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Most Popular Ice Cream Toppings

Americans love their ice cream, consuming about 30 liters per person a year. From "jimmies" to hot fudge, it is the toppings that really are the cherry on top of this multi-billion dollar industry.

Once upon a time, an ice cream shop customer only had a couple of choices if they wanted to add a topping to their favorite frozen dessert. Now there are almost as many frozen dessert topping options as there are flavors of this special frozen treat.

Top 10 most popular toppings

1. Hot Fudge - this classic topping is still number one according to most consumers. Warm, gooey chocolate dripping over your favorite frozen treat flavor - what's not to love?

2. Caramel - There must be something about the contrast between the ice-cold dessert and a warm, sweet topping because caramel came in a close second to hot fudge.

3. Oreo cookie crumbles - that's the way the cookie crumbles. Oreo crumbs, more than any other cookie topping, are a favorite topping of both the young and old.

4. M&Ms - a less messy way to get tasty chocolate on your dessert.

5. Whipped Cream - you can't have a hot fudge sundae without topping it with whipped cream. A lot of people like to top their milkshakes off with whipped cream as well.

6. Sprinkles - whether rainbow sprinkles or chocolate sprinkles (sometimes called jimmies) this is a favorite ice cream topping of young children.

7. Peanut butter Cups - as if peanut butter and chocolate alone weren't delicious enough, added to a scoop frozen dessert, it become one of the most popular ice cream toppings.

8. Chocolate Chips - White or dark chocolate, sprinkled over the top or stirred in, chocolate chips are an easy choice for favorite topping.

9. Strawberry sauce - Poured over the top of vanilla ice cream, this topping tastes almost like fresh strawberry pie.

10. Cherry - what would a hot fudge sundae or whipped cream topped milkshake be without this quintessential ice cream topping?

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Types of Ice Cream Kids Love!

Do you remember running around outside with friends when you were a kid? If the weather was warm, there's an excellent chance you had many days like this. Well, things haven't changed very much. Kids sill run around with their friends outside in the warm weather. While they're most likely having a great time, they're also getting hot and sweaty doing it. What does this lead to? The need for every kid's favorite snack - cold treats.

There are many ice cream types these days. One of them is the Paddle Pop. Paddle Pops have been around for a long time - since 1953. They were created by a man named Ronald Street. So, next time you eat a Paddle Pop, thank Ronald Street. Paddle Pops were popular in Australia for several decades. That popularity finally began to grow in 2000, when Paddle Pops began to reach places as far off as China, the British Isles, Malaysia and India. Based on their extraordinary taste, it's most likely only a matter of time before Paddle Pops became well known all over the world. It's estimated that 97 million people eat at least one Paddle Pop in a year. There are currently over 100 flavors.

Another one of the more popular kids desserts are Icy Poles. Icy Poles were actually discovered by accident. In 1905, an 11-year-old boy in San Francisco, California left soda water powder and water outside. There was a stick in its middle. Overnight, the temperature reached below freezing and froze the soda water powder. When he came outside the next morning, he discovered this new concoction and ran it under hot water. Using the stick as a handle, he removed the soda water and began to eat it. From then on, Icy Poles were born. Icy Pops are eaten all over the world and go by different names based on the country. Here's a fun side note: in 1997, the largest Icy Pole ever was created and it was 21 feet high.

We can't have an article about ice cream types without mentioning Drumsticks. For many years, people were trying to figure out how to eat frozen ice cream cones. The problem was that they kept melting. Finally, they figured out to use oil, sugar and chocolate to insulate the ice cream. Drumstick comes in many flavors  including strawberry, mint chocolate, nut,and lemon.

If these options don't sound interesting enough to you, you can also try other popular ice cream snacks, such as an Ice Cream Sandwich, a Chipwich Sandwich, or a Sundae Cone. While they all have their benefits, it's always most fun to mix it up and try them all.

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Homemade Coffee Ice Cream Recipe

Coffee Ice Cream can often be quite difficult to make. Firstly coffee strength is a personal taste and so it is sometimes very tricky to judge exactly how much coffee you need to put in to the ice cream. Secondly coffee as a flavour can be pretty bitter so you need to be very careful that you get the balance of bitterness and sweetness exactly right. And finally, to make a truly good coffee ice cream you have to make a really really strong cup of coffee, and no matter how many times you make it you always worry that it is going to be far too bitter and far too strong.

Hopefully after all this negativity I haven't put you off trying my recipe for coffee ice cream. This homemade ice cream has a wonderful grown up flavour and goes down really well at dinner parties. For me it is a winter dessert, just perfect to be eaten after an evening meal with friends and family. Perfect in its own right it is also great to add other ingredients to. Underneath this recipe I have written a tip for adding a liqueur and if you want to make a divine coffee and chocolate ice cream you can check out my Chocolate 7 heaven ezine article or find it on my website.

Recipe for Coffee and Cream Ice Cream

Measurements are in both metric, which I use being a Brit living in France and American. There is a difference in the cream and milk quantity for metric and american measurements because I use double cream in my recipes which is heavier than the american heavy cream.

375ml Milk / 1 1/4 Cups Milk

225ml Double Cream / 1 1/4 Cups Heavy Cream

4 Large Egg Yolks 125g / 1/2 Cup Brown Sugar

1 Vanilla Pod

1/2 teaspoon Ground Nutmeg

4 tablespoons Ground Coffee

200ml / 1 Cup Water

Boil the water and make the coffee either in your coffee maker or in a jug. Add the half teaspoon of nutmeg and let it stand for a few hours.

Scrape the seeds from the vanilla pod in to the milk and cream and heat until the liquid is almost boiling. DO NOT LET IT BOIL. Put to one side and let it cool.

Put the egg yolks and the sugar in to a bowl and mix until the sugar has dissolved. Add this to the cream and milk that has been reheated almost to boiling point again and then heat over a low heat for about ten minutes until you have a mixture that is thick enough to coat he back of a spoon.

Add your coffee to the mixture, if this has been made in a jug you will need to sieve the coffee liquid to ensure you get no grains in the mixture, and pour in to an Ice Cream Maker, churning as per your manufacturer's instructions. Freeze and use within a week.

To make a coffee liqueur ice cream add a 30ml or 2 tablespoons of your favourite liqueur to the coffee when it is standing in the jug. Tia Maria is my personal favourite, closely followed by Amaretto.

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