Perfect Scoop, The: 200 Recipes for Ice Creams, Sorbets, Gelatos, Granitas, and Sweet Accompaniments

With a trademark friendliness and and reassuring expertise, David Lebovitz offers here 200 recipes for an array of frozen desserts and a some tasty go-alongs. First published in 2007, The Perfect Scoop is one of those rare books that offers novices plenty of easy places to start while giving old-hands plenty of new ideas. Lebovitz has included nearly a dozen new recipes and all the photographs have been re-shot for this edition.

Throughout the book Lebovitz offers an abundance of informed advice on equipment, ingredients, and developing your own ice creams. Appealing simple recipes abound, from fresh apricot, white chocolate-cherry, and raspberry swirl ice creams to lemon-butternilk sherbet, Negroni slush, and pink grapefruit granitas. Or be more daring! Try panforte ice cream, Guinness-milk chocolate ice cream, orange-Szechwan pepper ice cream, or a Mojito granita, Like any good pastry cook, Lebovitz can’t resist offering just a little something extra in the form of cookies for making ice cream sandwiches, sauces and toppings, and even your own mix-ins.

Hardcover. Color photographs throughout.