Thursday, February 13, 2014

Weird & Wild Varieties Of Ice Cream

By Marquerite Velasquez


About 1.5 billion gallons of ice cream and other frozen dessert treats are produced every year, and this is according data from the International Dairy Foods Association. Vanilla is one of the top ice cream flavors, and this is true since most Americans love ice cream and this flavor. Chocolate flavors and some with mint chips are also favorites like vanilla but there are a few places offering truly unique ice cream flavor varieties You may not have heard some of these unique varieties but some are featured here.

You may have heard of some crazy, odd, and weird names of ice cream flavors before. Ben and Jerry have opened the market for unconventional names for their ice creams, starting with one called Cherry Garcia. Their ice cream flavors however, are still those with traditional ingredients of ice cream, like those with chunks of chocolates, cherries, cookie bits, and pieces of frozen banana cuts.

An interesting flavor option is garlic flavored ice cream, although this may not be a top option of anyone yet. However, it is interesting to note that garlic ice cream has been served at the annual Gilroy Garlic Festival in California, and also the garlic festival in Saugerties, in New York. There are also some restaurants offering this unique flavored ice cream treat, like The Stinking Rose in San Francisco.

Bacon is also one which many people want to put in their treats like donuts and also ice cream. One can see bacon ice cream recipes on the internet, if one makes a search, and the popular chef Heston Blumenthal has featured a bacon-and-egg ice cream in his Michelin-star restaurant, The Fat Duck. Others have also their own flavored bacon ice creams, or their own versions using prosciutto rather than the American-style bacon.

Avocado is not something we typically associate with sweet food, but it is used in desserts in many countries around the world. Avocado ice cream can be found here and there, and many famous chefs such as Alton Brown and Rick Bayless have recipes for this unique cold treat.

If you are craving a fantastic ice cream treat, the Culver City ice cream shop YoKuMon can be your destination, and they offer all of the traditional flavors most of us enjoy. For just $2, you can enjoy their specialty, a gourmet ice cream sandwich. For this treat, the ice cream is placed between two homemade cookies, which the staff at YoKuMon makes fresh throughout the day. The cookies are freshly baked throughout the day and come in eight different flavors and you can pair them up with any flavor of ice cream. YoKuMon also sells shakes, sundaes or even Hawaiian-style shave ice at their shop in Culver City. YoKuMon is definitely the place to go if you are searching for ice cream in the Los Angeles area.




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