Peppermint Ice Cream

Yes, the winter holiday treat, and mint is also a great ice cream flavor!
Peppermint ice cream is very refreshing and delicious. It is a great flavor to have at the end of a hot summers day to cool you down. Peppermint ice cream tastes just like a candy cane or peppermint, but is much colder and creamier. While indulging the dessert, you might also come across some crunchy pieces of a peppermint or candy cane, which is quite a pleasant surprise. I would recommend this flavor if you are looking for a new type of ice cream to try.

Extreme Ice Cream Challenge: The Vermonster

Do you love ice cream so much you just can't get enough of it? This challenge is for anyone with a HUGE appetite and is not afraid to get messy...this is "The Vermonster Challenge"!
At any Ben and Jerry's you can order "The Vermonster" for about $35, which is served in a "Vermonster Bucket" and includes:

• 20 scoops of ice cream (4 1/2 pounds!)
• 1 fudge brownie
• 4 bananas
• 3 cookies
• 10 scoops chopped walnuts
• 2 scoops M&M's
• Reese's
• 2 scoops chocolate sprinkles
• 4 big spoonfuls of hot fudge
• 5 scoops of Whipped Cream

This dessert isn't very healthy either (obviously!)
Nutritional information:

• 14,000 calories
• 500 grams of fat

 Do you want to try "The Vermonster"?

Best and most Nutritious Ice Cream Treats in America

1. Cold Stone Creamery Tart and Tangy Plain Yogurt:

This extremely healthy ice cream is only 140 calories making it a perfect frozen dessert! It is especially delicious with toppings like nuts and fruit! Here is the nutritional information with nuts as a topping:

270 calories
13 g fat (1 g saturated)
24 g sugars

      2.     Sonic Junior Banana Split:

This is a classic banana split complete with a nice fresh banana, whipped cream, chocolate sauce, strawberry sauce, pineapple sauce, and of course a cherry on top.  What makes this banana split so much healthier than most because it has one scoop of ice cream...but would you sacrifice size for nutrition? Here is the nutritional information:

200 calories
6 g fat (4.5 g saturated)
22 g sugars

       3.  Ruby Tuesday Berry Good Yogurt Parfait:

Although this isn't exactly an ice cream...this frozen treat is delicious and good for you.  With hints of fruit and lots of protein and fiber this is a dessert you are going to want to try.  Nutritional information: 

162 calories
3 g fat
26 g carbohydrates

  Source: http://health.yahoo.net/experts/eatthis/7-desserts-fight-fat

Ice Cream Toppings

Ice cream toppings are a great way to jazz up your ice cream as well as add more flavor and texture to it. I love adding all sorts of candies and sauces to my ice cream, especially to chocolate or vanilla ice cream. Here are some of my favorite toppings:
1. Rainbow or chocolate sprinkles
2. Gummy Bears
3. Chocolate Sauce

4. Crushed Reeses or Oreos
5. M&M's
6. Marshmellows
7. Nuts
8. Jelly Beans

What kinds of toppings do you like to top your ice cream?

Simple Vanilla Ice Cream Recipe

Making vanilla ice cream is very simple to do.  Here is a simple recipe from Food Network:

• 3 cups heavy cream
• 2/3 cups sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• Seeds scraped from 1 vanilla bean

In a small saucepan heat the heavy cream, sugar, vanilla extract, and vanilla bean until all the sugar is dissolved.  Then strain it into a bowl and cover the bowl and freeze it in an ice cream freezer for a few hours.  Before serving it allow it to soften.

Have you ever made ice cream before?

Dessert Sales in America

Ever wondered how much money dessert sales produce at the end of one year?

The amount of dessert sales are immensely high, reaching almost $9 billion in the U.S. Ice cream sales are $2.3 billion in one year (according to the Nielsen survey of supermarket sales). Ice cream comes in second to cookies, which are $3.6 billion. Behind ice cream are frozen novelties ($1.4 billion) and frozen yogurt ($631 billion). This means out of the top four desserts in America, 3 are a type of frozen dish. Let's get ice cream to be number 1, Eat up!

Ice Cream VS. Frozen Yogurt

Both ice cream and frozen yogurt are a very popular frozen dessert and both are very similar, but what are the main differences between ice cream and frozen yogurt? While ice cream is available in countless flavors, frozen yogurt started out as mainly fruit flavored, but is now becoming available in 

lots of different flavors also.

Whats the main difference about the way they are made? The main ingredients in a typical ice cream flavor is milk or cream with lots of sugar and other flavor ingredients added.  The main ingredient in frozen yogurt obviously is yogurt, with added sugar and flavoring ingredients.

Because of the difference in the ingredients, ice cream is a much richer dessert and therefore has more calories in it than most frozen yogurts.  So, although frozen yogurt has more calories than regular yogurt, it still has less calories than ice cream and would be a healthier alternative to ice cream.