You know what is something I rarely see these days... the coating for ice cream - the one where you dip it in hot chocolate and then it hardens on the ice cream. I really missed that, does anyone have a recipe for it? I am especially interested in how it gets hard fast on the ice cream as opposed to just a hot sludge (like fudge) on the ice cream. Thanks in advance.
There really is no contest between Homemade and store bought ice cream. I have to say, traditional vanilla is my favorite, but I like to do something a little different. Buy whole Vanilla beans and a bottle of your favorite vodka or spiced rum, and cram all of the vanilla beans into it. Let that sit on a shelf somewhere for a couple of weeks, and poof, you have the richest, most flavorful vanilla extract on the planet. It is expensive to buy the whole beans (at least in the US), but it is worth it.
FROZEN ASSETS - WHEN IT COMES TO ICE CREAM, REGIONAL VARIATIONS THRIVE THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY
Grape-Nuts in New England. Blue Moon in Wisconsin. Red bean in Hawaii. Date in Palm Springs. Baklava in Utah. Vanilla and chocolate may rule America's collective palate when it comes to ice cream, but regional - some would say unusual - variations nevertheless thrive throughout the country.
Ref. https://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,...92955,00.html
High-fat ice cream may not necessarily mean tastier ice cream. Even though ice cream connoisseurs may insist that ice cream with more fat tastes better, a team of food scientists found that people generally cannot tell the difference between fat levels in ice creams. Source 1e.
I love ice cream. I'd eat it all the time except I'd blow up like a balloon and I like my svelte body! Anyway, I would have chosen every option in the vote just because of how much I like ice cream, ice yogurt, and frozen ices. I do buy the low fat ones and I think they taste pretty close to the high fat ones.
I buy my ice cream from whatever store I shop at for groceries. I tend to go toward vanilla with chocolate chunks and bits of cherries, cookie dough with big chunks, and any kind that doubles up on chocolate with chocolate chunks. As you can see, I like chocolate!