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by Lisa Lozano
Today is Creative Ice Cream Flavor day, and to celebrate, we have seven uniquely tasty ice cream recipes that you can make at home!
No. 1: Richard Blais' Violet Dry Ice Cream
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If you’re a fan of Richard Blais from Top Chef, you know that he loves to experiment with avant garde food preparation, so this interesting ice cream won’t surprise you. He makes a quick violet-flavored ice cream using dry ice, then uses liquid nitrogen to quick freeze caramel corn and marshmallows for a delicious topping.
No. 2: Clodagh McKenna's Baileys Irish Soda Bread Ice Cream
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Wait… what!? Soda bread IN your ice cream? Where do we sign up! Clodagh McKenna (known as the “Irish Rachael Ray”) toasts soda bread crumbs with brown sugar and folds them into a beautiful vanilla custard. Then, simply pop in the freezer and stir every so often – no ice cream maker necessary!
Tip: After you remove the seeds from a fresh vanilla bean, dry the bean and add it to a container of sugar to get vanilla-flavored sugar.
No. 3: Lozza’s Sticky Toffee Ice Cream
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This amazingly delicious ice cream uses Medjool dates as the base for a sticky toffee to blend with vanilla ice cream. Perfection!
No. 4: Banana 'Ice Cream' Fakeout
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This delicious frozen treat, while very similar to ice cream, is actually made primarily from bananas! Just freeze chunks of banana, then puree with a small amount of milk until it reaches a whipped consistency. Yum!
No. 5: Bananas and Cookie Spread Ice Cream
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This fake-out banana recipe is very similar to the above, but adds Speculoos “cookie butter” spread for a creamy, but still somewhat healthy, treat!
No. 6: Sunny Anderson's Carrot Cake Ice Cream Sandwiches
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Sunny’s recipe starts with a homemade carrot cake ice cream (we know… sounds amazing!) that is then sandwiched between two oatmeal cookies. Delish!
No. 7: Buddy Valastro's Leftover Candy Ice Cream
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This cleverly simple recipe calls for a gallon of pre-made vanilla ice cream, softened and then blended with any candy that you like! Pop it back in the freezer to re-set, and you’re done!
What’s your favorite offbeat ice cream flavor? Tell us in the comments!