ice cream

Marshmallow Peppermint Bark Ice Cream – Improv Challenge

December 20, 2012

As if the peppermint bark I just made wasn’t good enough all by itself, I took it one step further. Oh yes, I upped the ante big time. This month for Improv Challenge our ingredients were marshmallows and chocolate. I immediately found myself thinking along the lines of hot chocolate because for me that is [...]

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Pumpkin Ice Cream

November 12, 2012

Riddle me this, Batman. How is it even remotely possible that we’re nearly halfway through the month of November and I haven’t posted a pumpkin recipe since that Cream Cheese Pumpkin Bundt Cake and the Apple Pumpkin Bread Pudding, both at the beginning of October? Usually from October through December, there’s a pumpkin bonanza in my [...]

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The Weekend Whisk ~ 9/22/12

September 22, 2012

Happy first day of autumn!! Yes, it’s supposed to be 80 degrees here today but I hope somewhere it’s feeling like fall. I’ll live vicariously through all of you. On another note … Phew! Man, am I glad this week is over. How about you? How was your week? I hope it was better than [...]

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Butterscotch Vanilla Bean Ice Cream ~ A Guest Post For The Spiffy Cookie

June 15, 2012

Hello all! Today I’m thrilled to tell you about Erin, author the wonderful blog The Spiffy Cookie and a girl who loves dessert as much as I do. She’s a 27-year-old graduate student working on her PhD in biomedical services and she loves food! Erin says cooking is her outlet from everyday life. Boy can [...]

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Cherry-Berry Cobblerettes with Cinnamon Ice Cream ~ A Guest Post By Holly of “Gluten Free Goes Vintage”

June 14, 2012

Today we have another one of the talented participants in First on the First for you. Holly, author of the blog Gluten Free Goes Vintage is the mother of two ASD daughters who respond to a gluten-free diet. She’s working her way toward re-designing favorite family recipes to fit their new lifestyle. Her recipes are easily adaptable [...]

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Happy Chocolate Milkshake Day!

September 14, 2011

Ok, well… I’m a few days late. National Chocolate Milkshake Day was actually Monday, September 12th however I had those scrumptious granola muffins to share with you for Muffin Monday so I figure now you’ve digested those and are ready for a new delicious creation. What a fine holiday indeed. I’ve told you once before [...]

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Blueberry Peach Cobbler

September 5, 2011

Just recently I was reading one of the many drool-inducing posts on one of my very favorite food blogs, Creative Culinary. Barbara had an overabundance of perfectly ripe peaches and plums. After deciding it unwise to consume half a dozen plums and 4 large peaches she decided to make a delectable Spiked Peach and Plum [...]

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Toasted Coconut Ice Cream

August 19, 2011

In our house there seems to be an addiction. The craving can strike at any hour although the night-time is the hardest. We have an intense need to consume copious amounts of ice cream. Like many addictions, there seems to be a genetic link. My mother (all 100 lbs of her) eats ice cream every [...]

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Balsamic Caramel Sauce

July 2, 2011

My very closest friend, Mike and I have worked together at every single job we’ve each had since we were 18 years old. We started out as volunteers at an ambulance squad then both became ER techs at the same hospital. Next we both got hired at the municipal ambulance service where we would work [...]

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Chocolate Chip Cookie Ice Cream Freeze

April 6, 2011

So I wanted to make a dessert to take to Mike’s parents house the other night for dinner yet I could barely muster the energy to even think about doing so. I realized that I needed something delicious yet not labor intensive. I just couldn’t manage the oomph to be really creative yet I didn’t [...]

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