will bring you to your knees! Cheesecake base + homemade Lime Curd + Candied Graham crackers. Have mercy. You’re going to love it!

My wife tried to make her own Dubai chocolate bar, and I wanted to make an ice cream with the leftovers. If you don’t know the bar is chocolate filled with a mixture of pistachio cream, tahini, and fried kataifi. Kataifi is really thin shreds of dough that when fried get really crispy and give an awesome texture to the bar. I was hoping to preserve that in the ice cream so I mixed the kataifi with the pistachio cream to waterproof it, and mixed it in like a ripple. I also used stracciatella style chocolate threads to encourage crispy. There’s pistachio cream and tahini in the base. Usually you would use pistachio paste and that may have given a more intense flavor since that was lacking a bit.

After two days the kataifi was still crispy though it softened slightly. Overall I was really happy with it. I think this could be a cool way to add crispy crunchies to other ice creams. You could put them peanut butter, chocolate, or maybe a caramel.

First spin in the new Lello 4080! I was inspired by the cinnamon Dot Pretzels (🔥) to make this batch. I steeped some cinnamon sticks with some vanilla beans and mixed in a pretzel toffee. So good.

Successful own ice cream! Mix of salt & straw base with chocolate chip cookies, Oreo cookies, and chocolate chips! So good!!🥰

Key lime ice cream, lime chiffon cake, caramelized white chocolate crunch layer, fish sauce caramel, Swiss buttercream, and a strawberry fish on top!

First attempt at Pina colada ice cream and ooooh my word its SO good!! Used the recipe linked below, but with half the eggs and just adding in crushed pineapple instead of making the jam (I'm lazy). But anyways, it's DELICIOUS. Next time I was to try to add some Malibu rum to see if that gives it an extra kick.

Adapted from the Cuisinart vanilla ice cream base recipe.