RECIPE: Make A Coffee Milkshake For National Coffee Milkshake Day

July 26th is National Coffee Milkshake Day. We love coffee ice cream, but we never buy it. That’s because flavors we like even more beckon from the freezer case. But today, we’re making a coffee or espresso milkshake to celebrate. You can be creative about it: In addition to coffee ice cream, Starbucks sells pints…
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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: Sheer Bliss Pomegranate Ice Cream

Luscious, creamy pomegranate ice cream from Sheer Bliss. Photo by Victoria P. | Fotolia.   It’s the last week of International Ice Cream Month. We’re celebrating big time with pomegranate ice cream from Sheer Bliss. Sheer Bliss is the mother lode of pomegranate ice cream, a flavor that’s lush and sweet with a hint of…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Serve Ice Cream Or Sorbet “Demitasse”

An easy and impressive ice cream dessert. Photo courtesy Talenti Gelato.   Here’s an ice cream recipe idea for a sweet yet light ending to a big dinner: ice cream demitasse. Use your demitasse (espresso) cups to serve small portions of ice cream or sorbet. They will be just enough to qualify as dessert, but…
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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: Talenti Gelato & Sorbetto

Fruit ices are thousands of years old, dating back to ancient China. But gelato, the first type of ice cream (see below for the difference between the two), is comparatively recent. It likely dates to Florence, Italy in the late 16th century. Some culinary historians believe that a multi-talented genius named Bernardo Buontalenti created gelato.…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Sugar Free Sorbet

There’s a lot of good no-sugar-added ice cream out there, but it’s tough to find a no-sugar-added sorbet. Even our sugar-free and lactose-free Top Pick Of The Week, Clemmy’s ice cream, offers only an Orange Creme flavor, a combination of vanilla ice cream and orange sorbet. But if you’re on a sugar-free diet and miss…
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