The Ninja Baker - #IceCreamWeek

Japanese Yuzu Citrus Ice Cream, #IceCreamWeek

NinjaBaker — Sat, 17 Aug 2013 11:50:00 +0000

Welcome to #IceCreamWeek! Kim of Cravings of a Lunatic and Jen of Juanita’s Cocina have teamed up with more than 20 of their blog friends to bring you a week full of ice cream treats, including a special ice cream giveaway! Prepare to have your taste buds tempted with some of the best ice cream treats around!

The Ninja Baker's S'More Birthday Cupcake

Today we are celebrating Jen of Juanita's Cocina's Birthday with an Ice Cream Party! We love Jen oodles and bunches! We invite you all to head over to her website today to wish her the happiest of birthdays. You can also stop by her Facebook wall to wish her a Happy Birthday there as well!

Jen , the birthday queen, loves a good lemon pucker. Even more than a smooth, rich chocolate! To complement her (undoubtedly lemon) cake, I whipped up some Japanese Yuzu Citrus Ice Cream.

Japanese Yuzu Citrus Fruit

Yuzu is a cross between a sour mandarin orange and a lemon. (Some say it has a lemon-lime flavor.) In Japan, the fruit is sold everywhere. For some reason, farmers don’t grow and/or mass-produce the citrus in the U.S. so we’re stuck with the juice form. If you don’t have an Asian market nearby, Amazon sells (pricey) yuzu juice. But, the yuzu accent in ice cream is worth every penny. It’s not overly citrus-y but there is the sparkle of a slightly lemon flavor in rich cream. Yum!

Japanese Yuzu Citrus Ice Cream

Yuzu is a cross between a sour mandarin orange and a lemon. (Some say it has a lemon-lime flavor.) Creamy and rich there is a sparkle of lemon flavor in this ice cream.

Ingredients:

2 teaspoons gelatin powder
2 tablespoons cold water
1 coconut milk
2 cups heavy cream
¼ cup yuzu juice
2/3 cup sugar

Directions:

Bloom the gelatin. (Sprinkle the gelatin over the water. Allow the gelatin to absorb the water for about 3 minutes.)
In a saucepan over medium-low heat, mix all the ingredients together. Stir well and make sure the gelatin and sugar are completely dissolved. Take off the heat and bring to room temperature. Refrigerate over night.
Scoop the slightly gelled mixture into an ice cream maker and freeze according to the manufacturer’s instructions.

If you’d like to check out today’s #IceCreamWeek recipes, drool over the blogs below:
Mint Chocolate Chip Brownie Ice Cream Cake by Cravings of a Lunatic
Ice Cream Crunch Cake by Juanita's Cocina
Birthday Ice Cream Bombe by girlichef
Japanese Yuzu Citrus Ice Cream by Ninja Baker
Coconut-Key Lime Pie Ice Cream Cups by The Kitchen is My Playground
Salted Caramel Ice Cream by Cookistry
Chocolate Malt Ice Cream Cake by Food Babbles
Funfetti Ice Cream Krispie Cupcakes by The Spiffy Cookie
Brownie Fudge Ripple Ice Cream by Poet in the Pantry
Wild Blueberry Ice Cream Smoothie by Foodness Gracious

And the famous ice cream makers from Vermont - Ben & Jerry

Please join us today, Saturday, August 17th at 2 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time) for our PinChatLive Event happening simultaneously on Pinterest and G+. We'll be announcing the winners of our giveaway and talking ice cream! Please join us for our Ice Cream Social at 2 pm! We have ice cream cookbooks up for grabs. We also have 10 Ben & Jerry's Swag Prizes up for grabs. So check out our Pinterest Board, #IceCreamWeek during the event at 2 p.m. today to win one of these amazing prizes!

Wishing you a celebration of today, whether or not it's your birthday.

The Ninja Baker

© ™ Watkinson 2012

The Ninja Baker has guest blogged and contributed recipes to numerous food sites. These additional recipes can be found here.

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Green Tea Matcha Ice Cream, #IceCreamWeek

NinjaBaker — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 11:45:00 +0000

Welcome to #IceCreamWeek! Kim of Cravings of a Lunatic and Jen of Juanita’s Cocina have teamed up with more than 20 of their blog friends to bring you a week full of ice cream treats! Prepare to have your taste buds tempted with some of the best ice cream treats around!

Ice cream is the sweetheart of summertime around the world. In India, a mixture of cold condensed milk, sugar, saffron and cardamom called kulfi is served. In Israel, halva ice cream incorporates the popular Israeli candy made with sesame seeds, sugar and honey. And of course, there’s creamy gelato from Italy. Gelato is slightly denser than American ice cream but it contains the same milk and heavy cream used in many American ice creams. (Don’t repeat this to your Italian friends. I’ve read that Italians resent any comparison to American ice cream. Oh, well.)

The Ninja Baker's Matcha Green Tea Ice Cream

Matcha green tea ice cream stirs up sweet memories of living in Japan for me. The dessert is not readily available in the US. However, thanks to my ice cream maker I can whip up matcha green tea ice cream anytime. I’m sharing my recipe today so you can experience the pleasure of this exquisite ice cream. The secret to the recipe is to use premium matcha powder. (Just like chocolate the better the quality, the better the taste.)

Confession: I am grateful that my husband is not a green tea fan. Because it means more for me! Creamy, smooth and a clean taste of matcha green tea, this ice cream is sooo good!

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Matcha Green Tea Ice Cream

The secret to the recipe is to use premium matcha powder. (Just like chocolate the better the quality, the better the taste.) Confession: I'm grateful that my husband is not a green tea fan. Because it means more for me! Creamy, smooth and a clean taste of matcha green tea, this ice cream is sooo good

Ingredients:

1 cup milk
¾ cup honey
3 tablespoons matcha green tea powder
2 cups chilled heavy (whipping) cream
2 tablespoons vanilla pudding

Directions:

Over low heat, dissolve the green tea powder and honey in the milk. Remove from the stovetop and chill.
In a bowl, whisk together the chilled matcha and honey milk with all the other ingredients.
Freeze according to the ice cream maker’s manufacturer’s instructions.

If you’d like to check out today’s #IceCreamWeek recipes, drool over the blogs below:

Root Beer Floats by Cravings of a Lunatic
Creamsicle Magic Shell by Juanita's Cocina
French Macaron Ice Cream Sandwiches by The Girl In The Little Red Kitchen
Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream by Frugal Antics of a Harried Homemaker
Cookie Dough Ice Cream by That Skinny Chick Can Bake
Green Tea Matcha Ice Cream by The Ninja Baker
Banana Ice Cream by My Catholic Kitchen
Coconut-Almond Fudge Ripple Ice Cream {No Machine Needed} by The Kitchen is My Playground
Dark Chocolate Cookies & Cream Ice Cream by The Corner Kitchen
Malted Milk Ice Cream by Cookistry
Chocolate Mint Swirl Ice Cream by SugarHero!
Toffee Brownies A La Mode Ice Cream Cake by Food Babbles
Toffee Chip Ice Cream Sandwiches by Quarter Life (Crisis) Cuisine
Honey Pecan Milkshakes by The Spiffy Cookie

The Ninja Baker

© ™ Watkinson 2012

The Ninja Baker has guest blogged and contributed recipes to numerous food sites. These additional recipes can be found here.

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S'More Ice Cream, #IceCreamWeek

NinjaBaker — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 11:45:00 +0000

Welcome to #IceCreamWeek! Kim of Cravings of a Lunatic and Jen of Juanita's Cocina have teamed up with more than 20 of their blog friends to bring you a week full of ice cream treats, including a special ice cream giveaway! Prepare to have your taste buds tempted with some of the best ice cream treats around! Make sure you enter the giveaway for a Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker and two fabulous ice cream cookbooks so that you can join in on the ice cream fun!

Ready for s’more summer fun? Good! Here’s a recipe for S’More Ice Cream from the Ninja Baker’s kitchen. The not too sweet graham cereal base mixes beautifully with the chocolate chips and marshmallows.

S'More Ice Cream

Toss a few Golden Grahams cereal bits together with mini marshmallows and chocolate chips and you've got S'More Ice Cream fun! The how-to is adapted from recipes in the Momofuku Milk Bar cookbook by Christina Tosi.

There is a little prep work involved such as making Graham Cracker Cereal. However, the effort is worth every bite of smooth, S'More goodness.

Ingredients:

Graham Cracker Cereal Milk Ingredients:

2 ¾ cups Golden Graham Cereal
3 ¾ cups milk
2 tablespoons brown sugar
¼ teaspoon kosher salt

S’More Ice Cream Ingredients:

2 teaspoons powdered gelatin
Graham Cracker Cereal Milk
2 teaspoons ground freeze-dried corn
2 tablespoons brown sugar, firmly packed
¼ teaspoon kosher salt
¼ cup milk powder
3 tablespoons corn syrup
1 cup mini chocolate chips
1 cup mini marshmallows

Directions:

Graham Cracker Cereal Milk Directions:

In a 300-degree oven bake the cereal bits for 15 minutes. Cool.
Place the baked cereal into a pitcher and cover with the cold milk.
Steep for 20 minutes. (Do not refrigerate.)
Strain the mixture through a sieve into a bowl. No need to force the cereal through.
Pour the milk back into the pitcher. Whisk in the sugar and salt. Refrigerate for up to one week.

S’More Ice Cream Directions:

Evenly sprinkle 2 teaspoons of powdered gelatin in 2 tablespoons of cold water. Allow 3 to 5 minutes for the granules to bloom (to absorb the liquid and get bigger.)
Grind freeze-dried corn (available at Whole Foods) in a blender.
In a pan over low to medium heat, warm the cereal milk. Stir in the gelatin. Whisk together with the ground freeze-dried corn, brown sugar, salt, milk powder and corn syrup. Pour the mixture through a sieve into a bowl.
Cool. Mix in the chocolate chips and mini marshmallows.
Freeze according to the ice cream machine manufacturer’s directions.

Make sure you check out each of these blogs, today and all week long, for their #IceCreamWeek recipes ~ and for chances to enter to win our #IceCreamWeek giveaway!

Cravings of a Lunatic with Red Velvet and White Chocolate Swirl Cheesecake Ice Cream
Juanita's Cocina with a Welcome to #IceCreamWeek
Poet in the Pantry with Voodoo Bacon Maple Beer Ice Cream
That Skinny Chick Can Bake with Cake Batter Ice Cream
The Corner Kitchen with Backyard Mint Ice Cream
The Girl in the Little Red Kitchen with Dark Chocolate Fudge Pops
girlichef with a Welcome to #IceCreamWeek
Frugal Antics of a Harried Homemaker with Strawberry Ice Cream
What Jew Wanna Eat with a Welcome to #IceCreamWeek
Cook the Story with a Welcome to #IceCreamWeek
The Kitchen is my Playground with 3-Ingredient Creamy Coconut Ice Cream {No Machine Needed}
The Spiffy Cookie with a Welcome to #IceCreamWeek
Quarter Life (Crisis) Cuisine with a Welcome to #IceCreamWeek
My Catholic Kitchen with Strawberry Ice Cream
52 Kitchen Adventures with a Welcome to #IceCreamWeek
Food Babbles with Roasted Apricot Honey Ice Cream
Cookistry with Thin Mint Ice Cream
Foodness Gracious with Molasses Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches
The Ninja Baker with S'More Ice Cream
It's Yummilicous with a Welcome to #IceCreamWeek
Sugarhero with Salted Caramel Ice Cream Sandwiches

Follow our #IceCreamWeek Pinterest Board all week for chances to win bonus prizes!

Kim of Cravings of a Lunatic and Jen from Juanita's Cocina have also teamed up for a fabulous giveaway!
***This giveaway is for one Cusinart Ice Cream Maker (in white),
one copy of "The Ultimate Ice Cream Book" by Bruce Weinstein,
and one copy of "Thoroughly Modern Milkshakes" by Adam Ried
(three different winners)!
This giveaway is open to US and Canadian residents only. When the contest concludes, the winner will be chosen by random draw. The winner will then be notified through e-mail and they will have 3 days to respond or another winner will be chosen.***
Alongside all our deliciously, cold ice cream treats, a new week-long PinChatLive event has been created just in time for #IceCreamWeek!
For full details on how to participate in this event click here.
Participate in the PinChatLive and Rafflecopter below daily to increase your chances of winning!
Then, cap off #IceCreamWeek with a celebratory 30 minute PinChatLive on Saturday, August 17th at 2 p.m. EST, where:

The week's big #IceCreamWeek winners will be announced LIVE! AND 3 bonus questions will be pinned for your chance to win
a second copy of "Thoroughly Modern Milkshakes" by Adam Ried,
and a copy of "Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams at Home", by Jeni Britton Bauer.

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***Disclaimer: This giveaway is sponsored by Cravings of a Lunatic and Juanita's Cocina. No brand sponsors have taken a part in this giveaway.***

S'More Ice Cream is kid food that makes me smile. But so does bicycle riding by the ocean. Seeing the sun dance on the water, hearing the giggles of children chasing waves brings on a big grin. What's your favorite summertime activity and treat?

Wishing you a week filled with s'more fun.

The Ninja Baker

The Ninja Baker has guest blogged and contributed recipes to numerous food sites. These additional recipes can be found here.

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