When I was little I loved Choc Chip Ice Cream, not choc chip is in a choc chip cookie, the chocolate was almost grated, like small flakes scattered through vanilla ice cream. A bowl of this and I was putty in my parents hands!
Later my tastes 'grew' to bubble gum flavoured ice cream. I can freely admit now though that it was nothing to do with the flavour of the ice cream but the reaction from grown ups when they saw the bowl of lurid colours swirled together that really captured my imagination. How do you get hot pink, lime green and ocean blue ice cream anyway? Maybe it was all those E numbers that really had the adults running for cover!
Ben and Jerry's and Haagen Dazs have all tried to woo my affections. In some cases they have done a pretty good job, a scoop of Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, Mint Chocolate Chunk and Caramel Chew Chew are a hard to resist treat when I go to the movies. And I remember being in Barcelona with friends scoffing Haggen Dazs most nights on the way to salsa clubs.
But if it is no longer possible to have the Chocolate Chip Ice Cream of my childhood (just can't seem to find a decent replacement for it in the UK sadly!) then Mint Choc Chip Ice Cream or Raspberry Swirl will suit me just fine!
To make my favourite ice cream flavours in cupcake form all I did was add some colouring (there's those E numbers again!) and flavourings to plain buttercream icing;
For Raspberry Ripple I added raspberry flavour and mixed well. I then added the colour and tried not to blend it to much so that it would be rippled - I'll need to practice that some more! Some sprinkles over the top once piped onto the cupcakes and my Raspberry Ripple Ice Cream Cone Cupcakes were complete.
For Mint Choc Chip I added peppermint flavouring and green food colouring to the plain buttercream and mixed well. Once an even colour was reached I piped the icing onto the cupcakes and covered with some chocolate sprinkles to replicate the chocolate chips.
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