Desserts with ice cream
What to do with ice cream once it is made: affogato, sundaes, milkshakes, ice cream cake, cookie sandwiches and fried ice cream.
These are not ice cream recipes — the ice cream goes in already made. So there is no mix composition and no machine here: this is a different kind of content. Each dessert says which of our ice creams suits it.
10 desserts
Drinks with ice cream
Affogato
A scoop of vanilla ice cream drowned in hot espresso. Two ingredients, five minutes, and the only thing that really matters is temperature — of the ice cream and of the coffee.
Milkshake
Ice cream and cold milk in a ratio that holds both thickness and flavour. The whole trick is to blend briefly — a long blend turns the shake into lukewarm milk.
Cola float
Vanilla ice cream in cold cola. The foam makes itself, and that is the whole point — it just has to rise inside the glass, not onto the table.
Sundaes and bowls
Ice cream sundae with hot chocolate sauce
The classic sundae: vanilla ice cream, warm chocolate sauce and whipped cream. The sauce must be hot and thin — a thick one sets into a hard shell on the ice cream.
Banana split
A split banana and three scoops of three flavours in one dish. It looks like decoration, but it only works if the banana is not overripe.
Spaghetti ice cream (Spaghettieis)
Vanilla ice cream pushed through a potato ricer looks like spaghetti, strawberry purée like tomato sauce and white chocolate like parmesan. It all comes down to the temperature of the ice cream.
Cakes and slices
Ice cream cake
Two layers of ice cream on a biscuit base with a crunchy layer between them. Made a day ahead, and the only hard part is slicing it.
Baked Alaska
Ice cream baked in the oven and still cold. The meringue is insulation — full of air, and air does not conduct heat.
Sandwiches and bars
Cookie ice cream sandwich
Ice cream between two cookies, frozen firm. The trick is that the cookie has to stay soft — a hard one snaps when you bite and the ice cream shoots out.
Hot desserts
Fried ice cream
A ball of ice cream in breadcrumbs, thirty seconds in hot oil. It only works if the ice cream is frozen solid and the coating has no gaps.