Ice-cream

Frozen Blackberry or Raspberry Soufflés with super smooth texture

August 31, 2012

After making the ewe’s cheesecake tart, I was left with 5 egg whites and this was the recipe I came up with to use them; a really smooth textured frozen dessert without the need for liquid nitrogen. It’s so easy to make, the hardest part is to boil the blackberries with sugar for 15mins. That’s it. […]

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How to make super smooth ice-cream or sorbets

August 29, 2012

I made this blackberry frozen soufflé using the two tricks I’ve learnt to keep frozen mixture smooth and edible straight from the freezer; jelly and inverted sugar. Back in January 2011 I wrote a post on Ice-cream or sorbet too firm in the freezer? where I describe the problems of making homemade ice-creams, that they harden too […]

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Liquid Glucose – The Answer to Perfect Ice-Cream and More

January 17, 2011

I think it was reading about Heston Blumenthal opening up a restaurant in London where his famous liquid nitrogen ice-cream will be served that jolted this quest of mine; how to make ice-cream at home that stays soft. After reading Kavey‘s post about an ice-cream shop in Camden Town, London, serving liquid nitrogen ice-cream, it seems […]

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Raspberry Ice-Cream (Dairy free, Soya free, Egg free)

January 15, 2011

This dairy free ice-cream has the most delicious raspberry flavour, it satisfied my oldest daughter who can detect a non-dairy product miles away. From a flavour point of view you can not tell it’s dairy-free. The texture is not quite that of a rich velvety dairy one, it’s a cross between a sorbet and an […]

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Smooth Dark Chocolate Ice-Cream (egg-free)

January 14, 2011

I made this ice-cream for the first time on New Year’s Eve and it went down well…so well we finished the tub within a few days. It’s incredibly smooth on your tongue, an intense chocolate fix and has a long finish because it coats your mouth. It tastes rich due to the high chocolate content […]

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Ice Cream or Sorbet Too Firm in the Freezer?

January 3, 2011

I’ve been working on this through the holidays, reading up on the problem of homemade ice cream or sorbet becoming rock hard in the freezer. I don’t know what you were doing the day after Christmas but I had the afternoon off and spent it enthusiastically reading up on ice-cream and corn syrup, researching information […]

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