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Thursday, August 15, 2019

Good Humor (Strawberry Shortcake, Chocolate Eclair & Toasted Almond) Ice Cream Bar Cake Pops

Hey there Peeps! It's August and I just saw an ad that Pumpkin Spice lattes are coming back soon.

NOOO! I want to keep Summer for a bit more.

We haven't even been to the beach yet. So bummed but I have been trying to keep Summer going with one of my fav treats.

Good Humor Ice Cream Bars - specifically the infamous Strawberry Shortcake! It's been one of my favorites since I was a little kid running to the ice cream truck when it came into the neighborhood.

I found some of the crunch sprinkles that coat those infamous ice cream bars so knew I had to use them to make some mini treats.

These are my mini versions of the Chocolate Eclair, Strawberry Shortcake, and the Toasted Almond.

The chocolate bar is a mixture of Funfetti cake and frosting plus some crushed up chocolate creme cookies (I used Trader Joe's Joe Joe's)

The Strawberry Shortcake is the Funfetti cake, frosting plus some powdered freeze dried strawberries.

The toasted almond is plain Funfetti cake and frosting mixture.

Once the mixture is uniform shape into the ice cream bar shapes.

My local supermarket had "crunch" sprinkles in chocolate crunch, nut crunch, and "pink" crunch flavors. See how you can make your own (recipe below!)

Add a popsicle stick (coffee stirrer)

Freeze for about 15 minutes

Coat "popsicle" with melted vanilla candy

Add the crunch sprinkles

Let harden

And you have some super cute ice cream bar cake pops!

Don't they look like mini versions of the real thing?? Bonus - they don't melt!

I'm going to try to enjoy the last few weeks of Summer before we head into pumpkin spice season!

Although I didn't make my crunch sprinkles it seems like many look for the recipe so below is how you could make your own.

How to make Crunch Sprinkles

Strawberry Crunch Sprinkles

2 cups of vanilla Oreo cookies
1/2 cup freeze-dried strawberries
Pulse until small chunks
Mix in 2 teaspoons of melted butter

Chocolate Crunch Sprinkles

1 cup of vanilla Oreo cookies
1 cup chocolate wafer cookies
Pulse until small chunks
Mix in 2 teaspoons of melted butter

Toasted Almond Sprinkles

1 cup of vanilla Oreo cookies
1/2 cup toasted almonds
Pulse until small chunks
Mix in 2 teaspoons of melted butter
For more almond flavor add 1 teaspoon of almond extract

Sunday, August 21, 2016

Brioche Ice Cream Sandwich Sliders

Hey all! In the east coast we're still in the middle of a heat wave with 90+ temps for the past couple of weeks. I don't mind the heat and humidity but the rest of my clan seem to be melting so I thought they could use a nice cold treat.

And since ice cream sandwiches are one of my favorite ice cream treats of all time I thought I'd try a twist on them. Ice cream on brioche or as I'm calling them:

ICE CREAM SLIDERS!

And did you know Breyers Ice Cream turns 150 this year?? 150?? It's amazing they've been around so long but I guess it makes sense since I can remember my mom buying Breyers when my sister and I were little. She always said they had the best vanilla ice cream because you can see the little vanilla specks in it. She's right. Breyers is always my go to brand.

The super cool folks that work with Breyers were able to provide me with some ice cream to re-create a recipe they have on the Breyers site. There are fun recipes for every month developed by Chef Curtis Stone and Lindsay Price Stone.

I just *had* to make the Italian Ice Cream Sandwiches - well not exactly the same recipe but made with these flavors: black raspberry chocolate, vanilla caramel gelato, and french vanilla.

All delish!

And see, you can see the vanilla flecks in the french vanilla!

These sliders come together really quickly. Warm and slice your brioche buns. Remove some of the interior bread. (Try to resist shoving the extra warm brioche bread directly into your mouth as to not waste it!).

Find some fun extras to chop up and roll the sides in like almonds, pistachios, and freeze dried raspberries.

Spread your favorite ice cream onto one side of the bun. Make your ice cream layer about 1 to 1 and 1/2 inches or so in thickness. This gave the perfect ice cream to brioche ratio.

Mix and match your favorite flavors! You really can't go wrong.

And I know you are probably thinking "ice cream on bread? what the heck, that sounds odd" - well in Italy they have been doing this for years - maybe eons - ok maybe not eons but for a long long time.

The sweet brioche matches so nicely with creamy ice cream and you know the Italians don't mess around with their food so trust me on this one. The warm brioche makes this one of my current fav desserts!

You can find the recipe here out the other fun Breyers recipes too. Hope you are enjoying August because very soon we'll be all up to our necks in pumpkin spice'd things!

Monday, August 31, 2015

Cereal Treat Mini Ice Cream Cones

NOOOO! Summer cannot be almost over. I'm not letting it happen yet - and marketers - can we stop with all the pumpkin spiced things? I actually love pumpkin flavored stuff - BUT NOT EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE PUMPKIN SPICE'D UP!

Sorry for yelling so let's make these little ice cream cones instead!

And bonus they don't melt in the hot August heat! Which means no drippy sticky kid hands. I did them in neapolitan flavors but you can make them in any of your fav ice cream flavors.

And you can even stack them with a little melted chocolate. Much easier than regular ice cream cones right? Or better yet have both! See them here at she knows.

If you like these "fauxscream" cones you may also like these others I've made over the years:

Mini Cones with Marshmallows (store bought marshmallows so it's really simple)

Mini Cones with Homemade Marshmallow (homemade takes a little longer but so worth it!)

And my most shared post to date!

Rainbow Ice Cream Cone Cake Bites

Happy last day of August! Thanks for stopping by!

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Ice Cream Topped Angel Food Cupcakes - Cupcake Couture Blog Party "Sprinkles Will Fly"

So another Cupcake Couture Blog Party! I can't get enough of them. Betsy from Java Cupcake and Carrie from Bella Cupcake Couture are hosting again BUT this one is a patriotic cupcake theme! That means a whole lotta Red, White, and Blue. You just cannot not smile when you see those colors together! And I can't wait to see what everyone whips up for the upcoming 4th of July holiday.

It really is a must to have red, white, and blue for the 4th and I love coming up with these colors without using any food gels/dyes. This red (ok pink!) and blue (yeah ok purpley-blue) are from fresh berries only.

And my cupcake wrappers were these fun stars and stripes in red, white and blue!

I wanted something a little different cupcake wise, so went with angel food cake cupcakes (from a boxed mix to speed up the process). They baked up great! It's basically like you are eating air, so you can eat like 1 or 2 or 12 without the guilt (ok pretend that is true).

And yay for berry season! I made some blueberry and strawberry sauce by cooking about 2-3 cups of berries with about 2 tablespoons of sugar and 2-3 teaspoons of water. Cook until the berries breakdown and make a nice thick sauce.

blueberry sauce - yum

strawberry sauce - double yum

Nothing goes better with angel food cake then ice cream. So in place of frosting, these cupcakes have a scoop of red, white, or blue ice cream on top!

The white is plain vanilla ice cream, the "red" is vanilla mixed with a little of the strawberry sauce, and the "blue" is vanilla mixed with the blueberry sauce. I added about 1 tablespoon of the sauce to about 2 cups of vanilla ice cream. Definitely let chill, preferably overnite (you can see my strawberry ice cream was not as firm and that was about only 2 hours after I mixed it up.

You can top with a jelly bean "cherry" or sprinkles or whatever other toppers you like! And you can make these ahead of time and freeze the entire cupcake. That seemed to work well since I needed these for a birthday party.

And the flavors of fresh berries, ice cream and angel food cake together--to quote a famous facebooker, Oh. My. (10 points if you get that reference). You can also just dump some of the sauce over the entire cupcake to really kick it up several hundred notches. Heat the sauce up a little before pouring it over. I seriously could have eaten all of these on my own they were that good!

I had a lot of fun with these "cupcakes" for the par-tay AND if you want to see some other cool patriotic themed cuppies, please stop by and say hello to these other fun bloggers playing along!

A Pumpkin and A Princess

An American Cupcake in London

Bella Cupcake Couture

Chronicles of a Foodie

Creative Food

Cupcake Project

Cupcakes Take the Cake

Diary of a Mad Hausfrau

Kitchen Fun with My 3 Sons

Love From the Oven

Make Bake Celebrate

Not Just a Mommy

Not Your Mommas Cookie

Pint Sized Baker

Sugar Swings! Serve Some

The Baking Cup

The Decorated Cookie

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And again, thanks so much to Carrie and Betsy for hosting and pulling all of this together (again!). I really had had a blast with this one!

Sunday, September 2, 2012

mini marshmallow ice cream cones....!

..so summer can't be over just yet! is it really almost september? we didn't even get to the beach...! oh well, in a last ditch effort to keep the summer going, made some mini ice cream cone homemade marshmallows.....

do you remember these things? mini marshmallow ice cream cones?

i remember them from when i was little, my dad used to bring them home for us...the marshmallow was always kinda stale and chewy but i liked them anyway....

...and a few months ago, i won shauna sever's marshmallow madness! book (how cool is that? dozens of puffalicious recipes!) and making homemade marshmallows has been on the to do list all stinkin' summer...

...AND when i saw these mini ice cream cone cups in the supermarket the other day, i kinda knew what had to be done...(they are tiny!)

...i made the simple vanilla marshmallow recipe from the book....and believe me, i have been putting off making these for months because it seemed like some work, but they really are super simple once you have all the ingredients ready...there is some heating involved and you need a candy thermometer (actually i can't find mine and used a meat thermometer and it worked just fine)....basically you need sugar, gelatin packets, vanilla, water, and corn syrup (yeah i know it's so not in now...but it's not a lot and i don't use the stuff everyday so i think as with everything else in moderation, we're not drinking it like water around here)....

...once you get the marshmallow done (so it clings well to the kitchen aid mixer blade and it's thick enough to hold it's shape), paint the sides of a piping bag with your color of choice using a paintbrush just for food and food gels, then add the marshmallow to the bag....i was going for the look of swirled soft serve cones and used a wilton tip #2D

practice some swirls if needed and to get the color just right...(my swirls are definitely not perfect, but they kinda remind me of the old marshmallow cones)

...there is something about ice cream cones, right...(my most popular post of all time is the rainbow ice cream cone cake bites [thanks if you have shared, liked, or pinned them, and especially if you've credited them back to me!]) especially when they are in bright colors...! so ridiculously cute and so very summery...and tiny!

...and you end up with a bunch of mini marshmallow faux soft serve ice cream cones in a bunch of fun colors to celebrate the remaining days of the summer....

....i still think we need to try to get another month added to summer...maybe call it funtember and everyone is off from work....i'm going to see if i can add it in as some pork barrel legislation...i would totally vote for anyone running on that platform...

.....and these definitely remind me of those marshmallow cones from when i was little, except the fresh homemade marshmallow is like a gagillion times better than the old stale marshmallow that you get in the premade ones....(it was hard not eating the entire batch as they are THAT good!).....

....hope you like the mini cones, and thanks for stopping by!

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