This comprehensive bible of frozen desserts includes recipes for ice cream, sorbet, gelati, and granita, along with a history of ice cream making. World-renowned frozen dessert experts Caroline and Robin Weir have spent more than twenty years passionately pursuing everything ice cream. After tracing ice cream’s evolution from Asia, the Middle East, France, Italy, and America, studying its chemistry as well as its history, this husband and wife food writing team offer a comprehensive cookbook including four hundred recipes and tips for making ice cream, both with and without a machine. With insightful commentary, historical context, and mouthwatering photographs, this definitive cookbook covers the classics, with recipes for chocolate and vanilla bean ice cream, as well as frozen adventures such as green tea ice cream, chocolate brownie ice cream, tequila granita, and basil-flavored lemon sorbet. You’ll find the perfect flavor for every occasion, as well as all the traditional ice cream sides—such as oven-baked wafer cones, crisp almond cookies, and decadent butterscotch and chocolate fudge sauces. An indispensible guide for home chefs and frozen dessert aficionados, Ice Creams, Sorbets & Gelati is “a modern classic for ice cream lovers” (Italia Magazine). “There’s nothing more cooling on a warm day than a sophisticated sorbet or glamourous granita. Turn ice into a stylish treat, with these fabulous recipes.” —Vegan Living “Everything you ever wanted to know about frozen desserts but didn’t know where to turn. . . . A guide of Biblical proportions with recipes for everything you could possibly want in [the frozen dessert] category.” —The Irish Daily Mail

Discusses basic techniques and ingredients for making frozen desserts, and includes recipes for such treats as pear champagne sorbet, strawberry frozen yogurt, three-fruit ice cream, and orange gelato.

Nothing beats homemade ice cream, and making it from scratch is a charming summertime tradition whose time has come again. Ice Creams & Sorbets offers nearly 50 recipes for simple and sophisticated frozen desserts: old-fashioned classics such as vanilla bean, strawberry, and bittersweet chocolate; contemporary delights such as Lavender-Honey Ice Cream and Lemongrass-Wine Ice; and sinfully exquisite treats like White Chocolate-Framboise Truffle Gelato. With handy ingredient guides, serving tips, and the rundown on how to select and use ice cream makers, this fabulous book is a recipe for delicious new-fashioned fun.

Learn how to make seasonal, gourmet-quality ice cream—right at home and with everyday ingredients from your local market Artisanal ice cream is all the rage—and Molly Moon owns the greater Seattle ice cream market with delicious offerings and a creative community-building business ethic When Molly Moon Neitzel opened the first of her five boutique ice cream scoop shops in the spring of 2008, it was an instant hit with the folks of Seattle. Customers have been happily lining up for a cone or signature sundae ever since, with major publications like Bon Appétit and Travel + Leisure hailing Molly Moon’s Ice Cream shops as some of the best in the United States. And now, you can make Molly’s delicious ice creams, sorbets, and toppings at home! Arranged in the book by season—with the focus on using local, fresh fruit and herbs in combinations that are both familiar and surprising—you will find recipes for most flavors imaginable and even those a little unimaginable. A sampling of these lip-smacking ice-cream treats includes: • Honey Lavender Ice Cream • Rhubarb Rose Compote • Raspberry Mint Sorbet • Watermelon Sorbet • Crispy Nut Cobbler-Top Crumble • Cinnamon Ice Cream • Maple Walnut Ice Cream • Mexican Chocolate Ice Cream • Chocolate Coconut Milk Ice Cream • Salted Caramel Ice Cream • Cardamom Ice Cream • Cappucino Ice Cream • Vanilla Bean Ice Cream And much more!

Features more than two hundred recipes representing treats from around the world, along with a history of frozen desserts and serving tips.

Even with the proliferation of brand-name ice creams and ice cream shop chains and the availability of numerous flavours, homemade ice cream remains as popular as ever. You have only to look at the variety of home ice cream machines and the number of companies manufacturing them to see it. Homemade ice cream has a special taste that you can't buy, and it is a family activity and summer tradition in many homes. But homemade ice cream isn't as simple as it seems for the novice, and even families that have been making it for years look for new recipes and ideas to challenge their skills and their palates. In The Complete Idiot's Guide to Homemade Ice Cream, readers will find: *More than 200 recipes, ranging from the simple to the sublime *Step-by-step instructions for making ice cream, sherbet, sorbet, frozen yogurt, and gelato *Topping and serving recipes and ideas *Recipes and instructions for ice cream-based and other frozen drinks