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Send Ice Cream Gifts for Father’s Day!

The perfect gift for World’s Coolest Dad! Send ice cream and say “Happy Father’s Day!” with flavor!

What dad doesn’t love ice cream? It’s the perfect reminder of special summer days spent with Dad, sharing a scoop or two of your favorite flavor. Send him a collection of some of our favorites, and let him know that he really still is “World’s Coolest Dad.”

Each pint is named just for him with a special Father’s Day title. Choose from four flavor collections in traditional ice creams, chocolate lovers, gelatos or sorbettos. Each Sampler Pack contains four different flavors of delicious, handmade ice creams, gelatos or sorbettos (dairy-free).

Click here to see all Father’s Day Sampler Pack collections. Hurry! Deadline for Father’s Day Orders with standard shipping is Wed. June 15th at Noon CST.

Want to choose your own flavors and titles? See our Pick Your 4 Pack section and make your own sampler pack, complete with personalized titles.

And don’t forget Grandpa! We have a special sampler pack with flavors named just for him!

Homemade Ice Cream Gifts: DIY Gift Pint with a little help from Martha Stewart

DIY Gift Pints make Homemade Ice Cream Flavors a perfect gift for any occasion. Martha Stewart stickers from Michael's used here.

 

Our new line of Homemade Ice Cream Flavorings makes it simple to make rich and creamy, full flavored gourmet ice cream on all Home Ice Cream Makers.

 

Plus, making ice cream together is a fantastic summer activity for all ages.
Be sure to try our Buttered Caramel, Tiramisu Cappuccino, 3 Bean Chocolate, and Vanilla Bean flavorings for out of this world homemade ice creams. Or, try them in some of our other recipes for frostings, cakes, brownies and more!

 

Many of you have been writing to us with your stories of special ways you’ve made the flavors your own with creative mix-ins and ways to give your ice creams as memorable gifts to teachers, moms, grandparents, coaches and on and on! We love hearing about your creativity! Please keep the stories coming!

 

Today we’re sharing design ideas to make your eCreamery At Home Ice Cream flavors even more special with DIY packaging. We’ve taken blank, white ice cream pints (available for purchase at eCreamery.com/Homemade Ice Cream) and given them quite the make over!

Unique stickers & papers from Martha Stewart Crafts turned our Homemade Ice Cream Flavors into a Personalized Gift! Empty Ice Cream Pints available at eCreamery.com.

We have to give credit to Martha Stewart Crafts for these particularly adorable gift pints as we used Martha’s new sticker line available at Michael’s. It made the project almost as much fun as making the ice cream!

 

To make the process even easier, just click the link below for pint templates you can print at home.

 

We’ve created four special occasion pint designs that are easy for little ones to color and glue to blank eCreamery pints. Or, print the templates on to specialty paper for a completely unique design.

 

eCreamery DIY Pint Templates – Birthday, For Mom, For Dad, Just Because Templates for your home printer.

All kids love ice cream crafts! Make homemade ice cream gift pints for special personalized gifts.

 

Sending the Sweetest of Birthday Wishes with your favorite homemade ice cream.

A perfect ice cream pick me up for mom!

Baklava Ice Cream: eCreamery & Greek Chic Cuisine

Baklava Ice Cream by Greek Chic & eCreamery

Our latest creamy creation is a collaborative masterpiece between eCreamery and our friend, Stephanie Patsalis. Founder of Greek Chic Cuisine, a line of authentic Mediterranean spices, oils and newly introduced cookbook, Stephanie gives a fun and contemporary Greek twist to stylish entertaining.

Each bite of our rich and flavorful Baklava Ice Creams is infused with Stephanie’s delectable blend of chopped walnuts, cinnamon and spices. It is now available for purchase in our Pick Your Pints section or in our Omaha, Nebraska parlor.

As a special treat, Stephanie has shared a recipe from her cookbook for her Chocolate Ouzo Cupcakes which are even more fantastic when paired with Baklava Ice Cream, may we add.

From our kouzina to yours:

Enjoy!

Chocolate Ouzo Cupcakes
Recipe provided from the cookbook, Greek Chic Cuisine by Stephanie Patsalis

Greek Chic Chef, Stephanie Patsalis and her girls, Athena and Eleni, buttering phillo for tiropitas.

A moist, delicious, chocolate cake baked with a hint of anise-flavored Greek liqueur, called ouzo. This gives everyday cupcakes a definite Greek Chic twist. Your family will love them, especially the adults! You can use your favorite chocolate frosting recipe or the one offered here.

Serves: 24
Batter Ingredients
2 ½ cups all purpose flour
1 2/3 cups sugar
3/4 cup butter, softened
2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa
1 ¼ cups water
1 ¼ teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla
½ cup Greek Ouzo liqueur
2 eggs
1 cup almonds, slivered

Greek Chic Chocolate Cupcakes with Anise Flavored Ouzo

24 cupcake baking cups
Frosting Ingredients
½ cup butter, softened
½ cup unsweetened baking cocoa
3 cups powdered sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla
3 tablespoons milk

Method
1. Preheat oven to 350° F.
2. In large bowl, beat sugar, eggs and butter with mixer on low speed. Add cocoa,
water, baking soda, baking powder, vanilla, flour, salt, and ouzo. Beat on high for
3 minutes. Divide batter into baking cups.
3. Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool
for 10 minutes in pan; remove from pan to cool for 30 minutes.
4. Frosting: in a bowl, mix butter and chocolate, using an electric mixer on low. Beat
in powdered sugar, vanilla, and milk until smooth.
5. Frost and sprinkle with slivered almonds.

eCreamery Valentine’s Day Ice Cream Gifts

Let us help you this year. This will be so easy. Send them an eCreamery Valentine’s Day Ice Cream gift. There are a few ways to do it and you’ll be a Valentine’s Day HERO. Plus, we have some fantastic flavors that we are making especially for Valentine’s Day.

There are a few options when it comes to sending eCreamery for Valentine’s Day. Let us guide you along the ice cream, gelato and sorbetto sampler pack gift choices.

#1 Specialty Valentine’s Day Ice Cream Sampler

Specialty Valentine's Day Ice Cream Gift


This four pint pack comes with the following flavors with the following names:

  • “XOXO”-White Chocolate Ice Cream with Macadamia Nuts & Milk Chocolate Truffles
  • “Love Potion #99″-Red Velvet Cake Ice Cream with Cream Cheese Frosting Swirls
  • “Swirls of Love”-Sweet Cream Ice Cream with Dark Chocolate Chips & Amarena Cherry Swirls
  • “Tub o’ Hugs”-Strawberries & Cream Ice Cream
  • Chef Kelley makes the milk chocolate truffles and the cream cheese frosting from scratch and then she mixes them in.

    #2 Chocolate Lovers Valentine’s Day Ice Cream Sampler

    eCreamery's Chocolate Lovers Ice Cream Gift

    Great names, great flavors! Check them out.

  • “XOXO”-White Chocolate Ice Cream with Macadamia Nuts & Milk Chocolate Truffles
  • “Heartbeat Batter”-Chocolate Ice Cream with Fudge Swirls & Brownie Bites
  • “I Love You!”-Chocolate Gelato
  • “Tasty Temptation”-Chocolate Chip Gelato
  • So, they love chocolate but you want to turn it up a notch? The Valentine’s Day Chocolate Lover’s Ice Cream is perfect. You’re getting them chocolate but not like a box of chocolates. You are getting them a cooler filled with chocolate ice creams. Good job, you!

    #3 Sweethearts Valentine’s Day Ice Cream Sampler

    Valentine's Day Ice Cream Gift

    Sweethearts Valentine's Day Ice Cream Gift

    These are our traditional Ice Cream Sampler Pack flavors all packaged with Valentine’s Day names. Eat Your heart out!

  • “I Love You!”-Chocolate Ice Cream with Fudge Swirls & Brownie Bites
  • “Love Potion #99″-Peanut Butter Ice Cream with Peanut Butter Cups & Brownie Bites
  • “I Dig You, Baby”-Vanilla Bean Ice Cream with Chocolate Chips & Cookie Dough
  • “XOXO”-Mint with Oreos
  • Our favorite ice cream flavors packages up with Sweetheart names for you to send your Valentine. No need to thank us.

    #4 Sweethearts Valentine’s Day Gelato Sampler

  • I Love You!“-3 Cocoa Bean Chocolate Gelato
  • Love Potion #99“-Pistachio Gelato
  • I Dig You, Baby“-Chocolate Chip Gelato
  • XOXO“-Strawberries & Cream Gelato
  • #5 Sweethearts Valentine’s Day Sorbetto Sampler

  • “I Love You!”- Lemon Sorbetto
  • “Love Potion #99″-Raspberry Sorbetto
  • “I Dig You, Baby”- Passion Fruit Sorbetto
  • “XOXO”- Coconut Sorbetto
  • We have 5 delicious Ice Cream, Gelato or Sorbetto gifts for you to choose from. Send some to everyone on your list. You will be loved all year long.

    Homemade eCreamery Ice Cream

    Yes! We are so excited to be officially launching our eCreamery Gourmet Ice Cream Flavorings line.

    Ice Cream Flavoring

    Make eCreamery Ice Cream at Home

    Our new gourmet flavoring line allows you to rule the scoop, even more than before. We’re turning the churning over to you. Our gourmet ice cream flavorings are deliciously compatible with all homemade ice cream machines.

    The Four premiere flavors are:

    3 Cocoa Bean Chocolate

    Vanilla Bean

    Buttered Caramel

    Tiramisu Cappuccino

    So, in addition to being able to purchase these gourmet ice cream flavorings we are also giving you what we think is the World’s Best Ice Cream recipe. Each jar has a very quick and easy recipe on it which makes wonderful ice cream but we wanted to take it one step further and let you in on some of the secrets that the pros use. Follow along below as I make our Tiramisu Cappuccino Ice Cream at home!! The entire project from start to finish officially takes 24-28 hours. I’ve given you directions below on how to occupy all 28 hours but not all of them include ice cream making related tasks.

    The World’s Best Ice Cream Recipe

    Below, I made Tiramisu Cappuccino but you can use the same method below to make all 4 flavors. Just sub in your favorite!

    eCreamery's Tiramisu Cappuccino Gourmet Ice Cream Flavoring

    Essential Utensils:

    1 Cup Measuring Cup
    Tablespoon
    Whisker
    Medium Sauce pan
    Medium Bowl (warmed liquid)
    Large Bowl (for possible ice bath)
    Rubber Spatula
    Frozen Storage Container for Your Ice Cream or (eCreamery Ice Cream Containers)
    Plastic Wrap
    Ingredients:
    1-1/2 cups heavy whipping cream
    1-1/2 cups whole milk
    1-1/2 cups nonfat skim milk powder
    1/4 cup sugar
    4 TBSP eCreamery’s Tiramisu Cappuccino
    Before you get started:
    Most likely the bowl from your at home ice cream maker needs to be frozen. I’ve tried speeding this process along and there is no good way to do it. It needs to be in the freezer for 24 hours. If it’s not, you will never get the ice cream you desire. If you are throwing it in there now, PERFECT! Keep reading. This will give you time to make your ice cream base a day ahead, too! This is called the “The Aged to Perfection World’s Best Ice Cream Base Preferable Solution” you’ll find it below. Let me recap. Put your ice cream machine’s bowl in the freezer. Go ahead and put your Frozen Storage Container for your World’s Best Ice Cream in the freezer as well. Follow the directions below and make your World’s Best Ice Cream Base and put it in the refrigerator, make dinner, drink some wine, eat dinner, watch a tv show, go to bed and sleep for 12 hours. The next day is entirely up to you. Please spend it however you see fit but return to making the World’s Best Ice Cream at about the same time as the day before or a least 24 hours later. I wouldn’t be so picky but I want you to make the World’s Best Ice Cream so I am trying to give you every single tip that I can. You’ll thank me later.
    Making your World’s Best Ice Cream Base:
    Combine your whole milk and heavy whipping cream in your medium saucepan. Your burner should be somewhere between low to medium. You know your stove better than I do so heat as your heart desires. Please make sure you continually whisk the contents until the temperature has reached 170° Fahrenheit or warm enough to coat the back of a spoon but DO NOT BOIL! Boiled cream is not what we are going for here. A nicely heated creamy milk base is the key. It will allow us to easily incorporate our dry ingredients. Yum!

    Heating your milk and cream

    As soon as you hit 170 F, pull your heated base from the burner and whisk in your nonfat skim milk powder, sugar and eCreamery’s Tiramisu Cappuccino Gourmet Flavoring.
    Mix in the flavor!
    Keep whisking until thoroughly incorporated. At this point you’ll want to pour your base into a refrigerator safe container. We always, always use a spatula to make sure we scrape every last bit into the next container. That’s potential ice cream your rinsing away if you don’t!!
    Cool it Down
    From here, you have 2 options.
    The Ice Bath Approach aka Burn & Churn:
    Remember in the beginning when we talked about the 24 hour thing? If your bowl was already in the freezer before you read that, I grant you permission to use the Ice Bath Approach. This method will cool your base the quickest. Create an ice bath with ice and water in a larger bowl than the one you poured your base into. Submerge the base into the ice bath and refrigerate. It should take about 2 hours to get down to the optimum temperature of 40 degrees. You will then be ready to freeze according to your ice cream machine’s directions. There is another option for the patient at heart, below. Even I can be patient for the World’s Best Ice Cream.
    Preparing an ice bath for your ice cream base

    Making an ice bath

    Your Ice Cream Base taking an Ice Bath

    The Aged to Perfection, World’s Best Ice Cream Base Preferred Method:

    Are you going for the World’s Best? If yes, than follow these directions: Cover your ice cream base with a lid or plastic wrap and refrigerate for 24 hours. Now, follow the directions above for what to do for the next 24 hours. :) When you pull out your Aged to Perfection Ice Cream base it will be separated. You will need to whisk it until it is a cohesive color and mixture.

    Aged Ice Cream Base

    World's Best Ice Cream Base

    Whisked and ready to pour ice cream base

    The fun part! I have a super fun Candy Apple Green Kitchen Aid Mixer with an Ice Cream Attachment. It helps me make the World’s Best Ice Cream. I’m sure your ice cream machine will be the perfect assistant as well. Turn on your ice cream machine and pour in your World’s Best Ice Cream Base. Again, use your spatula to get every last bit of base into the frozen bowl for churning.


    Get your Ice Cream Bowl Ready!

    Churnin' Churnin' Ice Cream Love

    Now the big question, how long do I churn? The amount of time it will take your ice cream to churn will have to do with the temperature of your bowl, the temperature of your base and your ice cream machine. Churning will probably last between 20 – 30 minutes. The real test will be the consistency of the product. Check out the picture of what to strive for:

    Churned and ready to Freeze

    Grab your spatula and your Frozen Storage Container for Your Ice Cream from the freezer and transfer your churned World’s Best Ice Cream base into the bowl. Make sure you scrape all of the ice cream off of the ice cream paddle. Set it aside on a plate and lick it clean later. Oh yes, now would be a good time to get in a little taste test.

    My Frozen Storage Container for Freezing My Ice Cream

    Your churned ice cream should be thick enough that you can stick your spatula in it and it stands on it's own. Get it?

    All you’ll have to do now is freeze your ice cream. Pop your churned World’s Best Ice Cream in the freezer, let it harden and then roll it back out and ENJOY!! It should make about 2 pints. Eat it all at once. Just kidding!! Share the love so everyone knows that you make the WORLD’S BEST ICE CREAM!!!!

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