Wednesday
May122010
Get Ready for Summer! Ice Cream & Frozen Desserts
Image via Flickr user jhritz
Today the "Get Ready for Summer" series continues. Yesterday we took a look at upcoming BBQ events.
Today, let's plan for dessert. What's better to end a summer meal than some cold and delicious ice cream? And Seattle's ice cream scene continues to flourish.
Here's a round-up of local frozen treat purveyors, a listing of local food folks' recommendations for making them at home, and a calendar of ice cream classes and other related events.
Ice Cream Shops & More
Also check out Seattle Met's ice cream shop map!
- Full Tilt Ice Cream (White Center, Columbia City, University District)
- Molly Moon Ice Cream (Wallingford, Capitol Hill, mobile truck coming this summer)
- Bluebird Ice Cream (Capitol Hill)
- Parfait Ice Cream Truck is back for 2010!
- Fainting Goat Gelato (Wallingford)
- Procopio Gelato (Downtown)
- Bottega Italiana Gelato (Downtown)
- Gelatiamo Gelato (Downtown)
- Peaks Frozen Custard has a handy flavor calendar. (Ravenna)
- Old School Frozen Custard has a flavor calendar as well! (Capitol Hill)
- Half-Pint Ice Cream can be found at Lake City Farmers Market on Thursdays, the Phinney Farmers Market on Fridays, the Edmonds Market on Saturdays, and the Broadway Farmers Market on Sundays.
- Husky Deli in West Seattle has been making its own ice cream for 75 years!
- I’m an unabashed fan girl of Dana Cree’s pastry creations and her ice creams are always impressive; you can check them out at Poppy. (Some of her ice cream tips are below for the home chef, too.)
- I’m also an unabashed fan girl of pretty much everything at Art of the Table, and Chef Dustin Ronspies is now making “custom seasonal ice cream or sorbet to order.” Contact them for ordering by the quart.
- Snoqualmie Ice Cream and Seattle Sorbet’s frozen treats are also local.
Tips for Making Your Own
Here are a round up of some of the tips floating out there in the virtual Seattle food world.
- Ashley Rodriguez, of the Not Without Salt blog, gives you the lowdown on making frozen treats without a machine.
- Traca Savadogo, Seattle Tall Poppy, appears to be as fascinated with ice cream making as I am.She conducted a very educational interview with Shirley Corriher of Cookwise and Bakewise about using starches in ice cream.
- Dana Cree recently posted her tricks for making the ideal ice cream for ice cream sandwiches.(All while it’s more fall-oriented per her post, also check out her old blog for a recipe for Sweet Bay Ice Cream and bookmark it to make to serve with your pumpkin pie - especially the pie featured in my post on Three-Bowls about this dessert - come Thanksgiving.)
- Simple enough to be tweeted: Jerry Traunfeld’s strawberry ice cream recipe, via Becky Selengut on Twitter.
- Here are a few of my favorite recipes:
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Also check out this Seattle Met story on a new gelato spot in Ballard.
http://www.seattlemet.com/blogs/nosh-pit/ballard-dambrosio-gelator/