Ice Cream Happy Hour

Book excerpt: Dozens of recipes for intoxicatingly delicious spiked ice cream from Strawberry Daiquiri to Caramel and Spiced Rum. Perfect for a fun party treat or special occasion dessert, these homemade frozen delights not only taste amazing, they also serve up a surprising kick—the shot of booze in each cup. Follow the authors’ clever technique by adding a generous pour of spirits to your homemade ice cream and you’ll soon be impressing family, friends, and party guests with the coolest of 21-and-over desserts. Ice Cream Happy Hour offers sinfully spiked versions of the classics as well as your favorite cocktails churned and chilled: •Vanilla with Brandy •Chocolate with Grand Marnier •Cookies and Cream with Vodka •Caramel with Spiced Rum •Maple with Bourbon •Jasmine Tea with Sake •Manhattan •White Russian •Whiskey Sour •Mojito •Lemon Drop •Strawberry Daiquiri With step-by-step instructions and photos, this book shows how easy it is to turn a standard flavor into a hard ice cream. Desserts have long used liquor to add flavor. Now for the first time, this book shows how ice cream can be infused with booze to create exciting new frozen treats. “After countless nights of trial and error these two awesome women who should win Nobel Prizes have come up with a system that will allow you to incorporate a cup of 80 proof booze into a quart of ice cream.” —Gizmodo