An irresistible guide to making 90 intensely flavorful handmade ice creams from the country's top artisanal ice cream shop, including the smash hits Salted Caramel and Balsamic Strawberry, plus other favorites.
San Francisco's Bi-Rite Creamery is known for its showstopping ice cream crafted from the freshest ingredients, as well as a line that snakes around the block with customers desperate for a scoop of Honey Lavender or Earl Grey. This essential guide to making delicious ice cream at home covers all the classic flavors and delectable variations, plus inventive combinations like Cara Cara Cardamom and Sweet Basil. Filled with detailed techniques and insider's secrets, this lavishly illustrated cookbook will turn any home kitchen into a personal Bi-Rite Creamery (without the line around the block).

Reviews

"Between the covers are all of the shop's secrets. In the generous spirit pervading the Bi-Rite enterprise, the Creamery's owners have given away the family jewels."
--Tasting Table San Francisco, 4/17/2012
"It's more that this book is refreshingly free of candied bacon ice creams and their palate shock value-fueled brethren that we've seen so much of in the pastry world recently (and for that, Bi-Rite, we can't thank you enough). Instead, "Sweet Cream and Sugar Cones" is more about those scoops of buttermilk ice cream (p. 37) piled high on top of fruit pies one weekend, appreciated for its unadorned simplicity another. It is about the day, or so we can daydream on weekdays, when you crumble that cinnamon-laced American baking staple that you've made dozens of times -- snickerdoodles (p. 195) -- into a cinnamon-speckled ice cream base to create Bi-Rite's frozen riff on "ricanelas," a cinnamon-y Mexican cookie. And it becomes something new, something different, something fantastic. No candied pork products or sugary, sensationalized corporate cereal additions required. Just two similar, and quite simple, homemade cookies with very different backgrounds. United by ice cream."
--Jenn Garbee, Los Angeles Weekly, 4/3/2012
"A beautiful guide to the world of American ice cream."
--Serious Eats, 4/12
"A great primer for beginners."
--Publisher's Weekly, 3/19/2012
"Kris and Anne make amazing ice cream. Now if you can't make it to 18th Street in San Francisco you can recreate their delights at home, whether it's decadent Peanut Butter Fudge Swirl, lively Ginger, or their signature Salted Caramel. One thing I know from experience, after you make them all (and you aren't going to miss out on one) you will have more than one favorite."
--Emily Luchetti, executive pastry chef at Farallon and Waterbar, author of "The Fearless Baker" and "A Passion for Desserts"
"Yes, that's me waiting patiently in line at Bi-Rite for a scoop of