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The Icecreamists
Infamous creators of the Sex Bomb and Baby Googoo - The Icecreamists are passionate about ice cream and the business of sin. Drawn to the mix of childhood fantasy and adult indulgence, The Icecreamists achieved instant notoriety with their breast milk ice-cream in 2009. With a rich variety of both summer and winter treats, The Icecreamists are famous for their cutting-edge flavours and creations. This is where ice cream meets cocktails, with concoctions including the vodka-infused Miss Whiplash and the Molotoffee Cocktail, as well as the devilish Toast Mortem. The Icecreamists' closely-guarded recipes are revealed here for the first time in simple, easily lickable recipe formats so you can recreate the authentic experience at home.
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160 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2012
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July 18, 2016
Yet another charity (thrift) shop find; in A1 condition; as if it were an unwanted present, or publishers’ donated remainder. Is this a serious book on how to make imaginative urban flavours of ice cream, with an extension into other frozen desserts, cocktails, etc? Or was it published to satisfy a market of hard-core fetish ice-cream way overdressed with over-the-top gay humour? Difficult to know really.
A warning on pg. 12 states: “This isn’t your normal recipe book – this is part ice cream bible, part confessional”. Well, it certainly reads like very small change if compared to the Bible. To me, the asinine hype grated. If page headers such as “Smack, Crack and Pop: Popcorn Ice Cream”; or “Fire & Vice: feel the sand in your saddle and hook up your camel” appeal to you; then I’m sure the publisher (Octopus Publishing Group Ltd.) will be absolutely charmed to sell you a copy.
This open-vein (vain?) & overly verbose book could have successfully marketed its lifestyle preferences in considerably fewer than 160 glossy pages. Instead of chilling out, it tries too hard; like a two-year old on LSD, throwing the fonts out of the pram.
However, once one numbs off to the excruciatingly trite, the actual recipes do begin to look interesting; from “Madagascan Vanilla” through “A Chockwork Orange” (chocolate & orange), to “Carameltdown” (caramel), “Jesus Christ Scooperstar” (plain, slightly salted), and much more.
So, signs of native promise here. Mystery also. The unattractive market-limiting page designs left me baffled. Tittering over the sheer ‘wickedness’ of an absinthe ice lolly can hardly be justified today. The wormwood well known by Toulouse Lautrec and Vincent Van Gogh was of a very different infusion. Mr O’Connor, pitched on planet facebook, seems to have little or no faith that his recipes (34 ice creams, 12 sorbets, 8 cocktails, 14 desserts, 6 lollies, and 2 dessert sauces); all stickily rubbed up into 157 pages of hype), can stand clear on their own merits. The test surely lies in the eating. However, this book has not yet sufficiently enthused me to switch on my extremely expensive ice-cream maker, in order to make-up any of the recipes published in this book, though I am curious to see which recipes work, and which don’t. Dilemma! If this £1 book is all image and no substance, then I’m not interested on wasting time or money on ingredients; even should breast-milk be obtainable for free.
A warning on pg. 12 states: “This isn’t your normal recipe book – this is part ice cream bible, part confessional”. Well, it certainly reads like very small change if compared to the Bible. To me, the asinine hype grated. If page headers such as “Smack, Crack and Pop: Popcorn Ice Cream”; or “Fire & Vice: feel the sand in your saddle and hook up your camel” appeal to you; then I’m sure the publisher (Octopus Publishing Group Ltd.) will be absolutely charmed to sell you a copy.
This open-vein (vain?) & overly verbose book could have successfully marketed its lifestyle preferences in considerably fewer than 160 glossy pages. Instead of chilling out, it tries too hard; like a two-year old on LSD, throwing the fonts out of the pram.
However, once one numbs off to the excruciatingly trite, the actual recipes do begin to look interesting; from “Madagascan Vanilla” through “A Chockwork Orange” (chocolate & orange), to “Carameltdown” (caramel), “Jesus Christ Scooperstar” (plain, slightly salted), and much more.
So, signs of native promise here. Mystery also. The unattractive market-limiting page designs left me baffled. Tittering over the sheer ‘wickedness’ of an absinthe ice lolly can hardly be justified today. The wormwood well known by Toulouse Lautrec and Vincent Van Gogh was of a very different infusion. Mr O’Connor, pitched on planet facebook, seems to have little or no faith that his recipes (34 ice creams, 12 sorbets, 8 cocktails, 14 desserts, 6 lollies, and 2 dessert sauces); all stickily rubbed up into 157 pages of hype), can stand clear on their own merits. The test surely lies in the eating. However, this book has not yet sufficiently enthused me to switch on my extremely expensive ice-cream maker, in order to make-up any of the recipes published in this book, though I am curious to see which recipes work, and which don’t. Dilemma! If this £1 book is all image and no substance, then I’m not interested on wasting time or money on ingredients; even should breast-milk be obtainable for free.
January 13, 2018
I've had this book for a number of years now and have used it quite often to mainly make strawberry (using real strawberries from the garden), vanilla and chocolate ice creams.
I do not have an ice cream maker so do it by hand which requires lots of waiting and trips to the freezer, to keep churning it by hand so the crystals don't set into the ice cream. But once its set whatever flavour it is it does not last long before it gobbled up.
This book contains 34 different ice creams, a large number of sorbettos, cocktails which contain the ice creams you make (what could be better), icequakes, sundaes & desserts and ice lollies.
I would certainly recommend this book and the ice creams within as they are easy to make and contain only a handful of ingredients and is much much better than anything you can buy from the shops.
I do not have an ice cream maker so do it by hand which requires lots of waiting and trips to the freezer, to keep churning it by hand so the crystals don't set into the ice cream. But once its set whatever flavour it is it does not last long before it gobbled up.
This book contains 34 different ice creams, a large number of sorbettos, cocktails which contain the ice creams you make (what could be better), icequakes, sundaes & desserts and ice lollies.
I would certainly recommend this book and the ice creams within as they are easy to make and contain only a handful of ingredients and is much much better than anything you can buy from the shops.
August 21, 2018
Delicious home-made ice cream and, above all, very special recipes... endless variations.
The recipes all start with a standard which makes it easy.
There are some recipes I will never make, such as breast milk... and a few more
I have tried many recipes from this book and they are all super tasty, although I prefer the ice cream with alcohol.
In addition, ice cream with flower flavors such as lavender and roses as well as with cheese and amarena cherries (mascarpone that I also make myself), mint chocolate, strawberry with balsamic vinegar ... too many to mention.
Simply fantastic flavors, a book that should not be missed by every ice cream lover.
The recipes all start with a standard which makes it easy.
There are some recipes I will never make, such as breast milk... and a few more
I have tried many recipes from this book and they are all super tasty, although I prefer the ice cream with alcohol.
In addition, ice cream with flower flavors such as lavender and roses as well as with cheese and amarena cherries (mascarpone that I also make myself), mint chocolate, strawberry with balsamic vinegar ... too many to mention.
Simply fantastic flavors, a book that should not be missed by every ice cream lover.
June 27, 2013
The recipes in this book sound really indulgent, I shall be working my way through the Sorbettos, but I will not be making the breast milk ice cream.
The photographs are beautiful, and the general design of the book is really enticing. The recipes are interesting and the methods are easy to follow.
The photographs are beautiful, and the general design of the book is really enticing. The recipes are interesting and the methods are easy to follow.
May 19, 2016
This book tried so hard to be goth I couldn't even read it long enough to make the ice creams.
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