Will you peas pass the ice cream?

Recipes
15 May 2008 Want a great way to get your kids to eat their veggies?  Give them ice cream! Green Pea Ice Cream, A Recipe from Guy Martin on the Worldwide Gourmet Ingredients for 5 servings 3 eggs 100 g (1/2 cup) sugar 200 ml (3/4 cup) whole milk 300 ml (1 1/4 cups) liquid cream 700 g (1 1/2 lb.) shelled peas 1/2 bunch mint Method Bring a saucepan of salted water to the boil; add the peas and cook for 8 minutes. Drain, then plunge them immediately into ice water to stop the cooking and set their bright green colour. Drain again; purée the peas in a blender, then put through a ... {Tags: , , , , , } {More...}

Have you modified your Play & Freeze?

News
15 May 2008 Do you own a Play & Freeze ice cream maker ball? (If no, grab one today from our store www.allthingsicecream.com) Yes? You may have noticed that while you can let you creativity show in the ice cream you're making, the ball is pretty dull. We're in no way implying that the product itself is dull, no sirree. We just thought maybe you could jazz up the outside a bit. Have you? Send us pictures of your modified Play & Freeze and we'll post them here! And stay tuned for our ball modification -- You won't want to ... {More...}

Battle of the Bacons

Recipes
15 May 2008 Miss Ginsu has a blog post where she decided to share with us 3 different bacon ice cream flavor combos. If you're into the bacon ice cream craze, definitely check it out! "What's tastier: Peanut Butter Bacon Crunch or Nutella Bacon Swirl?" And "what would the Mellow Maple Bacon blend taste like" She recommends having containers to give away your creations in, and I've got just the thing for all you homemade ice cream gifters: Check them out on my site! I offer free shipping! {Tags: , , , } {More...}

Why you should make your own ice cream…

Videos
15 May 2008 Have you ever read the ingredients on a carton of ice cream at the store? Did it sound a lot like this? Well, why not make your own and leave all that stuff out? For added fun and convenience use the ice cream ball. {More...}

Making your own ice cream could keep you out of jail

News
14 May 2008 If 24-year-old Katherine Moon had all the supplies to make ice cream at home, she may not be facing criminal charges right now. ;-) Moon, while drunk, broke into an ice cream shop to make herself a cone.  {Tags: , , } {More...}

A Camping We Will Go

News and Recipes
12 May 2008 Growing up I always enjoyed spending time camping with my family -- swimming, hiking, cooking over the campfire. It was always a wonderful time. Our coolers, of course, were filled to the brim with ice to keep everything cool. At the end of the trip, though, we always ended up having to dump all that ice out. Had I known you could make ice cream while camping, I would have suggested it to my parents so we could put that ice to good use (and so I could eat more ice cream)! You don't need electricity ... {Tags: , } {More...}

Carbon footprints in my ice cream?

Go Green and News
08 May 2008 With all the talk of Haagen-Dazs creating ice cream to help save the dying honey bee population, one has to wonder how much buying a pint of Vanilla Honey Bee actually offsets the carbon footprint of making it. Click on the footprint to the left and calculate your carbon footprint. And while you're at it, consider how much you'd reduce your own carbon footprint if you made your ice cream at home.  In a non electric ice cream maker. BE GREEN! The Play & Freeze can help you be more eco-friendly with your ice cream consumption!  Since it requires no electricity, you ... {Tags: , , , , } {More...}

Make Your Own Chocolate Syrup!

Recipes
07 May 2008 You're already making your own ice cream, so why not make your own topping, too? Here at All Things Ice Cream, we want to share with you the tools for making ice cream at home.  We offer a fun, environmentally friendly ice cream maker (the Play & Freeze ice cream ball), wonderful paperboard storage containers (manufactured by Sweet Bliss Containers), and we are always looking for great recipes to share with you. Today's recipe is for Chocolate Syrup (courtesy of Bruce Weinstein's book The Ultimate Ice Cream Book -- send us your ice cream recipe and you could win this book!).  This ... {Tags: , , , , , } {More...}

Baskin Robbins co-founder dies at 90

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07 May 2008 LOS ANGELES (AP) — The man who helped build the 31-flavor craze at ice cream store Baskin-Robbins has died at age 90. Irvine Robbins died Monday at his home in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Daughter Marsha Veit says he had been in ill for some time. Generations of kids trooped to Baskin-Robbins stores to buy ice cream flavors like Pralines 'n Cream, Daiquiri Ice and Pink Bubblegum. Robbins opened his first ice cream store in Glendale, Calif., in December 1945, following his discharge from the Army. Robbins offered 21 flavors at that store. His brother-in-law, the late Burton Baskin, opened his own ice cream store ... {Tags: , } {More...}

Original Play & Freeze Back in Stock

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02 May 2008 For those of you looking for the original Play & Freeze (makes 1 pint), we've just received our shipment of blue ones today! Get yours before they sell out again! {Tags: } {More...}