The 500 fabulous, easy, cool, and glorious indulgences featured in this book include classic ice creams, sorbets, and Italian-style gelatos, as well as show-stopping ice cream cakes and gateaux, kid-friendly frozen goodies, and health- and calorie-conscious options.

The Ultimate Ice Cream Book contains enough recipes to fill your summer days with delicious frozen desserts -- but after acquainting yourself with this book's hundreds of tempting concoctions, you'll want to use it every day of the year. With over 500 recipes, author Bruce Weinstein has put together the most comprehensive cookbook of its kind, covering just about every conceivable flavor of ice cream, sorbet, and granita; dozens of different recipes for shakes, malts, and other cold drinks; how to make your own ice cream cones; and toppings galore. If you ever worried that you might not get full use out of your ice-cream maker, cast your doubts aside. Ice cream recipes feature such unusual flavors as lavender, chestnut, rhubarb, and Earl Grey tea. Even Weinstein's vanilla ice cream is anything but plain, with variations like Vanilla Crunch, Vanilla Rose, and Vanilla Cracker Jack. There is also a plethora of light, refreshing recipes for sorbets and granitas, with flavors like Apple Chardonnay, Coconut, and Kiwi. Top everything off with the author's recipes forhomemade sauces. Whether it's a special event or a midnight snack, The Ultimate Ice Cream Book has what you need to make any occasion a little sweeter.

The latest in the very popular 500 SERIES. Learn everything you ever needed to know about making ice creams, sorbets and iced desserts from an irresistible collection of recipes that includes: light and refreshing water ices and granitas, rich and creamy classics, decadent desserts, towering ice cream extravaganzas. The only ice cream compendium you'll ever need!

Ice creams, sorbets and iced desserts are among those childhood treats that you never grow out of, and with the fabulous array of ice cream makers on the market it's unbelievably simple to make them at home. But if you don't have an ice cream maker, don't worry - this fabulous book show you how you can make ice cream without one as well. Learn everything you ever need to know about making iced desserts, and try your hand at making any one of the fabulous 500 recipes. Whether you're a total chocolate fiend looking for the ultimate comfort fix in the shape of a rich, smooth sundae, or you're on a low-fat, low-sugar diet and desperate for a treat that won't ruin your good intentions, you're sure to find it among these pages. Try any one of the classic ice creams or sorbets or be adventurous an experiment with elegant water ices and granitas or a show-stopping ice cream cake or gateau. Let the children help out making one of the fun ices created specially for them, or be good to yourself and enjoy one of the specially health-conscious ices. About the author Alex Parker enjoyed many years as Cookery Editor of Woman's Own magazine and the highly successful Prima before launching and editing Let's Cook magazine and running her own business partnership - Food Features Photographic Library and Studio.

An irresistible collection of ice creams, sorbets and iced desserts - from light and refreshing water ices and granitas to rich an creamy classics, decadent desserts and towering ice cream extravaganzas.