Chocolate Stout Float

I am extremely excited to share my recipe with you this week, for several reasons.  First, I love floats.  Second, I made a float using two of my favorite things - beer and chocolate.  Cream milk stout poured over a scoop of chocolate stout sorbet rimmed with chocolate beer sauce.  Oh yes.  And third, I get to share my first Scoop Adventures Video! 

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Chocolate Shell

As a young child, some of my favorite ice cream experiences involved soft-serve ice cream.  Fluffy white and brown swirls atop crunchy sugar cones, covered in chocolate jimmies (those are sprinkles for the rest of you non-Pennsylvania folk).  Every once and a while I was lucky enough to eat a chocolate-dipped swirl cone.  I watched wide-eyed as the pimply teenager behind the counter slowly dipped my ice cream in dark creamy chocolate that would harden as soon as it hit the cone.  Oh how I looked forward to those cones. 

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Chocolate Orange Ice Cream

Have you ever taken notice of how your memory works?  It is quite obvious for most people that pictures or visual cues can spark memories.  But I always find it amazing and startling when a smell or taste starts a cascade of memories in my mind.  Memories are another reason that I love food and experimenting with flavors, because I never know what memory I might spark in myself or others.

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Nutella Ice Cream

One of my favorite things about making ice cream is taking requests.  There are several requested ice cream flavors in the blog queue, including today's flavor.  A friend from work requested that I make a chocolate hazelnut ice cream that taste like Nutella. I got on it right away.

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