Mint Chocolate Chip with Yellow Watermelon Swirl

This was a flavor I toiled over for months.  It wasn’t supposed to be a mint chocolate chip ice cream.  It was supposed to be a watermelon ice cream.  I spent most of my time with this concept, trying to figure out and decide on how I wanted to do a watermelon ice cream.  Then, when it finally came time to execute, I cut open the watermelon only to find out I had purchased the yellow variety.  Now, that isn’t necessarily a deal breaker – yellow watermelon is incredible.  But for a first watermelon excursion, it just seemed like it had to be red – that’s what everyone thinks of at first blush.  So it was time to improvise.  I had planned on using mint in my watermelon flavor, and after some deliberation with my frozen brother I ended up in left field.  No surprise.  My watermelon ice cream turned into our twist on mint chocolate chip.  Not only did it work splendidly, but as fate would have it,  I seemed to have ended up where I should have.

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First the watermelon syrup.  First they are taken apart and seeded.  Then pureed and reduced over heat with sugar into a beautiful golden syrup.

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The mint is pureed with some cream and then mixed into our standard ice cream base.

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We found these fantastic fair trade chocolate chips at our favorite co-op and threw them in at the end of the churn – they add a good hearty crunch and chocolate punch.

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The watermelon syrup is swirled in as the ice cream is packed into the pints, and the end result is pretty awesome.

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Want to try it? You can win one of the only two pints in the world, filled with this fabulous, scratch made craft ice cream in our weekly pint giveaway. Enter your name in the comments section here, or on our facebook page under the posted contest. 2 lucky winners will be drawn randomly on Friday 9/20/13 at 4pm. Winners must be able to pick up locally and give us feedback. Pints must be claimed by email within one week or we will redistribute. 🙂 Good luck!

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Borage Buerre Blanc

Want to learn something new today? Ok. Have you ever heard of Borage? Maybe you have, but I hadn’t, until my friend Christine dropped us a line and asked if we wanted to use it in our ice cream. Borage is a freely seeding annual plant that is said to taste like cucumber. It is considered an herb, but it is usually grown as a flowering plant in vegetable gardens, as it attracts pollinating bees. Now that you learned something new, allow me to show you something else new…us making borage ice cream with white wine. It’s this week’s flavor: Borage Buerre Blanc. Let’s do this!

 

 

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This is a picture of the borage plant, similar to the one growing in Christine’s garden. Both the flowers and leaves are edible, but this week, we’re using just the leaves. The borage leaves are meant to be used young, because as they mature, they get a prickly fuzz. This plant was mature, but that’s ok, because we’re steeping the leaves for flavor and straining out after heating. I wanted to try to infuse as much of the borage leaves’ cucumber flavor as possible into our organic cane sugar base.

 

 

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Buerre Blanc

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To pair with the cucumber flavor, I was contemplating acidic flavors , like lemon, lime, vinegar, etc., but in the end decide to pair it with a French sauce called a Buerre Blanc, AKA white butter. A Buerre Blanc can be made with either vinegar or wine, and I opted for the wine approach. I want a light, dry white wine, that would go nicely with a cucumber salad, so I decided to go with this Pacific Rim Dry Reisling. Along with the wine, peppercorns and a bay leaf get reduced down until almost dry in the pan. A small amount of cream is added, and then butter to finish it off. The sauce is strained through fine mesh and ready to use. Buerre Blancs are rich and acidic and generally pair well with a light delicate fish. Today, we’re going to add it into our borage infused ice cream to give it a little tang.

 

 

Borage Buerre Blanc

 

 

 

Borage Buerre Blanc ice cream! It has a subtle earthy cumcumber flavor that is accompanied by a light acidic touch provided by the Buerre Blanc. Something new, but just another day for the FrozBroz.

 

Want to try it? You can win one of the only two pints in the world, filled with this fabulous, scratch made craft ice cream in our weekly pint giveaway. Enter your name in the comments section here, or on our facebook page under the posted contest. 2 lucky winners will be drawn randomly on Friday 9/13/13 at 4pm. Winners must be able to pick up locally and give us feedback. Pints must be claimed by email within one week or we will redistribute. 🙂 Good luck!

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Cream Cheese Red Pepper Slivered Almond

Red Peppers are another one of those summer veggies that are deceivingly sweet, especially when they are fresh out of the dirt.  I’ve been obsessing about ice cream flavors involving red peppers every summer, but its taken nearly 2 years for me to get to it on the list.  Once I finally decided the time had arrived, then I had to decide what and how.  I’d contemplated a full red pepper infused ice cream.  A romesco inspired flavor was another conceptual flavor.  Yet another was a Pimiento cheese which red pepper is a star of.   We will likely come back to all fo these in time.  In the end, I decided on  a variation that curved away from all of those, utilizing the pepper as a sweet jelly and combining it with cream cheese.  If you’ve ever had cream cheese covered in red pepper jelly, you know where I’m headed.

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The first step was to roast the peppers to concentrate the sugars and get the skins off.

 

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Once clean, the roasted peppers were pureed up coarsely, combined with our good friend sugar, some lemon juice and simmered down to a sweet jelly like consistency.

 

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For an added crunch, I chose to go with blanched, slivered almonds to provide a contrast in texture without overwhelming in flavor.

 

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Went with our cream cheese base, sprinkled in the slivered almonds during the churn and layered in the sweet red pepper jelly as it went into the pint.

 

Cream Cheese Red Pepper Slivered Almond

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And there you have it.  End of summer heaven – lucious cream cheese ice cream, studded with crunchy slivered almonds and rippled with red pepper jelly.

 
Want to try it? You can win one of the only two pints in the world, filled with this fabulous, scratch made craft ice cream in our weekly pint giveaway. Enter your name in the comments section here, or on our facebook page under the posted contest. 2 lucky winners will be drawn randomly on Friday 9/5/13 at 4pm. Winners must be able to pick up locally and give us feedback. Pints must be claimed by email within one week or we will redistribute. 🙂 Good luck!

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Peach with Peach Syrup

We’ve been on a bit of a vegetable ice cream kick lately, so we thought we would switch it up a little this week. It’s stone fruit season, and peaches at Weaver’s Country Store in Fall Creek, WI are ripe for the buying. We picked up a case and began pondering the possibilities. In the past, we’ve released a few other peach flavors on our blog including our Candied Peach Cobbler and Pistachio with Peach Marmalade. This week, we’re going purist, and set out to capture as much peach flavor as we could in a pint of our ice cream. Which brings us to this week’s flavor – Peach with Peach Syrup. This is how we do it…

 

 

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Peaches! Michigan peaches from Weaver’s Country Store. First things first – we pit them and dice them up.

 

 

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After meeting up with our good friend Heidi of Serious Jam, we had a discussion about how she keeps fruit from breaking down during the canning process. It so happens that Heidi’s techniques are quite suitable for ice cream making. For the peaches, she suggested we try a maceration process, involving soaking the peaches in sugar and lemon juice. The process pulls liquid out of the peaches, and all of the flavors between the peaches, lemon juice and peachy liquid in the bowl equilibrate. Beautiful! After the maceration, the peaches are strained and slow roasted in the oven until their flavors concentrate even more. Once cooled, the peaches are tossed into our plain organic sugar cane ice cream base at the end of the churn. But that is not all…we still have all of the reserved liquid left from straining the peaches after the maceration.

 

 

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The liquid is placed in a sauce pan and reduced down to a syrup that will not turn icy in our ice cream once frozen. This golden peach syrup is layered into the pints during packaging.

 

 

Candied Peach with Peach Syrup

 

 

Peachy Peachy! Smooth creamy peach syrup layered ice cream with chunkers of candied peaches. It’s FrozBroz pure peach goodness!

 

Want to try it? You can win one of the only two pints in the world, filled with this fabulous, scratch made craft ice cream in our weekly pint giveaway. Enter your name in the comments section here, or on our facebook page under the posted contest. 2 lucky winners will be drawn randomly on Friday 8/30/13 at 4pm. Winners must be able to pick up locally and give us feedback. Pints must be claimed by email within one week or we will redistribute. 🙂 Good luck!

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Roasted Carrot

We’re hitting our end and we’ll continue with everyone’s favorite orange root.  Carrots.  Harvest time carrots are the best, and there’s no other time to get that carrot-y flavor out than now.  This has been one we’ve wanted to do for years, and we finally got to it on our list.

 

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These babies are gorgeous, and I can’t get enough of them during this time of the year. We grill them, eat them raw, slice, shredded..but nothing is better than roasted in the oven.  The sweetness that comes out of the carrot during this process is incredible, and was the inspiration for this flavor.

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So that’s what we did.  We roasted them in the oven in butter until they got all caramelly.

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Then they went for a spin in the food processor, and we’re mixed into our brown sugar base.  The brown sugar brings the brown butter and the roasted carrot flavor out even more.

Roasted Carrot Ice Cream

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And this is our reward – an extremely rich and creamy, roasted carrot ice cream that sings with a deep roasted caramel flavor and ends with a nice carrot kick.

Want to try it? You can win one of the only two pints in the world, filled with this fabulous, scratch made craft ice cream in our weekly pint giveaway. Enter your name in the comments section here, or on our facebook page under the posted contest. 2 lucky winners will be drawn randomly on Friday 8/23/13 at 4pm. Winners must be able to pick up locally and give us feedback. Pints must be claimed by email within one week or we will redistribute. 🙂 Good luck!

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