Celebrating National Ice Cream Month In Pictures

National Ice Cream Month is here again with National Ice Cream Day just around the corner. Here's a list of all my previous ice cream blog posts on the subject of National Ice Cream Month.

Making ice cream is an obvious way to celebrate and you can find lots of ice cream recipes to have fun with.

Another way to celebrate the fun of ice cream is to enjoy great ice cream photographs - and I have thousands that I have taken over the years! So between now and the end of July I'm going to post a succession of some of the most mouth-watering ice cream pictures you'll ever see! Here's the first.

Summer Ice Cream Treats - Pictures 5 & 6

Summer Ice Cream - Pictures 5 & 6
Ice cream can be really colorful. In fact it's amazing how beautiful an ice cream display freezer can look when strongly colored ice creams are displayed next to each other. These pictures (all of the same display freezer) demonstrate my point beautifully.

Ice cream in hues of blue, peach, brown, white, yellow, cream, purple and red!

Summer Ice Cream Treats - Picture 4

Summer Ice Cream - Picture 4
Another photograph of some French ice cream. This time it's not an ice cream cone but a delicious chocolate ice cream sundae. It was so sunny and warm on the day this photograph was taken that the ice cream was melting really quickly right before our eyes so we had to be quick!



If you like chocolate ice cream and want to try making your own, here is a quick and easy chocolate ice cream recipe that I came up with - no eggs, no cream, no custard base. Just use full fat milk, condensed milk and cocoa powder. It's a whizz!

Looking for more homemade ice cream ideas? Here are lots more ice cream recipes

Summer Ice Cream Treats - Picture 3

Summer Ice Cream - Picture 3
Taken in France on the beautiful Île de Ré in the Vendée region of France, this picture shows a close up of a delicious ice cream cone. It wasn't around for long!


I remember the day well because the camera had been really busy! We came back with shots of all sorts of interesting things we had seen along the route including pictures for a variety of sites and blogs that I'm involved with (medieval recipes to ghostly ancient castles and more!).

Back to the sublime .... read more about French ice cream. There's nothing quite like it :)

PS. Just conducted a poll on my ice cream recipes Facebook page. I asked how people liked their ice cream served - in a cone, a bowl, or some other way. Ice cream cone was the winner! As a result I've started a Facebook cone gallery

PPS. If you like the look of this ice cream, here is a great page about Vendée food and wine. When it comes to food, whether starters, main courses or desserts, the French really do have that 'savoir faire'.

A Love Affair With Ice Cream - From Boy To Man

Today I have 3 ice cream pictures to share with you. Why these 3? Well, whilst they were all taken on different days and in entirely different places, they do have something rather special in common - they reflect the passion that the male species has for ice cream!

From toddlers to teenagers to businessmen, the male species has a fondness for ice cream that appears to know no bounds.

Little 2 year-old Dylan not only loves his ice cream cone with chocolate flake so much that he gets it everywhere in his haste to devour it but he positively enjoys making a mess and getting lots of attention in doing so. Wonderful!

When he gets older, however, his self-consciousness will start to kick in and, as a young man, looking cool and trendy, he will probably endeavour to handle his ice cream cone a little more carefully as Oliver does in the second picture. (Photograph taken outside an ice cream parlour in The Vendée)
When it gets to the level of a businessman, however, it becomes a little more tricky .... how to enjoy a treat of an ice cream cone without getting it all over the suit, shirt and tie. Paper napkins at the ready chaps!

If you believe the old saying that the way to a man's heart is his stomach, then be sure to have some good homemade ice cream on the menu!

Summer Ice Cream Treats - Ice Cream Picture 1

Ice cream - a great way to celebrate summer! There are so many ways to enjoy ice cream at this time of year. Here are just a few of the things people do:

• buy an ice cream cone from an ice cream stall
• wait for the ice cream truck to come around
  
• visit an ice cream parlor for a special ice cream sundae treat
  
• buy a tub of commercially made ice cream to enjoy at home after dinner
  
• make your own homemade ice cream

In the coming weeks I'm going to share with you some of my summer ice cream treat photographs taken over the last couple of summers whilst out and about in the sunshine.

Summer Ice Cream Picture 1
An ice cream stall located outside a retail store - ideally placed to offer something tasty and refreshing to weary shoppers. Painted pink and white, it's not easily passed by!

Ice Cream Knowledge Earns $50,000

A favorite TV quiz show in my family is "Eggheads" where a team of "Quiz Experts" are challenged each show by a team from the general public. It's not often that the challengers win and indeed the prize money ($2000 per show) rolls over to the next show if they don't. So by the time a team finally beats the "Eggheads" the prize money is usually quite high.

On a recent show we were watching, the challengers actually won - and what's more the key question they answered correctly was about ice cream! Here it is ....

Question: What costs $1,000 as a 'house special' at Serendipity 3 in New York?

Answer: A Chocolate Sundae

The challengers not only had the pride of knowing they'd beaten the experts but they won $50,000 in the process. How's that for a pay-off to liking ice cream!

The real, detailed answer to the question of course is 'Golden Opulence Sundae' which I've previously written about on Blog Of Ice Cream. (Follow the link to view)

If you're interested in ice cream sundaes, you'll find pictures on my website of ones I made at home including:

strawberry ice cream sundae

chocolate ice cream sundae

There are more on the main page of ice cream sundae pictures.