INTRODUCTION
Ice cream desserts have personality to spare. Sweetened cream slowly dripping from a frozen scoop transforms a cake or sauce the moment it touches it. Butterfat- rich cream absorbs scent and flavor and carries them to your nose. Anything ice cream touches becomes richer, more flavorful, more deeply perceived. What's more, ice cream encourages you to be in the moment. It's melting and changing each second-you have to pay attention to it, or it disappears.In these pages you will find a few solid recipes that you will use over and over again and tweak with the season, the menu, or your whim. Each dessert is phenomenal in flavor and texture, and each recipe is designed specifically for the home kitchen. While I won't declare that every recipe in this book is fast and easy (even though many are), I will say they are as streamlined as we can make them and the results are truly worth the effort. You can dress them up or down, depending on how you plate them or which ice cream you serve with them.
