2012 June 13 » Atticus And Finch

I Scream and You Scream For The Icecreamists

books, chocolate, food, fun things, nice things, shopping No Responses »

Jun 132012

You can well imagine my unbridled joy when The Icecreamists book came through my letterbox, and the joy continued when I opened it up to reveal sublime photography (Anders Schonnemann) and superb styling (Rachel Jukes). A job with excellent enjoyment factors; exciting ingredients, adventurous nature of both author and subject, the potential for lovely props and the little perk of trying all the flavours (subtle hint there to both The Icecreamists and Octopus Publishing in case a second book is in the pipeline). Who wouldn’t want to work on it? But I digress, for this blog post isn’t an opportunity to do my props stylist pitch but to tell you all about the gloriousness of a book full of tantalising recipes. My ice-cream maker has sat unloved and unused on my shelf for over a year due to being unable to find a recipe that I knew I could trust that ticked all my boxes. Then this came along containing more than I could possibly cope with (without going into recipe-choice meltdown). I started with the simple looking ‘Mint Condition’ recipe. With a straight forward list of 5 ingredients (that included After Eights. They’re not just for Christmas, you know) Mint Condition made for an appealingly easy starting point. Delicious and devoured hours later by me and my very pregnant friend, Mimi. Simply written with easy to follow instructions, there’s definitely a recipe in there for everyone, even if not all of them are to everyone’s taste. Next one on the list? Hmmm, not sure, either ‘Completely Peanuts’ or ‘A Chocwork Orange’ or ‘Vanilla Monologues’ or ‘Nuts About Chocland yard’ or ‘Espresso Yourself’…