The Scoop: How to Change Store-Bought Ice Cream Into Fabulous Desserts

by Lori Longbotham

Book Overview

Presents recipes for transforming store-bought ice cream, sorbet, and frozen yogurt into cakes, sundaes, drinks, pies, and bombes, and includes low-fat recipes, a history of ice cream, and tips on... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375760822
• ISBN13: 9780375760822
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Villard Books
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.9" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

The Scoop: Much more than floats and sundaes

I didn't think I would be interested in a book on store-bought ice cream desserts but with the encouragement of my ice-cream-loving child I agreed to have a look. The second recipe in the book, gelato affogato (ice cream with espresso and Cognac) showed this was going to be much more sophisticated and delightful than what I thought. There are root-beer floats and chocolate milkshakes (hers is quadruple-chocolate!) but also scroppino (Champagne, lemon sorbet, and vodka) and sorbet terrine with raspberry sauce. Best are her sauces. They're ingenious, smart, delightful, and I've tried only a few. I recommend roasted strawberries and mangos with lime. Clementines with cardamom and cherry compote with balsamic vinegar will be next. I loved Lori's lemon dessert book, but this one delights me just as much. My family thinks she's the best, and I agree.

THE ICE CREAM DOCTOR HAS ARRIVED!

Wowee! I love this delicious looking book. Lori Longbotham (author of Luscious Lemon Desserts) proves she is the queen of all desserts. There are so many wonderful sounding sweets in this great book (150 in all) it's hard to know where to begin-- but I'd start with the Sky-High Layered Ice Cream Cake, chockful of chocolate and hazelnut gelato, nutello--it's so simple yet so sinful (top it with marshmallow sauce, yummo!) Lots and lots of cool iceas so that are so easy even kids could make them (like the Snowballs, ice cream rolled in toasted coconut and drenched in hot chocolate sauce), miniature ice cream bombes and cookie sandwiches, sorbet pops...It made me want to quit my day job and open my own ice cream parlor. Really gorgeous photo and cool looking design--makes a great gift, especially for your friends with their own ice cream makers.

Scoop to the rescue

The perfect dessert book for cooks like me who put all their energy and creativity into the main course, and then remember, oh, no, what can I serve for dessert??? It includes quick, easy dessert sauces (including variations on the beloved chocolate theme at all levels of seriousness), perfect ways to rustle up last minute dessert combinations from something that just might already be in the fridge or on the shelves(Roasted Strawberries, for example). I've already reached for the Scoop when guests were arriving in half an hour and dessert was still eluding me...but there was a carton of ice cream in the freezer...and it saved me.

A Great Book

It's about time somebody came out with a decent ice cream dessert book that cuts out the hassle of making the ice cream from scratch. For me, there are too many wonderful ice cream products and flavors available to waste the time and the mess doing it myself. I particularly like the ideas for molded layered desserts, and the sauces to go with them. Already wowed the crowd at a dinner party last week!Highly recommend this book.

Ice Cream for All

This book is terrific! You'll never be at a loss for a dessert idea again. The flavor combinations are fantastic, incredibly creative and ideal for both adults and children. I made a Meringue Ice Cream Cake with the Smooth Strawberry Sauce for my daughter's 5th birthday. It was wonderful, the perfect amount of sweetness, and easy to make. The kids (and the parents) scarfed every crumb.