Making your own ice cream from a favorite recipe is just one part of the real fun of homemade ice cream. How to present it is quite another! It’s amazing but how you present ice cream can have a great bearing on the experience enjoyed by the person eating it.

Sounds crazy perhaps but it’s true. When I last made fresh homemade vanilla ice cream I asked my son and his friend whether they would like it in a cone or in a glass.

They chose the glass – why? Because they knew I would then add whipped cream, sauce and an extra topping such as a chocolate flake or chopped nuts. You just can’t do all of that with a cone!