Williams-Sonoma Collection: Ice Cream

by Mary Goodbody

Vanilla, strawberry, chocolate, Everyone has a favorite flavor of ice cream. As a simple treat on a hot summer afternoon or an elegant finish to a special meal, ice cream is a versatile dessert that is delightfully easy to make at home.

Williams-Sonoma Collection Ice Cream offers more than 40 recipes for rich ice creams, tangy sorbets, and flavorful granitas. When delicious combinations of ingredients—fresh cream, fruit at its peak of ripeness, fine-quality chocolate—are combined and frozen in an ice-cream maker, the results are always sublime. From the crunch of ice creams made with candy, cookies, or nuts to those as smooth as caramel, there are plenty of irresistible choices inside these pages. In addition, an entire chapter devoted to more elaborate ice cream dishes will inspire you to use your favorite flavors to make impressive frozen desserts.

Tempting, full-color photographs of each ice cream make it easy to decide which one to prepare, and photographic side notes highlight essential ingredients and techniques, making Ice Cream more than just a fine collection of recipes. A comprehensive basics section and a detailed glossary will also provide you with everything you need to know to make delicious homemade ice cream your new favorite dessert.

From a scoop of creamy, old-fashioned ice cream to a dish of sweet sorbet or a spoonful of rich gelato—iced desserts are a refreshing way to enjoy an infinite array of wonderful, sweet flavors.

Williams-Sonoma Collection Ice Cream offers more than 40 easy-to-follow recipes that allow you to make all-time favorites as well as delicious new flavors. Whether you crave an irresistibly rich chocolate-hazelnut gelato, a light and tangy lemon sorbet, or the best vanilla ice cream you have ever tasted, the recipes inside will inspire you to serve ice cream for any occasion. This vividly photographed, full-color recipe collection promises to become an essential addition to your kitchen bookshelf.

"Once you have sampled the flavors inside, you will realize that homemade ice cream is simply the best there is!"

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Nonfiction, Food

120 pages, Hardcover

First published May 6, 2003

Reviews

[Simon · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not sure I fully agree with how some of these recipes are explained and how they claim to work. It will be interesting to follow some of these recipes exactly as written, then alter them with the knowledge I have gained from other ice cream creators and books and bring these recipes to a more fuller and exciting capacity.

I got this book from Facebook Marketplace and had the seller mail it to me from Port Perry.

[eb · Rating 2 out of 5]

I got this out along with a few others to learn more about making my own ice cream. I tossed this one back. While the basic recipes seemed somewhat comparable, the whole presentation seemed dated and the flavors were boring next to the extraordinary offerings in a book like Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams at Home, which also offers one of the best basic methods, with the most consistently perfect results, that I've found.

Bottom line: this isn't terrible, but there are much better books out there, especially for foodies.

[Greta · Rating 4 out of 5]

cherry vanilla with cream cheese, blueberries and cream, vanilla bean....all excellent!!!!! want to try the orange sherbert, green tea.

[Patricia · Rating 4 out of 5]

The recipe for creme fraiche ice cream is incredible.

[Catherine Woodman · Rating 4 out of 5]

this is above average for the series. This series is very well produced and the recipes do tend to work out--just not especially imainative

[Lumpia Lover · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm in the process of trying to find a good ice cream to make for Christmas. I'm leaning towards the peppermint one; is it any good?

[Clarissa · Rating 4 out of 5]

So far all we have made is the peppermint ice cream, but we have made it many times. It is delicious, and my daughter doesn't want us to make any other flavors. Sigh, maybe this year...