Seasonal ice cream recipes

Recipes (24)

• Amarena gelato (sour cherries)

  Fior di latte rippled with homemade “amarena” sour-cherry sauce — sweet-and-sour streaks through a milky gelato.

• Ricotta gelato with figs

  A delicate, slightly tangy ricotta gelato rippled with fig sauce. An Italian-style autumn dessert.

• Strawberry gelato (fragola)

  A milk gelato packed with fresh, uncooked strawberries — it tastes like ripe strawberries and cream.

• Apricot milk gelato

  A summery milk gelato made from ripe apricots — sweet, fragrant and gently tart.

• Mulberry or blueberry granita (ai gelsi)

  Deep purple granita made from black mulberries — traditional in Sicily; here you can make it with blueberries too.

• Watermelon granita

  Pink icy granita made from watermelon with lime. The simplest summer refresher.

• Strawberry granita

  A seasonal granita made from ripe strawberries — icy flakes that taste of fresh fruit.

• Strawberry frozen yogurt

  Pink frozen yogurt made with fresh strawberries — a summer classic that children love too.

• Blueberry frozen yogurt

  Purple frozen yogurt made with briefly cooked blueberries and Greek-style yogurt.

• Strawberry ice lolly

  A deep red fruit lolly made from fresh strawberries that you can actually bite into — not a block of ice.

• Layered yogurt and berry ice lolly

  White and purple stripes in one lolly: thick Greek-style yogurt and a raspberry and blueberry purée.

• Rolled strawberry ice cream

  Fresh strawberries chopped straight into a cream base on the ice pan — pink rolls with pieces of fruit.

• Creamy strawberry ice cream

  Ripe strawberries and cream — pink, fragrant and made without cooking the fruit.

• Fresh mint chocolate chip ice cream

  Fresh mint steeped in cream, with crisp shards of dark chocolate.

• Cinnamon ice cream

  Warming cinnamon and cane sugar in a delicate egg custard. It tastes like apple strudel, only frozen.

• Elderflower ice cream

  A spring ice cream with elderflower syrup and lemon zest — floral, fresh and egg-free.

• Strawberry sorbet

  A no-cook summer classic made from fresh strawberries — it tastes like strawberries straight from the garden.

• Apricot (or peach) sorbet

  A velvety sorbet made from briefly poached apricots. Peaches work the same way.

• Blackcurrant sorbet

  A deep purple, distinctly tart and fragrant sorbet made from a favourite garden fruit.

• Watermelon sorbet with mint

  A light pink watermelon sorbet with mint and lime. Summer in a glass.

• Elderflower sorbet

  A floral sorbet made from elderflower syrup with lemon — the taste of Slovak and Czech gardens in May.

• Rhubarb sorbet

  A spring sorbet made from rhubarb — tangy, pink and surprisingly creamy.

• Sour cherry sorbet

  A dark red sour cherry sorbet with a pleasant tartness. Works with frozen or bottled sour cherries too.

• Pear sorbet with calvados

  A delicate autumn sorbet made from poached pears; for adults, with a spoonful of calvados or pear brandy.

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