My local grocery store has started stocking a “limited edition” apple pie ice cream (message me for the details, don’t want to be shilling). It’s one of my favorites – not only does it have chunks of real apple and graham cracker crust, but the ice cream itself has a delicious apple flavor. The whole thing tastes like you took a slice of apple pie with vanilla ice cream and blended it chunky style.
I always figured there was some boring food-science reason you couldn’t make a decent apple ice cream, but this shows it’s perfectly possible. So why isn’t it more common? Apple pie is one of the most popular deserts, and you find apple flavoring in plenty of drinks and candies. What gives?
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Because it’s too expensive to crunch up a whole iPhone just for one cone.
This should be higher. Even broken iPhones from 3 years ago sell for tens or hundreds of euros.
Are we talking Apple or apple pie? Because from your post I can’t really tell.
What flavour is apple pie?
Apple + cinnamon
And brown sugar.
Gotta get those cinnamons-syrup-swirls, amirite?
And cheddar, ya philistines.
+ butter
So pie. And baked apple doesn’t taste like raw apple.
This particular one is apple pie, but the ice cream itself (minus the pie crust chunks) would be great on its own.
I’ve recently had a similar discussion on why orange ice cream isn’t that popular, but exists in form of water ice
Our conclusion was that acidic flavors, like orange and apple just aren’t good combined with cream, instead being better served as a sorbet
What about orange creamsicles?
Orange creamcicle flavored ice cream is pretty easy to find. But I think it’s usually vanilla ice cream with layers of orange sherbet. Strawberries are acidic and strawberry ice cream is a popular flavor.
In my experience, apples just don’t taste very good when frozen. Maybe that’s why they don’t sell frozen apples at most supermarkets?
I make ice cream as a hobby and found orange ice cream is too rich to eat even a scoop in one sitting. It’s completely possible but it’s hard to eat.
I had this delightful tangerine sorbet. a golfball scoop is all we needed
Yup. Sorbet is often made with orange or lemon flavours.
Ok. Why is apple or grape sorbet uncommon?
you’d end up with apple cider vinegar as your flavorant, and that doesn’t play well with milk.
What, you don’t like cold soured apple curd tart cream? It has nutmeg in it!
Why isn’t orange (the fruit) ice cream more popular? I don’t mean sherbet, I mean ice cream. It can be bought in Florida, but I’ve never heard of it anywhere else.
I feel silly asking since you mentioned Florida, but do they use real oranges? Any time I’ve ever seen or tasted orange ice cream it was always that fake stuff.
I do believe it’s made with real orange, especially if you’re get it from a street vendor near the beach. Been years since I had it.
Corporate studies show that the most popular ice cream flavors are the flavors we’ve always made and new flavors are risky because we don’t know how popular they will be and so we only do the same flavors so we’re always right.
Same reason why you only get reboots and remakes, it’s a safer bet for investment.
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Cinnamon apple jelly should be more common too! (Not apple butter… fuck Apple butter).
Apple cinnamon all the things!
Glazed apple cinnamon doughnuts are the best
I’ve never tried one, but now it seems I have to.
While you’re there try the Apple Fritter! It’s like monkey bread* made with apple cinnamon bits, then deep fried and dipped in glaze.
*=Monkey Bread is just pull-apart bread made from large chunks of dough.
Apples turn brown when you freeze them.
While that is the case, modern industrial ice cream rarely contains the actual fruit. Just take standard Neutro mix, regenerate it with water, not milk, and add some food coloring (a light green), an acidic component like citric acid, and “natural” “apple” flavor.
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Idk but grape icrecream is illegal
I’m not really into sweets, but one day i saw a bar of chocolate with grapes on it, and i was like: chocolate with pockets full of grapes? Ymmi. At home i unpacked it and stuffed it in my mouth.
I almost threw up because it wasn’t grapes, it was grappa. Of course we can’t have nice things, we have to waste grapes on rotten ugly juice.
Chocolate with raisins is super common though…
As it should be
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Forget apple, we need more banana/banana creme ice cream flavors.
Even better, bananas foster flavor
A major reason I got an ice cream machine was to make banana ice cream!
Caramelized apple ice cream is amazing !
Wait… do you mean caramel apple ice cream, or caramelized apple ice cream? They’re not the same…
It’s a popular flavor in new england. Gifford’s has apple pie seasonally at their ice cream stands. They also have pumpkin pie ice cream which is my favorite.
Is it the one I saw at ALDI? (or possibly the same supplier)
It was pretty freaking good ngl
Little boutique place near us has an “Apple Cheddar Pie” ice cream in the fall. It’s never quite as good as you expect. Gotta try it again this year, to see how they’ve changed it.
(On the other hand, their Lemon Curd Blueberry is one of the greatest things ever served in a cone in the history of humankind.)
I really wish I had one of those fancy ice cream makers like they have on cooking shows like Iron Chef because I would definitely see what happens if you tried to make apple ice cream. I don’t know if I can get fancier than just basic ingredients with mine… Maybe if I made an apple compote? 🤔
I think it just works better making apple pie ala mode ice cream Cold Stone style with some vanilla ice cream, pie filling, graham cracker crust and caramel.
Do you have a
KitchenAidstand mixer or anything like that? Best thing I ever learned is making ice cream with dry ice. I just put the base in the mixer, start it with the paddle, and start putting in crushed up dry ice, one spoonful at a time. I managed to get dry ice in the little cubes or pellets, put it in a cloth sack, and then use a hammer or blunt object to break it up into small pieces.lol I was just thinking this would work while I was walking my dogs because I realized I don’t even have a regular ice cream machine anymore.
It was the best custard ice cream I ever created. Made the base with a sous vide. Chef Steps has(?) the recipe, but I did some experiments with blueberries that was next level the best shit I ever made that I will unlikely ever be able to duplicate again.
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