Ice Cream Flavors

This is where ice cream comes into its own compared to other foods! The range of flavors is seemingly endless, from the simple to the exotic to the most unusual.

Vanilla, chocolate and strawberry ice cream are amongst the most traditional and will always be popular. If you like vanilla ice cream and want to make your own here's my vanilla ice cream recipe. There's also my own vanilla ice cream making video. Other traditional flavors include banana, chocolate chip and honey.

Nuts play a great part in flavoring ice cream too – one of the most popular nuts is the pecan. Here's my butter pecan ice cream recipe. There's also of course the ever popular nut flavor ice cream of pistachio. Here's my pistachio ice cream recipe.

Herbs make wonderful flavorings for homemade ice cream. Mint, lavender, rosemary and even bay leaves are great to infuse flavor into the milk after heating up in the first part of the custard making process. Fresh mint ice cream is one of my favorite herb ice cream recipes.

Spices and ice cream … well it doesn’t get any better in my view! Vanilla and ginger are the two most popular spice ice cream flavors of course and I like to use cinammon and cloves sometimes too. Read about my Honey, Cinammon and Cloves ice cream recipe.

Then there’s a whole world of unusual flavorings to try – avocados, prunes, fresh coffee, green tea, honey, marmalade, brown bread … the list goes on.

Alcohol too can be used well in ice cream recipes – try a white wine sorbet for example.  Note: when using alcohol in an ice cream recipe, bear in mind that the end product will be softer and that it will take longer to freeze as alcohol lowers the freezing point of anything it’s added to.

My top 10 ice cream recipes

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Popular Ice Cream Recipe Flavors

Unusual Ice Cream Recipe Flavors

Ice Cream Sorbets

Ice Cream Blog

Fresh Mint Ice Cream is a super, unusual ice cream - with crème fraîche instead of milk/cream. Click pic

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