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Perfectly Simple Ice Cream: 100 Recipes Anyone Can Make
Sweeten and savor any occasion with this incredible homemade ice cream book!“The next time you’re even thinking of going out for an ice cream cone, grab this book instead and take it into the kitchen because the best ice cream recipes imaginable are between these covers.” — JOANNE WEIR, author and James Beard Award winner.Discover how easy it is to recreate recipes from your favorite ice cream shop at home in this irresistible celebration of all things sweet and frozen. Brought to you by Anthony Tassinello and Mary Jo Thoresen, veteran chefs of Alice Waters’s famed Chez Panisse restaurant, this book shows you how to whip up the perfect scoop of ice cream, sherbet, granita, frozen yogurt, and other delightful treats—from the classic and nostalgic flavors to the surprising and festive.100 flavors to try — Explore unique recipes that showcase fresh, seasonal ingredients, such as London Fog Ice Cream, Creamy Lime Sherbet, Vietnamese Coffee Ice Cream, and more!Tips and techniques — Master your ice cream maker with step-by-step guidance for achieving smooth and delicious results every time.Don’t forget the toppings — Go the extra mile with a section of recipes for homemade toppings like Caramel Sauce, Candied Nuts, and Perfectly Whipped Cream.Whether you’re making ice cream for the first time, or looking for new takes on traditional favorites, this ice cream cookbook includes everything you need to create luscious desserts that everyone will love.
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248 pages, Hardcover
Published April 30, 2024
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July 7, 2024
I received an advance reader copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review via netgalley and the publishers.
Perfectly Simple Ice Cream is a collection of 100 Ice cream recipes aimed at being made by hand and by machine at home.
The recipes vary from easy to harder throughout the book, and there is literally something for everyone within these recipes. I'm sure if you're quite advanced in the kitchen, you could swap ingredients about to create your own unique ice creams too from using this book.
I loved the variety included, which had not just ice cream but sorbets, sherberts, granitas, frozen yoghurt, and ice pops as well.
The book starts with the basics such as equipment needed, techniques, supplies, etc, and each recipe has step-by-step instructions that look pretty easy to follow.
I'd say a huge portion of the book does require an ice cream maker, but there are quite a few that don't which are the ones I'm interested in making as I don't have an ice cream machine. There's so many different flavours included and ideas for different seasons and event types again, making it an all-rounder of a recipe book.
The only thing that knocked it down a star for me was there weren't photographs of every ice cream, which was disappointing as I do enjoy seeing what it should turn out like.
Perfectly Simple Ice Cream is a collection of 100 Ice cream recipes aimed at being made by hand and by machine at home.
The recipes vary from easy to harder throughout the book, and there is literally something for everyone within these recipes. I'm sure if you're quite advanced in the kitchen, you could swap ingredients about to create your own unique ice creams too from using this book.
I loved the variety included, which had not just ice cream but sorbets, sherberts, granitas, frozen yoghurt, and ice pops as well.
The book starts with the basics such as equipment needed, techniques, supplies, etc, and each recipe has step-by-step instructions that look pretty easy to follow.
I'd say a huge portion of the book does require an ice cream maker, but there are quite a few that don't which are the ones I'm interested in making as I don't have an ice cream machine. There's so many different flavours included and ideas for different seasons and event types again, making it an all-rounder of a recipe book.
The only thing that knocked it down a star for me was there weren't photographs of every ice cream, which was disappointing as I do enjoy seeing what it should turn out like.
May 13, 2024
Ever since getting a Ninja Creami, I've enjoyed delving into ice cream recipes and the science behind one of my favorite treats. So when this showed up in NetGalley, I jumped on the chance to read and review it.
To be honest, I'm a bit torn on this cookbook. While the title promises easy, low-effort, recipes, the authors are professional chefs and so our ideas of 'simple' differ. I think the tagline of "100 recipes anyone can make" is slightly more accurate, as the majority of the recipes involve ingredients and cooking utensils found countrywide.
It's an ARC, but it's the roughest ARC I've ever read. The ingredients for each recipe were halfway through the recipe itself, every 7 words were missing 2-3 letters, and much of the text was light grey (on the medium grey background of my Kindle Fire). I have nothing against hyping a book through ARC reviews, but this book was a good argument for layout editors to meet some sort of minimum bar before asking readers to embark on that. Because of course it negatively colored my experience of the cookbook!
The pros:
-The recipes are organized in a way that makes it easy to hone in on your idea of good ice cream, whether that's classic flavors, booze flavors, more edgy stuff, or whatever.
-No gastronomic Olympics here- the authors have a custard-style ice cream base and recommend fresh flavorings (fruits, herbs, etc.), but otherwise they don't require specific machinery or complex timing.
-I appreciate that the authors advocate things like ice cream socials, and treated this sweet treat as not just a kids dessert.
-They did offer an egg-free ice cream base alternative, though not a dairy-free one (*whomp whomp*)
The cons:
-Despite being a book about ice cream, there were several recipes for other sweet frozen treats. I can forgive frozen yogurt being considered an ice cream, but granita are like Slurpees, not ice cream.
-Every recipe repeated the same ice cream base, instead of just putting it in the front and referring to it. It made the first half of each recipe feel like filler. And when a recipe is 4 pages long, it's the opposite of 'simple'. The editor should've insisted on more conciseness.
-I suppose anyone can make a prickly pear ice cream flavor, but where (outside of the southwestern US) are people going to find prickly pear? I wish they'd included comparable alternatives for the more exotic recipes.
-Every recipe was sized to make a party batch of ice cream (4 quarts, I think). I love ice cream, but I live alone and my ice cream maker can only handle a pint at a time. They did not provide any way to size a recipe down, or else it was totally illegible (you can't always just cut everything in half.)
Despite that, I bookmarked a dozen or so to try sizing down for myself, because I'm just too darn curious and they sounded delicious. Flavors such as Ras el Hanout, London Fog, Chocolate Sherbet, Orange-Cardamom, and Amaretto with Dried Cherries.
Overall, I wouldn't buy this cookbook, but I might flip through it at the library before remembering that the internet is full of great ice cream bloggers with truly simple recipes that are sized for 1 quart, some of which are dairy-free and delicious.
To be honest, I'm a bit torn on this cookbook. While the title promises easy, low-effort, recipes, the authors are professional chefs and so our ideas of 'simple' differ. I think the tagline of "100 recipes anyone can make" is slightly more accurate, as the majority of the recipes involve ingredients and cooking utensils found countrywide.
It's an ARC, but it's the roughest ARC I've ever read. The ingredients for each recipe were halfway through the recipe itself, every 7 words were missing 2-3 letters, and much of the text was light grey (on the medium grey background of my Kindle Fire). I have nothing against hyping a book through ARC reviews, but this book was a good argument for layout editors to meet some sort of minimum bar before asking readers to embark on that. Because of course it negatively colored my experience of the cookbook!
The pros:
-The recipes are organized in a way that makes it easy to hone in on your idea of good ice cream, whether that's classic flavors, booze flavors, more edgy stuff, or whatever.
-No gastronomic Olympics here- the authors have a custard-style ice cream base and recommend fresh flavorings (fruits, herbs, etc.), but otherwise they don't require specific machinery or complex timing.
-I appreciate that the authors advocate things like ice cream socials, and treated this sweet treat as not just a kids dessert.
-They did offer an egg-free ice cream base alternative, though not a dairy-free one (*whomp whomp*)
The cons:
-Despite being a book about ice cream, there were several recipes for other sweet frozen treats. I can forgive frozen yogurt being considered an ice cream, but granita are like Slurpees, not ice cream.
-Every recipe repeated the same ice cream base, instead of just putting it in the front and referring to it. It made the first half of each recipe feel like filler. And when a recipe is 4 pages long, it's the opposite of 'simple'. The editor should've insisted on more conciseness.
-I suppose anyone can make a prickly pear ice cream flavor, but where (outside of the southwestern US) are people going to find prickly pear? I wish they'd included comparable alternatives for the more exotic recipes.
-Every recipe was sized to make a party batch of ice cream (4 quarts, I think). I love ice cream, but I live alone and my ice cream maker can only handle a pint at a time. They did not provide any way to size a recipe down, or else it was totally illegible (you can't always just cut everything in half.)
Despite that, I bookmarked a dozen or so to try sizing down for myself, because I'm just too darn curious and they sounded delicious. Flavors such as Ras el Hanout, London Fog, Chocolate Sherbet, Orange-Cardamom, and Amaretto with Dried Cherries.
Overall, I wouldn't buy this cookbook, but I might flip through it at the library before remembering that the internet is full of great ice cream bloggers with truly simple recipes that are sized for 1 quart, some of which are dairy-free and delicious.
July 26, 2024
Thank you to NetGalley for an ARC of
Perfectly Simple Ice Cream.
I love ice cream! I mean, who doesn't love ice cream?
If you don't, we can't be friends.
The authors have written an easy to follow book on how to make homemade ice cream, sherbet, granita, frozen yogurt, and other amazing treats.
I've never thought of rice ice cream, but there's a recipe for it!
There were a few recipes I hadn't thought of and I realized my knowledge of ice cream is limited to what I find in the grocery store and my personal favorites.
This cookbook opens the reader's eyes to what is possible in the world of ice cream.
Yes, some of the recipes are labor intensive like the Baked Alaska, but anything worth doing takes time and effort.
Making ice cream, even with a machine, sounds like a lot of work but after reading this I feel that once you start making ice cream, it will be easy to do time and time again.
My only caveat - not enough photos!
I'm not sure if the photos just didn't come through on my Kindle but the amount of photos was seriously lacking.
I love ice cream! I mean, who doesn't love ice cream?
If you don't, we can't be friends.
The authors have written an easy to follow book on how to make homemade ice cream, sherbet, granita, frozen yogurt, and other amazing treats.
I've never thought of rice ice cream, but there's a recipe for it!
There were a few recipes I hadn't thought of and I realized my knowledge of ice cream is limited to what I find in the grocery store and my personal favorites.
This cookbook opens the reader's eyes to what is possible in the world of ice cream.
Yes, some of the recipes are labor intensive like the Baked Alaska, but anything worth doing takes time and effort.
Making ice cream, even with a machine, sounds like a lot of work but after reading this I feel that once you start making ice cream, it will be easy to do time and time again.
My only caveat - not enough photos!
I'm not sure if the photos just didn't come through on my Kindle but the amount of photos was seriously lacking.
May 20, 2024
One of the best things about cookbooks/recipe books are the photos, they get your mouth watering and help you decide what to make first. While the photographs in this book were beautiful, there just weren’t as many as I would have liked. I love the encouragement in the beginning to support farmers by purchasing quality ingredients locally, that’s the best way to impart the biggest depth of flavor in a recipe.
This book does offer a variety of flavor, from classic to flavor combinations we don’t see often in ice cream. There’s something for everyone that loves a cold summery treat and how much fun will it be to experiment all summer with the family. The first flavors that we will make, will most likely be mint chocolate chip, pear sherbet, and London fog.
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Thank you Netgalley and St Martins P for sending me an ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review. My thoughts and opinions are 100% my own.
This book does offer a variety of flavor, from classic to flavor combinations we don’t see often in ice cream. There’s something for everyone that loves a cold summery treat and how much fun will it be to experiment all summer with the family. The first flavors that we will make, will most likely be mint chocolate chip, pear sherbet, and London fog.
Feel free follow my social media accounts, I will be sharing my review of this book prior to the publishing date.
https://linktr.ee/britneybarlow
Thank you Netgalley and St Martins P for sending me an ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review. My thoughts and opinions are 100% my own.
April 23, 2024
Great gourmet recipes. Most of them are fairly simple, though they do have you temper your eggs and some of the recipes are rather advanced. I wish there were pictures of every recipe. There are just a few full page photos, whereas I would much prefer a small photo on each recipe so I can see what it will look like. I would have liked some dairy free recipes too. There are granitas and such that are naturally, but I have made some really delicious vegan ice creams and would have liked a few of those kinds of recipes (keto and such would be great too) but this is not that kind of book. I did appreciate the recipes for frozen yogurt, ice pops and boozy ice creams though, and the ice cream flavors throughout the book were creative and sound delicious.
I read a digital version of this book for review via NetGalley.
I read a digital version of this book for review via NetGalley.
April 27, 2024
Perfectly simple ice cream, frozen yogurt, sherbets, granitas, pops, and bombes anyone can make including over one hundred recipes. Of course, you must start at the beginning with essential supplies and knowledge around technique. Once the foundation is laid, it moves on to options. So many options! The classics, chocolate, fruity, nostalgic, surprising, festive, and spirited. Step by step directions are provided in addition to many colorful pictures to spark your own creativity. Most of these do require an ice cream maker, but there a few recipes that don’t call for one. All seasons, flavors, and consistencies are covered, making this a guaranteed win for all readers!
I received a complimentary copy from the publisher via NetGalley and all opinions expressed are solely my own, freely given.
I received a complimentary copy from the publisher via NetGalley and all opinions expressed are solely my own, freely given.
May 2, 2024
I have been on a mission to make my own ice cream since I bought a kitchen aid attachment for my mixer! This recipes books give so many great recipes that I think anyone is capable of making. I do really like the layout and images in this cookbook, the basics into making the different variations of ice cream is very thorough. I do feel like there could have been more images of the recipes. I look forward to the print version! I received an ARC through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
May 2, 2024
this is such an amazing recipe book for all ice cream lovers! its got such great sections ranging from ingredients and equipment to techniques, nostalgic to festive, classics to boozy, and fruity to chocolaty! 🙈🤎
each recipe walks you through steps to make your desired dessert of choice - yum!! can’t wait to try some of these out😍
each recipe walks you through steps to make your desired dessert of choice - yum!! can’t wait to try some of these out😍
July 18, 2025
I am going to test the new recipes but honestly I find it difficult to trust an ice cream book author who does not know sherbet and sorbet are TWO COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THINGS. I cringed when it was stated otherwise. Sherbet has milk; sorbet does not. If you have people who are allergic it is important to know this.
April 14, 2024
Received this from netgalley.
Everyone enjoys a little ice cream sometimes.
There is many different flavor options in this book. Definitely would like to pick a couple to try.
Thank you for the opportunity to check this book out.
Everyone enjoys a little ice cream sometimes.
There is many different flavor options in this book. Definitely would like to pick a couple to try.
Thank you for the opportunity to check this book out.
April 28, 2024
I have been making no-churn gelato for several years. This book appealed to me because of the beautiful cover and the chance to learn new ice cream recipes. Very nice book to add to any cook's collection.
April 21, 2024
If you have an ice cream maker or are thinking of getting one, this is an excellent cookbook. When I first picked it up, I didn’t realize it was Alice Waters and the Chez Panisse pastry team. That only raised my expectations, and I wasn’t disappointed. The instructions are easy to follow, and the book has a wide range of flavors and ice cream styles. The pictures are fun and will make you want to pull the ice cream maker out ASAP. I’ll probably get this book for my dad, who loves making ice cream when my parents entertain.
I received an advanced copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.
I received an advanced copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.
November 14, 2024
Could've used more pictures, but some solid recipes.
December 31, 2024
Perfectly Simple Ice Cream is a great short guide to making ice cream. From making basic flavors to slightly more complex ones, this has all the steps to simplify making flavor-filled ice cream.
November 19, 2024
The cookbook includes 100 recipes for ice cream and other frozen treats. The cookbook begins with ingredients and equipment you should have on hand, which is helpful for those who have not ventured into making their own ice cream before. The following chapter then includes techniques to make basic ice cream, sherbet, and frozen yogurt. Afterward are the Classic, Chocolaty, Fruity, Nostalgic, Surprising, Festive, and Boozy recipes.
Each recipe includes an introduction, ingredient list, and directions. However, each chapter only includes 2-3 pictures, which is less than a fourth of the recipes. It would have been helpful to have pictures of all the recipes so you would know what the ice cream looks like if you were unfamiliar with it. It would also help you decide if you want to make it.
That said, there are recipes I would like to try making, including Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream (which is my favorite flavor), Mexican Chocolate Ice Cream with Churros, Pineapple Sherbet, Peaches and Cream, and Watermelon Ice Pops. Perfectly Simple Ice Cream is a good cookbook if you want to make your own ice cream, sherbet, frozen yogurt, or granita, but the lack of photos does bring the quality down.
Thank you NetGalley for sending this book for review.
Each recipe includes an introduction, ingredient list, and directions. However, each chapter only includes 2-3 pictures, which is less than a fourth of the recipes. It would have been helpful to have pictures of all the recipes so you would know what the ice cream looks like if you were unfamiliar with it. It would also help you decide if you want to make it.
That said, there are recipes I would like to try making, including Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream (which is my favorite flavor), Mexican Chocolate Ice Cream with Churros, Pineapple Sherbet, Peaches and Cream, and Watermelon Ice Pops. Perfectly Simple Ice Cream is a good cookbook if you want to make your own ice cream, sherbet, frozen yogurt, or granita, but the lack of photos does bring the quality down.
Thank you NetGalley for sending this book for review.
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