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White Chocolate Cheesecake with White Chocolate Brandy Sauce
Sugar Cookies with Butter cream Frosting
Gingerbread Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting
Carrot Cupcakes with White Chocolate Cream Cheese Icing
The story of ice cream begins a
long, long time ago in a most beautiful place. The story of ice cream begins
over 3,000 years ago in China. Lots of cool things were invented in China.
Umbrellas, glasses and fireworks were all invented in China but the tastiest
and coldest Chinese invention is snow ice cream. The Emperors of China were
the first people, we know about who were lucky enough to get to eat snow ice
cream. Their cooks mixed snow and ice from the mountains with fruit, wine
and honey to make a tasty treat for their rulers to enjoy when they wanted
to relax.
How the Romans came up with the idea of making snow ice cream we do
not know. But what we do know is that in 62 A.D. the Roman Emperor Nero
wanted to eat snow ice cream so badly he sent slaves up to the mountains to
bring back snow and ice so his cooks could make it for him. Nero's cooks
mixed the ice and snow the slaves brought back with nectar, fruit and honey
and then Nero ate it.
In 1295, Marco Polo, a great adventurer, returned from China to Italy
with a new recipe for making snow ice cream. His recipe called for mixing
yak milk into snow in order to make it creamy. The idea of mixing a mammal's
milk into snow ice cream caught on and soon the rich people of Italy were
enjoying frozen milk.
In 1533, Catherine de Medici of Florence, Italy became the Queen of
France when she married the French king, Henry II. One of the things she
took with her when she moved from her home in Italy to her castle in France
was her recipe for making frozen milk. Soon many of the cooks in France were
making the delicious treat. One French chef opened a shop to sell the tasty
treat. He was the first cook to add flavors like chocolate and strawberry to
the frozen milk.
When Charles I of England visited France in the 1600s, he was served
frozen milk. He loved it so much, he asked the French chef who served it to
him to sell him the recipe. Charles I took the recipe back to England with
him and the rich people of England began to eat the delicious cold dessert.
In 1700, Governor Bladen of Maryland, who was from England, served ice
cream to his guests. Seventy-six years later, the first ice cream parlor in
America opened in New York City.
Dolly Madison, the president's wife loved ice cream so much, she
served it to her White House guests in 1812. In 1843, an American woman
named Nancy Johnston invented the hand-cranked ice cream freezer, which made
making ice cream easier. In 1851 Jacob Fussel opened the first ice cream
factory in the United States of America in Baltimore, Maryland. He sold his
ice cream from a wagon. In 1899, August Gaulin, who lived in France,
invented the homogeniser. This invention helped give ice cream a really
smooth texture. In 1902, August Gaulin invented a new kind of ice cream
freezer that helped make ice cream freeze faster.
In 1903, Italo Marchiony, a man who sold ice cream from a pushcart he
pushed through the streets of New York City, invented the ice cream cone and
patented his idea. He invented the waffle cup because he was tired of people
walking off with or breaking the glasses he used to serve ice cream from his
pushcart.
A year later in 1904, E.A. Hamwi introduced the waffle cone at the St.
Louis World Fair. People say he began making the waffle cones when an ice
cream vendor at the fair ran out of bowls.
The closing of bars that sold wine and beer in 1919 led to the opening
of many ice cream parlors in the United States. The more Americans ate ice
cream the more they wanted to eat ice cream. This demand for ice cream led
to the invention of the first chocolate covered ice cream bar. The first
chocolate ice cream bar was called the I-Scream Bar but later its name was
changed to the Eskimo Pie. You can buy an Eskimo pie at the grocery store if
you want to find out what it tastes like. You can also buy a Good Humor Bar
which was invented in 1920 and was the first ice cream sold on a stick. But
if you're like me, you'll head to Baskin-Robbins, which first opened in 1946
in California, and buy a scoop of Cookies 'N Cream which is made with real
Oreo cookies. This ice cream flavor was invented in 1983. Others like
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough have been invented since 1983 but Cookies 'N
Cream will always be my favorite. Of course, vanilla ice cream with honey on
top is also very good. I'm so glad someone in China decided to mix snow and
ice with honey and that now even poor people like me can afford to eat tasty
frozen treats each and every day of the week, just like Mr. Baskin and Mr.
Robbins intended.
