Category: Ice Cream

Local Scoops: Ice Cream With a Sense of Place

Tiny but mighty: New Mexico piñon nuts are intensely packed with flavor. My sister, Kristin, and I grin with appreciation as we sample the piñon ice cream at Katrina’s, a bright, compact little sweets bistro in downtown Albuquerque. The confection not only genuinely tastes like the pine nuts—a subtly sweet butteriness—but it also carries hints…


Ice Cream Company Recalls Product Over Deadly Listeria Outbreak

A Florida-based ice cream company has recalled its products after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said its products were linked to a deadly listeria monocytogenes bacterial outbreak. In an announcement on the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) website, Big Olaf Creamery, based in Sarasota, said it is voluntarily recalling “all flavors and all…


How to Make the Best Homemade Ice Cream, According to Salt & Straw

Whether you’re a kid running barefoot to an ice cream truck or an adult looking to beat the heat with a bowl of strawberry custard, there’s something about ice cream that perfectly balances waves of nostalgia with showstopping flavor. But when temperatures reach the high 90s, who wants to leave their home to pick up ice cream? Not us. When…


Top China Streamer Sparks Tiananmen Questions; Cal Thomas Discusses Biden Foreign Policy

China’s top streamer meets political censorship. An unintentional mistake may have cost his career, as the 33rd anniversary of the June 4 Tiananmen Square massacre was once again censored in China. Plus, I spoke with Cal Thomas, a speaker at the Western Conservative Summit in Colorado and a celebrated columnist. He and I discuss President…


Strawberry-Mint Sorbet

Vibrantly fresh, this strawberry sorbet is sweetened with honey and infused with the most delicate touch of fresh mint.  If you don’t have an ice cream maker, you can also pour the base into popsicle molds and make strawberry-mint popsicles instead. Serves 8 (Makes 1 quart) 3/4 cup honey 1/4 cup water 1 bunch fresh…


For the Creamiest Coffee Ice Cream, Look to This Storage-Friendly Recipe

When it comes to making homemade ice cream, patience is a virtue. The problem is, once you make the decision to churn a batch of decadent handcrafted ice cream, patience often goes out the window. That’s why I prefer to make uncooked ice cream bases without eggs. Once all the ingredients are whisked together, it is…


Australia Ice Cream Icon Fined for Manipulating Competition

Iconic Australian brand Peters Ice Cream has been fined $12 million (US$9 million) for trying to freeze out competitors by stopping them from being sold at service stations and convenience stores throughout Australia for five years. Peters Ice Cream admitted to acquiring the largest ice cream distributor in Australia—Processed Fish Distributors (PFD)—on the condition that…


Ice Cream Recalled in 9 States Over Possible Bacteria Contamination

The Royal Ice Cream Company on Wednesday said it is recalling products in nine states because of the possibility they were contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, a bacteria that can cause sometimes fatal illnesses in certain individuals. All recalled products have the manufacturing plant number “CT121” or “CT#121,” according to the company, according to a bulletin posted…


An Ice Cream Cake Sweet With Childhood Nostalgia

If some of your fondest childhood food memories include packaged snack cakes—Devil Dogs, Yodels, Swiss Rolls, and the like—as well as store-bought ice cream cakes (Baskin-Robbins’ mint chocolate chip cake, I’m looking at you), I guarantee this ice cream-filled Swiss roll cake will rock your world. The cake is inspired by one I created for…


Easy Basil Ice Cream

Children will scream and adults will swoon over this ice cream’s green hue and sweet, fragrant flavor. You can make the vanilla ice cream base from scratch, or simply start with store-bought. It is fantastic served with berries, or just by itself in a pretty bowl. I love it frozen in a rectangular mold, inverted…