#birthday ice cream

[ronniefein]

Roasted Strawberry Birthday Ice Cream

Many years ago Ed and I were on a cruise with our cousins and there we were, lounging on a public deck, when we overheard a woman consoling another woman whose husband had died on board the night before.

It was so shocking that we still talk about it. I felt sorry for the widow of course and something she told the other woman has haunted me ever since.

She said “I told him not to eat the ice cream!” — as if that one dessert was responsible for the heart attack that killed him.

My first thought was “at least he had the ice cream.”

Next week I celebrate a big birthday. I mean big as in round numbers. I mean I have passed my grandparents round numbers. I’m about the age of that widow and her poor husband. And I now say:

“Eat the ice cream!”

Because you never know.

For most of my married life, the food we usually eat at home — with indulgences here and there — is healthy. I make fresh food, have cut down on meat, fat and salt over the years, don’t serve processed foods or junk.

We’ve reached the age that an occasional ice cream — especially on vacation — won’t be the thing that kills us. And if it is, well, at least we had the ice cream.

So, for my big round birthday I am going to eat some ice cream.

I love strawberry ice cream so I already made some for the occasion. I would normally have preferred fresh strawberries but I haven’t found a good source yet for real strawberries, the kind I remember from the old days that were small, sweet and smelled like caramelizing sugar. So I roasted the best looking ones I could find with a bit of orange zest and brown sugar and this combo turned out to be absolutely scrumptious for ice cream.

ROASTED STRAWBERRY BIRTHDAY ICE CREAM

1 pint strawberries

1/4 cup orange juice

2 tablespoons brown sugar

2 teaspoons finely grated orange zest

3 cups half and half, light cream or whipping cream

1/2 cup sugar

3 large egg yolks

1/8 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F. Line a baking pan with parchment paper. Rinse the berries, remove the hulls and chop the berries into smaller pieces. Place the berries on the parchment. In a small saucepan, combine the orange juice, brown sugar and orange zest. Bring to a boil over high heat and cook for 2-3 minutes or until the liquid has thickened slightly. Pour the liquid over the berries and toss the fruit to coat all sides. Roast the berries for about 10 minutes or until softened and glazed. Remove from the heat and let cool. Heat 2 cups of the cream over medium heat until bubbles appear around the edges of the pan. Set aside. While the cream is heating, beat the sugar, egg yolks and salt at medium speed in an electric mixer (or with a hand mixer) for 3-5 minutes or until light and thick. Gradually add the heated cream and mix the ingredients until the mixture is uniform. Return the mixture to the saucepan and cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, for 5-6 minutes or until thickened enough to coat the back of a spoon. Pour in the remaining cream and blend it in thoroughly. Pour into a container and refrigerate until cold. Stir in the vanilla extract. Freeze in an ice cream freezer according to manufacturer’s directions, until almost firm. Add the strawberries plus any juices that have accumulated. Continue to freeze until firm.

Makes about 6 cups

[fullcravings]

Ice Cream Sandwich Cake

[kriskukko]

hello so am making it official -- all the art on the highres segment of my website is in the public domain now. released, set free, forever.

the illustrations are available to download in their original sizes, generally square aspect ratio, both as .tif and .png, 300-350 dpi

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there are currently 33 pieces from last couple years, but whenever i make larger illustrations i feel would fit the general historical fantasy thing u can bet i'll be adding them in there. anyway here's the link for good measure --

https://kriskukko.com/highres.html

and have a great day everyone <3

[icewindandboringhorror]

On average, what is the total MONTHLY amount that you spend on dining out*?

*(This doesn't only count going out to restaurants, but also stuff like picking up fast food to bring home, getting a coffee on the way to work, getting a premade sandwich from a grocery store deli during lunch, buying a quick snack from a convenience store or food cart whilst walking somewhere, ordering a pizza or any other food to be delivered to your home, etc.)

*(If you often dine out in groups/as a household: calculate and divide the costs so that you get a Per Person average. This is for YOU individually, NOT the total household/group costs)

(I'm sure polls similar to this have been made before (very common topic), I just haven't personally seen one that I can remember, so, I was curious to do my own! I was discussing this with a group of people today and it was very interesting to see how widely the number varied between individuals. :0c )

(Reblog for bigger sample size if you can, and feel free to explain your answer in tags if there's anything extra to add!)

[clnclm]

[lovesodeepandwideandwell]

Family Carrot Cake

Per the request of @brown-little-robin and @fictionadventurer! Disclaimer: I don't know where this recipe came from beyond that my mom put it in the family cookbook she made in high school. I made up that it was my great-grandmother's. I'm sorry. It is still the best carrot cake you will eat in your life.

Ingredients

2c flour

2c sugar

1t salt

2t cinnamon

2t soda

4 eggs

3c grated carrots (I peel them and grate on the skinnier side of my box grater. Do not recommend using pre-grated as they will be drastically drier.)

1 1/2c canola/olive/refined coconut/other neutral oil

Pour oil over carrots and let sit. (I find olive oil results in a slightly denser cake; canola oil tastes fine but I don't believe in it anymore; my default is refined coconut.) Mix sugar, flour, salt, soda, and cinnamon together and sift into mixing bowl. Add and stir in eggs one at a time. Add carrots and oil. Beat well by hand 200 times--DO NOT USE MIXER!! (Note: this is verbatim from the recipe from the 80s or earlier. I don't know why you can't use a mixer but it's such a flex to stir your cake batter 200 times by hand that I've never tried it otherwise. A wooden spoon is fine for all the stirring in this recipe.)

Pour into well greased cake pans, two round or one oblong. Bake at 350 for 25-30 minutes. Cool and frost with:

Cream Cheese Icing

Stir together in mixer:

8oz cream cheese

8oz butter

4c powdered sugar, more or less for consistency

2t vanilla

1c chopped pecans if desired (I don't ever do this because my family doesn't like nuts and also it makes for a difficult icing to spread. If you put the nuts in the frosting instead of sprinkling on top I recommend freezing your cake pieces first so they don't get shredded in the frosting process.)

[skelleste]

I call him Funny Face.

[stump-not-found]

Sorry if this has already been answered, but does Ford celebrate his birthday? I know its pretty hard to keep track of time when its ... nonlinear in the multiverse but I feel like Bill would know. And to ford every once and a while Bill demands his attention and he comes back to the pyramid to the wildest (worst) surprise party. The cake is human skin, candles are those really long wisdom teeth. Ford hates it.

i'll call out that a main plot point of chapter 4 is the fact bill gets ford presents on his b-day so yah its a regular thing, but they celebrate the day after his b-day

first birthday together bill probably does the skin cake thing but ford just rolls his eyes and sighs . bill almost fucking shoots himself after that response

[silkjade]

okay i got self conscious earlier LOL but tonight’s outfit yayz feels like i haven’t dressed up in a while ♡

missed it </3

[show-tunes]

Feed your ocs to giant bugs today!

[whitefireprincess]

Birthday Cake | The Yard Milkshake Bar

[fullcravings]

Strawberry Funfetti Ice Cream Cake

[snaileer]

Question for yall.

So. Imagine something absolutely tragic happens, I’m talking like a person comes home with a birthday cake to find their partner dead or dying on floor.

They drop the cake (obviously) they call emergency services all that.

Okay, now, pretend you are one of the police arriving on scene. Everyone else has a job, you are a little bit superfluous but still. You look to the side… the cake dropped is an ice cream cake.

If left on the floor, it’s going to start to melt, leaving even more of a mess for this horribly traumatized person to clean up when they return.

Or you can put it in the freezer, but will they want to still have the cake after? Would it be a reminder of this horrible event?

Should you throw it away then? That’s such a waste of cake and the money they spent, especially if they don’t have a lot of money.

Should you leave it there then? But what about the mess?

[kirby-the-gorb]

[clnclm]

[gottastim]

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