s recipe calls for infusing hazelnuts in milk then using the milk in your ice cream base. Instead of doing that I decided to just use this wonderful creation called hazelnut paste.
Have you had hazelnut paste? It’s like a deliciously sweet nut butter. Perfect for ice cream. Want to try your own hazelnut paste? Check out more information here!
The final result was similar to Ferrero Rocher chocolates or nutella… Silky, sweet with an underlying nutty flavor.
Note: these bowls are perfect for storing things. The liquidy ice cream base didn’t leak at all! I have been using them for everything lately. [Read more...]
