"La Casa Gelato"

As our final assignment of the year for this foods class, we had to go to La Casa Gelato to sample and eat ice cream. With their many different flavors, 216 to be exact, there were many options to choose from. I decided to try some different flavors such as rice pudding and a pear and goat cheese combination. I also tried birthday cake, vanilla reeses pieces and mint fudge. After trying all these different delicious flavors, I decided to get birthday cake because it truly tasted like a cake just in ice cream form. One scoop of ice cream was $5 and very over-priced. However, the ice cream was well worth it and I would most likely go back there in the future. 

"Ice Cream Sandwiches"

For our next assignment we made ice cream sandwiches. We split this lab up into three days so that we would have enough time to make everything. On the first day we made the base for our ice cream and then the day after we put the ice cream in the ice cream machine so that it would turn into actual ice cream and we also baked our cookies. Our flavor combinations were a chocolate cookie and strawberry ice cream. Assembling the sandwiches on the third day was somewhat tedious because the ice cream had to be softened but not too soft so that it ran out of the cookie. After assembling them it was finally time to taste all of the hard work that we put into this lab. These ice cream sandwiches were delicious and it was nice to know that all of the components were homemade. I will definitely be making this recipe many times for the summer.