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Ice cream and gelato tips: desserts ideas

Ice cream and strawberry

"Icecream" is often uses as dessert in many ways. A simple strawberry can completely change the look of the single scoop ice cream serving, if more and with toppings became a real dessert. Cherries also have them place in gelateria. A plain waffle became a supreme dessert with a scoop of gelato. A grandmother homemade cake with a vanilla ice cream on top and some icing sugar around became a modern dessert serving. The tortino or chocolate lava, the small chocolate cake that has a liquid hot filling is always accompanied with a scoop of vanilla. Maybe you don't know it but a banana scoop is even better as banana and chocolate really match. try it out as soon. A big round cookie filled with milky flavor ice cream and chocolate chips or an elaborate tiramisu' ice cream cake are both good dessert. The tiramisu' match the coffee with ice cream and cheese and rum! And the result is delicious.

Ice cream and gelato tips: fruits ideas

Fruit in ice cream cones Orange special gelato

As you can image beside strawberry and cherry and the classic banana (see banana split) you can use virtually any kind of fruit to mix match with gelato: pineapple, kiwi, cantaloupe, orange, lemon, coconuts and so on. You can cut different kind of fruit in small spherical shape and put it in a classic ice cream cone so you will have a nice colorful cone. Hidden inside the cone a vanilla or a banana scoop as surprise. Yogurt ice cream in a glass with various mixed berry will let you obtain a nice gelato combination as the acidity of yogurt match with the strong taste of berries and as gelato sugar and toppings give to the bitter a pleasure combination.
A scenographic effect is to fill fruit of gelato: you can use an orange, a lemon, a whole coconut or you can split pineapple in slices and in the hole put an ice cream of yogurt or green apple. A nice cake with two layer of sponge cake filled with milk ice cream also called fior di latte in Italian or Dolce Latte in our website covered with cut of peach and few berries that match with the milk and the sweetens of the peach mix all together in a good combinations of tastes.

Ice cream and gelato tips and pairing: food and ice cream dish

To pair ice cream and gelato with food, beside desserts and fruit, it is required a bit more of attention. When you will try it you will see that the taste results are quite good and refreshing too. From Italy the first tip:

After a dinner with sea food try a “sorbetto al limone” o lemon sherbet or ice cream lemon. You can use also lime gelato. The refreshing feeling will give you a sensation of clean mouth. This is good after fish!
If you had a lunch or dinners with steak try a green apple ice cream
If you are vegetarian so your lunch was full of fresh salad and vegetables a coffee ice cream is better indicated
And if your servings were rich in carrots or reds vegetables a green tea ice cream without any doubt
If you are having some spicy Thai or Indian foods try coconut ice cream then
Carpaccio is an Italian dish with raw meat different than seasoned raw ham or salami or other cold cut. But for all of them a Japanese melon ice cream will match all
If beside cold cuts you also had different kind of cheese a pear (more sweet) or pineapple (bit bitter) will fit
And what about mortadella (the Italian Bologna meat)? Pistacchio or pistachio! A nice cup of gelato al pistachio! Pistacchio and bacon is already an ice cream flavors as also caviar is basic ingredients for some ice cream, see more in this article
Italian pasta or spaghetti, any sauce beside seafood sauce, has to be followed by a tiramisu’

Sweet?

You still think about dessert and gelato, that ice cream must match with sweet eatery, few more tips:

For butter cakes and dry cookies (butter or not butter based) green tea or red beans ice cream
For a classic American pastry or apple Pies the cheese cake ice cream

Tips for ice cream menu' or list

To prepare a menu ice cream keeps in mind also the season. In winter you can abound of milk flavors like Gianduia, hazelnut, dolce latte, zabaglione, white chocolate, chocolate chips and in the summer dedicate more flavors in your menu ice cream to green tea, coconut, strawberry, sherbets and ice cream yogurt gelato in general like yogurt strawberry, yogurt raspberry, yogurt iberry ice cream and more. Also the topping ice cream is important. If you have many children as customer try to consider a price that include topping a buffet so they will have fun submerging the gelato with colored toppings. Also if you have many children consider keeping the temperature at eighteen below ice cream will not melt easy when kids will play with it: put lots of topping, moving all the scoops around to form an ice cream wall and so on, play and then eat it. You can create an ice cream fun club with a fidelity card to accumulate points or just once in a while give a promotion to the card holders and let this offer noted on the ice cream menu. If you use your own ice cream maker do not economize on hazelnut and pistachio gelato ice cream paste: these pastes are expensive and you should also use 100g per kilogram, not 50g. But better not have them in the menu’ than have poor imitations.

Ice cream and wine pairing?

Yes, ice cream and wine as ice cream and strong drinks together can be done. But you must be 21 years old minimum.
Just think about the affogato al caffe', the vanilla ice cream that is drown in to hot coffee. It is enough to add some grappa or other kind of liquor to have the first pair between ice cream or gelato and alcohol. In Italy is common in the summer to have a nice glass of red wine filled with pieces of peach. It easy and immediate to think about a peach sherbet to combine with red wine. Just get the sherbet in small spherical parts and drop them in the wine. You can also use a strawberry sherbet instead. More exotic a mango sherbet shaped in slices in a glass of white dry wine. Better if wine from Veneto (Italy). You can easily find it in Thailand too. For a blueberry sherbet the idea is to water it with grappa or vodka. Rum raising ice cream with... rum! Also white chocolate with rum. Vanilla and milk flavor ice cream (fiordilatte) with whiskey or hazelnut with amaretto (liquor) or Malvasia (wine). Eventually we could even think about a small production of Pinot Noir sherbet. Waiting for that a lemon sherbet with limoncello or Sauvignon Blanc is also good. For something more sophisticated: raspberry ice cream in a cup with Californian light but dry red wine and some quality dark chocolate topping.
We can go on:

Cherry sherbet with a liqueur Muscat with few pieces of walnuts
A Madeira wine with caramel ice cream
Dark chocolate ice cream with Porto, chocolate ice cream with Cabernet and some trace of icing sugar on top
Pistacchio ice cream with sweet sparkling white wine or Passito. In this case wait the Passito melt the pistachio ice cream a bit
Malbec and durian (very good!) or coconut ice cream

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