Product Description

Written by former Gourmet magazine food editor Lori Longbotham, The Scoop features 150 mouthwatering recipes for the most universally adored dessert. Ice cream concoctions ranging from the stunningly simple to the wildly baroque are made easy for home cooks looking to keep dessert creations simple, fun, and scrumptious. Longbotham shows how store-bought ice cream, sorbet, gelato, and frozen yogurt can form the basis of a wide variety of assembled desserts, including luscious cakes, sundaes, soda-fountain drinks, pies and tarts, terrines, and bombes.

Thoroughly tested and expertly written, these recipes can be made by any cook in any kitchen, with minimal preparation time. The Scoop includes enticing low-fat options and also serves up information on the history of ice cream, guidelines for sundae or ice-cream-soda parties, and ways to personalize desserts with favorite ingredients. Readers will find it simple to serve and mix and match delicious hand-crafted desserts—many of which don’t even require advance preparation—that top off a meal with an exciting flourish.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1448603 in Books
• Published on: 2003-03-25
• Released on: 2003-03-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

Review
?Longbotham makes quick and easy sweets that look and taste like special events. Her book is for all of us who feel that a dessert without ice cream is a waste of calories.? ? Irene Sax, Epicurious -- Review

Review
“Longbotham makes quick and easy sweets that look and taste like special events. Her book is for all of us who feel that a dessert without ice cream is a waste of calories.” — Irene Sax, Epicurious

From the Inside Flap
Written by former Gourmet magazine food editor Lori Longbotham, The Scoop features 150 mouthwatering recipes for the most universally adored dessert. Ice cream concoctions ranging from the stunningly simple to the wildly baroque are made easy for home cooks looking to keep dessert creations simple, fun, and scrumptious. Longbotham shows how store-bought ice cream, sorbet, gelato, and frozen yogurt can form the basis of a wide variety of assembled desserts, including luscious cakes, sundaes, soda-fountain drinks, pies and tarts, terrines, and bombes.

Thoroughly tested and expertly written, these recipes can be made by any cook in any kitchen, with minimal preparation time. The Scoop includes enticing low-fat options and also serves up information on the history of ice cream, guidelines for sundae or ice-cream-soda parties, and ways to personalize desserts with favorite ingredients. Readers will find it simple to serve and mix and match delicious hand-crafted desserts—many of which don't even require advance preparation—that top off a meal with an exciting flourish.

Customer Reviews

The Scoop: Much more than floats and sundaes
I didn't think I would be interested in a book on store-bought ice cream desserts but with the encouragement of my ice-cream-loving child I agreed to have a look. The second recipe in the book, gelato affogato (ice cream with espresso and Cognac) showed this was going to be much more sophisticated and delightful than what I thought. There are root-beer floats and chocolate milkshakes (hers is quadruple-chocolate!) but also scroppino (Champagne, lemon sorbet, and vodka) and sorbet terrine with raspberry sauce. Best are her sauces. They're ingenious, smart, delightful, and I've tried only a few. I recommend roasted strawberries and mangos with lime. Clementines with cardamom and cherry compote with balsamic vinegar will be next.

I loved Lori's lemon dessert book, but this one delights me just as much. My family thinks she's the best, and I agree.

THE ICE CREAM DOCTOR HAS ARRIVED!
Wowee! I love this delicious looking book. Lori Longbotham (author of Luscious Lemon Desserts) proves she is the queen of all desserts. There are so many wonderful sounding sweets in this great book (150 in all) it's hard to know where to begin-- but I'd start with the Sky-High Layered Ice Cream Cake, chockful of chocolate and hazelnut gelato, nutello--it's so simple yet so sinful (top it with marshmallow sauce, yummo!) Lots and lots of cool iceas so that are so easy even kids could make them (like the Snowballs, ice cream rolled in toasted coconut and drenched in hot chocolate sauce), miniature ice cream bombes and cookie sandwiches, sorbet pops...It made me want to quit my day job and open my own ice cream parlor. Really gorgeous photo and cool looking design--makes a great gift, especially for your friends with their own ice cream makers.

Scoop to the rescue
The perfect dessert book for cooks like me who put all their energy and creativity into the main course, and then remember, oh, no, what can I serve for dessert??? It includes quick, easy dessert sauces (including variations on the beloved chocolate theme at all levels of seriousness), perfect ways to rustle up last minute dessert combinations from something that just might already be in the fridge or on the shelves(Roasted Strawberries, for example). I've already reached for the Scoop when guests were arriving in half an hour and dessert was still eluding me...but there was a carton of ice cream in the freezer...and it saved me.