The Sweet Life in Paris + All-Clad Cookware Giveaway!
To celebrate the release today of my new book, The Sweet Life in Paris, the fine folks at All-Clad are giving away a brand-new 7 piece set of their magnificent stainless steel cookware!
This set includes a 2- and 3-quart saucepan, both with lids, a 10-inch frying pan, and a huge 8-quart stock pot. This is my favorite cookware (I carried mine over to Paris with me, piece-by-painstakingly-piece) and I’m thrilled they’re offering a set for my readers. If you’ve always wanted to start or add some All-Clad to your collection, this is a great way to do it.
The book features stories about my adventures in Paris, whether learning how not to walk in a straight line…or why the roads in Paris are all intended to take you right back to where you started, how I eloquently regaled startled guests at a swank dinner party with raptures about a magnificent black, er…zizi I saw in the hills Piedmont (and I’m not talking about the famous truffe noir d’Italie), and why, when the film version of my book comes out, Daniel Craig is the foremost candidate to play me in the movie.
(Hint: It’s not because of any abdominal similarities.)
Learn how I got into the thigh-high boots of the famous fish-boys, come along on my visit to Paris’ only clothing-optional sock shop, and learn how I manage to dodge the right hook of a certain dame d’une certain age, who’s become the love of my life.
Somehow, I managed to get nearly fifty recipes in there, with everything from the sweet to the savory, and then some. And if you’re the lucky winner of this amazing, spiffy set of All-Clad cookware, you’ll be cooking up a storm in your own kitchen, too.
Now excuse me, I’m off to book a trip back to Italy…
UPDATE: The contest is now closed, and the winner has been announced. Thanks to everyone for your participation! -David
Related Links:
Join the The Sweet Life in Paris Facebook Group
Hungry for Paris write-up
Review and interview at Simply Recipes
The White On Rice Couple bake up a storm
Wright Eats comes to Paris, armed and ready
Meg at Too Many Chefs chats up the book
Flickr Pool of Recipes from The Sweet Life in Paris
A write-up at In Need of Chocolate
An American in Paris-with Brownies on The Daily Beast
Los Angeles Times’ Daily Dish
Carmel
Mmm. I’ll go with the green tea flavour they serve at my favourite Japanese restaurant at Jourdain..
My favorite ice cream flavour is pistachio. Nuts and cream do it for me!
Strawberry! Congratulations on the book.
black walnut
Favorite flavor – lemon sorbet, i really can’t quit it. I never make it anymore because I wind up eating it on the spot. Every. Single. Time. It’s a dangerous thing to keep around me in general.
Out of curiosity, what is a zizi? :-)
Can’t wait for your book, it’s supposed to arrive tonight!
Congrats on the new book!
I must say my favorite sorbet is a lemon rosemary! Refreshing and savory.
Thanks for all the stories and recipes.
I just recieved your new book and I’m super excited to start reading it. With it, also, I recieved “The Perfect Scoop”. Lucky enough, I am a dairy farmer and have saved the milk from our top butterfat producing Jersey cows and will be making some ice cream this weekend!
As far as favorite ice cream flavors, at this point I’d have to say Strawberry Cheese-cake. There is a ice cream shop close to me that sells it with a “cheese cake sauce” SUPER Delicious, I try to get a few each summer =O))
Congrats on the book!!! And as I said earlier, I can’t wait to get into it! I love the blog, and since I have just returned from a trip to Paris, I look forward to reliving some of your wonderful Parisian experiences!
Butter Pecan, all the way!
coffee
Chocolate
i’m a butter pecan type of girl. love the sweet and salty together!
Pralines and Cream
grapefruit sorbet with a hint of anis
Blackberry Cabernet Sorbetto, Ciao Bela makes a great one
Vanilla Bean. Something is so good about simplicity.
gianduja… mmmmm…
Butter pecan for me please.
It’s too hard to pick one. For today, how about concord grape….
Coffee. Vietnamese Coffee actually, thanks to you. Well, I thank you, but my hips sure don’t :)
pistachio, or coconut .. yum. :) congrats on the new book!!!
Favourite ice cream ever: the salted caramel at Bi-Rite Creamery in the Mission, San Francisco. Oh my good lord, is that stuff heavenly. Makes me sad I live across the continent from it!
My absolute favorite is the malted milk ball ice cream from The Perfect Scoop. Yum!
avocado ice cream
congrats on your new book! my favorite is vanilla with fig and almond.
Digger flavour (anzac biscuits & honeycomb combined)
Cinnamon ice cream. I can’t wait to check out your new book!
50 recipes!??!? Nice
ricotta gelato
Dark chocolate and/or Mexican vanilla
Mint Chocolate Chip is my favorite, although I have several close seconds.
And Congratulations on the book!
Cinnamon ice cream! Made some last weekend.
Hm. There are so many! But I guess it’s going to have be peanut butter. With the cookie dough from the Perfect Scoop. OMG. Congrats on the new book!!!
Graeter’s Cookies and Cream
It’s so hard to pick a favorite. I have to go with mint chocolate chip. Congratulations on the new book!
Mango!! Congrats on the book!
Cherry Garcia
I will have to say vanilla, because I just made some using my own machine, for the first time (using your recipe, of course).
I did a silent scream when I saw your book in the store. I can’t wait to read it. Favorite ice cream: mint chocolate chip!
Toffee Cinnamon Crunch with a struesel swirl and a hint of vanilla :)
vanilla. I love your book and my coworkers like the results :)
There are many but rum and raisin is one of my favorites.
lemon meringue
Lemon sorbet, please.
Nocciola (If we are counting gelato)
Vanilla (Icecream)
Ruby Grapefruit (Sorbet) :)
Congrats on your next book release, I hope this chocolat delight’s in the book, I adore chocolate gelato and I’m ready for the new set!
Strawberry sour cream ice cream! Congratulations on the new book!
Does gelato count? If so, pistachio gelato. If not, I’ll have to go with butter pecan ice cream.
Congratulations on the book – I’ve already ordered my copy, and Amazon says it will be here tonight. I can’t wait to start reading…
Childhood fave=strawberry. I still love it but I think green tea ice cream now overranks it.
maple walnut
Menthe Gelato from the little shop on the hill in San Gimignano.
Or maybe a rich homemade dark chocolate peanut butter ice cream. It’s a toss up, really.
Coffee ice cream is awfully nice.
It’s really hard to choose a favorite, but if I have to, I’ll go with black raspberry chocolate chip.
Raspberry sorbet, with fresh raspberries from the garden.
Hard to choose but I really like the chocolate raspberry ice cream. Congrats on the new book!
Make mine coffee. And congratulations on the book.
Grandma’s banana nut ice cream! Yuummmm…..Dave, congrats on the book!
Hmmmmm…Pistachio!
white sesame!
It depends, but I always fall back on mint chocolate chip.
cookies & cream…always cookies & cream!
Butter pecan
My favorite s Rocky Road. Yum!
Vanilla — like basic black, perfect on its own yet with infinite ways of dressing it up. But your commenters have me salivating with new flavor possibilities.
Congratulations on the book! There are obviously some tantalizing tales that never made it onto the blog…
Peach!! Can’t wait to read your new book!
The aggregated spumoni of all the flavors in your book savored in my imagination.
Congrats on the book. I can’t wait to read it.
Favorite ice cream flavor? Cherry Vanilla. Hard to find but it’s soooooo good.
It’s a tie: Buttermilk or Salted Butter Caramel
Earl Grey. Earl Grey ice cream – the mother of all glorious epiphanies.
Looking forward to reading your new book – congratulations! My favorite ice cream is still strawberry, but I really like other flavors as well.
chocolate
Coffee ice cream can’t be beat.
Almond praline (icecream)
lemon (sorbet)
Hmm, my ice cream faves change with the seasons so I guess now that it is springtime I would say mostly berry flavors. I’ll go with blackberry–not too sweet, not too tart.
Looking forward to the book…
Chocolate peanut butter
Strawberries and champagne ice cream . . . with real alcohol.
Lemon, lemon, lemon
An ice cream place called Christina’s in Cambridge, MA does a Fresh Mint icecream in the spring. The best way I can describe it is to say it tastes “green”, but in a good way!
Vanilla
Mango Lemon Sorbet is the best!
Lemon, Lemon, or something similarily citrus…..
I’m a mint chocolate girl…but it has to be DARK chocolate.
Man, this is hard. But I think I’d have to say… orange sorbet with bittersweet chocolate pieces.
black raspberry . . . mmmm. it would be okay to have that for breakfast, right?
my favorite is blood orange sorbet…mmmm. can’t wait to read the new book!
Raspberry sorbet with a hint of chilli
My favorite ice cream flavor is black cherry.
Congrats on your book. Love the blog. Mint chocolate chip
MMMM. Coffee ice cream. Very very fattening kind….no double-churned crap.
Chocolate!
Espresso with chocolate chunks.
Looking forward to the new book,
congratulations David!
Fig studded with candied lemon…
Congrats on the book!
Ice cream: peppermint stick
Sorbet: blood orange
melon gelato from Vivoli. And Caramel Cone from Haagen-Dazs. And homemade peach…
Can’t wait to check out the book–will there be a French translation?
Passionfruit!
Strawberry-sour cream… from The Perfect Scoop, of course
Rosemary & Thyme Sorbet
Ice cream: Snickers (as produced at Mad Martha’s, Martha’s Vineyard, USA).
Gelato: Hazelnut.
Congratulations on the book!
Raspberry lime sorbet; so refreshing in the summer!
Butter Pecan
Lime sorbet, and looking forward to the book.
Lemon sorbet
Butter Pecan
blackberry cassis sorbet (on most days, but if I am feeling particularly naughty or chocolate driven, ciao bella makes a valrhona chocolate that happens to be particularly tasty with crushed chocolate bits mixed in…)
Congratulations for the new book! My favorite ice cream is pistachio…
Congrats on the book! I can’t wait to get a copy.
Chocolate is my favorite!
Fav. Flavor: Orange Sorbet.
Sorry about the second entry, I got a message the first one didn’t get delivered.
Don’t whip me, don’t whip me!
Nothing comes close to rich, smooth bittersweet chocolate icecream. Congrats on the book, will be ordering from Amazon.
Pistachio
Caramel beurre salé.
It’s hard to pick just one, but I’ll go with peanut butter cup for this question.
I enjoy the blog very much, and am looking forward to reading the new book!
Favorite ice cream: Sliced Lemon, from the Cabarrus Creamery, a nearly century-old ice cream shop (the original closed in the ’90s, but has been resurrected by a new owner) near the small town in North Carolina where my mother grew up. It’s rich and custardy, with paper-thin slices of lemon — rind and all — throughout.
Oh goodness … I pretty much love ice cream in any flavor but would have to go with coconut. The book looks lovely. Congratulations!
Chocolate and any variation on it. Congratulations!
Caramel au beurre salé!
The cookware and book look fantastic!
My favorite is chocolate, but if it has other things in it (peanut butter cups, caramel swirls, brownies, cookie dough…you get the idea), so much the better!
Congratulations on the new book! My favorite ice cream flavor is strawberry cheesecake.
I’ve never commented before, but have been reading your blog for… well, ages now. Love it. And love chocolate ice cream and raspberry sorbet, but I’m always ready to try something that makes me change my mind.
Chocolate peanut butter…homemade of course. Yum! And congrats on the new book!
butter pecan. and congrats on your book – I’ll be sure to pick up a copy. Cheers!
dark chocolate!
Congratulations on your book!
I absolutely love a good French Vanilla ice cream. Second place is Starbucks Java Chip.
Green tea!
pistachio
My wife just made a lemon ginger snap ice cream that was pretty amazing. So, that one!
Dulce de leche. At least, today that’s my favorite flavor.
Peanut Butter!
or Ben and Jerry’s “Everything But The…”
butter pecan!
Looking forward to reading your new book. Saffron and cardamom ice cream is my nemesis…. luckily, those flavours are hard to find where I live, so I can control my consumption by not making it too often:)
Congratulations, and thanks for hosting a fun contest! My favorite ice cream flavor… is… will I be banned for saying this?… Anyway, it was “Cool Brittania” by Ben and Jerrys. Chocolate-covered shortbread chunks in a strawberry-vanilla swirled ice cream.
Chocolate
My ice cream favorite is chocolate ice cream, but if it is going to have hot fudge sauce (and I hope it is) I prefer vanilla or strawberry. If we are talking sorbet, I’ll have raspberry.
All Clad is awesome cookware! What a terrific giveaway!
Raspberry Sorbet — made with love after each raspberry was hand picked by me and my family during an outing at our favorite local farm! Divine…. !
Either green tea or rose. It’s a toss up between those two.
Congrats on the book!
Coconut!
Vanilla Bean….
Red Bean Ice Cream! Give me some All-Clad!
At the moment I’m a big fan of simple vanilla ice cream. The late stages of pregnancy seems to be keeping me from anything more adventurous.
Such a difficult choice! Favourite has to be proper hazelnut gelato from Italy
My favorite ice cream flavor is black sesame. The first time I tried it was on a vacation to Japan in 2006, from a little ‘soft cream’ stand (like soft serve ice cream) on the side of the road. It was amazing and I’ve loved black sesame ever since!
Hi David! I just got your new book on my Kindle (thank you for making it available for Kindle!) and can’t wait to start reading!
My favorite flavor is Mango sorbet.
Chocolate Cherry!!
Raspberry sorbet. Mmmmmmm…
mango sorbet–congrats on your new book! Can’t wait to read it.
Cinnamon Ice Cream – sweet and creamy and a little fiery
ooooo, can’t wait to read your book, congrats! In Columbus, OH we are spoiled with great ice cream, my favorite would have to be Graeter’s Black Raspberry Chip followed closely by Jeni’s Salty Caramel…but then there’s Denise’s Coffee Oreo…can there be a bad ice cream?
Congratulations on your new book!
My favorite commercial ice cream flavor is Ben & Jerry’s Coffee Heath Bar Crunch. Nothing beats homemade.
Balsamic Strawberry from Bi Rite in San Francisco!
Sadly, I don’t get it too much, since I now live in Australia…
my favorite is cookies n cream.
What, just one? Ginger Molasses from Christina’s in Cambridge, MA.
Congratulations on the book!
favorite ice cream… dark bitter chocolate from berthillon!
Hazelnut gelato is definitely my favorite. Congrats on the new book, I expect it in the mail any day now!
matcha ice cream with a ribbon of red bean paste through it. yum!
Mint Chocolate Chip
I LOVE LOVE LOVE pineapple sorbet. When my local grocer stopped carrying it, I had to learn to make it myself. :)
Looking forward to reading the new book!
Toffee chip ice cream or raspberry sorbet here in the US; chocolate gelato in Italy.
Me, me, me! Pick me, pick me! Ooh, All-Clad (shudder)!
I sure hope you don’t dq me, since my first post got eaten by the contest monster this morning!
My fave flavor? A gelato I found in Perugia two weeks ago called simply 300. Dark chocolate with whole brandied cherries (heavy on the brandy) …oh baybee. Followed closely by cassis sorbet.
Good luck on the book.
I have been reading this blog in anticipation of my upcoming trip to Paris (18-May). Thank you David – it has been very entertaining, in addition to informative. Must say mocha is my favorite flavor – I always come back to it!
Congratulations on the release of your new book!!
Orange with dark chocolate chips. They make a fabulous version of this at Babock Hall at the University of Wisconsin. Really, you should go there instead of Italy.
Rocky Road! Congrats on the book, David! Looks like I’ll be buying something else from Amazon.
I pre-ordered your book at Amazon and it should arrive this week. I can’t wait to read it. I really enjoy your blog and have been following it for a long time but have never commented until now.
fresh mint….
can’t wait to read the book!
My favorite flavor of ice cream is chocolate with strawberries.
I’m halfway through your book already (it arrived yesterday) and it’s wonderful. Congratulations!
Coffee Heath Bar Crunch!
Neapolitan ice cream!
Oh, this is hard! Just one?
Daiquiri Ice. It’s a Baskin Robbins sorbet. My homemade version is better but BR will do in a pinch. Sugar cone, of course.
Mint chocolate chip is absolutely devine!
Mint chocolate chip ice cream is my standby. Congrats!
Chocolate + Banana
Pistache
Your blog has served us well as our guide to life in Paris and we will read your new book with great pleasure and we toast your continued success.
Merci
Strawberry-balsamic sorbet….mmmm.
My favorite flavor of ice cream: Strawberry
Congrats on the new book!
Congrats on the book! I can’t wait to pick up a copy. As for ice cream, my favortie is mint chocolate chip.
Just tried Dr. Bob’s strawberry, sour cream, and brown sugar ice cream. Yum….
Salted caramel
Chocolate brownie fudge, the more brownies, the better.
Ginger Snap Molasses!
Coffee & chocolate, preferably mixed together!
Congrats on the book will be picking it up when I am back in the US!
Love your book The Perfect Scoop, can’t wait to read your new one! My favorite ice cream changes with the weather. For now, coffee with toffee chunks.
Dark Chocolate sorbet
Just got my 1st ice cream maker and am in 7th heaven. I made a batch of coffee frozen yogurt last night that was mmm, mmm good!
Vanilla bean. so so good.
Congrats on the book and I love your blog! My favourite ice cream is Pistachio.
coffee ice cream and mango sorbet.
i can’t wait to read your book, and as a fellow paris resident, i’m sure a least a few of your adventures will be all too familiar!
Congrats on the release!
So hard to pick a favorite, but recently I cannot get enough of fresh almond milk cremolata.
Either Nocciola (Hazelnut) or Castagna (chestnut) gelatto
cinnamon
I love Coconut Sorbet and any ice cream with chunks I can dig for.
the fresh ginger icecream from the “perfect scoop”
Salted caramel ice cream! But the first flavor I ever made was your avocado ice cream. Congrats!
lemon sorbet
Salted Carmel
Your malted milk ice cream recipe is my favorite, made with chocolate malted milk powder.
glace de caramel bien sur!
congratulations on your book – if it’s anything like your blog, i’m sure it will be a fantastic (and very funny) read. my favourite ice-cream is salted butter caramel.. yum!
Cookies and Cream, or anything with peanuts/ peanut-butter. :)
The darkest possible chocolate.
Love reading you!
Caramel Coffee Crunch
And congrats on the book, it arrived yesterday and I can’t wait to start it
Banana pudding ice cream!
Hazelnut, always. (Although I always hem and haw and think about getting something fruity, it inevitably comes back to hazelnut…)
My favorite is pink lemonade sherbet.
Favorite ice cream flavor: Mint Chocolate Chip
I’m a sucker for a well-made green tea ice cream. Congrats on the book, David!
A really good rich, creamy vanilla!
Coffee Toffee Crunch from Ben and Jerry’s. I so wish they still made this one!
My favorite flavor is Phish Food by Ben & Jerry’s. Close on it’s heels would be Dulce de Leche by Haagen Dazs. yum!
Love your creativity, including this contest! Congrats on your new book.
I’m going with coconut sorbet.
Coconut Mango Sorbet is my fave! In a waffle cone!
Looking forward to your book. Peaches and cream today.
I love coconut.
My heart skipped a beat when I read this post. I dream of one day having an All-Clad set. Ice cream or sorbet, you say? How about together? My all time favorite is cup 1/2 filled with dark chocolate ice cream and 1/2 filled with strawberry sorbet. Many congratulations on the book!
Mexican Hot Chocolate gelato
Dark chocolate sorbet with halved the sugar from the recipe(yes i don’t have a sweet tooth) and a splash of whiskey or cognac before start churning.
Gianduja gelato from my fav gelato store in virginia
Chocolate peanut butter
I have an equal love of pistachio gelato and bananas foster ice cream. Both are amazing!
Glace aux Speculoos, sans hesitation!
Fresh mint ice cream in the summer… heaven!
My favorite sorbet is a tie: Cranberry or Concord Grape, I love them both so much :). New book looks great! Can’t wait to read it :)
Vanilla with real vanilla speckles.
As my boyfriend puts it, I am “monomaniaque successive”, that is I go crazy for one thing, have it over and over again for a couple of weeks or months, until I get totally bored of it and move to another mania. I don’t know yet what’s gonna be this summer hit, but last year, saffron gelato was my favorite. Peanut butter ice cream close second.
Salted caramel.. yummm. Congratulations on the new book! Can’t wait to get my copy!
I’ve made your sour cream strawberry and it was beyond good!
Pomelo
Peppermint has always been my favorite, but if I had an ice cream maker I’d try all sorts of new combinations.
This week my favorite is the strawberry frozen yogurt from your book. That stuff is fabulous! Last week it was your ginger ice cream. That book is going to kill me….
My favorite right now is ginger. I’ve been eating it pretty much nonstop for the past 3 weeks. Congratulations on the new book!
Pistachio! Just kidding.
Mint chocolate chip.
Congrats on the book!
Peppermint has always been my favorite, but if I had an ice cream maker I’d try all sorts of new combinations.
I was just in Istanbul and had some extraordinary sorbet and ice cream experiences. The best was a grape sorbet made from wonderful fragrant black grapes from the black sea coast at a restaurant called Changa – amazing. Had a water buffalo mastic flavoured ice cream at Muzedechanga (sister restaurant) – as crazy as it sounds! And finally I tried a chewy, stretchy, vanilla flavoured, goats milk ice cream called dondurma from a street vendor. Mastic resin, a substance called salep and kneading the ice cream make it pliable and resistant to melting. Sounds challenging, but the taste and texture were great – the vendor will even put on a show when you order it! Basically I love anything exotic!
I do like your Salted Butter Caramel quite a bit…
Or maybe a chocolate sorbet.
But chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream wins every time, I must say.
coffee ice cream, maybe with chocolate chunks or maybe just plain.
vanillia
Congrats on the book release! My favorite ice cream flavor is Mint Chocolate Chip.
What fun!
Green Tea ice cream is my all time favorite, but I do also love a good daquari sorbet on a hot summer night.
I’ll be heading to my local bookstore to pick this up today. I can’t wait to read it!
In the meantime, grapefruit sorbet (or gelato) is my favourite.
I love the exquisite taste of hazelnut gelato. I love it even more passionately when in Italy.
Mocha Chocolate Chip. MMMMM. Congrats on the book!
I was just in Istanbul and had some extraordinary sorbet and ice cream experiences. The best was a grape sorbet made from wonderful fragrant black grapes from the black sea coast at a restaurant called Changa – amazing. Had a water buffalo mastic flavoured ice cream at Muzedechanga (sister restaurant) – as crazy as it sounds! And finally I tried a chewy, stretchy, vanilla flavoured, goats milk ice cream called dondurma from a street vendor. Mastic resin, a substance called salep and kneading the ice cream make it pliable and resistant to melting. Sounds challenging, but the taste and texture were great – the vendor will even put on a show when you order it! Basically I love anything exotic!
butter pecan all the way!
Favorite sorbet: coconut
I love pistachio ice cream
cookies & cream
congrats on the book!
i love honey macadamia or tart frozen yogurt
Deep chocolate peanut butter
congrats on the book!
i love honey macadamia or tart frozen yogurt
butter pecan all the way!
pistachio
Today it would be lemon sorbet.
Madagascar Vanilla…..mmmmm. Can’t wait to read the new book.
Grapefruit sorbet wins for me :D
mint oreo frozen yogurt!
or, if that doesn’t count, coconut sorbet. mmmmmmmm.
Looking forward to the cookbook. A decadent butter pecan with caramel sauce wins it for me. Or plain vanilla, that’s for every day….
Chocolate, when I make it with El Ray bittersweet. Second place is Vanilla with salted butter carmel sauce and toasted almonds. Or…
I’m looking forward to your book!
Favorite sorbet: coconut
My favorite is definitely strawberry! I didn’t like it as a kid, but can’t resist it now.
Any boozy ice cream from Berthillon. They don’t hold back.
Nocciola!
Favorite ice cream flavor: coffee.
Key lime pie ice cream! =)
Congrats on the book! I can’t WAIT to read it!
I just adore All-Clad. I’d love to add to my collection. My favorite flavor of ice cream is actually vanilla with a heaping amount of cookie dough stirred in for good measure.
Vanilla with gummi bears . . .
malted milk
I would have to go with raspberry chocolate.
Looking forward to the book. I would have to say a butter pecan with caramel sauce or plain vanilla for every day.
Anything with fruit in it, really, but cherry is probably my favorite.
A lifetime ago (before kids!) I had Kona Truffle ice cream during a vacation to Hawaii… I haven’t found anything so good since…
Best ice cream ever???? Homemade peach ice cream at the height of peach season. !!!!!! -John
coffee ice cream, maybe with chocolate chunks or maybe just plain.
There is a tiny glacier in Bordeaux who made FANTASTIC violet ice cream–delicious.
Another coconut freak~~!
Hmmm….I had a coconut cardamom sorbet once that was incredible. I also looooove pistachio.
Mango sorbet and mint chocolate chip ice cream. I love All-Clad!
green tea!
mint chocolate chip!
mint chocolate chip till the day I die!
I’m pretty boring – cookies and cream is my favourite ice cream! You are probably going to kill me for this but Hagen Daas is the best option available in stores, in my opinion. :o) Don’t hurt me!
I can’t wait to read your book, David!
mint oreo frozen yogurt!
or, if that doesn’t count, coconut sorbet. mmmmmmmm.
Right now, it’s strawberry rhubarb because it’s in season and so delicious! But on any other given day, I’d die for a good pistachio or chocolate!
hazelnut ice cream!
Love your blog.
I’ve lived in paris so it is nice to keep touch with it through your recipes and escapades!
I love chocolate sorbet…if that isn’t available the next choice is a raspberry! Congrats on the book!
Nougat with a little splash of Calvados.
Congrats on the new book.
Cantaloupe. Taste like an agua fresca from La Taqueria! Mmmm.
Congratulations on the book!
Can’t wait to read your new book!!
I am sort of boring when it comes to ice cream. I love vanilla bean.
Congrats of the new book!
I love peanut butter icecream – prefer vanilla based but would never pass up chocolate peanut butter either! :-)
All time favorite ice cream flavor is mint chocolate chip. Not the strange green stuff either. It has to be white with super dark chocolate bits in it. Nothings better then that!
I only had it once and haven’t seen it since, but it left enough of an impression that I’m going to call in my favorite: pink lemonade ice cream. (Not sorbet — ice cream!)
Raspberry sorbet….black Michigan cherry ice cream….great. Now I’m hungry!
Old-fashioned, hard-to-find, peppermint stick is my favorite…
Gelato HAS to count! (Right?) – in which case, my favorite is a flavor called zuppa inglese from Italy. I spent part of my childhood in Vicenza, Italy, and there was this place that we always passed on the way home from school – they had a lot of different gelato flavors, and I would ALWAYS, always bug my mom to get me some gelato. All I remember of it was that it was really rich chocolate, and really rich french vanilla; but to a 7 y/o child, it was the whole world – and the stuff childhood memories are made of.
Thanks, I just found an excuse to go back to Europe. lol
Congratulations on the new book! Sounds great! I will put it on my wish list.
I’m an ice cream lover so picking one flavor is tough. I love mint chip. I love chocolate. I love them all! But if I could only ever have one for the rest of my life, I’d go with classic vanilla, because you can always mix it up, dress it up or just enjoy it as is.
Lime Cardamom
my favorite is homemade green tea white chocolate with a crystallized ginger topping….
Old-fashioned, hard-to-find peppermint stick is my favorite…
Truly simple: Chocolate Hazelnut ice cream is always my first choice when given the chance… Cheers!
My very favourite sorbet flavour is Black Zapote (Diospyros digyna): Black, sweet and fragrant . . . And so full of memories. Ice cream? Well, it would probably have to be Pine Nut. Sadly, as an expat in the UK neither sorbet or ice creams come to me very often in these flavours but, if I had to choose my last dinner ice cream and sorbet, it would probably be these two. And that is that mon cheri!
Definitely Blackberry gelato.
Favorite ice cream flavor – basil . yummmmmmmmers.
Congrats on the book!
Vanilla ice cream. No, wait. Chocolate sorbet. No. Maple walnut. Raspberry sorbet! Hm. Crème fraîche? Strawberry? Blackberry. Better stick with vanilla…
Rum raisin.
cantaloupe ice cream in a sugar cone!
In case you don’t win the All Clad… the factory has a semi annual scratch and dent sale coming up. June 3 and 4th at the Washington County Fairgrounds, about 45 minutes south of Pittsburgh PA. Lines are long, but the prices (40-70% off ) are worth it. They restock all day long.
We may not have Paris markets, or amazing baguettes, but we do have All Clad!
Thanks David… your blog is truly a treat.
Hmm… I’ve gotta say chocolate.
chocolate super fudge chunk (with chocolate covered almonds)
V excited to hear about your new book.
My fave ice cream flavour is hazelnut. Classic but stunning if made well.
I am so looking forward to reading this book!
Favorite for me — homemade vanilla.
Have to have at least one scoop of coffee not to turn down any others at all!
Can’t wait to read the book! I’m not sure I can choose an all-time favorite, but right now I’m pretty excited about the homemade mint (no extract, only mint leaves!) with shaved dark chocolate in my freezer…
Your chocolate ice cream with chocolate covered pretzels thrown in, mmm. I love your book!
Dark Chocolate with cinnamon and black pepper – yummmmmmy!
A favorite ice cream flavor? That’s really tough. I love so many of them! Today I’m feeling like a good hazelnut gelato would really hit the spot.
I have been waiting for this book forever. I can’t wait to get my copy and sit down to read it cover to cover. Keep up the great blogging. I know it sounds pretty dull but my favorite ice cream is vanilla.
My current fave is mango sorbet…pretty much anything with mango in it and on sale.
I’ve been a fan of yours, David, for a long time and, of course, a contest for a fabulous cookware set has wrenched the email address out of me. (I’m also hoping to save up for one of your chocolate tours!) Millefois merci for your humor when we could all use some.
chocolate chip cookie dough but only the cookie dough balls
Lemon custard – without the lemon candy bits – I like my ice cream completely smooth. Used to be in every freezer case. Seems to have completely disappeared. Why would they take my lemon custard away?
Your salted butter caramel ice cream definitely takes the cake – or in that case, a few hours on the treadmill :P (FYI – i still love your version of CAPTCHA – so much better)
Homemade vanilla – made with buttermilk.
Pistachio and cardamom kulfi style – kulfi counts, right?
I have so many favorite ice creams I can’t begin to list them all. Salted butter caramel for this very moment, then.
I’ll be honest, I’m an old-fashioned, plain kind of gal. I like a REALLY, REALLY good vanilla bean. Period.
Vanilla bean for me please!
Chocolate! (although rum raisin and Bailey’s are close seconds) Can’t wait to read the new book!
Passion fruit from berthillion!
Ginger ice cream for the win! The fact that it’s hard to come by only adds to its appeal.
cinnamon ice cream
Homemade Mango Sorbet!!!!
I love your candied bacon ice cream, with the salted butter caramel as a close second. But, you know what they say: everything’s better with bacon!
chocolate….nothing better..
peach lavender ice cream or blood orange sorbet. i couldn’t pick just one :)
Rocky Road. Not the cheaters kind with marshmallow fluff swirled in but the real thing. Good rich chocolate ice cream with real mini-marshmallows and chunks of nuts.
Sour cherry frozen yogurt from The Perfect Scoop. Crazy good!
Tat is easy to answer, my favourite ice cream is Pistache ice cream.
Coconut!!
Coffee!
coffee with chocolate, but milk chocolate and black pepper is a close runner up. your recipe was fantastic!
Black Raspberry Chocolate Chip from Graeter’s!!!
My favorite flavor of ice cream is Larry’s Chocolate Orange, from DC. Baklava ice cream from the Black Olive restaurant in Baltimore is a close second though. I’d absolutely love to receive your book and the All-Clad pans would be an impressive bonus! Thanks for the opportunity!
oh goodness, i think i have to go with cinnamon ice cream. yum!
Pistachio. that was easy.
I’ll give you a few more: rocky road, mint chocolate chip, anything with crunchiness in it, lately!
FUN!
I’d like the All-Clad but I’d rather have a copy of the book! I’ll see if I can pick it up when I’m in Dublin this weekend to save shipping…if it’s out in the UK.
J’aime le sorbet de mangue!
Congrats on the book release! My favorite ice cream flavor is Mint Chocolate Chip.
Lemon sorbet and coffee ice cream, often in that combination too :)
Today, my favorite is mango.
Coffee, coffee, coffee!
Congratulations on the new book. I can’t wait to read it. I love “Perfect Scoop”.
Maple Walnut is my favorite ice cream.
brown butter ice cream (Craft NYC)
Too many to choose from (it’s like asking what’s your favorite thing about Paris?), but if I must: Black Raspberry Cabernet and Denali(R) Motherlode(R).
Mint chocolate chip made with fresh mint!
Pistachio, or your vanilla!
Today my favourite flavour is salt caramel….maybe it’s because I had Laduree macaroons that were this flavour yesterday!
My favorite is coffee oreo cookie. Love it!
The book is on it’s way from Amazon through my preorder. I’m looking forward to reading it. Good luck on the book!
stracciatella : white base (i prefer vanilla) with chocolate shavings like truffle chocolate
burnt caramel
Definitely rum raisin!
!!
choosing a favourite flavour is like choosing which child to save from a burning house. ooh – did i go too far? haha – pistachio it is!
Mango sorbet and Butter scotch ice-cream are my favorites!
… adding to the chorus, congrats on the book!
flavor favorites:
ice cream: coffee
sorbet: coconut
(thank god you didn’t ask about toppings, that would’ve been impossible!)
rum raisin
Milk Chocolate and Black Pepper and for two reasons. First reason is because I like it. Second reason is because everyone just knows they are not going to like it and then can’t stop eating it after the first taste.
My favorite at the moment is mango ice cream or sorbet. But all my life has been dark chocolate. Let’s face it: I looove ice cream and I can’t really choose one, I like them all. (provided they’re made from good quality ingredients, of course!)
I’m looking forward to read your new book, David. Congratulations!!!!
Definitely Vanilla — but only homemade with vanillabeans and not with artificial flavour! I am very curious about your new book as I love Paris and hope to learn a lot of new things about that beautiful city. Think I will visit Paris in autumn.
Dark chocolate sorbet, where there’s nothing to get in the way of the pure chocolate flavor, or passion fruit, preferably with the seeds left in.
Butterscotch and Pecan or when I am feeling particularly childish… Goody goody gumdrops….
dulce de leche or any flavor w/caramel swirled through it! can’t wait to get your book! paula
Oh my, it’s gotta be coffee ice cream. Also, I can’t wait to get your book!
Do I have to narrow it down to just one? Ok then, chocolate…no wait…chocolate peanut butter…I mean nutella gelato…or maybe coffee with chocolate chips…
Ok, since I usually have a common theme, I’ll have to say chocolate as my original fave.
gelato, any kind! lucky for me i’m spending nine weeks in italy this fall :)
BUT i’m also in desperate, desperate need of some pots and pans. this is fabulous. congrats on your new book!
cherry chocolate
my favorite flavor is probably… chocolate hazelnut. and congrats on the book! you have a big fan in houston, texas. :)
My favorite kind of ice cream IN THE WORLD is la glace au cassis, which I can never find in North America, which breaks my heart! My second favorite kind of ice cream IN THE WORLD is pistachio ice cream, but it’s very difficult to find good pistachio ice cream that doesn’t make your tongue green or tastes like plastic and has crunchy pieces of real pistachio inside!
Meyer lemon sorbet, please!
mmm…coconut!
Black sesame seed ice cream for sure!
Blood Orange sorbet
Does gelato count? If so, it’s got to be nocciola.
A French-style vanilla egg custard is favourite! Great on its own, or with whatever fruit and liquor you have on hand. Chocolate works too!
Looking forward to the new book, David!
Our freezer always has some of your Malted Milk ice cream in it. Look forward to reading your new book.
It’s a toss-up between chocolate or dulce de leche.
Jaffa (choc-orange Aussie style!!!!!!!)
I would absolutely die for some fried iced cream — either green tea or plain jane vanilla. Soooo amazing!
Campari/Pomelo sorbet.
“Into the thigh-high boots…”? With the boys still in?
oooo, if i’m going to be honest, chocolate rocks me every single time. if i want to sound exotic, i always go with rosemary goat’s milk ice cream!
mint chocolate chip
mmmmmmmmm!!!
let’s see, favorite ice cream is cookie dough. and i can never seem to get past the ice cream menu to order sorbet. maybe this summmer?
pistachio!
Spicy chocolate (ice cream or sorbet) with caramel sauce (although I’ve never tried salted caramel…).
Last time I checked, not a single bookstore in my hometown had a copy of The Perfect Scoop in stock. I hope I have better luck finding The Sweet Life!
Pralines and cream
Coconut, anything with coconut
berthillon’s salted caramel…. or perhaps their chocolate amer… it’s too hard to choose!
Congrats on the book!
Hmm.. Fav. Icecream would be Spiced Cranberry & Ginger.. never seen it in store shelves, but favorites can always be whipped up at home right?
Congratulations on your new book.
My favourite ice-cream is nougatine! Always order it for dessert when it’s available.
This week my favorite ice cream would have to be ginger. Best of luck with the book.
Lemon for sorbet, but mango for ice cream.
Looking forward to the book.
Coffee haagen-dazs soothes my soul.
Ohhh, so hard to choose! Probably my latest favorite is Pineapple Upside Down Cake custard from a little shop by me. Mmmmmm.
Usually something with chocolate and caramel is awesome too.
i’ll have to go for blackberry. I love blackberry anything!
Raspberry truffle!
not to go all brand-name… buy my fav is B&Js New York Super Fudge Chunk.
congrats on the book!! will be picking it up soon!
Chocolate, hands down!
mint chocolate chip
Okay, I seriously need/covet this all-clad set almost as much as I love reading your blog. My favorite ice-cream flavor is peppermint, but it is closely followed by honey-lavender. And no, the two don’t taste so great together.
Oooh, I shouldn’t have read the comments before making my own. Now my head’s buzzing with too many flavours.
I’ll choose vanilla ice cream with crushed cinnaman cookies, though I would join your readers in any of the above!
Well, without a doubt, my favorite is the Malted Milk Ball Ice Cream, from your book!
Congratulations on the new book! Can’t wait to check it out.
My favourite ice cream flavour is coffee.
Jasmine. Got your book yesterday and can’t put it down. Fun stuff.
Only one favourite? Pistachio
Congratulations on your new book! What an exciting time! And the giveaway is too fun – my favorite ice cream flavor is constantly changing, but right now I’m obsessed with pistachio.
Carmel pecan.
Rocky road is my all-time favorite, but I wouldn’t turn down any ice cream, regardless of flavor!
Chocolate walnut fudge ….. yum. Congrats David …. you’ve got the best website and I’m sure the book will be wonderful!
Chocolate!
Sweet corn and blackberry from Jeni’s Ice Creams. :)
lemon sorbet yummy!
Well I’m partial to pistachio but my absolute favourite would be the almond milk with almond macaroon pieces from Picard… subtle, simple, flavorfull but delicate.
Congratulations David!
mango ice cream all the way!!!!
Congrats on the new book! Strawberry sorbet, because I am a simple creature :)
Can’t wait to get your book in the mail – pre-ordered from Amazon.
Favorite ice cream… salted butter caramel (your recipe). Hands down.
Congratulations on your success!
Aztec Chocolate from you cookbook “The Perfect Scoop”!
Banana
Congratulations on the new book!
For the longest time my favorite flavor of ice-cream used to be dark chocolate with a swirl or coffee. But a few days ago I had this really exquisite jasmine ice-cream that blew me away. Jasmine is totally my new favorite now!
Mint Chocolate Chip
I’m inclined to say coffee from DL’s ice cream book (full of chocolate chips) but there are so many to love! Like fresh ginger and dark chocolate? Or raspberry and dark chocolate? Or buckwheat?
Mmmmm….the buckwheat is good. I’ll go with that, I guess.
Your salted caramel ice cream — it’s better than Bi-Rite! Your recipe for lemon buttermilk sherbet, made with Meyer lemons, is my new favorite but it’s not ice cream, so I guess it doesn’t count.
chocolate peanut butter!
I’m a sucker for green tea ice cream, though you don’t come by it that often. In fact, that’s probably part of its allure.
Congratulations on the book!
I love the timeless Strawberry icecream from HaagenDaz… just the right amount of ingredients and flavor combination.
I can’t live without cinnamon icecream!
Chocolate chip
My favorite ice cream flavor goes back and forth between three: Chocolate, Vanilla or Blueberry Gelato. I’m a little indecisive. Oh, okay, and maybe sometimes my favorites are strawberry cheesecake and/or peanut butter swirled through chocolate. Ack! I can’t decide.
Strawberry
Green tea- I love anything that’s a little bit gross it becomes great.
I have a dwarf sour cherry tree in my front yard. A friend makes ice cream from the juice of the cherries I give him. It is indescribably delicious. Visit in late July and you may have some.
my favorite is any flavor that is home-made ( I make my own) if I have to choose one it would be salted carmel – can’t wait to buy the new book.
Ube (purple yam, popular as a sweet ingredient in the Philippines, used in cakes, ice cream, pastry fillings,…)
Salted caramel ice cream – your recipe!
Cinnamon! That’s the flavor from Perfect Scoop that I make most often.
Definitely chocolate. Forever.
Berthillon’s salted caramel
Lemon Sorbet
Creme Fraiche Ice Cream & Sorbet — although with Creme Fraiche as the main ingredient the sorbet is very ice-cream like. Also, Apple Sorbet because I have a killer recipe that uses apple cider rather than fresh apples (avoiding all the peeling, dicing, pureeing, etc.)
salted caramel from bi-rite!
Vanilla.
Do I have to choose one? It depends on the brand/shop, I love anything with caramel (doux or beurre sale), chocoloate chip (especially mint, with slivers rather than chips of chocolate), black cherry and cookies and cream… but my favorite flavor, because it is always good is fior de latte (or sweet cream). My favorite purveyors of gelato are Capogiro in Philadelphia, Grom in Torino, and Raimo’s in Paris.. So hungry right now :)
Passionfruit sorbet!
Bi-Rite Chai Tea.
Every New Years my mom used to take all the leftover candy canes from Christmas and make candy cane ice cream. We were the only family I knew who made ice cream in January … but it was a family tradition and you know those can’t be broken. And to be honest, that homemade candy cane ice cream remains my favorite flavor to this day – and always will be.
I love fresh mint ice cream with hot fudge!
Peach Peach Peach!
My favorite sorbet is blackberry cabernet from Ciao Bella. Chardonney peach is a close second. Mmm I want some Right. Now.
Malaga wine & raisins! Specialty of my local gelato shop. I haven’t gone in for a couple months now as they’ve changed ownership and I can’t bear the thought of my Malaga not being the same. Spring is here so I suppose it’s time to screw up my courage. A set of pots would sure help me forget my potential sorrow!
Brown Sugar Vanilla or Smurfberry
grapefruit and rosemary sorbet. herbaceous, bright and very refreshing on a hot TX day.
olive oil gelato. yummmy
Coconut!
Dulce de leche!
Milk Chocolate Guinness!
I love banana chocolate chip ice cream and am honestly making some as I type this!!!
Congrats on your new book. Can’t wait to read it!
tart fresh passionfruit sorbet
My favorite ice cream flavor is chocolate chip. Now I’m hungry.
coffee ice cream!
Strawberry of course!
David – what is a “rubber zizi” ?!?!?!?
Gabi @ Mamaliga.
I’d go with chocolate. Any kind of chocolate – nutella, german chocolate, rocky road – anything with chocolate anytime any day :)
A bowl filled with dark chocolate gelato and raspberry sorbet! Such a good combination.
Can’t wait to read your new book!
My personal favorite is salted butter caramel. The best flavor EVER.
Peppermint Ice Cream!
I’m a raspberry chocolate chip lover, but that pesky no chocolate thing means Ifall back on my second and third choices: maple walnut or coffee. Or perhaps I should try them mixed!
Pistachio
Your recipe for Malted Milk ice cream (with chopped malt balls) was the best I have made to date. Much thanks for it!
You didn’t ask, but my #2 would probably be the one that was just milk, simmered for a while, then churned. Then either lemon-buttermilk or one of your strawberry ice creams…
Absolutely the tiramisu ice cream from The Perfect Scoop – it’s become an addiction.
Mmm it is a tough question, but I would have to say lavender honey!
Pistachio gelato. One of those flavors that took me a while to try and now I cannot live without.
Lemon custard
What a fantastic give away, these would greatly compliment my new apartment next month! Favorite commercial ice cream flavor: Oatmeal Cookie Chunk. Favorite homemade flavor: Chocolate Peanut Butter. I’m crossing my fingers, avoiding ladders/mirrors and doing the rain dance now….
I love pineapple sorbet or ice cream in a float of pineapple juice. So refreshing in the hot Florida summers.
Garlic ice cream – I tasted it once and it was awesome!! but a little goes a long long long way.
coffee ice cream (with bananas and hot fudge) or mango sorbet.
I just adore coffee ice cream.
Your buttermilk-lemon sorbet is very very good, possibly my favorite. But then the tin roof sundae is a huge hit around these parts. And the lemon ice cream that the speculoos were supposed to go in, but with blueberry sauce rather than cookies. I really want to try the various coffee ice creams too, Vietnamese coffee in particular. And ooh, the peach frozen yogurt was fantastic (though freshy fresh local peaches played a part in that). But all in all, I love the ice cream book, for the simplicity of the ingredient list, and the cleverness behind it all. Thanks for one of my favorite cookbooks.
cassoulet ice cream seems very appealing to me.
Creme fraiche ice cream is my favorite too!
salted caramel
orange-fig
orange-chocolate-mint
Chocolate or any flavor that involves chocolate as a main ingredient!
Can’t wait to read the book!
hm, just one? Gianduja, I guess.
Congratulations on the book!
My favorite ice cream flavor used to be vanilla – because if the vanilla is good, all the other flavors would be good, too. But now I make Butter Pecan at home with my ice cream maker (organic heavy cream, saute the pecans in butter — oh SNAP! I need a cigarette!) Wouldn’t it be nice to saute those little babies in a nice, new all-clad stainless steel pan? Oh baby…..
Sorbet – lemon with rosemary. Hands down.
Congrats on the book!
boring but classic… my favorite is still just chocolate :)
Coffee amaretto, english toffee, real vanilla bean are tops in my book. And congrats on your book!
Coconut sorbet is my favorite!
hazelnut gelato! i also love the salted caramel from bi-rite (thanks to your rec)! too bad i live on the east coast and can’t have it all the time (or maybe that’s actually a good thing). :-)
mmm favs change everytime I try a new one! right now, Butterfinger Crunch Ice Cream, and Lavendar Blueberry Sorbet
i have to pick just one?? well, I guess my current favorite is plain mint chocolate chip.
Mocha Coffee Bean…ice-cream nirvana! Congratulations on the launch of your new book. What a fitting celebration indeed! Have a great day…crumpet muffin top & all!
That is an easy question. Cherries Moobilee which is made by Moomers. Moomers is a small local ice cream maker located in Northern Michigan. The ice cream shop is located at their dairy farm.
The watermelon sorbet from Pozzetto….can’t wait for it to come back in season!
All-time favorite, which I can no longer eat due to an unfortunate allergy, is Goo Goo Cluster. I bought it once just for the name and fell in love. It’s like Rocky Road for Chuck Norris.
Current favorite – salted caramel. But most flavors will do atop a donut, which is pretty much the greatest thing ever.
My choice would be Ben and Jerry’s Vanilla Caramel Fudge. And the right man makes it so much sweeter :-)
My favorite ice cream flavor is black pepper cardamom from Crema Cafe in Minneapolis!
My preferred ice cream is chocolate with peanut butter drizzles.
Well, bacon ice cream of course (yes, it does exist).
Congrats on the book!
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough (icecream)
Rainbow Sorbet….yum!
coffee with dark chocolate chunks
blackberry sorbet
Is all of them an option??? If not, I’ll pick fresh mint chocolate chip. Gives you something to do with all that fresh mint before winter sets in.
Pralines and Cream… homemade.
Raspberry sorbet!
Does the winner also get a copy of your book?
I’ll go homemade… and no brown-nosing, but honestly, your vanilla recipe is our favorite, hands-down.
Coffee
I love a good Rocky Road!!!!! Can’t wait to get your new book!
My favorite flavor is raspeberry
Thank you and best of luck with the new book!
Teresa (I follow your blog in Portugal but my sister lives in Paris!)
I have to pick only ONE???? Really, David, I love reading your posts and all, but ONE FLAVOUR OF ICE CREAM? So long as you don’t demand that this is my choice FOREVER and EVER, I suppose I can come up with something. It’ll probably only stay true until the end of this competition though, I’m a fickle kind of person when it comes to ice cream.
My favourite flavour of ice cream is the one you get sitting on a harbour wall in an old stone Cornish fishing village in the middle of July – the kind of place where half the shops are hung about with multi-coloured buckets and spades and the other half are filled with watercolours of beach scenes and bits of driftwood artisticly placed in the windows. There’ll be an excited dog and some lazy afternoon strollers in the harbour, and a series of cats laid out in the sun, with great big happy grins on their faces. It smells of gently fermenting seaweed and fishing nets, and the sea and the sky are luminous blue, as though you were inside a balloon.
Guess that’s not an ACTUAL FLAVOUR. But it’s the seasoning, and seasoning brings a dish to life, after all. The ice cream itself is made with Cornish strawberries and Cornish clotted cream. Nothing fancy. Ace ingredients that need no adulteration. And it’ll be in one of those sugar cones, not the wafer ones – I’ve never liked the texture. And I’ll know there’s fresh fried fish for tea (with asparagus and butter new potatoes), and an afternoon to spend unearthing crabs and shrimps from the rockpools with my dogs first. I never did get over rockpooling.
…Heaven on earth.
My favourite ice cream flavour is good quality, home made vanilla – you can’t beat it :)
Best of luck to everyone – this is a wonderful prize!
Mint Oreo Cookie! With chocolate sprinkles! Yum!
chocolate hazelnut gelato!!
There’s a shop where I live that makes a “Birthday Cake” ice cream… homemade vanilla ice cream frozen together with mashed up cake, icing and sprinkles included. It’s terribly juvenile, but I love it so.
It’s so hard to decide on only one flavor… generally I like any ice cream with nuts in it, either a good butter pecan or rocky road. Yum.
Coffee amaretto!
Vanilla bean! Congrats on your new book!
Homemade black raspberry ( right out of the garden ! ) white chocolate chunk!!! YUMMY every time!!!
Mitchell’s Double Fudge Chunk (a Cleveland specialty!)
My favorite flavor of icecream is really hazelnut gelato. But sometimes lemon gelato is perfection on a hot summer day.
Ben & Jerry’s Phish Food followed very closely by mint chocolate chip. Also, can’t wait to read your book!
I like Vanilla. I like to add fruit/chocolate when serving. Vanilla serves so many purposes.
Coffee Oreo.
One can never go wrong with chocolate.
Also, congrats on the book. I shall add to my wishlist for when I next need my cookbook fix (won’t be long). :-)
Vanilla with a smidge of bourbon and couintreau
Chocolate ice cream or mango sorbet!!!!
Congratulations on the new book!!!!!
Meyer Lemon Sorbet
Thai Tea Ice cream!
For ice cream, it’s hard to beat Tillamook Mudslide from the Tillamook Creamery in Oregon. Strawberry sorbet on a warm summer day in Tuscany may be the ultimate experience, though.
Ben and Jerry’s Coffee Coffee Buzz Buzz Buzz
Stracciatella Gelato….
cherry
My absolute favorite ice cream flavor has always been vanilla. You can never go wrong with vanilla and it goes with so many things! I’m also a big fan of mint cookies and cream, though!
I love Mango sorbet-It is so fresh tasting..feels like a fruit explosion in my mouth!
I also strawberry cheesecake Ice cream-anything cheesecake is good, right?!?!!
Fresh herb mojito sorbet.
Peanut Butter Chocolate
I might have given a different answer here before last week, but Molly Moon (http://www.mollymoonicecream.com) just opened a new ice cream shop down the street where she serves a gorgeous pomegranate curry sorbet. You can’t eat more than a few spoonfuls, but you really wish you could.
Hazlenut!
Bacon!
Salted Butter Caramel, a la your fine self. Congrats.
Rocky Road. The little marshmallows make me feel about eight years old again, though when I actually was eight I think I preferred it to other “chocolate with bits of other stuff in it” variations mostly because the name sounded vaguely tough and grown up.
Butter pecan.
Congratulations on your new book. Can’t wait to read it.
Pistachio
Salted caramel!!!!!
Creme fraiche!
Cherry Fudge Truffle – yuuummmmyyy….. :0)
Mint chocolate chip…only the white kind :)
Maple Ice Cream or Heath Bar Crunch in Sweet Cream
I’ve never gotten over the granola ice cream made for a short time in the 80′s, so perfect.
I love ginger ice cream!
Chocolate and peanut butter.
Hazelnut sorbet! My boyfriend and I had it when we were living in Rome – it was served in a large hazelnut shell. Ever since we moved back to the States we have been looking for it (or a recipe) and can’t find it anywhere! I’d love to find it again or be able to make it on my own…
half strawberry half cookies and cream!
Congratulations David on the new book! I just recently moved, and my mother made me throw away most of my (admittedly old, battered, ugly) pots and pans, so I’d be thrilled to have a new set. My favourite ice cream flavour, ever since I was little, is Pistachio.
My favourite ice cream/sorbet memory is from 2001. My mum and I were terribly jet lagged so climed Notre Dame first thing in the morning as the sun was still rising. After, we waited at a little sorbet shop until it opened and had scoops of mango ice cream before heading back to our hotel at St Germain for breakfast.
So mango. Mmmm.
Congrats on the book! My fave: orange-Szechuan peppercorn.
chocolate with carmel and pecans
Ben and Jerry’s ‘Goodbye Yellow Brickle Road’ Ice Cream… had it this year on free cone day and it is definitely my new favorite.
Daniel Craig? A zizi? Clothing optional shopping? The cookware would be great, but I’ve got to read this book!
Oh, and my favorite flavor of sorbet is mango, especially when beautiful sliced strawberries have been macerated in lemon and mint, then poured over the sorbet. Mmmm.
Chocolate peanut butter.
peanut butter chocolate
Creme fraiche! (Although I seriously considered switching loyalties when I tried your anise ice cream and blood orange granita combination. Delicious!)
Well, I’m a purist – I like a good chocolate ice cream best. Preferably made from dark chocolate.
I’m a huge fan of Sweet Cream and Cookies by Ben & Jerry’s. It’s my favorite of all time.
Dark, creamy, calorie-filled chocolate, please!
Chocolate, of course!
Ice cream made with ripe peaches!! A close, very close, second is rum raisin ice cream made with your recipe in The Perfect Scoop.
Definitely chocolate chip cookie dough.
If I have to choose one flavor it would be vanilla, because then I can dress it up any way I want! Thanks for the chance at a set of All-Clad and CONGRATS on the new book!
My favorite ice cream flavor would have to be green tea or rocky road. Yum! Yum! Yum!
congrats mr. lebovitz on your new book!
my favorite ice cream at the moment (i admit, i can’t pick just one) is toasted coconut sesame brittle from haagen daaz.
Cookie dough!!
Strawberry or chocolate…Or why not both?
Blood Orange Sorbet is my favorite :o) Though something tells me that if i had an ice cream with lavender or anise in it that my favorite would change!
Congratulations on the book! I can’t wait to read it! :oD
I love coconut ice cream. I reminds me of being on holiday.
Peppermint!
My current favourite is Roasted Marshmallow ice cream from Hollywood Gelato in Toronto. Rumour has it that Ben and Jerry’s tried to buy the patented recipe but were denied.
I’m telling you, this stuff is as addictive as it gets!
Lemon sorbet.
Your toasted coconut ice cream is my favorite! (And the best!) I love it scooped into a tall frosty glass of home-made ginger-ale. Ice cream soda, perfection.
xoxo
Rachael
straight up chocolate ice cream. yum.
Coffee Oreo ice cream from Ashley’s in New Haven makes me happy every time. My other favorite is green tea ice cream. yum.
Congratulations on your new book, I loved your perfect scoop!
lemon sorbet or ginger ice cream
Salted Caramel.
Green tea ice cream has been my favorite since I went to Japan (had some every evening). Hmmm… Green tea ice cream…
Malaga ice cream is my favourite (but only in combination with chocolate). Nom!
Personally, I think I’ll stick with a creamy vanilla bean, homemade, with white chocolate straticella… and some cocoa nibs. Yum.
A zizi… my, my. Your adventures…
Extreme Moose Tracks
Green tea!
passion fruit sorbet! preferably with the seeds included, aussie-style. yummy.
Mission to Marzipan (Ben+Jerry’s)
If I really have to pick just one, I’d have to go with vanilla because the add-in/on potential is unlimited. Plus, really good vanilla ice cream is REALLY good.
I would have to say either rice pudding gelato or dark chocolate / peanut butter! All Clad is wicked stuff!
Congratulations on the book! It sound wonderful and I can’t wait to read it. My favorite flavor is a black raspberry sorbet. We can only make it when the raspberries are in season, but oh what a treat!
Congratulations on your new book! My favorite flavor is haagen dazs melon! So good!
From the Perfect Scoop, I’ll say Butterscotch Pecan, but that’s a tough question! Congrats on the new book!
Chocolate with peanut-butter cups and fudge.
coffee + toffee
Mango sorbet, nearly any flavor of ice cream. I received an All Clad skillet for a birthday many years ago. I use it all of the time and named it Jacques LePan. When guests come over for a meal, I tell them that Jacques will be helping in the kitchen.
I like hazelnut!
Oh, coffee, absolutely….
I’ve finally bought myself a good electric ice cream maker, and I’m looking forward to a long summer of experimentation to find out the answer to that question — I’m pretty sure it will have chocolate somewhere in the recipe, though. “The Perfect Scoop” arrives today, and the first batch rolls out tomorrow!
What a fabulous contest!!! I’ve been needing some new pots and pans for the longest time … this would be perfect!!
Ok, favorite flavor — chocolate with a deep, thick caramel swirl. Oh, heaven on my tongue!!
P.S. Crazy excited about the new book!!! Yippee!!
Congratulations! My favorite flavor is melon ice cream! So good!
Dulce de leche ice cream, no question. Congratulations on your new book!
Anything with lots of chocolate or chocolate chip cookie dough with sprinkles – yum!
Häagen-Dazs French Vanilla and Ben & Jerry’s Everything But The. This is an awesome giveaway, btw! Thank you!
Black raspberry and banana.
salted caramel!!!
It’s a toss-up between chocolate and dulce de leche, but I rarely turn down any flavor of ice cream or sorbet.
Congratulations on the new book- it looks great!
Favorite ice cream: Aztec Chocolate (homemade of course)
Definitely peanut butter-chocolate…preferably homemade.
MY favorite ice cream flavor is black cherry. Congrats on the new book!
Cookies and cream.
peppermint!!! but really I’ll eat any flavor!!
blood orange sorbet.
congrats on the book!
What a great giveaway! My favorite ice cream flavor is mission fig.
My fav is chocolate with peanut butter!
Congratulations on the new book! Your salted butter caramel ice cream is by far the best one I’ve made and possibly the best I’ve had.
Wildflower honey ice cream! Per your instructions, of course.
Lemon Olive Oil!
Super rich chocolate ice cream with a swirl of buttery and salty caramel.
I had a dark chocolate gelato once that was just amazing, it would have to be my favorite. Look forward to getting your book – not just for the food tips, but your terrific sense of humor.
coffee ice cream. mango sorbet. yum.
Sweet Cream Praline…and good old mint…sometimes together :) ahhhhh….
Apple Strudel from Gerbeaud Cafe in Budapest!
Avocado!!
Udder Guy’s Ice Cream in Cowichan Bay on Vancouver Island, Canada makes a fantastic “Not Black Licorice” ice cream. Yumm.
My favorite is mocha. I just started making my own ice cream. It is so much fun. Everyday is a new adventure in ice cream.
Raspberry sorbet.
Coffee, coffee, coffee
Congratulations on your book. Love your blog, stories and especially the recipes. Especially loved the rabbit of Seville!!
Butter Pecan!
My grandmother’s lemon ice cream.
REAL vanilla ice cream with fresh strawberries!
Raspberry Pistachio
Udder Guy’s Ice Cream in Cowichan Bay on Vancouver Island, Canada makes a fantastic “Not Black Licorice” ice cream. Yumm.
cinnamon ice cream
Salted caramel…yum. Throw some chocolate pieces on top, too.
Black Bean! Yes, Black Bean!
My favorite ice cream is the rosemary olive oil ice cream I made last fall – herbaceous, fruity and, topped with a little bit of Malden, surprising.
As for the cookware – it’d be great, but I really just want to say I can’t wait to read your book. Thanks!
Congratulations on your new book! My favorite ice cream: mint chip and malted milk (your recipe BTW).
Cookies and cream (today).
Home made caramel.
Growing up my grandmother would make ice cream sandwiches by squishing vanilla icecream between grahmcrackers; the whole thing was to be drowned in home-made chocolate syrup before eating. This, I think, is my favorite combination ever.
Now, I have to say I have a huge weakness for B&J’s stoner-style ice creams, especially the Oatmeal Cookie Chunk
Can’t wait to read the zizi story! My sister is bringing my copy to Paris so I’ll have the pleasure of reading it in just a few weeks.
Favorite sorbet has to be Cassis and favorite ice cream is definitely Gianduja.
Congratulations on your gorgeous book! I’ll read it soon!
Favorite Icecream? Pomegranate Sour Cream with bitter chocolate sauce. Yum!
Yogurt, now not, frozen yogurt, but yogurt flavoured ice cream. Well, if not, I just go to Baskin Robins for their Pistachio.
That’s tough… I’m such a fan of nearly ALL ice cream and sorbet. Banana… no, mint chip… no, butter pecan, no, fresh strawberry, no, really, really good vanilla ice cream.
My copy of the book arrived yesterday from an Amazon pre-order. I read the first 81 pages in the first tranche, took a short break, and made it to p.215 before I forced myself to put it down. It’s smart, laugh-out-loud funny and somehow wisely warm. Truly fantastic. And I’m demanding.
Oh, ice cream? I don’t think I’d decline anything but peanut butter, but my favorite is chocolate. Or strawberry. Or the kind that comes in a cup. Or a cone….
Great giveaway! Barring any flight delays, I hope to attend your booksigning at WH Smith in a few weeks. My favorite ice cream flavor is chocolate hazelnut/gianduja.
Vanilla! Congratulations on your new book!
Mint chocolate chip
Cookies and cream!
Chai!
Anything from The Perfect Scoop. Okay, fine – CHOCOLATE.
my favorite flavor of sorbet is passionfruit!
Love your blog and congratulations!
Definitely chocolate – looking forward to trying your agave-sweetened….
congrats on the launch of the book :) my favorite flavor is quite simple: coffee
Gianduja. I love the combo of hazelnuts and chocolate!
Definitely red velvet ice cream!!!
I read your website with great interest, it is in my top favorites and the subject is very close to my heart, Paris combined with such lovely food. I visited Paris in March and simply fell in love with it so I am glad to read your stories about how it is to live there.
Btw. my favorite ice cream is Chocolate Fudge Brownie.
I have to be boring and go with vanilla ice cream, here.
Only one flavor? Mint chocolate chip. Or a really good vanilla, like yours….
With mirabelle eau-de-vie. And chocolate. Dark chocolate. And just after noisette. And all alcohol ones.
Mango!! Can’t wait to read the book.
Ooh a new book and some new cookware. That’s a nice combo!
I’m boring, I love vanilla. There is so much you can do with vanilla, from add ins and swirls! Or enjoy it simply, it’s all good!
My favourite flavour is good old vanilla!
Look forward to seeing the book.
Lemon sorbet! Yummm.
My favorite ice cream flavor is Bailey’s Irish Cream. :)
Mocha almond fudge! Or Rocky Road.
coffee
Mexican chocolate ice cream, from your cookbook. Here’s why: it turned out to be delicious, creamy, chocolate-y, in every way good…but when it hit the back of your throat, it gave it such a kick…why? Instead of using the ancho pepper (I think that was the one)…I substituted cayenne pepper. Bad idea. Later on, after that debacle I discovered the heat factor of Cayenne Pepper vs. ancho pepper and realized why it was too spicy to eat.
So excited for the new book. Lemon sorbet – always refreshing!
Pistachio, of course!
congratulations on the book, david! i’ll be sure to check it out asap!
favorite ice cream/sorbet: salted butter caramel ice cream.
My favorite ice cream flavor is tahitian vanilla!
Ahhh… my favorite ice cream is your Vanilla Bean ice cream! I finally got an ice cream and tried your recipe (from the website), and I’m hooked! I will definitely be getting the book soon :)
Pistachio! Nom Nom Nom!
Mint chocolate chip, or peppermint bon-bon as they called it at my local ice cream parlor growing up. But there are many, many close seconds.
Can’t wait to read your newest book, even if I have to buy my own copy!
banana nut in summer, pumpkin in winter.
nothing beats a quality vanilla ice cream.
Favorite ice cream ever was Swensen’s Sticky Chewy Cholocate. I can’t find it anymore so, Rocky Road is now my favorite.
Pistachio, no contest.
chocolate….the darker, the better!
I’m a huge fan of plain old vanilla, but on special occasions, I also like mint chocolate chip :)
Salted butter Caramel without a doubt. All it took was the first taste..
anise
mint chocolate chip ice cream (preferably not green, thanks). but there are so many more flavors to try!
congratulations on the book.
Oooooh – I want to play!
Can’t wait to read your new book btw.
My TOP ice creams are the following: pumpkin, peppermint, green tea, cinnamon. I must have a thing for seasonal flavors. I think if I had to pick only one I’d have to say pumpkin. Yummmm!
Vanilla, or maybe coffee… too many choices!
Congratulations on your new book!
Chocolate sorbet with a touch of espresso!
Jamoca Almond Fudge from Baskin Robbins. Our BR closed, so when I travel in the States, I try to find one.
Congrats on the book – if I don’t win – I’ll be picking up a copy!
cookies and cream from childhood days, chocolate dipped strawberry as an adult.
I promise I’m not trying to enter twice, I think my comments last night did not post! love the looks of the marshmallow and coconut.
Butter Pecan!
my favorite flavor of ice cream is honey and my favorite sorbet is lime. :))
coffee!
My favorite is vanilla – with the sadly discontinued Paul Newman’s Obscene Vanilla Bean being my favorite “grocery store” variety.
It’s hard to pick a favourite, but I do love pink grapefruit and campari sorbet. Congratulations on the book, can’t wait to read it!
Congrats on the new book! Can’t wait to order it! My favourite flavour of ice cream is pistachio. Love that stuff. Too bad I’m on the pre-wedding starvation diet!
Cinnamon ice cream is my absolute favorite!
It’s so hard to choose but I would be hard-pressed to turn down chocolate peanut butter ice cream. If I’m in a lighter mood, I might go with french vanilla with chocolate chunks.
Ducle de Leche all the way
Caramel au beurre salé
Congrats on the book!
When I was a teenager, my sister made the most intense ginger ice cream. It was soooo good and I’ve been trying to find something similar ever since. So far the closest I’ve come is taking Hagen Daas new ginger ice cream (the one with only five ingredients), softening it up and stirring in chunks of crystallized ginger, and then topping it will some more crystallized ginger. Not that I’m into excess or anything.
Malted milk.
black cherry ice cream with a dark chocolate sauce
Looking forward to getting the book….
My favorite flavor is White Chocolate from Christina’s in Cambridge, MA. They now have a spice shop next door where they sell the same fresh spices used in their ice creams. Cinnamon nutmeg from Steve’s in Somerville MA (long gone) was amazingly excellent with their not-too-sweet chocolate fudge sauce. My current favorite occasional treat is a malted made with Malted Vanilla from Herrell’s (related to Steve’s) chocolate syrup and extra malt.
Red bean ice cream is particularly tasty! Yum!
Congrats on the book, David. I’m looking forward to picking up a copy. :)
♥Homemade vanilla bean icecream. And when I’m feeling particularly hormonal the chocolate icecream you posted some time ago. ☺
Raspberry Chocolate Chip from Sebastien Joe’s! Perfect combination of fruit and chocolate crunch!
The banana ice cream we made when I was a little kid (frozen in the infamous leftover cool whip containers).
Best ice cream I’ve ever had is strawberry balsamic at Bi-Rite in San Francisco. I’ve tried to replicate it at home but can’t quite make it!
Butter scotch with caramet topping ,hmm hmm Yum !!
Mango, ice cream or sorbet, it doesn’t matter! I love it!
Blood orange sorbet and fig icecream.
anything citrus! plain ole orange is best.
definitely strawberry, haagen dazs style! something about their strawberry tastes better than all the rest! I’m headed to paris in 2 weeks so I’ll definitely be picking up the book before I go!
My favorite ice cream flavor is definitely nocciola and I love sorbet made of golden kiwi fruits.
lingonberry gelato
Grapefruit sorbet – had this in Italy and have loved it ever since.
Cheryl
Definitely nougat with orange blossom water.
Wish me luck!
Ice cream – Dark chocolate.
Sorbet – Raspberry.
My favorite flavor of sorbet is cassis!
I’ve never posted on a blog before, but I have been a dedicated reader of your’s for the past year or so…so it’s about time for me to tell you how much I appreciate your stories. As a Frenchie who grew up in both Berkeley and Paris, I can relate to your stories and cultural observations. Oh, and your food always looks scrumptious.
Thanks for the great posts!
Fav store bought- Chubby Hubby Ben and Jerry’s.
Fav homemade- Rum raisin with oatmeal praline from your book. ;)
What a fitting first comment. :) I’ve been reading your blog for quite some time, one of my blog rounds, actually. :D My favorite has to be Strawberry…hands down. :)
a creamy peppermint or super dark chocolate, it’s a tie.
can’t wait to read the new book!
Def mint chocolate chip. It’s the only thing my husband and I agree on!
Ube (purple yam) ice cream. Congratulations on your new book!
Lemon-Basil Sorbet!
Kulfi and chocolate ice cream.
Olive oil (gelato).
My new favorite is salted black licorice from Molly Moon Ice Cream in Seattle. Unbelievable.
My favorite homemade is malted milk ball ice cream from The Perfect Scoop.
Can’t wait to read the new book!
Cookies and cream. Yum!
Favorite ice cream flavor is peach
Black raspberry icecream with dark chocolate chips. Your new book is supposed to arrive today!
Congratulations David!
I will certainly be looking for the easiest way to get your book here in Sweden. And I am always looking for a reason to take another trip to London, picking up my new All-Clad would be a great one.
As a child my favorite sorbet was rainbow and I still have an addiction to chocolate ice cream. As a matter of fact the more chocolate the better.
Congrats again and good luck with huge sales!
Ronald
Hmm, I think it’s a tie between mango sorbet and chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream.
Chocolate all the way!! And congratulations on the book :)
Congratulations on the new book!!! :) I can’t wait to read it.
My favorite ice cream is pistachio. In fact, searching for this recipe for my new ice cream maker is how I found you! :) I’ve other ice creams and sorbets I like, but since pistachio is hard to find where I am I finally broke down and got a maker and looked for a recipe.
mocha chip
Coffee ice cream is awesome!
Pralines & cream! But I still need to create a dairy-free version.
For icecream it is pistachio. A bit understated, but easy to savor. For sorbet I like a citrus infused with lavender.
Cinnamon is delicious and marries well with other flavors.
(It’s especially good eaten from ALL CLAD stainless pans…)
Congrats David, sell big!
Vietnamese iced coffee ice cream, from the recipe in “The Perfect Scoop.” Using sweetened condensed milk in ice cream is genius. Tasty, tasty genius.
Congrats on the new book David!!
My favorite Ice Cream/Gelato would have to be coffee….tho’ Jamoca Almond Fudge is a close runner up.
Sorbet would have to be mango or lychii…Is it ok to give two answers?
*crosses fingers*
I have to choose _one_ flavor? I’ll do it for All-Clad. Pistachio.
David,
Congratulations on the new book! My favorite ice cream flavor is nocciola :)
Kasey
Blood Orange Sorbet = best all time
I’m a sucker for a good mint chip ice cream, and for books about Paris. Looking forward to reading it!
I love rasberry sorbet and when I feel sinful I love cookie dough ice cream. :P
coconut sorbet! when done right, transformative.
Sorbet – Pink Grapefruit or Raspberry
Ice Cream – Cookies and Cream or Mint Chocolate Chip
mint chocolate chip ice cream (the classic!) or grapefruit sorbet
Coconut from the Big Dipper in Missoula, Montana
Chocolate & cherries!
Blood orange alll the way, c’est pour gagner non?
My favorite ice cream would have to be plain old chocolate, but coffee and green tea are never too far away.
Congratulations on your book! I can’t wait to get it in the mail!
Black raspberry w/chocolate chunks.
I have to say green tea ice cream, mostly because I don’t have it that often.
loving cherry-coconut currently.
salted caramel!
love your books and blog!
Favorite Ice Cream:
Homemade vanilla bean with chunks of cookie dough, toffee bits, almond and coconut. It’s AMAZING.
Favorite ice cream flavor has to be BACON! I love your Candied Bacon Ice Cream recipe and sometimes I add chocolate.
Everything with bacon tastes good. Everything with chocolate tastes good.
Cookies & Cream. Congrats on the book!
You’ve posed a very difficult question. A good portion of my family would vote for Salted Butter Caramel Ice Cream. I might add an orange blossom gelato, and I am anxiously waiting to make the Carrot Cake Ice Cream you recently shared. Best of luck with the book!
Favorite is Thrifty’s Mint Chip. Man I love that stuff.
Coconut!
I love banana and caramel ice creams together in the same bowl. Delish!
My favorite Ice Cream is Ben & Jerry’s – Turtle Soup…. Can’t wait to check out the new book!
My favorite flavor of ice cream is the ever classic mint chocolate chip.
Thanks for hosting the giveaway, and I can’t wait to read the book!
Blueberry Cheesecake.
My favorite flavor of ice cream is the ever classic mint chocolate chip.
Thanks for hosting the giveaway, and I can’t wait to read the book!
My favourite flavour of ice cream is Coffee Caramel. It’s like eating a frozen Caramel Macchiato! :D
My favorite ice cream: vanilla bean
Favorite sorbet: coconut
While I adore ice-cream Vanilla remains my favourite. A well-made (home made) traditional quality vanilla, maybe with a hint of malt is unbeatable on its own and is the perfect compliment to a range of deserts and cakes. Best of luck to you with the book and to me with the competition. Regards, Raymondo
Ice cream: a really, really good vanilla doesn’t need any toppings, but basic spumoni with a good pastachio layer will always win my heart.
Sorbet/sherbert: have yet to meet a fruit sorbet I didn’t like; but if I could only have one it would be lemon.
Chocolate!
Hi DAvid,
Congrats on the new book! Love your blog and tweets. My favorite ice cream flavor is honey lavender from Bi-Rite in San Francisco!
Blue Bell Birthday Cake Ice Cream. Congrats on your book!
Honey ice cream with granola.
Congratulations!
Hmmmm. Favorite ice cream is tough. It would have to be chocolate ice cream and coconut sorbet…
Marrons glaces(sp?) gelato, which I never, ever find here in Colorado, or in the U.S. I ate it in Italy. And it was glorious. Don’t you have a recipe for it in your ice cream book? I think so, anyway.
Also, thank you for mentioning Daniel Craig. That gave me a wonderful momentary mental vacation. Mmm.
xo
Coffee with dark chocolate chunks…mmm!
Black Rasberry
Coffee with dark chocolate chunks…mmm!
tangerine sorbet
is this a record # of comments?!?! Something free on the internet everybody!!
crumbs along the mohawk (carmel with graham cracker pieces and swirl). optional marshmallow sauce on top!
I like things simply stated: pure vanilla bean ice cream for me please. Merci!
Chocolate Almond
Lemon sorbet
Grapenut Ice Cream, it’s delicious!
Has to be my Grandmothers homemade chocolate ice cream… yum!
I’m a homemade vanilla fan.
Grapenut Ice Cream, it’s delicious!
I love all ice cream equally, but if I HAD to choose, it would be coquelicot fraise from the glacier Ernest in La Rochelle. (Not to be specific or anything.)
It wasn’t a multiple submission on my part! The website said that the comment wasn’t submitted because there was some kind of website failure, so I submitted again. Hopefully you won’t disqualify me, because I don’t know any way to delete the duplicate comment!
Earl Gray! It’s a flavor! I promise!
Peppermint Ice Cream!!!
Can’t wait to get the book.
Well, if you put a pistolet to my head and made me choose, I guess I’d say Rocky Road is my favorite. But pretty much any combination of chocolate and crunchy will make me happy. Does the cookware set come with homemade ice cream? (Or, how about ice cream as a consolation prize for the first runner-up?)
Butterscotch pecan from your book .
Dulce de Leche ice cream! I’m a chocolate addict, but this stuff is amazing.
My favorite ice cream flavor to purchase is currently HD’s pom. chip or B&J’s Chubby Hubby. To make, it’s hands-down your Milk Chocolate Guiness, David. And I’m not just saying that.
I love chocolate ice cream. Specifically, there is a small ice cream stand in Bloomington, Indiana – The Chocolate Moose. Their chocolate ice cream is by far the best I have had.
Is it possible for anything to be better than your vanilla ice cream with your salted butter carmel sauce? I say NOT!
Congratulations for the 724th time!
mb
Chocolate moose tracks from a place back home in Maine. Yummm!
Butter pecan!
Double-chocolate gelato at Cacao et Chocolat!
Lemon sorbet or coffee ice cream, depending on if I’m having dessert, or a snack, respectively.
almost 800 comments already, WOW.
i’ll have to go with mint choco chip. so unoriginal ,)
congrats on the book.
caramel, vanilla bean … coconut (I could go on.)
I had some coconut sorbet at Bistro Campagne in Chicago last week that I can.NOT. stop thinking about. It was brilliant.
Currently dulce de leche but possibly it’ll change to the salted caramel once I’ve tried it this weekend :)
I’ll get behind blood orange (from Gail Ambrosius in Madison, WI) for sorbet, and goat cheese and cherry ice cream from Jeni’s in Columbus, OH.
@thebookpolice
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, I think.
Congrats on the book! :)
Vanilla. I don’t care that others think it is, well…’vanilla’…I think it is the best!
mmmmm, maple walnut. congratulations on the book!
Pear sorbet – Berthillon has an excellent one – I venture to Ile Saint-Louis whenever I’m in Paris just for a scoop (or two) of it.
Have tried to make it but mine never comes out as fragrant….maybe more nectar next time and lots more Poire William.
Coffee ice cream. Raspberry sorbet.
I’m a lurker, but you were very sweet to me once and emailed me when I had trouble with one of your recipes in ‘Room for Dessert’. (Totally my inexperience – the cake was delicious!) So thanks again all these years later!!
Oooh, I hate those “favorite” questions. Can’t a person have a mood for one thing sometimes, a mood for something else another?
OK, OK. On the desert island, I’d have to go with chocolate ice cream, lemon sorbet.
Chocolate flake fromage from Murray’s Ice Cream, Kansas City, Missouri
Graeter’s brand Mocha Chip!
Chestnut ice cream
dulce de leche ice cream, love it!!
I adore Cabernet Sauvignon sorbet!
Rocky road.. it brings me back to childhood :)
Only 1?!
Well…ok
Mint chocolate chip
I love reading your blog (inspired me to start my own) and I love lemon basil sorbet at the Coyote Cafe in Santa Fe, NM.
It changes, but right now- Pistachio gelato or Mango sorbet.
Congrats on your new book! I’m enjoying your tweets!
Coconut Ice Cream or Grapefruit Sorbet
My favorite flavor of ice cream is “Cake Batter” from our local ice cream shop. It’s so good! Congrats on the book :D
Vanilla Bean….with REAL Freakin’ vanilla bean! None of this “imitation” bologna.
absolutely mint chocolate chip
mint chocolate chip ice cream
Can’t wait to read your book!
PASSION FRUIT is my favorite sorbet!
basil ice cream. sooo good.
My favorite by far is the salted caramel ice cream!
Dulce de leche would be one of my favorites, but it definitely changes with my mood and the seasons.
dark chocolate sorbet
My vice: coconut sorbet.
raspberry gelato with a drop of fresh cream
Can’t wait to buy this book!
Oh, it’s hard to choose… but I guess pistachio wins for me. Congratulations on the book!
Butterfinger is the best. My Mom made this home-made (icecranksaltcrank-style) when I was a kid. Now we get it at the local ice-creamery: better than nostalgia.
Can’t wait to read the new book. My favorite ice cream is coconut chocolate chip!
Coffee, the richer the better
fresh mint ice cream with chunks of dark chocolate brownies…so delicious!
My all-time favorite is the retired Ben & Jerry’s flavor, White Russian.
dulce de leche
tutti frutti (berries and bananas)
congratulazioni on the book! i can’t wait to savor it.
Coffee with toffee chips :)
Chocolate Cayenne Cinnamon
chocolate…!!!!!
Texas Hill Country Peach Ice Cream (homemade!)……hands-down lifelong favorite!
coconut gelato – yummy!
O my goodness, could we get a copy of the book too??? I know, greedy, just like when I’m around cookie dough ice cream.
most loved flavor so far: chocolate mint-infused chocolate chunk, home-made of course. Looking forward to reading the book. Congrats!
LOVE Scharffenberger Chocolate by Ciao Bella (their Valrhona Chocolate is a close second).
Man, picking one is TOUGH. Um, coconut almond chocolate-chunk. No, make that spumoni. Strawberry balsamic is delicious too…..
Mint Chocolate Chip. Paterson’s Ice Cream Parlor – Corunna Rd Flint, MI USA circa 1969!
Chocolate; no chunks.
Mocha Chip!
I think our favorite is cookies n’cream ice cream.
Roasted plum frozen yogurt
My favorite flavor of ice cream is chocolate chip cookie dough…mmm…
Vanilla with chocolate chips.
Pistachio gelato is my favorite ice cream, particularly from Vivoli’s in Florence.
I have been meaning to try the pistachio gelato that you wrote up a couple of years back using pistachio paste. I’ve tried to order Zingerman’s but they are always sold out!
My current favorite (and let me stress that this may only last through the week until I flit off to another favorite) is key lime with graham crackers. Oh man.
I have your book on my wishlist and am hoping that I get it for Mother’s Day. Okay, you said to be honest, right? Truthfully, if I don’t get it for Mother’s Day, I’ll get it for the day after Mother’s Day. Gotta do what I gotta do.
Given the season, the one I’m craving at the moment is strawberry and cream! Great book, David!!
Vietnamese coffee icecream from The Perfect Scoop. MMMM-tastic!
Vanilla dotted with lovely chunks of candied ginger ~ Congratulations on the book.
Peanut Butter. ANYTHING peanut butter. Oh, and the black sesame at Sundaes and Cones :)
English toffee crunch. I have fond memories of getting scoops of the stuff on vacation as a child.
Chocolate chip cookie dough wins by a narrow margin.
rhubarb sorbet!
Coffee
or thinking of your rhubarb tart (and still planning to try it)–rhubarb sorbet is absolutely divine, homemade of coarse.
My favorite ice cream EVER is basil, an adaptation of your fresh mint ice cream.
black raspberry!
Pistachio with dark chocolate gelato on ile st louis
OH NO! Pistachio was taken! OK, Hummm, This is a serious question and cannot be answered without great forethought! Gotta go with “FRENCH” Vanilla! lol ;) Looks and feels like silk and pairs perfectly with Pie! Bon Jour!
I’d have to say cherry ice cream, but only if it contains real fruit (i.e., not maraschino cherries).
passion fruit sorbet
I love Rocky Road.
Congratulations on your new book! Hope you get to do a tour in Amerca would love to see you here.
mm, chocolate sorbet. normally I’m not a fan of chocolate frozen treats, but in sorbet it’s heavenly.
Bourbon vanilla.
sour cherry frozen yogurt. awesome!
Breyer’s coffee ice cream. I make my own ice creams now but I haven’t made a coffee flavor yet. Must change this very soon.
lemon sorbet on a hot summer day or after a rich meal.
looking forward to reading your new book:)
Mmmmmmmmmmmm, anything chocolate as long as there’s no coconut :)
coffee
English Lakes Blackcurrant
Sadly only available in the Lake District & Cumbria
Juliet
Vanilla.
Oh who doesn’t reminisce when they eat orange sherbet?
Favorite homemade flavor: cinnamon or honey lavender.
Favorite flavor sold elsewhere: balsamic strawberry or avocado.
chocolate peanut butter swirl , yummmmm!
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coconut!
My favorite flavor is definitely pistachio. Of the pistachios that I have tried, my favorite is without a doubt Baskin Robbin’s Pistachio Almond. Mmmm… delish!
Crème de marron from Grom…..
My Mom’s peppermint stick ice cream
Fresh strawberry sorbet, vanilla with chocolate chips and caramel.
Congratulations on the new book. I can’t wait to read it. And I’d second casting Daniel Craig in the movie version.
My favorite flavor since childhood has been mint chocolate chip, but lately I find I really love smooth, simple ice creams. Christina’s in Cambridge MA sometimes has a Sweet Cream ice cream that is somehow just perfect.
My current favorite is the roasted banana ice cream from Bi-Rite creamery in San Francisco. Congrats on your new book!
Gelato di riso. Reminds me of “milk ice cream” from the streets of Calcutta. I was 8 and it was a forbidden love affair. But we had clandestine meetings. Powered by few paise stolen from dad’s pocket.
Have you guys ever had the Mardi Gras flavor by Blue Bell? Amazing! Our daughter Sarah introduced us to it.
congrats on the book!
honeysuckle sorbet, from the Crooks Corner cookbook (Chapel Hill, NC)
Anything with chocolate and marshmallow
Have to go old school- strawberry. The kind with lots of strawberry pieces amongst the rich cream- yum! This giveaway is fantastic- thank you!
chocolate sorbet. mmmmmmmmm.
Oooohh, a good vanilla will suit me any day!
Cappuccino with chunk chocolate
chocolate peanut butter. mmmm….
caramel pecan – looking forward to reading the book!!
chocolate, slightly melty
Chocolate!
Congratulations on the latest book! Can’t wait to read it. :)
I looked at the number of entries and almost didn’t post–look at that number! I will keep my fingers crossed and tell you that my favorite flavor is chocolate with candied ginger–the perfect combination of sweet, smooth, creamy, tangy and chewy.
I love apricot ice cream. Candied kumquat at Ici is a close second.
Lucuma
Gianduja gelato…yumm!
Coconut, made from coconut milk with slivers of young coconut meat laced through.
My favorite flavor is chocolate peanut butter ice cream!!
As a child: Rainbow Sherbet and Cookies & Cream.
As an adult: Mint Chocolate Chip (or some variation thereof) and Coffee.
Yay for your book release! Can’t wait to get my hands on a copy. Salted carmel ice cream = heaven.
yoghurt ice cream with strawberry sauce (available in the the local italian ice parlor.)
Wow, nothing like a giveaway to bring the lurkers out of the woodwork! :) If I have to pick one and only one favorite ice cream flavor, I have to say caramel au beurre salé. I just can’t pass it up!
It just can’t get better than chocolate.
Plain ol’ vanilla for me.
Congrats on the book! I m sure its fabulous just like u.
Can I have 2 favorites? Kiwi gelato and Sitaphal/Custard Apple Ice Cream.
While u are in Italy, can you please try the rice pudding gelato for me? it is so divine
Choose?! It’s too early to narrow it down to just one. How about stracciatella gelato, cookies & cream ice cream and mango sorbet (not mixed together, obviously). Congrats on the book! Can’t wait until my copy arrives.
Vanilla pour moi!
Definitely mint chocolate chip. Especially Babcock ice cream that’s made in Madison, Wisconsin…. mmm! Congrats on the book!
Pistachio.
Congrats!
Ginger.
This is like asking to pick your favorite child. Chocolate peanut butter.
I’m a nutella and peanut-butter heretic. Preferably in gelato form (I assume that counts right?)
My favorite ice cream is Strawberry.
god, black pepper ice cream. is god. eeek! thanks for the opportunity!
Chocolate of course…
Peach ice cream. I can remember my parents making this in a hand crank ice cream maker in the garage when I was a kid.
Have fun! Raspberry
Coffee ice cream is the bomb! Coffee ice cream with caramel sauce drizzled on top is orgasmic.
Can’t wait to read the new book!
Congratulations on your new book!
Vanilla bean ice cream.
It’s all about the mango sorbet…
One scoop pistachio and one scoop chocolate ice cream. :)
espresso. yum.
mint chocolate chip
Vanilla ice cream with real vanilla bean !
chocolate!
Congrats!
Just one favorite?? Butter pecan or rum raisin — I like the warm, almost savory flavors.
Chocolate hazelnut
French and Frosted Mint
I’d have to say my favorite flavor of ice cream is dark chocolate w/peanut butter. Mmmmm.
Pistachio!
Green tea! Always!
My favorite ice cream is from a Chocolaterie at the end of my street: vanilla with orange, ginger and dark chocolate chips
Mango made by my husband!
I’ll eat coffee ice cream anytime!
I LOVE ice cream. And have tried many in “The Perfect Scoop.” The one I keep going back to is the Cream Cheese Ice Cream. I’ve made it many times, with strawberries, with blueberries and a Chocolate version. It’s my current fave.
As a child we used to buy lime sorbet from street vendors in Mexico. Yum!!! A flavor never to be recreated.
Pistasce, bien sur……
Coffee Oreo or Coffee Heath Bar Crunch
My favorite flavor ice cream is malted milk ball. YUM
I love a lot of different flavors, but nothing else can beat a really good chocolate!
lemon sorbet
vanilla bean with chocolate covered almonds.
mint chocolate chip! mmmmm
toasted coconut with almonds
Mango sorbet!
I love plain jane vanilla bean — more on the icey side, not too eggy!
Probably the Bi-Rite salted caramel.
Jeni’s Splendid Butterscothc w/ brownies
Salted caramel or nocciola.
Congrats on the new book!!! mint chip mint chip mint chip!!!
peppermint stick!
Prune and armagnac!
I love your blog and look forward to getting my hands on a copy of your book–which I will probably promptly get ice cream all over.
Caramel pine nut brittle.
Salted Butter Caramel
Wow. 949 comments.
Got to go with Chocolate-chocolate chip. Homemade
The other day I tried Sweet Potato Pie sorbet & it was brilliant. Passionfruit is always good and I make really delicious cinnamon ic and lavender ic. No, sticking with the Sweet Potato. It had coconut milk, was incredibly luscious!
My favorite sorbet is lemon!
Cookies and cream ice cream and lime sorbet . . . not combined together, though!
My favorite ice cream flavor is mint chocolate chip!
Vietnamese green rice ice cream
I would die for some hazelnut ice cream about now!
This is an impossible question to answer, but today I would really like some huckleberry swirl.
I’ve been eagerly awaiting this book. Congratulations on the release! Lemon sorbet is my favorite though I love to pair it with a scoop of coconut ice cream.
Ben and Jerry’s Half Baked
Fresh Mint made with chocolate peppermint and fudge ripple to make it even more chocolaty.
My favorite ice cream is coffee.
Thanks for the great blog! Looking forward to reading the new book!
My favorite is chocolate ice cream.
Homemade (of course) raspberry is a classic favorite. It holds so many memories for me and is always refreshing. I recently tried raspberry cream cheese, which was also lovely.
Fish Food
Coconut. Oooh- or kiwi/strawberry. That’s damn good. it’s a toss up. Now send me the freaking Pots.
And follow me on twitter already? I msg you like ALL THE TIME. We share a hatred of public restrooms, I feel sure. or something like that.
chocolate chip – yum!
plain ol’ vanilla. I know it’s boring but I love it!! I look forward to reading your book! I am drooling over the allclad!!
I like the basics…..
vanilla bean for ice cream (added bonus for flecks of vanilla bean in the ice cream)
lemon for sorbets (must have puckerability, not just sweet or foamy)
Double vanilla with chocolate fudge
Peppermint — with chunks of candy cane in it like we used to make when I was a kid after taking down the Christmas tree.
Black sesame although I just found out that I’m allergic to sesame…
I love a really good vanilla- sometimes I sprinkle brown sugar on top just for a little crunch. Yum!
Homemade strawberry with fresh strawberries from the CSA….so delicious!
only one favorite?! if I had to chose….
cinnamon chocolate
or
vanilla caramel
or
cookie dough
or
moosetracks!
no, wait,
SPUMONI!!! YES.
any or all of the above. But you can never, ever go wrong with a good vanilla bean ice cream.
I can’t turn down any of the fruit flavors, but rhubarb is probably the best of the best. And congratulations on the book!
Salty Carmel
French Vanilla with nutmeg and cinnamon added!
My favorite is chocolate icecream fresh out of the ice cream maker.
Congrats on your book!
Coffee, for me, is by far the best. Especially with lashings of chocolate sauce.
raspberry w/ dark chocolate chunks. yum!
As God is my witness, my favorite ice cream flavor is vanilla.
Vanilla, vanilla, vanilla…. Oh how I love it!
vanilla
I’d have to go with Mint Chocolate Chip.
I adore coconut ice-cream. It is just so silky and decadent that I can rarely help myself if it is on the menu.
Creme fraiche with chocolate chunks/pieces/chips
Dulce de leche from Cones on Bleecker St. in NYC
I look forward to reading your new book.
Marscapone Ice Cream from Bi-Rite!! Yummmmm…
rocky road.
Green tea ice cream. (For sentimental reasons, the one they serve at The Tea Box at Takashimaya in NYC.)
If I were getting some ice cream right now, I would want sweet corn. I guess I’m hoping summer will get here soon!
Mint chip
coffee. i will always swoon for coffee ice cream.
Fig goat milk ice cream
Double chocolate espresso cheesecake ice cream. Haven’t thought if it could be a sorbet or not since it really needs the cream. I’m DyingforChocolate.com but I really love a good cheesecake.. and who doesn’t like ice-cream? think I’ll look for a recipe now–or invent one.
Definitely pistachio.
My fave is lavender honey. Your book is the perfect Mother’s Day gift for my francophile foodie mom. Congrats!
Lemon sorbet!!
I love all ice cream flavors, but mint chip will always have my heart.
Most sublime ice cream experience was pistacchio gelato in Rome–sort of beige/gray, but incredibly intense pistachio flavor. Also love sheep’s milk sorbet made from local sheep’s milk yogurt.
I have never met a flavor of ice cream that I don’t like…except maybe bubble gum? That’s just wrong.
Favorite…amaretto with amaretti cookies.
lemon poppyseed icecream! can’t wait to read the book! autumn
Salted Caramel
Cookies and Cream. Smothered with chocolate sauce.
David, you are a darling for having this giveaway. If I have to pick a favorite (and for you, I will), I love raspberry sorbet.
java chip
Homemade peach ice cream, made with ripe, locally grown peaches.
Is it July yet?
Mocha chip all the way. And congratulations on your new book! I look forward to reading it.
Lemon Sorbet
I am so excited about your new book! I love reading your stories. I would definitely have to say Raspberry or Coconut sorbet!!! Yummy!
Deep, dark chocolate. Preferably gelato. Also partial to vanilla bean.
Can’t wait to read the book.
Toasted Coconut – we get it at a por kilo ice cream shop when in Brazil! Can’t wait to read the book!
Cookies n’ Cream. Congrats on the book!
I bought an ice cream maker and started making sorbets and ice creams because of your book!
I cannot choose one favorite, but the shortlist is dulce de leche, salted caramel, nectarine almond sorbet, strawberry basil sorbet, jasmine ice cream, and plain old, real vanilla bean vanilla.
I look forward to reading the new book!
Carmel and cashew!
pink peppercorn with hot fudge
Vanilla.
I had a great banana gelato at a small shop on the Ramblas, in Barcelona.
Favorite ice cream flavor – cookies and cream!!!
Caramel au beurre salé
Got to be authentic, made with a whole Vanilla Bean, Vanilla Ice Cream
mmm….strawberry ice cream. homemade of course–nothing in the grocery freezer section will do. or pistachio gelato from florence…. can i put down 2?
Wow, 1,012 comments already!
I love good ole neopolitan ice cream :) it’s my favorite, second only to spumoni. YUM
This cookware is the bomb! Good luck to everyone :)
David, not sure if you’ll read this or not, but I did an interview with Dorie the other day and it was fabulous. Would love to do one with you as well if you have the time :)
Favorite flavor? As in ONE flavor? Argh. I do love the simple fruit ice creams (right now I’m working my way through a strawberries-with-Gran Marnier that’s lovely and last summer I made several batches of fresh peach) and had a pineapple-lime-coconut sorbet I was very fond of. But, overall? I’ll go with Salted Butter Caramel.
Buttermilk ice cream, though I’d be hard pressed to say no to any ice cream or sorbet!
Congrats on the book David, I look forward to reading it!
Lemon!!
Watermelon gelato!
If gelato, doesn’t count, then it has to be peach ice cream.
Favorite: Peach
I’m a coconut ice cream girl myself. And congratulations on your new book!
Butter pecan!
Any variation on coffee ice cream. Congrats on the book!
Mmmmmm….how to pick just one flavor? I would have to say a really fresh homemade vanilla wins hands down for me any day.
Grapenut is my favorite.
Coffee ice cream is my favorite!
mint chocolate chip
Black walnut! But, I also love coffee ice cream.
Look forward to reading your book…can’t wait to find out what a zizi is.
Perry’s Ice Cream has a dark chocolate with raspberry swirl. It’s to die for!!
While I am a fan of many ice cream flavors, I’d have to say that vanilla is my favorite — it does not get nearly enough credit.
Salted Caramel. The salted part blows me away.
Congrats on your book! I’ve been lurking on your site ever since I went to Paris and came back desperate to recreate chocolate macarons and found your recipe. And Adam of the Amateur Gormet mentions you too (he’s fantastic). I tried and failed dismally three times haha … then the boyfriend managed to make them for me fantastically on my birthday. I’m upset he did it and I couldn’t. =)
Guess I’ll have to go back to gay Paree or Jin’s Patisserie here in Los Angeles!
lilikoi sorbet
Coconut. Preferably with little chocolate sauce.
Honey Lavender from BiRite Creamery
Wow, what a great giveaway. I’m going to go with burnt caramel ice cream for now.
The Lebovitz blood orange sorbet, of course.
Mint chocolate chip. It doesn’t matter what other flavors I try, I always come back to this one.
MMM, ice cream. My favourite is either avocado (had in Mexico and opened my eyes to new food possibilities) or anything by Berthillon. That shop was a highlight of my trip to Paris. Black current ice cream was aaamazing. Luckily they serve small portions!
Congratulations on the book.
Pistachio
My favorite is coffee oreo!
The new book looks great!
I love it all, if I have to choose at this moment I would like some Dulce de Leche.
passionfruit sorbet, with fresh passionfruit picked from the vine in my mother’s back yard
Love your recipes. Congrats on the book.
Favorite ice cream of the moment: rosemary-bay
David, I so love reading of your adventures in Paris! Congratulations and keep writing!
My favorite sorbet is a plum sorbet, with a hint of dried spices steeped into the simple syrup.
salted caramel ice cream, mmmm….
Mmm, there’s nothing better than mint chocolate chip when it’s done right!
Coconut made with coconut milk.
Favorite ice cream is probably salted caramel or some kind of decadent triple chocolate deal.
For sorbet, satsuma made from perfectly in season tangerines.
Coffee ice cream-coffee sorbet-coffee coffee. It’s the best!
But I AM intrigued by this salted caramel entry that someone posted….love the salty/sweet combo!
Green tea ice cream. I’m a fiend for it.
Congratulations on the book – looking forward to reading it!
Mint chocolate Chip!
:-)
Mango Sorbet! Looking forward to checking out your book. J’adore Paris!
Chocolate with brownie chunks.
Although reading through this list I feel I must expand my horizons. :-)
Vanilla Bean
As for my “favorite” kind of ice cream, I’ll assume you mean the kind I can NOT purchase – for fear of eating the entire pint in one sitting.
Ben & Jerry’s Coffee Heath Bar Crunch
There, I said it. I feel better now.
Kawartha Dairy Moose Tracks!
I really love a traditional, all-natural vanilla bean flavor. Though I do enjoy a Karamel Sutra now and again!
Vanilla Bean is my all-time favorite, straight out of the IC machine.
But a recent fave is candied bacon ice cream, served in profiterole!
So many flavorites. While peanut butter is near the top, I’d have to go with blood orange gelato.
I follow Elise on twitter, and she pointed me here this morning.
If I could have a scoop of ice cream today, it would be Salted Carmel, from Bi-Rite in San Francisco.
Lemon Thyme Sorbet! Congratulations on the book!
Blackberry gelato! Congrats on the new book – can’t wait to get it!
Christina … Apricot Sorbet
Chocolate! Though, I must say, Green Tea comes in at a close second. Can’t wait to get the new book. Congratulations!
Black Cherry anything with a touch of nuts (pecans/walnuts/pistachios)
The apple pie ice cream I made this weekend (cinnamon and nutmeg ice cream with sautéed apples and the praline from your salted butter caramel ice cream, all in a graham cracker crust). Mmmm!
The gelato place by my house does a fabulous meyer lemon & basil sorbet. (In season, of course.) Fabulous giveaway! (My mother is moving and this would be a perfect housewarming gift for her.)
Parlines and cream.
My favorite is good old fashioned homemade strawberry.
Vanilla ice cream. With chocolate sauce.
chocolate covered strawberry ice cream — yum!
coffee ice cream.
I cannot possibly choose a favorite ice cream or sorbet flavor. Fresh strawberry or fresh peach ice cream, a sorbet made with a melange of tropical fruits (that one comes close to being the favorite — recipe on request), lemon sorbet, green tea ice-cream, coffee ice cream, or, often neglected and utterly delicious, a really good vanilla. Cannot, cannot choose.
I look forward to reading your book — it sounds like too much fun. You have blurbed your own book in the entry above, and done an enticing job of it
I’ve been going through a lot of B & J’s Cherry Garcia FroYo lately. The best “light” stuff.
Bacio gelato!! Yummm and in case that doesn’t count, mocha chip ice cream.
When really good peaches are in season, that’s my choice. But Vanilla is always my favorite.
I’m old school when it comes to favorite ice cream flavor: Butter Pecan
coffee heath bar, all the way.
I love most ice cream as long as there isn’t nuts in it. Why ruin they yummy creaminess with icky crunchy nuts that will break your teeth when they’re frozen.
My favorite would be anything with chocolate in it. Oreo cookie, cookie dough, chocolate, mint chip. Mmmmmmmmm
Oooh, Chocolate peanut butter! Or maybe coconut. Or praline. Or…excuse me, I have to go eat some ice cream now.
Pistachio, hands down and tongue out!
Definitely cassis sorbet.
Definitely the chocolate coconut-milk-based ice cream made by Turtle Mountain. It’s amaaaaazing.
LOVE the chocolate tangerine sorbet from Perfect Scoop, and also anything with citrus plus fresh herbs (grapefruit-tarragon, grapefruit-basil, lemon-sage)
my favorite ice cream is vanilla, although when I was a kid I was crazy about rainbow sherbert
I’m de-lurking to enter this awesome contest, and also to say congratulations on your new book.
My favorite ice cream is made my a shop in my area called the Patisserie– honey-sesame brittle.
Coffee!
A difficult question:
At home: computer chip and toasted almond from Rick’s Rather Rich
From Berthillon: the frais de bois on a warm day……I want to go back
strawberry cheesecake
Chocolate.
Green tea ice cream, mmmm.
chocolate with peanut butter swirl and mini peanut butter cups. OMG you must try it.
love your writing …
Pistachio!
Minted honeydew.
Thanks for the stories that have helped me find my way both in Paris and the kitchen.
Its a toss up between dulce de leche in Argentina from Grido, eaten outside with my host family, or the ice cream made at my university. Clemson makes their ice cream using student labor, with milk and cream from the cows students raise across the street from my apartment. Their double chocolate chip is awesome, along with hot apple pie.
Congratulations on the book!
Belgian chocolate.
I’m another person who’s been reading this blog forever but never commented until free cookware was involved. Because of you I discovered Grom in Paris and because of me all of my friends have discovered it. And while I haven’t seen this flavor on their menu yet, my favorite is definitely mango sorbet.
Strawberry ice cream from The Perfect Scoop. It is worlds away from the cloying candy-like stuff from the supermarket. It changed my LIFE!
I can’t wait to read the book – it’s en route for delivery today. Squeee!
i love lemon sorbet
I cannot tell a lie – mango-mascarpone ice cream.
I’d have to go with good ol’-fashioned vanilla. There is a subtle art in making simplicity shine.
Can’t wait to check out your new book! Hard to pick just one favourite ice cream flavour, but I’d have to go with Chocolate Mint as my all-time #1.
Mango
I wish I could afford your book, but as I currently have one (tiny) pot and one (tiny) skillet, I feel I should allocate my (tiny) budget elsewhere. Unless, of course, I win this giveaway ;) Anyway, dark chocolate anything is my favourite, but I have a soft spot for really good vanilla ice cream, and very tart lemon sorbet.
Je vous félicite d’avoir terminé votre livre!
Carrot cake,your recipe, dangerously decadent.
Mocha, or coffee.
Chocolate chocolate chip.
A tart mango sorbet. I love the exotic flavor of the mango, and the tartness makes it incredibly refreshing.
Yipppeee for the new book! Coffee health bar crunch= favourite ice cream.
Creme fraiche ice cream!
Coffee ice cream with mini chocolate chips.
Easy enough for me… my favorite flavor (lately) is Turkish Coffee… from my own recipe. :-)
And my copy of the book arrives from Amazon today… had it on pre-order.
Mango sorbet, I enjoy it even more now that I have the recipe from your book.
Chocolate peanut butter with peanut butter crunch from The Perfect Scoop, bien sur.
Mango is my favorite sorbet by far!
caramel beurre sale
Congratulations on the book! Can’t wait to get my hands on a copy.
Now off to chow down on my favorite: coffee ice cream.
I will never ever forget the fresh mint ice cream that Skye Gyngell (of Petersham Nurseries Cafe) made for us one hot summer’s day, a revelation in ice cream.
Mango hands down!
So my favorite flavor is the result of two flavors in a glorious embrace – it would be a crime to separate them, so I’ll bend the rule and list them both: honey lavender and salted caramel from Bi-Rite Creamery in SF!
I’m drooling all over the place just thinking about it.
Oreo mint
Mint chocolate chip. Ever since I was a kid.
Also, your book arrived yesterday and I’m really digging it. It makes me wish men in Canada wore pants that fit… :)
Yay! Your book is here! Too bad i won’t be able to enjoy it in hand in Paris, since I too am booking a flight to Italy.
Fave ice cream: Salted Butter Caramel for sure!
Book looks great! Congrats!
My fav icecream… is… Spumoni
I remember it fondly from my childhood in New Orleans and haven’t been able to find a comparable one since then!!!
Congratulations on the book, David! I would totally come to a reading, especially if you include some of your tweets. Also, my favorite ice cream flavor will always be vanilla–I’m more into milkshakes than just scoops of ice cream. Although I just tried a pomegranate curry sorbet, and I’m thoroughly infatuated at the moment!
maple ice cream with flecks of salty bacon.
Peach Ice Cream
coconut ice cream!
Lemon sorbet!
Hi David, huge congrats on the release of The Sweet Life in Paris. I bet you mention the poop of small Parisian dogs and its threat to a nice pair of shoes. Will soon find out, anyway, because it’s on my Amazon list. Your book. Not the poop.
My favourite ice cream flavour is zizi. HA. Just kidding. (do you think you should let people in on what a zizi is? Just in case they don’t get French slang?? Could surprise a few folk!)
Seriously, I absolutely adore stracciatella gelato. Nothing like it. I just wish I could go and get some on the way home but there are no gelato shops around here. Major bummer.
They can Google it, but I can’t be responsible for whatever pictures turn up! -dl
Congratulations on your new book!!!
My favorite ice cream is, hands down, mint chocolate chip. Yum.
Coconut milk ice cream – mango passion fruit flavor!
I love Rocky Road ice cream. It reminds me of my childhood when my parents took us to Baskin Robbins for a special treat. I’m a huge lover marshmallows.
First, let me tell you that I bought your book on kindle and started reading it last night. This morning I was late to work because I stayed up most of the night reading. I could not put it down. I will have to buy in in book form as well to keep with my other cookbooks. I am very much enjoying it.
My favorite ice cream flavors are vanilla and strawberry.
Homemade Chocolate FTW!
i love me some Creole Coffee ice cream – chicory coffee with a splash of bourbon!
can’t wait to get my hands on this new book!
Hard call between vanilla, blackberry and pistachio… Probably vanilla. Yum.
Looking forward to your book!
My favorite ice cream, anywhere, is Bertillon–I always get chocolate AND pistachio…and when I’m feeling thin, add mango to the mix.
Lately, my favorite flavor is ginger icecream!
Vanilla..It’s the little black dress of ice creams; it goes just about anywhere!
Good old fashion vanilla
Nutella or Strawberry or both, I could do both. On your next trip to North America, go to Toronto and then the Cookbook Store…I’m sure they’d love to have you!
Mango! :)
I love coffee ice cream. I love all-clad, but don’t own any yet. I would love to eat ice cream out of an all clad pan in Paris with you, David. Love, melissa
Your salted butter caramel ice cream has always been a hit, but my favorite is green tea ice cream. For now.
Congrats on the book! I can’t wait to read it! and my favorite ice cream flavor (at the moment) is Lavender and Honey!
Blood Orange Sorbet. (I can be more specific — from Scoops in Los Angeles!)
BTW, I tried the chocolate biscotti recipe two days ago. I saved half for myself and took half to work. The plate was clean in about 5 minutes. ;-) I think I’m the resident goddess of baked goods at work now.
If I am out I go for Vanilla…. if I am making it at home, either caramel or peach. I had a really delish cheesecake flavor once too….
ginger! with dark chocolate!
Congratulations on the new book! As a culinary student who is looking forward to a few years in Paris, I am very excited to read more about your experiences there. My favorite ice cream to both eat and make has to be Pistachio Gelato. Grinding my own pistachio butter was a lot of fun.
Mango!
Depends on mood, but let’s just make it easy. Chocolate upon chocolate, in all its permutations.
All the best for the new book!
Amaretto
Wow — such a hard question… some of my favorites include blueberry, rum raisin, anything coffee-themed, anything caramel, most anything Ben & Jerry’s…
Green Tea Chocolate Swirl
Congrats on the new book! I am developing my own new flavor of ice cream that features a chocolate-orange combination, I might name it orangette ice cream, so that is my most favorite. My current store bought favorite is chocolate-peanut butter. Can’t be beat!
Coffee.
My favorite is Island Fantasy, made by ADL in Prince Edward Island Canada. Full of chocolate, caramel, nuts . . .
mango!!!
Favorite ice cream flavor has to be coffee with some sort of chocolate candy mixed in (chips, chunks, or cookies are all acceptable). Favorite sorbet flavor would probably be coconut.
mint chocolate chip or chocolate peanutbutter
Coconut sorbet! Although this maple bacon I’m seeing in previous comments is making me salivate as well….
Honey lavender ice cream. Congrats on the new book. Love your blog!
coffee ice cream!
My favorite ice cream is anything chocolate or rum raisin.
eggnog, per your recipe.
mint chocolate chip!
Three Geeks and a Red Head: Coconut ice cream, coconut flakes, semisweet chocolate chunks, fudge brownies, with a red raspberry swirl.
Mmmm….lemon sorbet or butter pecan ice cream. Yum.
Congratulations on your new book, I can’t wait to dive into it!!
rainbow sherbet!! eating it makes me feel like a kid. best wishes on the new cookbook!
Dark Chocolate
Trader Joe’s French Vanilla Super Premium Ice Cream
Makes fresh fruit even more heavenly!
Vietnamese Coffee, definitely!
hmm… mango-lemon sorbet
all this Zizi talk… ever been to the Glacier Zizi in Brussels?
It is hard to pick just one. I’m going to go with peanut butter fudge swirl.
Meyer lemon
Dulce de leche. Yum.
1 scoop hazelnut, 1 scoop chocolate
My favorite flavor is Fleur de Sel Caramel. Great giveaway!
Congrats on the book! I’m sure it’s as fabulous as your last – your coffee ice cream recipe remains the treat my family demands, and it’s certainly my favorite.
Speculoos from our local ice-cream shop.
Dark chocolate, dark chocolate, dark chocolate!
I recently went to a gelato shop in Chicago and thought I overheard the owner saying he was going to try making brioche gelato again. I should have asked him if I heard right! Reminds me of Rose Levy Beranbaum’s brioche cake recipe.
Butter pecan
all time classic favorite is, for real, vanilla. call me boring!
My favorite sorbet is my homemade lemon-ice tea sorbet. Mmmmm…
Peanut Butter. Congratulations!
Based on the flavors I’ve made this week – I’m going with Malted Milk ice cream. Based on general use, I’d say lemon sorbet.
It changes all the time, but right now my favorite flavor is cake batter ice cream.
Molassses from Christina’s down the street here in Somerville. Yum!
Chocolate coffee!
Sounds like a great book!
If I had to choose only one flavor, I’d pick lemon. Ice cream, not sorbet.
Vanilla ice cream with hot fudge sauce, sprinkles, & nuts!
Pistachio almond, please.
coconut. no question.
I’m a simple man that appreciates a really good vanilla.
Vanilla Bean!
Hi ! Thanks for this game !
My favorite flavor is candied chestnuts ice-cream.
Super excited to read the book. Mint chocolate chip.
Vanilla Bean
Congragulations David on your new book!!!!! Since I have read all of your others, pretty much cover to cover, I am looking forward to reading this one!
Yay for you!!!!
gros bisous!
Congratulations David. That really is something to be proud of. Favorite ice cream flavor? And honest to whatever ice cream god there is… I’m not pandering… but it’s your Philly Style Chocolate.
chocolate (Strauss)
Sweet Cream and Cookies.
chocolate mint
Guava!
Passion Fruit Sorbet
Vanilla Ice Cream with balsamic reduction swirl and shaved chocolate
Chocolate banana walnut ice cream! (a.k.a Chunky Monkey!)
Only one favorite? Caramel Lavendar Sea-Salt with dark chocolate ganache ribbons (from a local san diego shop)
What a great give away and congrats on the new book!
salted caramel. for sure.
At the risk of sounding like I’m creeping, my favorite ice cream is your LA Times Carrot Cake Ice Cream that I made the other week – just fabulous!
Mocha Chip is my all time favorite ice creme flavor!
Nothing beats a good strawberry ice cream! Refreshing and satisfying.
Once I would’ve said dark chocolate, without a doubt, but I currently have a serious crush on lemon custard.
I’m a purist…homemade Chocolate Ice Cream, from where else but, “The Perfect Scoop”! I can’t wait to read your new book….I’m hoping to be in Paris for your signing. Congratulations!
Chocolate. Darker is better. With fudge and swirls even better.
Chocolate Hazelnut
I love your salted butter caramel ice cream!
It was always Mango sorbet until I had the pear gelato at Grom. Now it’s a toss up between the two.
Chocolate, Chocolate, Chocolate! But usually lactose-free vanilla ice cream with a rich dark chocolate sauce.
Congratulations on your new book!
I’m partial to the Moose Tracks that’s chocolate plus fudge plus fudge cups…I know it’s overkill, but c’est si bon!
Homemade vanilla bean ice cream, sweetened with maple syrup…YUM!
One of our local ice cream shops has a flavor called chocolate flake fromage – so good! I’m pretty sure it has cream cheese in it.
Well, adding my name to the thousands hoping to win this amazing giveaway, my favorite ice cream today (do I really have to pick just one? Ice cream is my favorite food.) is sweet cream with tart cherries. Or Mexican vanilla.
Your salted-caramel ice-cream, fresh from the ice-cream maker.
my current favorite is the Malted Milk icecream from Perfect Scoop. good stuff.
Cinnamon Bun from the Hobby Horse in Ocean City!
Congrats! I’m a fairly new reader here, and I’m totally loving it! More candy posts please, I love new ideas! My favourite ice cream flavour is a tough one. I love a good hedgehog/nutella ice cream, but nothing’s better then amaretto!
Hi David, Congratulations on the new book. Many happy sales!
My all time favourite has to be pistache – the roasted creamy kind!
honestly? vanilla … nothing better than good vanilla ice cream.
mmmmm……pistachio.
Burbon Bacon Brown Sugar ice cream. your recipe.
All of them! But if I had to choose – peach, made with ripe-from-the-tree Texas peaches. Or peach gelato in Italy. Whatever. Mmmmmmm…
Cookies & Cream, no doubt about it.
Congratulations David!
pistachio. gelato, ice cream, or sorbet (do they make pistachio sorbet?)
salted carmel, yummmmmm
Peanut Butter
Yoghurt icecream from an Italian gelateria because of its sour accent to the bliss of creaminess. Try the one at Galeries Lafayette Gourmet in Paris or, when in
Monte Carlo, the superb yoghurt ice cream from the famly owned Italian gelateria/café on boulevard des Moulins (straight on after crossing avenue de la Madone to the left).
I delight in raspberry sorbet. It may be cliche, but it is lovely.
Mint Chip
maple for sure
Oh no! Many favorite ice creams & sorbets, depending on the weather and my mood!
In winter, it’s ginger or coffee.
In Spring, mango.
In Summer, peppermint stick
In Fall, any of the above plus pistachio.
So, it’s Spring – mango !
Mocha with chocolate chips!
I see my odds are not too good, but I will have to try anyhow.
My favorite ice cream favor is Bacio or Nocciola, especially made in the little ice cream shop in Piazza Santa Margherita in Venice.
Congrats on your new book, if it is anything like the others you wrote, I will love to read it.
CIAO!
Licurizia
Unfortunately only a few gelaterie in Rome serve it, but it is hands down the winner in my books.
wpsu coffee break from the creamery at penn state university. world-renowned homemade ice cream. every flavor is fantastic, but i can’t get enough of the espresso flavor with chocolate chunks =)
Congrats, David! Mint chocolate chip is my favorite
Butter Pecan
chocolate, or basically anything that includes chocolate (mint chocolate, peanut butter and chocolate, etc etc)!
Merci! I saw your book at the Chelsea Market. Photo will appear in my post or slideshow when I get that up…I love black sesame.
Peppermint!
Love the pistachio!
Congratulations on your book!! Do you know where I can find it in Paris? Brentano’s? Will you be by any chance doing a book tour?
Oh, and my favorite ice cream flavor would be vanilla…
Home-made Vanilla (Philly-style because I’m lazy) with salted caramel sauce drizzled all over it. Congrats on the new book! I’m in love with The Perfect Scoop, although my hips beg to differ.
Vanilla with crushed Reese’s Pieces and Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups…yum!
ordered 3 copies – congratulations!
salted caramel – your recipe
your tweets are always right on the mark.
This question is the hardest I’ve ever encountered. Pick just ONE ice cream? I’ll say – since it’s the last one I made, and it disappeared at record speed – sour cream strawberry ice cream. So perfect.
(Crossing my fingers that my number will come up – I have to outfit a new kitchen this fall when I move away for grad school!)
mine’s mexican chocolate from the ice cream stand in misssoula, mt
Nothing beats the simplicity of a good strawberry ice cream.
Jeni’s Splendid Wildberry Lavender
I love the pandan ice cream at “vosges haut chocolat”!!!!
Pineapple soursop
Looking forward to your new book! Best of luck.
The Perfect Scoop’s coffee ice cream
Passionfruit sorbet. I craved it all through this last pregnancy & still can’t get enough of it.
Bosc Pear – for sure!
Peanut butter and chocolate if I’m feeling particularly decadent. Otherwise, a nice, light vanillla.
Mint chocolate chip…as much as I love trying (and making) new flavors, I can never resist my childhood favorite.
Salted Caramel for sure!
milk chocolate, got your book yesterday and read 3/4 already, there is a typo in the first few pages, don’t have it with me at the office, but it reads ‘life’ and it should be, I believe. ‘live’
My favorite is chocolate peanut butter from haagen-dazs. It is so so rich but I think the key for me is that it is not too sweet. Congratulations, David! If you ever come back to new york’s city bakery, this will be the book I will clasp in my hands as I wait for you to sign it, with some awesome inscription like, “you’re SCOOPER-duper.” I will totally buy you a pretzel croissant – and some peeled lychee if they have it on the salad bar.
green tea from pollyanna’s in sfo
banana dulce de leche (here at MILK in Los Angeles)!
Mango all the way!!!
espresso with bittersweet chocolate chunk. oh lord…
Ben and Jerry’s – Chunky Monkey
Congratulations on your book! I can’t wait to enjoy reading every page.
Vanilla, strawberry , caramel..
Vanilla — and no, it’s not boring.
Mint chocolate chip. Yumm!
your cheesecake ice cream.
Strawberry! Or, as they say here in Belgium, “aardbei” (my family’s in the states, though, for when I win the pots, don’t worry).
Love the blog!
Coffee
Meyer lemon sorbet
My favorite ice cream flavor is caramel.
Congratulations on your new book! I’m excited to read it.
Favorite icecream flavors: mint chocolate, lemon, pom… I think I love it all actually!
My favourite flavour of ice cream is fresh peach.
meyer lemon sorbet.
My all-time favorite flavor would have to be Mint Chocolate Chip from Baskin Robbins.
mmmmm, ice cream.
My go-to flavor is cookies and cream, although I love good azuki ice cream, as well.
Looking forward to the new book!
My favorite ice cream is Ben and Jerry’s Chocolate Therapy, which is practically impossible to get.
Marion berry pie ice cream…yum!
rhubarb
pomegranate and sour cream ice cream… delish!
Butter Pecan is my fave!
Candied Bacon Ice Cream, surprisingly fantastic.
Coffee, with smashed bits of chocolate-covered espresso beans in it.
My favorite ice cream flavor is chocolate hazelnut!
chocolate almond!
Salted caramel
Lemon custard
Pistachio ice cream is my favorite. Well actually, vanilla ice cream with pistachios pounded to a fine crumb mixed in.
My favorite ice cream flavor is red bean ice cream.
Good old fashioned Cookies and Cream.
Spumoni. mmmmmmmmmmm!
Why isn’t gelato included? As for ice cream, Kona Coffee!
Salted Butter Caramel!
My favorite is generally chocolate, although a close second is turron..
Tiramisu!
Salted caramel ice cream, for sure!
My current favorite flavor: Balsamic strawberry ice cream at Bi-Rite Creamery in San Francisco. =)
salted caramel! congrats david!
Mexican Chocolate Ice Cream w/ Chili powder or Grapefruit Sorbet – made them both recently, couldn’t choose between them.
Coffee ice cream!
blueberry cream cheese is a favorite ice cream–actually any berry with cream cheese–but the blueberry always calls to me so I that is my weakness.
Salted Caramel!
PISTACHIO :)
My all time favorite is coffee ice cream and surprisingly I don’t even like the drink.
lemon chiffon!
Hazelnut gelato is the best!
Strawberries and Cream would be my fave hands down!
Huckleberry for sure!!
Mexican Hot Chocolate!
Why… salted caramel of course!!
Congrats on the book – I can’t wait to get my hands on it!!
Ben & Jerry’s Peanut Butter Cup ice cream with sea salt sprinkled on top.
pistachio! (recall or not, it’s my favorite)
Coconut!
I just came to your site to buy this book, as I am having a major Paris withdrawl!! Now that I see there is a raffle, I guess I better wait to see if we win – PICK ME!! ;)
Ice cream, well, I love them all, it would be a toss up between cardamon, roasted banana (from Bi-Rite) and mascarpone, ice cream – YUM!!
Denise
can’t wait to read the book. so enjoy exploring paris through your adventures there.
For ice cream, my fave is currently “hula dance” from Scoop in Fairfax (it’s coconut ice cream with chocolate and macadamia nuts), and for sorbet, it would have to be your blood orange sorbet that I made this winter – yum!
Tillamook Creamery’s Marionberry Pie. Congrats on the new book!
Chocolate with raspberries, dark chocolate chunks, and a bit of caramel
Favorite Sorbet – Raspberry
Favorite Ice Cream – Coconut with chocolate
Strawberry … cool, clean, creamy, tart & sweet. Nothing finer!!!
My absolute favorite ice cream is Taro.
Salty caramel!
classic vanilla bean!
There’s a gelateria around here that sells a “chocolate frosted yellow cake” flavour – it tastes exactly as it sounds, and I absolutely love it.
Salty caramel from Noirmoutier!
Pistachio, hands down. Paired with dark chocolate sorbet if possible. Looking forward to the new book!
Favorite ice cream is banana – never tried making it as a sorbet, wonder if it would work…
love your chocolate and ice cream books – congrats on this new release!
Ben & Jerry’s Cinnamon Buns. Oh my god.
Mint chocolate cookie
Maple walnut, too good to be true
Green tea with ginger ice cream. Yum!
I love everything from Grom in Paris but I’m partial toward the fleur de sel caramel.
Mint Chocolate Chip…so simple!
Nutty Coconut, summer, spring, fall and winter. Good luck on the book.
Coffee, or dulce de leche
Love espresso ice cream!
I love cookie dough
Peach definitely.
Rocky Road for sure.
Lemon! Congrats on the book and the wonderful blog.
Chocolate for sure!
Coffee made with Ritual coffee beans, natch! Congratulations on the book. Looking forward to picking up a copy or two.
chocolate and salted caramel pecans …mmmm
nothing beats the flavour of homemade apricot ice cream. nom.
pumpkin
Pistachio.
Your ginger cake is my all-time favorite, btw.
Green Tea.
today, my favorite is passion fruit :o)
Pistachio ice cream.
Your ginger cake has become a staple of mine, btw.
Black Sesame!
chocolate mint
My favorite ice cream is salted caramel.
Double Rainbow Chocolate Peanut Butter Swirl. But they don’t make it anymore….
My favorite gelato flavor is: NOCIOLA (hazelnut). Second would be torrone.
thai iced tea from scoops in los angeles!
Chocolate therapy by Ben and Jerry
It’s a tie between black cherry and peach ice cream.
You gotta be in it to win it as they say ;-) So here goes: salted butter caramel.
At present, strawberry cheesecake ice cream. Tomorrow it might be rhubarb sorbet…
butterscotch, just like my grandmother
Pralines and cream ice cream!
Count me in! Thanks for the great blog, David! I love following your blog and seeing all your great shared items on Facebook!
chocolate although I like to taste test all flavours
So hard to choose only one. Today I will say: grapefruit sorbet.
Congratulations on your new book!
raspberry sorbet
super dulce de leche! it´s dulce de leche ice cream with fresh dulce de leche
salted caramel
My favorite flavor is raspberry or perhaps raspberry with white chocolate.
vanilla. i know, i know, it’s boring. but a good vanilla ice cream makes me swoon. btw i’m making your candied bacon ice cream for a southern-style smoker duel this weekend (as in food that has been cooked in a smoker). i’ve a feeling the bacon ice cream will be a hit.
Toasted coconut ice cream with fudge ripple. (And a bit of toasted coconut sprinkled on top.)
Cappucino chunk chocolate frozen yogurt from Braums in Oklahoma!
Ohm, I’d say lemon sorbet with cava or mandarin-chocolate ice cream on the sweet side and… a simple tomato sorbet or maybe some cheese ice cream on the savory side…
Oh, this is my favorite question to answer. It was a dish of rose flavored ice cream that I had at Chez Panisse in about…um…let’s say pre-1990. It completely changed this country boy’s idea of what food is or could be. And, I haven’t looked back!
David, it just occurred to me, did you make that ice cream? (OK, the real date was Spring of ’86) I always assumed it was Lindsay Shere who made it. And, given the genius of her Chez Panisse Desert Cookbook I had no reason to think more about it. But, now I wonder.
Any ice cream or sorbet with those real vanilla beans or fresh picked strawberries are my heats desire!
dulce de leche ice cream, orange sorbet
My favorite is coconut. If it has toasted almonds sprinkled on top, even better. I would eat it for breakfast, lunch and dinner if I knew I could do it and still be able to fit into my clothing. Seriously.
My favorite sorbet flavor is blood orange (when done right) or ACE Multivitamin. The flavors are so bright!
Coconut. I also will say that the raspberry ice cream in your book is the best I have ever eaten. Ditto the peach. Thanks.
Count me in — coffee heath bar is simply the best ice cream there is.
Chocolate Peanut Butter…emphasis on chocolate and peanut butter
Coffee!
Vanilla bean. Congratulations on the book! I can’t wait to read it.
pistachio
Congratulations on the book! as far as the ice cream goes -it’s Chocolate Fudge Brownies!!
Mexican chocolate from Christina’s in Cambridge, MA — and congratulation on the book release!
new york super fudge chunk!
My absolute favorite flavor is tarte tatin ice cream, a flavor I’ve only ever seen at a small artisanal shop in Chamonix many moons ago.
The chocolate sorbet from The Perfect Scoop. Amazing flavor.
Easily, blood orange guava sorbet (from Scoops in Los Angeles!)
Easy question – that would be your Salted Caramel Ice Cream. To absolutely die for!
Have a safe trip.
Can’t wait to read your new book, and try some recipes too! Flavour of the month–chocolate hazelnut gelato–yum, yum.
Congrats on the new book! I have become a total slave to dulce de leche ice cream here in Chile and Argentina. Very Addictive stuff.
Peanut butter & chocolate ice cream from THE PERFECT SCOOP
Coconut w/ cacao nibs. Thanks!
It’s a tie for me! Between good old cookie dough, cookies and cream, and cake batter!
super dark rich chocolate ice cream
pumpkin gelato, oh, swoon.
Vanilla.
A great blog!
Chocolate, of course!
Félicitations on your new book.
black walnut
there’s nothing like grapefruit sorbet when its 95 degrees and 80 percent humidity outside!!
No question, lemon sorbet.
Coffee for ice cream and lemon for sorbet.
Chocolate, definitely.
On second thought, anything with praline. Or caramel.
Congrats on your new book!
1 scoop of mango sorbet alongside 1 scoop of coconut sorbet. Heaven.
Any kind of citrus sorbet. Yum.
I love chocolate ice cream. Congrats on your new book.
Burnt sugar / pear is the winner!
rum raisin!!
because i truly believe raisins are underrated.
My favorite ice cream flavor is your malted milk ice cream, and I’m not just trying to butter you up. I actually made an extra pint last year and hid it in the freezer so no one else would finish it off.
I am also a huge fan of butter-pecan, though my favorite is possibly the cinnamon-apple ice cream I made last Thanksgiving using your vanilla base. With homemade caramel swirls, it was fantastic!
Mmmmm, salted carmel ice cream from Bi Rite.
Prunes and brandy
Raspberry sorbet
It’s a tie between Balsamic Strawberry and Salted Caramel.
just plain vanilla
salted caramel when someone else is making it, mint chip when i’m making it
There is no flavor on earth that I love more than homemade blackberry ice cream made with berries from my own yard. A perfect summer treat!
LIME! Congrats on your book! =)
Such a tough choice, but I am going with…vanilla…yes, it’s true. Is that shamefully boring? I prefer to think that I am all about the subtle charms.
Super easy! The best flavor: chocolate/hazelnut. Congrats on the book!
mint chip
Jamoca Almond Fudge
mocha ice cream and hot fudge sauce!
Coffee…olive oil a very close second.
black raspberry ice cream
I can’t wait to get the book! My favorite flavor? Hard to choose just one… so I’ll go with peanut butter chocolate. Thanks for the contest!
Daniel Craig?! woo!
I made digestive and caramel ice cream the other day which was pretty damn tasty. Also a massive fan of lemon sorbet.
cinnamon
For ice cream I have to say that I like good old chocolate chip. But I can’t seem to find *good* chocolate chip anymore–I like well made ice cream with chips in it, not big hunks of chocolate.
My favorite sorbet comes from my favorite ice cream shop in the NW: Mora on Bainbridge Island. They have a seasonal flavor called “Sweetheart” that is strawberry sorbet with chocolate chips in it. Yum!
Like many others, I can’t live without my butter pecan. I love the version from The Joy of Cooking, but would love to see a version from you on the website. I’m currently saving up for A Perfect Scoop, so I don’t know if you’ve got one in there.
Salted Caramel, from Bi-Rite in San Francisco
Vanilla Black pepper from Mallard’s in Bellingham WA
I love pistachio ice cream. Looks like a popular flavor. Congrats on your new book David!
Pistachio. Yummy. Congratulations!
mango—love your blog
I’ve only made ice cream thrice (so far) – but your butterscotch butter pecan ice cream rocked my socks – far better than anything I’ve bought in a store!
tiramisu
I love cardamom-rose ice-cream (vanilla as the base) and lemon sorbet.
Olive oil gelato. I really, really, really hope that counts!
A very good vanilla. It goes with everything.
David, congratulations on your 5th book! This will be a nice addition to my library and a nice prelude to my trip to Paris next year.
As for my favorite flavor…god…it changes per season, but I always look forward to having pistachio- and horlicks-flavored ice cream!
Coconut sorbet – I love the smooth creamy consistency coupled with the little chewy bits of coconut
Simple Vanilla
I love mint ice cream.
Raspberry sorbet would have to be my favorite.
Congratulations on your book!
I love pistachio ice cream!
Mango sorbet
Sea-salt Caramel!!
Peppermint.
First of all, love ice cream, sorbet, gelato, all of it. Favorite flavor? Probably Lightly cinnamoned ginger ice cream, divine!
Currently, meyer lemon pistachio.
swiss orange chip
Lilikoi (passion fruit)
Coffee!
By Annie on May 6, 2009 8:21 AM
“My favorite ice cream flavour is pistachio. Nuts and cream do it for me!”
I can’t believe it’s been 700 comments and no one’s replied THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID!
Vanilla bean (gotta have the little black specks in it!).
Elizabeth David’s Glace au Melon de l’ Isle St Jacques.(“The melon has a strange, almost magic flavour …”)
Sorbet au Chocolat de le resto L’Angle du Faubourg in Paris.
Lemon Sorbet – yum!
are those lamingtons? i’ve always wanted to try those [if they are]
i love love love haagen dazs green tea ice cream. if i’m lucky enough to find it at the store, i make sure to stock up
they used to sell this really good coffee one with little nuggets of biscotti at rite aid [huhhh! i know, not very classy ahha], but they’ve discontinued it
Salted Caramel, of course!
right now, I’m really loving some rhubarb champagne sorbet. It’s perfect for this time of year.
This set would be a perfect birthday gift. thanks.
When strawberries are in season, there is nothing like fresh strawberry ice cream.
Congratulations!
Man alive – hard question!
Favorite
Ice Cream: Coffee
Sorbet/Gelato – Lemon.
but I LOVED most the homemade mint ice cream I made from your book, and can’t wait to make it again! So rewarding to make at home!
Congratulations on your new book!!!
My favorite ice cream favour today, is pistachio!
But tomorrow, who knows?
Vanilla bean with a splash of EVOO and a dash of coarse finishing salt. A simple canvas for the simply finer things in one’s pantry.
Mint chocolate chip!
Chocolate sorbet and that is because of you! I totally agree that the true chocolate taste of the chocolate comes out this way. It has changed my life.
Mine would have to be mango lassi ice cream from jeni’s in columbus, OH.
Mexican Vanilla.
I love peanut butter everything, so obviously peanut butter ice cream (made your recipe two weeks ago) is tops in my books — especially with the addition of anything chocolate!
Jeni’s Black coffee ice cream, but if frozen yogurt counts you can’t get anything better then her Lime Cardamom Yogurt!
Homemade strawberry ice cream can’t be beat. It is truly wonderful stuff!
Aaargh, you have to choose just one?!!!! OK, and possibly only for today, I go for dulce de leche……
I have to pick just one flavour…erm…Salted Caramel!!! im hoping to buy the kitchenaid ice cream maker in a month or so and and first thing im trying is your salted caramel recipe
I definitely have to say your salted caramel ice cream. It’s delicious, but it’s the little crumbly melty toffee bits that make it unforgettable.
Coffee
I love me some espresso ice cream please. Congrats on the book, David! Love your site and writing.
Nai
Raspberry ripple
My current fav I just discovered at a shop here in SF: Secret Breakfast = cornflakes and bourbon!
Pistachio ice cream, especially in Italy!
Strawberry
Always Lemon.
Congratulations on the new book, David!!
Favorite ice cream/sorbet? It’s probably a tie between raspberry sorbet and pistachio ice cream. Mmm….nomnomnom.
Coffee, coffee, coffee!
Lemon Verbena, and I’m truly enjoying your new book, David.
Hmm, just one, Ben & Jerry’s New York Super Fudge Chunk.
(Second and third choices would be Baskin & Robbins Pralines and Cream, and Mint Chocolate Chip.)
(I obviously need to buy an ice cream maker and make some of my own.)
Pistachio, of course.
pistachio!
while i’m at it, just want to let you know i’ve made your banana cake recipe many times and i’m convinced it’s the best there is, having strayed (pardon me) a few times to try others. also my bf has forbidden me to make anymore carameled peanuts (for now i hope) after the dose i made disappeared without effort during the weekend.
Hazelnut chocolate. Nutella anyone? Congratulations on the book. I can’t wait to receive a copy.
Coffee ice cream, grapefruit sorbet (with a dash of gin)
Seriously, how am I to choose just one? Okay, today I am going to pick banana sorbet. But only if it’s from that great little, all-natural, gelato place in Florence whose name escapes me at the moment. And only because I have not had the pleasure of tasting your Salted Butter Caramel. Thanks for the giveaway and felicitations on the book!
Lemon sorbet. Love the sour and tangy and sweet and cold.
Vanilla bean : )
Lilikoi ( passionfruit!)
Fleur de Sel Caramel!
Pistachio with shards of caramel and a hint of chilli. Just kidding. Vanilla of course.
Gee Whiz David, over a thousand comments! Greed wins!!
I’m really bad at picking favorites for something as vast and wonderful as ice cream flavors. I love florals, anything even hinting at caramel, toasty nuts, and fruit flavors the most. I guess it would be easier to admit that I am least fond of plain chocolate ice creams, but I love them, too. Just less than most other flavors.
I’m going to have to go with the first ice cream I ever made (I was 10):
LEMON – churn-free style, with or without a lovely raspberry coulis.
BTW… While typing this I just received an email update that Maine has just passed a gay marriage bill this morning, making it the 5th state in the union to support gay marriage! YAY!!!!
Is 11:24 a.m. too early in the morning to drink to that?
Cheers,
~ Paula
So many choices. I love every recipe in The Perfect Scoop, but my favorite of all time might be bacon ice cream. Or dulce de leche. no bacon…. yes really bacon.
Definitely raspberry sorbet!
Dark chocolate with bits of candied orange peel from one of the many gelato, I mean ice cream, places in Amalfi, Italy. Hope you get some on your trip:)
cookie dough!
Loved cookies & cream ice cream from the very beginning and still do!
Just 3 words: salted butter caramel. But the pink grapefruit sorbet I had at Bertillon a few years ago also set a new standard.
I do not like ice cream in general, but a good “mokka” or coffee/espresso ice cream can please me. On the other hand, I like a lot of sorbets! Especially champagne sorbet ;-)
Peanut butter with chocolate chunks! I am totally looking forward to the new book. Love the site!
Mint chocolate chip, with none of that nasty green food coloring.
Mango !
My favorite flavor of ice cream is caramel! Congrats on the book.
ginger.
or really really vanilla-y vanilla
pistachio.
roasted banana ice cream
Greentea!
Mango for me please. (Gelato Fresco here in Toronto makes a 60% fruit version that is awesome)
banana.
Favorite ice cream = the classic mint chocolate chip.
Me me Me me Me
Nutella, with extra salted chopped hazelnuts, and topped with a generous drizzle of caramel and a few grains of fleur de sel.
Top that.
Sooo hard! But, I’d have to say something with vanilla and caramel. I try to make my own, but if I see this kind of combo when out, it’s mine!
Hooray! Congrats on the new book.
Meanwhile, I can never pick a favorite anything.
But for today, my favorite is… um… Vietnamese iced coffee. Thanks to you.
I like so many… but most of them are based in chocolate, so how about I keep it simple and say my favorite flavor of ice cream is chocolate (even though we’ll both know that really, it’s chocolate+any other number of flavors or ingredients.).
Cookie Dough
Mint oreo is my favorite ice cream. Mint chocolate chip doesn’t do it for me, and cookies and cream is just ok. But ohhh, mint oreo is more than the sum of its parts!
Salted caramel.
Home made Ghirardelli chocolate ice cream from your Ice Cream book.
My favorite flavor changes weekly. This week, it’s this fantastic Japanese coconut (with chunks of coconut in it) ice cream that my local sushi bar imports. So good!
By far, my favourite ice cream is your SALTED BUTTER CARAMEL that I’ve made myself on 2 or 3 occasions. I got my sister to send me real French fleur de sel just to be as accurate as possible.
Love your site and The Perfect Scoop. Will be picking up ‘Sweet Life’ shortly.
This week it is tiramisu ice cream.
Chocolate hazelnut!! yummy!!
Oh, and congratulations, again, on the book.
I almost assaulted my poor mailman for not having a copy on his person today. Where in the nuts is it????
Patience??? B*tch, please…! ; )
XOXOXOX,
~ Paula
Salted caramel is the new family favorite. My five-year-old daughter and I have made a batch every Saturday morning for the past 2 months!
chocolate clover honey ice cream…divine
Current eating favorite: raspberry sorbet.
Dessert island choice (i.e. only one frozen treat available): got to say vanilla.
coffee!
Coconut sorbet, always.
Félicitations – le nouveau bouquin a l’air déclicieux!
Vanilla with a splash of espresso coffee. Mmmmmmm….
Plain vanilla, with the tiny black seeds of course. Miam !
My favorite ice cream is always mint chocolate chip with dark chocolate chunks. (Ghiradelli makes a great version of this.) But I just tried your Chocolate Peanut Butter ice cream with peanut butter patties and that’s a very very close second. It was super tasty!!
My favorite flavor if i was forced to choose, would be burnt caramel from toscaninis in Cambridge
chocolate is also always good. and well… almost any thing really. cold ad creamy=really really good.
Chocolate Rasberry Truffle ice cream is the best!
Can’t wait to read the book! Rocky Road.
Green tea
Vanille
My favorite is oatmeal raisin. Perhaps it’s from my desire to mix favorite things or perhaps to make myself feel better for the indulgence. I entered it as a flavor when Ben and Jerry’s was searching for a new one and while it didn’t win it did suspiciously become a flavor soon thereafter!
Mocha Almond Fudge!
mint chocolate chip i.c.
Green tea. I recently tried Green tea w/black (?) sugar in Japan. Yum…
Italian Lemon…
Looking forward to reading the book
Each one has been a pleasure…
Tough to choose a favorite, but I’d have to go with Pistachio. Can’t wait to take a look at the book!
Anything from Berthillon—-but salted caramel ice cream or mango sorbet are my best of the best.
Look forward to reading the book
my favorite ice cream, plainly enough, is vanilla. although i once made a roasted banana ice cream (based on your recipe) and added cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamom, and anise, and it tasted just like banana bread. mmm.
Strawberry ice cream and mango gelato
Espresso
Tough call between the amaretto chocolate chip and carmel sea salt at Pacuigo in Dallas, Texas!
Excited to read the book!
Humphrey Slocombe’s Secret Breakfast
Congratulations on your book David!
Coconut or Pumpkin.
Homemade blackberry ice cream.
mint chocolate chip (the kind that’s green)
strawberry cheesecake ice cream
mexican chocolate with a little bit of cinnamon and chili
Mango Sorbet.
Salted Caramel Ice Cream (your recipe, one word – amazing)
Currently, raspberry sorbet is my favorite.
Congratualions on the new cookbook!
Currently, raspberry sorbet is my favorite.
Congratulations on the new cookbook!
Homemade almond ice cream.
I just got your book in the mail Monday and am trying to read it slooowwwlllyy to enjoy it longer. I just took my first trip to Paris last February and loved it though my feet did not. My favorite sorbet is -raspberry.
Coffee chocolate chip.
Congratulations on your latest book. It looks like a must-have.
raspberry
Love your blog, David! And I love All-Clad!
Pistachio all the way.
Salted caramel ice cream from Molly Moon’s in Seattle!
pistachio…hold the green food dye…and salmonella!!!!!
Don’t eat much ice cream, but when we visit Tucker’s in Alameda, CA [just outside San Francisco] I always get CHOCOLATE FANTASY. Very good stuff!
Butter pecan, all the way. Even better when eaten in Paris.
I absolutely love mango sorbet and my favorite ice cream is pistachio!
A difficult choice, but I’d have to go with coconut.
Pierre’s Vanilla and Peanut Butter filled, Chocolate Covered Pretzel ice cream
coffee oreo!
Mint Chocolate Chip, hands down!
Congratulations on the book’s launch, David – I can’t wait to read it! I’m also pretty excited by this giveaway … I hope I win! :) I’m a fan of almost every type of ice cream, but my absolute favorite is mint chocolate chip.
Favorite ice cream: ginger with dark chocolate chunks. I had this in New England several times, but can’t find this flavor where I live.
Coffee!
Cheesecake ice cream w/ graham cracker crust and fresh berries. YUM *shivers*
The book sounds great. All the best. Favorite Ice Cream Flavor is Vanilla.
Lemon lychee sorbet!!
Favorite ice cream is rocky road!
Congratulations on the new book! Love reading your tweets.
Ice Cream? Starbucks Java Chip. Coffee & Chocolate Chips, what’s not to love!
Chocolate Chip!!
It has to be lemon gelato!
Banana-na-na-na
Cookies & Cream! Mmmm….
Congratulations on the book.
I believe that coffee ice cream cannot be defeated.
Raspberry
homemade dark chocolate, almond, marshmallow rocky road ice cream.
“I love rocky road
So won’t ya go and buy half a gallon, baby
I love rocky road
So have another triple scoop with me, ow”
Yep, I like Rocky Road & Weird Al. There’s no shame in my game!
Congratulations on the new book! Can’t wait to read it (and try some new recipes).
Banana ice cream which is almost impossible to find commercially in my area.
Absolutely love mango ice cream (Magnolia brand is great)
coconut — especially coconut gelato.
Pistachio almond. Nutty I know.
lemon, but that chocolate marshmallow would be pretty good too.
Chocolate chocolate chip!
Caramel! So excited for your book!
Congratulations on the book!
And, rum raisin; yum!
The best ice cream I ever had was dulce de leche in Estapona, Spain. My favorite flavor at home is gingersnap.
Olive oil and black pepper gelato.
Si bon.
I can’t tell if this makes me sadly normal or slightly tweaked, but I love most the ice creams that taste of milks and creams that are no longer just milks and creams. To wit: sour cream, buttermilk, yogurt, creme fraiche, cream cheese, Creole cream cheese, and all the rest of it.
Most definitely YOUR cranberry-orange sorbet. Amazing stuff – it’s tops!
Congratulations on the book.
Strawberry ice cream made with cassis. I make it every summer and could easily eat a whole batch myself.
vanilla bean
Your fresh mint chip with stracciatella! I just made it yesterday. It is soooo delicious. I knew it was my favorite after one spoonful from the freezer bowl.
Congratulations on the book release! Right now I’m pretty obsessed with mango lassi ice cream. It is by far the best result of my “pouring random beverages into my ice cream maker to see if they make good ice cream” phase. (The biggest disappointment is that freezing Swiss Miss cocoa doesn’t make it any more interesting.)
My favorite flavor of sorbet is lemon – nice and tart, a delicious treat after a wonderful meal.
Looking forward to the book! Coffee ice cream has always been my favorite.
I’m drooling. Drooling I tell you.
My favorite flavor of ice cream:
Although I am drawn to unusual flavors (Thai Coconut jackfruit, Carrot Cake, Brown Bread with grape nuts) if forced to name a favorite I have to default to two classics (I’m a libra! I can’t pick one!): Mint Chip and Rum Raisin.
I just made some pineapple sorbet. I loved it.
Pistachio
“Þetta er rosalegt!”-Icelandic for: That’s awesome :)
Wonderful news on your book!
My favorite ice cream is home made lilikoi ice cream, made with the fruit collected from my hawaii yard.
My favorite Ice Cream is Black Walnut with fudge syrup on top. Once you taste a black walnut every walnut after tastes like nothing in comparison.
mint chocolate chip
Raspberry, by far!
I love Vietnamese coffee ice-cream!
Mint chocolate chip (in a waffle cone!)
key lime pie with graham cracker bits.
My favorite ice cream is Jamaca Almond Fudge.
Vanilla, although I love Chubby Hubby
Vanilla custard!
Homemade vanilla with frozen, crushed Butterfinger candy bars stirred in before serving.
Coffee, but then toasted almond is a close second, or maybe coconut, then again, fresh strawberry, or pear sorbet, or….the list is perhaps as long as the number of comments here.
Icecream : Butterscotch
Sorbet : Mint
But in this heat, I’d eat anything frozen. Really!
Congrats on your new book. Really hoping it makes it to India soon and I can enjoy Paris :)
Chocolate – a classic that always makes me happy.
congrats on the book, cant wait to see it where i live. its got to be sour cherry ice cream!
My husband used to make this cranberry cider sorbet for me which was my very favorite. We haven’t had it lately so I’d say a really decadent chocolate.
citron gelato
Strawberry. I’m the ideal partner for all those neopolitan purchasers who avoid it :)
mint chip
Ice cold vanilla with a drizzle of balsamic vinegar
Ooh, Guiness Milk Chocolate. Best. Combo. Ever.
Pistachio. love the texture differences of it.
Bud’s Brown Cow Palace Ice Cream
New Favorite: your Vanilla Bean Ice recipe with chopped Girl Scout cookies (Samosas, the peanut butter and chocolate ones).
Old favorite: Bi-Rite’s Salted Caramel
Older Favorite: Strawberry Balsamic?
Oldest Favorite: Bueno Bar Gelato
Oldest-est Favorite: Nutella Gelato
Who can narrow it down to one favorite ice cream, anyway??
I’ll have to go with eggnog as my favorite ice cream flavor. Congratulations on the new book!
Black Raspberry…preferably of the Turkey Hill variety!
My favorite is home made vanilla with good vanilla (preferably Mexican or Tahitian).
My favourite icecream flavour…. Black sesame
Strawberry. No question about it.
Well, mine is Dulche de Leche….
But I’m in Portugal…. :-(
I can only pick one? It changes all the time, but to make it easier on myself I’m listing a favorite from each of four frozen desserts.
Orange-fig walnut swirl frozen yogurt.
Pot du creme ice cream.
Raspberry-cabernet sorbet (which is also just fun to say).
Rhubarb spuma.
I’m a fan of grapefruit sorbet, though pistachio ice cream is also high on the list.
My favorite ice cream right now is Vosges Wattleseed. Not just because it’s exotic, but it was delicious! It tastes similar to a hazelnut ice cream with chunks of macadamia nuts tossed in. Yummy!
I once had a brown butter sorbet – it was incredible.
My favourite icecream flavour is rum and raisin, preferably a very alcoholic version.
Excited about the new book – maybe it’s time to move The Great Book of Chocolate off my desk and make room for a new Lebovitz tome. Hope you sell a squillion copies!
Pumpkin.
honey and lavender!!
My favorite ice cream is Chocolate with Peanut Butter.
Rose flavor is my current favorite for ice cream AND sorbet.
Oooh! Roasted banana with pecans! :) Yummmm!
Coffee Chocolate Chip Ice Cream.
I declare myself an expert on ice cream..but I actually have 2 favorites and 1 I am ashamed to admit out loud but for you I will. My all time favorite flavor is chocolate ice cream with peanut butter in it, it must be an unsweetened peanut butter with plenty of salt. The shameful ice cream sends me back to childhood and that is Thrifty ice cream chocolate malted crunch, when Rite-aid bought out Thrifty Drugs I thought my ice cream was a goner but lo and behold they still have it and some of them even have the old weird cone shaped sccopers.
Coffee with chocolate chunks is a little slice of heaven. I’m also grateful for the invention of coconut ice cream, although looking at the fat content on a carton recently nearly gave me a heart attack. Lesson=don’t look.
Pistachio
coconut rum raisin ice cream
apricot sorbet !
peppermint!!! peppermint peppermint peppermint!!!!
I declare myself an expert on ice cream..but I actually have 2 favorites and 1 I am ashamed to admit out loud but for you I will. My all time favorite flavor is chocolate ice cream with peanut butter in it, it must be an unsweetened peanut butter with plenty of salt. The shameful ice cream sends me back to childhood and that is Thrifty ice cream chocolate malted crunch, when Rite-aid bought out Thrifty Drugs I thought my ice cream was a goner but lo and behold they still have it and some of them even have the old weird cone shaped scoopers.
Salted Caramel. Yum yum! Congrats on the book!
Limone gelato from the little gelato shop near Piazza Santa Croce in Florence
Mint Chocolate Chip
Would have to be a toss up between mango sorbet with a squeeze of lime and the cake batter ice cream at Molly Moon’s in Seattle. mmm.
Chubby Hubby, the Ben and Jerry’s flavor of ice cream, I mean, got me through my PhD dissertation! I have already ordered your book–can’t wait!
Holy crap David, 1,687 comments?! whatever that is in the last picture looks amazing. favorite ice cream flavor – dulce de leche (Were there any comments that didn’t go through because they got the verification question wrong? That would be funny)
Strawberry sorbet!
Vanilla! Congratulations on your new book.
Best ice cream flavor of all time is Salted Caramel. YUM.
salted caramel. although coffee with dark chocolate chunks is a close second! (Congratulations on your book, it looks amazing. I can’t wait to get a copy!)
My favorite is whatever is in my freezer that I’ve whipped up (from “The Perfect Scoop” of course!). Since it’s spring, my current favorite is Strawberry-Sour Cream Ice Cream. “Once it hits your lips it’s so good!” (Anyone get that reference?) Off to steal a bite right now…
Until this week, I would have said stracciatella gelato — but now my eyes have been opened by Moxley’s Cinnamon ice cream. It’s out of this world. It’s real cinnamon, not horrible Big Red cinnamon.
Good God — this is what happens when I see the post at 3 am and think being number 1 is bad luck. =/
The salted-butter carmel ice cream I learned to make from this website is the very, very best.
Hi David, congratulations on your new book.
My favourite ice cream is brown bread.
Wintergreen Chip
caramel. just like the very first poster, but I am old and have probably loved longer than they have, so there…
So many to choose from, but I really love maple walnut.
Congratulations on the book!
cookie dough. sorry, can’t help it.
from capogiro’s in philly: one scoop of dark chocolate gelato + one scoop of blood orange sorbet, yum :)
honey nougat is my favorite.
In France, salted caramel. In the States, Gold Medal Ribbon.
Congratulations on the book!
Sorbet cassis.
Congrats on the book! I am a big fan of your blog but have been too shy to leave comments so far. Well, nothing like a cookware giveaway to get me started! I’ve tried some of your recipes and they have all been excellent.
As for the ice cream flavor, my current favorite is Grom’s Bronte Pistachio. (I hope gelato is included too!)
Coffee
I love French Vanilla with homemade, dark cherry compote spooned over top. Yum. Can’t wait to get your book and I am so glad to know that I am not the only one who has made a French dinner table language faux pas!
Your PEANUT BUTTER ice cream rocks! My favorite!
also love coffee
Lychee sorbet, currently! And coconut gelato, always.
strawberry!
mint chocolate chip
Gelato: gianduja. Sorbet: passion fruit. Congratulations on the new book. Your blog is my everyday escape to the Paris life I’ve always dreamed of living.
I love sweet black cherry with dark chocolate ice cream.
limoncello gelato and caramel ice cream … well i have more than one fave so hard to list them all ;)
and already pre ordered your book thru amazon ;)
salted caramel
I love oreo cookie! I know that is kind of lowbrow, but I just can’t help it! Close second is Thrifty Ice Cream Chocolate Malted Crunch.
Mango sorbet from one of the local dessert shops. Mmm!
vanilla
What a difficult choice! My favorite flavors vary upon my mood! :)
Right now I am totally in love with Häagen-Dazs Mango Sorbet!
Goat Cheese ice cream, from The Perfect Scoop!
vanilla because you can add anything to it and it taste good by itself
Your roasted banana ice cream – within hours of making it for my boyfriend, he proposed marriage. He denies the correlation; I embrace it. Regardless of who is actually more right, it is undisputed that he is my husband and we love this recipe.
I love a good, solid vanilla. With blackberries. Mmm. Summer.
black cherry!
ooh, tough question- as of now… buttermilk ice cream- to top my oatmeal.
congrats on the new book, awaiting my copy as i type!
peppermint!
Rum Raisin. Can’t wait to get my hands on your book!!
Ginger, or Mango Coconut..so hard to choose! For homemade, it’s Peach Blackberry sorbet made with fresh fruit.
I like a good vanilla.
Anything chocolate or coffee… yum! Book looks great- ordering now!
My favorite ice cream is Smurf! It’s Vanilla Ice Cream (Dyed Blue), Chocolate Chips and Marshmallows! YUMMMMM!
Real vanilla.
Blackberry sorbet!!
Overall I would choose chocolate. But given a broader range I would take gianduja
When Peter’s Ice Cream was still on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn he would make a tequila-lime sorbet that was killer and also a molasses gingerbread ice cream that was quite good. He never made them often enough. When he did I would buy a couple of quarts and put them in the freezer.
Sambuca!
vanilla ice cream
p.s. i make your plum tarts all the time!
Yes yes yes! I just ordered the book and and cannot wait to read it, and now I come here and see this! My favorite is mango sorbet, hands down, but with ice cream, I tend to go for something simple like coffee or strawberry.
David’s fig ice cream is the best Ice cream I’ve ever eaten. with some good honey drizzled on top! otherwise its a tie between sour cream lemon and honey tangerine.
Jamocha almond fudge
My favorite ice cream is cinnamon.
Marbeled chocolate and raspberry gelato. I also love candied ginger ice cream.
Wish me luck!
Mango sorbet!
red bean ice cream WITH the beans in them, not pureed. yum!
When it is made with ripe mangoes, my favorite ice cream is mango. I like the mango ice cream produced by a little store in our town. It is rich and smells and tastes yummy.
yay for book release!
and for me, definitely strawberry. in any form. at any time. yum yum!
I have remembered it since 1981—-wild strawberry sorbet at Le Prunier in Paris.
cherry vanilla
No question, it’s Coffee Break ice cream from the creamery on the campus of Penn State University. Coffee ice cream with a generous helping of chocolate shavings. YUMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes! David’s fig ice cream is the best. As for sorbet, I once had a champagne sorbet that was to die for… I will try to recreate someday; maybe David’s book will inspire me!
Banana chocolate… oatmeal cookie… black raspberry chocolate. yum yum yum. I cannot wait to read your book! I hope the all-clad angel makes the random number thingy pick me. Wonder what kind of ice cream said angel likes?
Raspberry Chocolate Chip from Graeter’s (only available in OH, I think).
Rum and Raisin or something with Chocolate AND nuts…
Vanilla with blackberry and walnut ripple ;)
Chubby Hubby!
I have to pick just one?!
Roasted peach… Vanilla with chunks of Crenshaw melon (paired with a late harvest gewurtz, of course)… Chocolate with chile and cinnamon… Pistachio…
OK…here goes…..truthfully…..I love them all! I had to scroll down many, many, many responses before I could leave my comment and each time my eyes spied another favorite I thought….”Oh, I love that too!”.
Not only do I love each flavour but I love the memories that each flavour evokes. I have so many memories of eating ice cream or sorbet with my family or friends and enjoying a special location or joyful moment. There has been vanilla at the local ice cream shop when I was newly married and too poor to afford much else. There was lemon gelato with my kids in San Gimignano. There was decadent chocolate that finished off a special anniversary meal with my husband. There was the ice cream sundae free-for-all at the end of a family bbq at our house. There is the butterscotch swirl that I’ll serve after supper tonight……….
Now…where is that ice cream scoop!
Raspberry chocolate flake ice cream from Grand Ole Creamery in St. Paul, MN.
Rum Raisin. Congratulations on the book!
lime daiquiri! I grew up on Baskin Robbin’s daiquiri ice with rainbow sprinkles, in a flat-bottomed cone.
Pistachio and dark chocolate
Saskatoon (a.k.a. Juneberry).
Vanilla bean has always been a favorite of mine–when I can’t get to Italy for some gelato, of course! :-)
David -Congratulations on you book, may you sell LOTS of copies!
My favorites are:
Ice Cream – Peppermint
Sorbet – Mango
humm, favorite flavor? Ooh, I know – Caramel au Beurre Sale from Berthillon….Yumm!
Chocolate and peanut butter.
Congrats on the book!
I entered a Le Creuset giveaway everyday for FIVE MONTHS, and even with 110 chosen winners, still nothing. So here we go again… I’d say my favorite would have to be either coffee with toffee bits (or chunks, rather), or your chocolate coconut sorbet.
Pistachio, Italian gelato style. Mmmm. Congrats on your book. I keep buying them as presents for my family, but I think it’s my turn for my own.
Pistachio with chunks of candied ginger!
My own blend, I buy the ice cream and swirl in fresh candied ginger.
Homemade vanilla with chocolate chips! And caramel sauce….
I’m boring: vanilla is my favourite.
chocolate! no, wait…pineapple? mango? cantaloupe? drat–i’m going to need a random number generator to pick just one :)
Just love reading your site and also like seeing your name mentioned in the NYTimes on occasion.
My favorite sorbet is a Grapefruit sorbet which I make from my fresh grapefruits.
Berthillon’s nougat au miel flavor!
Ben and Jerry’s Chubby Hubby and Cherry Garcia
Daiquiri ice
Vanilla. It sounds dull, I know, but I think a really good vanilla just can’t be beat.
Oooh, so hard to choose! I’ll say a tie for salted caramel or coffee. Passion fruit sorbet is incredible too.
(Congratulations on the book!)
Baskin-Robbins chocolate mousse royale!
Chocolate! Anything chocolate.
Pepermint stick with hot fudge sauce on top, please.
Apple pie ice cream – tres americain, no?
i have always liked chocolate chip cookie dough
My favorite would have to be Strawberry Black pepper (made with Strawberries at the height of their season). Many congratulations on the book – I just picked up my copy today. Looking forward to reading it.
Congratulations on the new book David!
I would have to agree with Catherine Peters(above me), ice cream flavors does evoke the great memories it comes with… I like the memories of my childhood(don’t kill me) and so I would put as my favorite… Dreyer’s Rocky Road (I know isn’t it terrible?)
I seriously do think that your chartreuse ice cream — the one that I wrote about for my profiteroles guest post on Tartelette — is my favorite flavor. But at this time of year, fresh strawberry is a very close second.
Cassis
my new favorite: jalapeno strawberry from the newest san francisco treasure: humphrey slocombe
HANDS DOWN a small cup of grapefruit sorbet I ate one summer, from a gelato shop in Walla Walla, Washington!
tough question. I’ll have to go with chocolate. congrats on the book!
meyer lemon – rosemary. both fresh picked!
Bertillion Caramel Fleur de Sel.
Red Wine Port Ice Cream – served with a chocolate tuile. mmm mmm good.
Coffee! For some reason, it always tastes more decadent than any other flavor.
Coffee Ice Cream!
My favorite ice cream flavor ever is Cardamom. My favorite sorbet flavor is Passion Fruit. I strongly believe they should be maintained as separate categories. And my favorite Ben & Jerry’s is Vanilla Heath Bar Crunch.
Coffee, as always.
Chocolate Malted Milk! YUMMY!
Going to pick up your book this week, David. Best of luck to you!
L
Häagen-Dazs used to have a macademia nut brittle flavor that I loved!!! Not sure if they have it anymore. But my childhood favorite, and one that I can always go back to, is good ol’ Rock Road. Yum!
Great giveaway! My favorite ice-cream flavor is peanut butter cookie dough (ben and jerry’s makes an awesome one) love it!!
Cranberry Orange Sorbet
Very fresh, homemade vanilla ice cream with (and this is crucial) one or two very roughly chopped Laduree macarons folded in. Most flavours would work for this, but I love it with caramel a la fleur de sel, citron or chocolat amer.
Congratulations on the book!
Dark chocolate peanut butter
I love the Honeydew ice cream they make at Gerenser’s in New Hope, PA! It’s amazing.
It depends on what I’m doing with it – some things simply require a scoop of beautifully flecked vanilla bean ice cream and sometimes a dark chocolate cream is the only thing that will do. But, in general, I love ginger ice cream any time and with almost anything (or nothing) else.
I can’t wait to check out the new book. My favorite flavor is burnt carmel. Congratulations!
oh, yum, yum. My favorite flavor of ice cream ever was called “Hot Chilly Chili.” It featured vanilla ice cream with sweet/spicy candied peanuts and a caramel ribbon. Sadly, they don’t make it anymore. What were they thinking?
Your salted caramel, bien sur.
Maple walnut… it’s good….really, although it’s hard to choose just one…
Simple premium vanilla bean – pure and simple!
Call me boring, but it’s plain old vanilla for me! But REAL vanilla, with vanilla beans. Yum!!
Favorite Ice Cream is Ben and Jerry’s Cherry Garcia
Peach ice crea; blood orange gelato!!
Yum, yum, YUM. My favorite is olive oil gelato.
Ginger Brown Sugar
Peach. There is nothing better than a nice peach ice cream (unless, of course, you stick a pretzel in it).
Lime Sorbet.
What’s even better is a trifecta of citrus: Lemon, Grapefruit and Lime! Yum…
Mint dark chocolate chip, and not the dyed green kind.
burnt sugar
Coffee with Chocolate Chips. Congratulations on the new book!
My favorite is a Rosemary Honey Goat’s Milk gelato that Capogiro (in Philadelphia) makes. Amazing stuff!
Thai chili chocolate gelato from Il Laboratorio in NYC
chocolate ice cream is my favorite.
Coconut ice cream made with fresh coconut!
Tiramisu
Ciao Bella’s Sicilian Blood Orange Sorbet
chocolate
Pistachio. It’s been my favorite since I was a little girl.
i’d have to say… chocolate ice cream with chocolate covered espresso beans!
Raspberry!
Homemade chocolate mint chip.
vanilla ice cream :)
Your Salted Caramel Ice Cream is hands down my most favorite flavor ever.
Before I discovered your recipe my favorite was Mint-Oreo.
I love raspberry ice cream. Or really good vanilla ice cream with raspberry coulis. Or raspberry sherbet.
Dulce de Leche Ice cream
Mint chip? Strawberry? I can’t decide!
speculoos…cinnamon…salted butter caramel…so hard to choose!
chocolate chip mint is my fav…..I preordered the book on Amazon, I can’t wait!
Blackberry, especially when it is homemade
Today’s favorite, Coffee Almond Fudge, mais oui.
Homemade Banana!
French Vanilla!
FOR SURE it’s the Guiness Chocolate. That is a crowd-pleaser every time!
Mango-lemon sorbet, and please don’t delete my comment this time!
Hi, My VERY favorite flavor of ice cream is coffee!! Congratulations on the debut of your book!! Melanie
I have always had a certain weakness for chocolate chip mint ice cream.
Great contest! My favorite flavor of ice cream is pumpkin.
Your blog is my favorite!!! I’m hopelessly addicted!
I love ice cream and sorbet (especially Berthillon) and my favorite flavor is pistachio, although I find it hard to resist any nut flavor.
Looking forward to the book!
I am a coffee ice cream kinda gal.
Dark chocolate sorbet. I love intense flavors.
Vanilla Bean! Can’t wait to get a copy of your book! Congrats. Liz
Salted caramel! Of course!
fresh peach. With cookies on the side.
Mint Chocolate Chip… or as my neighbourhood ice cream place calls it “The Crunchy Frog.”
Mango coconut!
Orange sorbet.
Congratulations on the book. I enjoy your foodie porn – oops I mean blog posts and Tweets.
Cheers,
Malini
butter brickle.
lemon sorbet with a splash of vodka…sends me to the moon!
Really, really good rich creamy vanilla.
Salted Caramel, from The Perfect Scoop. Tasty.
Favorite? wow that is hard. do I say dulce de leche or lemon sorbet? I am in a crisis. Crisis I tell you!!!”’
okay after a few minutes of thought.
I will go with the Dulce de Leche Ice Cream.
Can’t wait to dive into the book. You are fantastic.
It’s hard to pick just one, but I’ll say French vanilla.
Clearly my feed reader doesn’t update often enough! I’m only seeing this today–I wondered what you were talking about on twitter yesterday!
What a fantastic giveaway! And your new book sounds fantastic–well done!
My favorite flavor ice cream has got to be Pistachio.
Passion Fruit Sorbet!
red bean and sesame.
Congrats!
Strawberry with chunks of fresh strawberry on the side!
Coffee ice cream is a close second.
honey saffron ice cream.
chocolate
Honey Lavender ice cream from Bi-Rite Creamery.
Raspberry sorbet!
As a former pastry chef in Palo Alto, and a Paris lover, I’m eagerly awaiting your book from Amazon. Where is that UPS guy? Congrats!
Definitely mint chocolate chip!
Being from Peru, my favorite flavor of ice cream has to be lucuma. It is really tasty!
Favorite ice cream… Yogurt sorbet. Yum.
coffee. or chocolate.
vanilla. good, old fashioned vanilla. doesn’t even have to have specks to make me happy. just has to be vanilla. or olive oil. or malt. or creme fraiche. or ricotta cheese. or yogurt gelato. i like the white flavors. some people say that’s boring. thank you! i can’t wait to receive my pots and pans. i was JUST sitting here trying to figure out how to get me a set of all-clad for testing up a batch of recipes for the next cookbook i am working on. what’s that? guess. it’s the hardest-to-get reservation in los angeles. maybe the country. ciao!
dark chocolate or nutella/gianduja sorbet, paired with rich fruit like blackberry cabernet or coconut…
Ice cream? I’d have to say caramel. As for sorbet, nothing is as delicious as a good melon sorbet in the heat of summer.
Congrats on the new book!
My favorite ice ream would have to be Thai iced tea ice cream.
Vanilla with Toffee or Coconut
Love mint chocolate chip, especially from Molly Moon’s in Seattle.
Mango, preferably from Berthillon. And many happy congratulations on your book!
Your Salted Butter Caramel Ice Cream–and I’m not saying that to suck up!
Favourite flavour? Oh… that’s tough. But lately my favourite gelato combination is pink grapefruit and black sesame and it’s addictive. Can’t wait to read your new book!
my favorite food memory has always been this tart vanilla ice cream… frozen yogurt, maybe??… that I could get at AltaDena Dairy, Los Angeles, when I was a child. I still crave the sucker! Now… milk doesn’t do my body good… so homemade, cocunut milk sweetened soy cream! Still decadent, believe me!
Changes all the time, since we have such good ice cream joints around here in Cambridge. Right now, it’s Kulfi from Toscanini’s: pistachio, cardamom, & a hint of saffron. It’s very refreshing.
mint chocolate chip and preferably green
Belle: green tea; Ward: mint chocolate chip
David! I’m a huge fan, can’t wait to dig into your new book. My favorite ice cream? Hard one! Currently still loving the simple creme fraiche ice cream, although olive oil is a close second. One that I can’t make but is only at one of my favorite restaurants in SF? Toast ice cream! Delish!
Cheers!
basil ice cream with a berry salad – learned that one at the Paul Bocuse Institute in Lyon :)
my favorite sorbet flavor is blood orange.
favorite ice cream flavor: sweet cream with strawberries and caramel
Chocolate. (I don’t really see the point of any other flavor.) Can’t wait to read the book!
Mon Dieu! How exciting! My favorite ice cream flavour has to be pistachio! Or maybe peppermint- or even a good vanilla! Will I get disaqualified if I have multiple favorites?!
Strawberry with good sized strawberry chunks in there!
Aztec hot chocolate, mais oui.
Butter Pecan.
My childhood favorite is cookies and cream, though since going gluten-free several years ago I think I’d pick hazelnut gelato. I have a chocolate hazelnut spread at home just WAITING to be made into something sinful and delicious…
Salted caramel or white chocolate with raspberry and chocolate chunks. Mmmm, now I have to get some ice cream.
Chocolate of course!!!!!! especially with hot fudge, whipped cream, and pecans on top!!! Oh, and don’t forget the cherry:)
One scoop each of Mapleview Farm’s (Orange County, NC) Chocolate Orange and Cherry Vanilla so I can put both on my spoon at once to savor. Out of this world!
I can only choose one? Pistachio or strawberry, both ice creams.
Edy’s Drumstick, modeled after the delicious Sundae cone of the same name. It’s super-delicious.
honey + lavender sorbet
I love cookies & cream ice cream!!
My favorite gelato place in LA, Pazzo Gelato, has a butter brown sugar gelato that I cannot live without.
Congrats on the book!
Lemon of course !!
Oh, I will go with Nactarine, my all favorite fruite in the world (though I adore chocolate). It was my favorite few years ago in a small Cafe in Tel Aviv called Baccio, that manufactures it’s own ice cream.
My favorite sorbet is from a Japanese restaurant in Austin, TX: cracked black pepper with a hint of thyme, garnished with fresh strawberries and mint… mmmm…
Raspberry Sorbet!
salted caramel crunch
Mmmmmm, passionfruit sorbert. Sweet, tangy, absolutely delicious. A close second is chocolate hazelnut from our local gelato place, overlooking the harbor and the giant banyan tree…
ginger ice cream is my favorite. with little bits of candied ginger…
i can’t wait to read your book david!
thanks,
sabe
I have already pre-ordered your book from Amazon (shameless sucking up).
My favorite flavors are vanilla ice cream and mango sorbet. Pineapple ice cream and sorbet are a very close second.
Strawberry icecream
Sweet corn icecream
today–vanilla
tomorrow–creme de leche
Well, when it comes right down to it, I think strawberry is my favorite. And I mean Perry’s strawberry ice cream from Upstate New York. The real deal.
I love vanilla. I love the straightforward dairy-ness of it. I love dairy.
Am also currently obsessed with the idea of buttermilk sorbet and/or ice cream. Haven’t made it yet, but will soon.
Congratulations on the book!
Lemon. The perfect cone of gelato has a scoop of lemon, a scoop of hazelnut, and a scoop of walnut. YUM!
Blue Bell Vanilla Bean (a southern brand and a southern treat). Yum!
Mint!
mochi ice cream, yum yum…
the olive oil gelato at Otto in NYC…best ever.
My favorite is gelato di limone or lemon gelato. I had my first real one in Firenze and have been addicted to the stuff ever since.
Congrats on the release of your new book!! That’s exciting!
ready…i love creme brulee.
Chocolate of course…and dark!
Oh man, how can one decide? My favorite from this winter is Blood Orange frozen yogurt, but then yesterday I made Strawberry ice cream and have fallen in love all over again.
Congrats on another successful book!
Fresh Mint
Salted Caramel
Cinnamon
I do love a good vanilla also…
I could go on! I eat too much ice cream to have only one favorite. I do choose ice cream as a favorite food!
Tough question. All time favorite go-to flavor – coffee. However there’s currently even a hard decision to be made just when visiting the top drawer of my freezer: mocha almond fudge, maple walnut, coffee Heathbar crunch, chocolate malted biscotti and/or plain cream? All flavors made to make my dad happy on his 66th birthday, as he’s my reason for being an ice cream buff.
Coffee with orasted almonds… yummm
Chocolate Hazelnut, wish it was warm enough here in the NW to eat some now…
Vanilla…I keep it simple! Congratulations on the book!!
Coffee
My favorite flavor is peppermint.
(salted) caramel
I know this is considered only a holiday flavor, but I love peppermint stick!
Burnt Carmel from Boston’s Tosconini’s! YUM.
Homemade peach ice cream… takes me right back to my childhood!
dulce de leche . . .
but if it’s really, really warm outside, i go for mint chocolate chip!
green tea or coconut (or better yet a swirl)
Vanilla Bean
Can’t wait to read your book!
Nothing beats a scoop of the perfect vanilla.
Nocciola
Mango!!! Both ice cream and sorbet… Although Dulce de Leche is a close second!
Sweet cream ice-cream
I love all ice cream expecially Maple Walnut
Mint ice cream with chocolate stracciatella… It’s best that way.
Mint Chocolate Chip
chocolate peanut butter anything:)
Congratulations on the new book!
My favorite sorbet is Nederburg Noble Late Harvest and Pear Sorbet
(which I make with a lovely dessert wine from South Africa, inspired by the Riesling and Pear sorbet made by Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream of Columbus, Ohio).
My favorite ice cream is Coffee!
Grapefruit Sorbet
Can’t wait to read your book David!
bittersweet chocolate sorbet!!!
Blood orange sorbet or green tea icecream.
Congratualtions on your new book!
Ummmm …. salted caramel. Followed closely by sour cherry sorbet. The best double scoop ever.
Avocado! So yummy. Love the recipe with the sour cream.
Wow! So many comments!!
I luv ice cream!! And PISTACHIO is the yummiest! :)
But Frederick’s of Chesterfield makes really nice vanilla.
(was also drooling after seeing the carrot cake ice cream photos!)
coffee ice cream.
My favorite ice cream flavor is red bean.
Chocolate chip for me!
Three Twins honey lavender vanilla in a just-made, warm waffle cone!
Strawberry icecream
Corn icecream
Mint Chocolate Chip!
Hard choice to make…coconut sorbet, dulce de leche ice cream, dark chocolate gelato…have had love affairs with all of them.
But I always come back to pistachio. My local homemade ice cream place makes it with big (I think lightly salted) pistachios, and it’s not overly sweet. It is indescribably delicious.
Congrats on the book! Looking forward to reading it.
Mango sorbet for this island girl!
Blood orange sorbet.
Wait, a favorite ice cream / frozen dessert of choice? I think my favorite so far has to be homemade Basil Ice Cream. Truly delicious.
Congrats on the book!
My fave ice cream is sorghum molasses and my fave sorbet is blood orange. Runner’s Up would be fennel ice cream and strawberry lemonade sorbet.
Have fun in Italy!
Coconut
Lemon sorbet
Buttermilk pancake with maple syrup ice cream!!!!!!!!!!! Breakfast all day! I love your postings!!!
Chocolate chip cookie dough. I find it comforting.
Congrats on the release of your book, I can’t wait to get a copy!
My favorite ice cream ever is actually your recipe for Salted Butter Caramel ice cream. It’s the first I ever made in my free-with-credit-card-points ice cream maker, and it is the absolute most delicious taste I can think of.
ice cream: coffee and walnut from the place in Rome.
sorbet: my hatch chilie pepper lime with cornmeal shortbreads
I really enjoy your style! A very light mint with flecks of dark chocolate is my favorite flavor, however I usually have to make it myself. Most places are a little heavy-handed with the mint.
Dark dark dark chocolate…. :-D I’m looking forward to your book! Thank you as well for this lovely site!
In terms of favorite flavor over all, it’s undoubtedly peanut butter cup. In terms of the flavor I’m obsessed with right now, balsamic vinegar.
My favorite ice cream is strawberry!
dulce de leche is IT at the moment, but chocolate marshmallow has been a favorite throughout the years. YUM~
chocolate chip cookie dough, of course.
The book looks wonderful – I can’t wait to get my copy and imagine living in Paris, both the good and bad.
Salted caramel is my favorite, but I can’t think of many types of ice cream that I would turn down. Especially now that both our freezer and car a/c have decided to quit. Which to fix (as I only have money for one) is quite a pickle. Ohhh! Pickles and Ice Cream!
Coconut
Chocolate chip cookie dough.
pistachio for ace cream, strawberry for sherbet …
moi je n’aime que les sorbets…. j’adore le citron et le cassis de chez Berthillon….
Hazelnut/Nocciola Gelato for me!
Cassis!
Don’t get many of them here in the states, legacy of the ban :(
Chocolate! I preordered the book so long ago and I can’t wait for it to come!!
My favorite flavor would have to be something Peanut Buttery. Or a chocolate-hazelnut. or BOTH!
Favorite flavor: Death by Chocolate
Fortunately it has yet to live up to it’s name…
Pistache from Amorino!! and if I’m feeling sassy, I mix it with Yaourt.
I love peach ice cream…mmmm
Mirabelle!
I’m going to hop on the ice cream wagon, but I’m bringing dancing elephants and tame tigers and pompoms and screaming HOLY FUCKNOLY I LOVE THAT FLAVOR! Shish boom bah! Rockem Sockem Salted Butter Caramel!! Rah!
I get enthused about it a bit :)
Pistachio!
cold duck sorbet
hmmm blood orange sorbet! delightfully light but man does it pack a punch in flavor!
I can’t possibly choose my favorite ice cream of all time! There’s so many…
Well, ok, a really good vanilla can be the most amazing, as can chocolate.
Congrats. I will go with green tea flavor :)
good old fashioned coffee ice cream.
french vanilla
I can’t possibly choose my favorite ice cream of all time! There’s so many…
Well, ok, a really good vanilla can be the most amazing, as can chocolate.
I have to say lemon sorbet. Congrats on the book! Can’t wait to read it.
chocolate malted crunch
Honey… followed closely by Blackberry Chocolate Chip.
Congratulations on your book!
Your chocolate sorbet ice cream made by me!
Nothing beats “Sweet Butter Cream” with fresh raspberries!
Bubble Gum of course!
2001 comments! That is a record! All-Clad coming my way and I will buy Haagen Daz Honey Bee ice cream my fav at the moment to go with it. I also love buying and eating and getting samples at the farmers market of 3 Twins icecream. Mint Confetti has tiny choc specs yumm, the sensation of chocolate melting and cold icecream confusion. Their Strawberry Je Ne Sais Quoi with a splash of balsamic is yummy too. I love your blog and I am a great fan. I would any opportunity to do a chocolate tour with you. You seem to be an all around cheerful guy.
Corn ice cream (though it is so hard to find!)
A three-way tie for salted caramel (your recipe), chocolate peanut butter (Baskin Robbins– gasp!), and strawberry (my recipe).
Not a huge sorbet fan, but I love Breyer’s Coffee Ice Cream. :)
Congratulations on your new book!
That is the coolest & prettiest book cover I’ve ever seen!
Hazelnut gelato. Nothing else to say.
Real homemade vanilla, without add-ins – but my favorite store-bought flavor is coffee. And my favorite cookware is All-Clad. :)
Just one favourite flavour? Huh.
Grapefruit sorbet. At least for today
Almost any flavor……but I am going with chocolate peanut butter
chocolate from Berthillon-i made the pilgramage last week while on holiday in Paris or
Maple Nut from the Snowflake in riverhead, NY
My favorite is chocolate chip ice cream. Yum!
Black raspberry
Pamplemousse from Berthillion.
Love the book–I read half of it last night since we are leaving for Paris the 25th.
Vanilla Fudge Ripple
Chocolate – that’s a no brainer. Congrats on the new book! Can’t wait to read it.
Mango, any way you want to freeze it.
Coffee does it for me.
Cookies and cream :9
Nothing better than coffee ice cream!!! : D
Green tea for me!
I love raspberry and coffee sorbets together.
Blood-orange sorbet in the summer time!
Black sesame….Yum!
WOW – David you have a great group of readers – hope they all buy your new book!
Dulce de Leche is my fav.
Ginger ice cream!
Oh, this is hard! I will go with Moose Tracks for now.
dulche de leche
Baskin-Robbins now-departed Daiquiri Ice. Oh, how I miss it.
Chocolate peanut butter! Mmm, Haagen-Dazs…
Vanilla with Grapenuts.
ube ice cream
quezo ice cream
I had an opportunity to move to Paris for a year in 2005 and foolishly let it slip through my fingers. I still haven’t made it there for a visit. That’s reason enough not to win, right? I have been getting a kick out of your blog since I came across it a few months ago. It’s a little treat in my work day that is almost as good as my dad’s homemade Georgia Peach Ice Cream, my favorite. I only get to have it when I’m down there for a visit and peaches are in season. Congratulations on your new book!
My first post never showed- please dont DQ me!!! I need pots! :)
Dark Chocolate PB….mmmmm
Fruta di bosco…no, mango sorbetto…no, white chocolate gelato.
All of them.
tiramisù ice cream (from the Perfect Scoop!)
I do like your Salted Butter Caramel quite a bit…
Or maybe a chocolate sorbet.
But chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream wins every time, I must say.
i can’t wait to see the new book! my favorite ice cream would be a tie between green tea, caramel au beurre salée, mint chocolate chip, and the really delicious dark chocolate with pepper from il laboratorio di gelato.
There’s an old ice cream shop where I grew up, in Santa Cruz, CA called Marianne’s, and all their flavors are produced locally by them. My favorite ice cream is their signature flavor “1020″ so called because their address is 1020 Ocean St. It’s caramel ice cream with fudge swirls and oreo cookies. It is phenomenal, and special because it’s exclusive to that area, and reminds me of my childhood. Close runners up are their macapuno baby coconut, and blackberry.
Can’t wait to see the new book! Oh, and my favorite ice cream is Peanut Butter and Chocolate.
Coffee or butter pecan.
Strawberry!
My fav ice cream tin roof sundae. Who cannot love swirls of fudge sauce and chocolate covered peanuts in vanilla ice cream. It’s a classic!
I love mango sorbet – the best I ever had was at the Haagen Dasz in London.
your candied bacon ice cream, or this basil ice cream with dark chocolate and sea salt.
Hazelnut
Coffee!
Figue! Congrats on the new book!
Fresh peach ice cream all the way!!!
Pistachio gelato! or salted caramel…
Coffee (ice cream)
Orange (sorbet)
Firstly Congratulations on the release!! Can’t wait to get my hands on my copy.
I’m in love with your Pear Caramel recipe from the Perfect Scoop, it’s ideal for all my less than “perfect” pears ;-) nom nom
Kona coffee
My passion is peanut butter and chocolate.
Cinnamon Snap from Mitchell’s Ice Cream in San Francisco
(Cinnamon Ice Cream with Ginger Snaps)
Bailey’s Irish Cream ice cream in a milkshake is perfection.
Honey ice cream!
My can find favorite is mango, but I once had rose water gelato that knocked me for a loop, utterly divine.
David, Congrats on your book!
I am buying it right away!
My favorite flavor ice cream is CHOCOLATE PEANUT BUTTER!
Stacey Snacks
I love most of them but pistachio gelato would have to be my favourite, I developed an unhealthy obsession with it in Italy!
Mmmm, raspberry does it for me every time!
huckleberry or cake batter
There is nothing better then a good vanilla ice cream. This is my favorite! :)
I love pistachio, especially the color!
cheese. here in the philippines, we have a local brand that contains coconut milk as well.
So far at the bottom! My favorite ice cream is Grapenut from Toscanini’s!
A classic one: Vanilla, it’s the best when it’s made the right way.
Salted Caramel, yummy!!
My favorite ice cream flavor is one I tasted at a gelateria in Prato, Italy. The flavor was called fior d’arancio (orange blossom) and was delicious served alongside a dark chocolate ice cream. Now I’m hungry and want to go to Italy, damn.
Hmmm…Daniel Craig and Rose Strawberry gelato, or ANYTHING chocolate and Pierce Brosnan, circa 1982.
Congrats on the book! I hope the bank account stories are included!
Green tea. But when I do have a new favorite, it will most probably include bacon.
Lemon with candied ginger
Hidalgo Gelato in St. Aug. FL has a grapefruit/strawberry sorbet that I’m still craving after the birth of my second kid! Fave.
Ben & Jerry’s Phish Food
1- Secret Breakfast (Bourbon Ice cream with sweetened cornflakes) Ice Cream at Humphrey Slocombe in San Francisco.
2- Mint that I make with my mint bush from your recipe in Perfect Scoop.
Cream caramel with macadamia nuts and congratulations on the book. :-)
Lilikoi sorbet, onolicious!
your recipe for the lavender honey ice cream (i use marshall’s honey) beats bi-rite creamery’s version. I also love the peach frozen yogurt. so easy to make, and so good! I hope I win! I can’t wait to get your new book. (I have two copies of “The Perfect Scoop” and your chocolate book.
Pineapple sorbet!
I prefer gelato to ice cream, but I’m Italian, so I might be a little biased :) My favorite flavor is watermelon gelato!
Mango sorbet
I like chocolate chip cookie dough.
cassis (Blackcurrent) — a standard in France, but only rarely obtainable on this side of the ocean … except occasionally at my favorite local ice cream shop, The Dairy Godmother
http://www.thedairygodmother.com/
Mint chocolate chip followed closely by coffee. Mmmm.
Butterscotch ice cream (from Gray’s in Rhode Island, if possible).
Chocolate and Peanut Butter
Congratulations on your book!
Coconut cream.
Blood orange.
Holy cow, this a lot of comments!
My favorite flavor is Heathbar ice cream.
lemon verbena, peach and banyuls sorbet
I hate to be boring but I find Vanilla hard to beat.
Good luck with your new book, I have all the others and the Cuisinart ice cream maker you recommended.
I like strawberry ice cream!!
My current favorite is zabaglione gelato.
Mint Chip. And having it that funky green color is very comforting.
vanilla.
The best ice cream I ever had was a coconut ice cream cone. The ice cream had ginormous flakes of coconut throughout the entire scoop. This was in a park in Hawaii when I was a kid, and about the only ice cream cone I remember eating as a kid, to be honest!
My favorite ice cream, I’ve only had in Paris, Pamplemousse Rouge (that would be red grapefruit for the non-French speaking).
Salted caramel ice cream. Mmmmmm.
Graeters of Cincinnatti chocolate chocolate chip – I don’t know how they make the chocolate chips gooey, but they are to die for!!!
Mint ‘n chip! : )
Bon Jour,
Favorite sorbet would be lemon with a vodka boost. Gelato is always a double scoop so I don’t have to choose just one, but for today let’s say hazelnut. I am so excited to read your new book before our trip to Paris in 21 days, but who’s counting.
Coffee toffee crunch (sandwiched between macarons) from a delicious bakery in West Hollywood called Milk.
Bon Jour,
Favorite sorbet would be lemon with a vodka boost. Gelato is always a double scoop so I don’t have to choose just one, but for today let’s say hazelnut. I am so excited to read your new book before our trip to Paris in 21 days, but who’s counting.
Chocolate! I can’t help that dessert isn’t complete without an element! There are a too many delicious variations on this, but if I have to choose a flavor, then chocolate it is.
Wow what a lot of comments.
Blood orange sorbet is my favourite flavour. So easy to make in my Thermomix.
Chocolate! I just can’t help believing dessert isn’t complete without this element :) So if I have to choose a flavor, then chocolate it is.
Current favorite: salted caramel
As a child, I loved Bassetts butterscotch vanilla sold at the hundred-year old marble counter at the Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia.
rum raisin
Crema di Grom (egg cream, biscuits and dark chocolate) from Grom at various locations in Italy. Yum.
My current favourite is creme caramel. Just got your book yesterday and it is delicious too!
Coffee’s always at the top of my list!
For my birthday 2 years ago I received an ice cream maker and made mulberry lemon sorbet which was very nice but…..last year when I went to Paris, and tried out Grom Gelato’s Crema di Grom, with crushed polenta cookies, this has to be the best….
Lime sorbet. I love the tart after a hot day in the summer. Yum…
Congratulations on the book! I can’t wait to read it!
Favourite flavour ever….. armangac and prune
Congrats on the book!
favourite = chocolate merlot. mmm…..
Hazelnut (and it’s got to be gelato, obviously!). Matcha icecream is a close second, though! Love your blog for its wit, the great photos and recipes :)
Vanilla served with hot fudge and a brownie!
Chocolate chip cookie dough.
Fois Gras
(part of a “Fois Gras three ways” plate @ Commanders Palace, New Orleans)
grapefruit sorbet (with a splash of vodka…)
congratulations on the book!
I love chocolate raspberry ice cream!
Ginger Ice Cream! Sweet-Hot-Spicy-Icy-Smooth-Rich-Delish!
Straciatella………………eaten in any piazza on a hot summer evening!
Cardamom ice cream with a pinch of cinnamon added is my absolute favorite flavor!
David’s vanilla ice cream… Yum!
Vanilla ice cream with caramelized ginger
Vanille, s’il vous plait.
Starbucks used to make a Java Toffee that must have put 20 pounds on me. I haven’t been able to find in in 10 years (fortunately or unfortunately, I can’t decide) but it will be my summer project to re-create it! Elastic waistband, here I come!
Mocha chip!
I used to work at an ice cream store that rotated 250 flavors. If I had to pick just one fave, I’ll go with key lime pie ice cream. We literally just got a few key lime pies and dumped them in the ice cream maker with the ice cream base. Decadence!
goma (black sesame) ice cream. ‘discovered’ it while living in japan. oishii!
Vanilla Bean… Im a purist :)
balsamic vinegar strawberry. yummers
glace a la praline
Homemade Chocolate Cherry Almond Chunk
What is a zizi? It sounds too cute to flog someone with.
Ice cream: ginger
Sorbet: mango
I love Meyer lemon sorbet…unless it is over-sweetened. Then it is just gross and all the delicious, fresh flavor is lost.
caramel ice cream
I look forward to get your new book, your picture with the poached pear looks yummy, is it in your new book? My favorite ice cream flavor is Strawberry, and Chocolate.
This is so cool!
My favorite flavor of homemade ice-cream is Parker County Peach with brandied pecans. Oh, yeah…
Sorbet? Watermelon.
Lime Sorbet!!!
Coconut & macadamia nut together.
Hi David,
I love your blog and your style.
Icecream: chocolate
sorbet: lemon
Dena
i love mocha almond ice cream… and all-clad!
My favourite ice cream is chocolate mint!
Cantelope sorbet, especially if it has a little milk or cream. Don’t know if this makes it a sherbert or sherbet
Blood orange sorbet – congratulations on your new book!
lavender Ice-cream goes well with white chocolate brulee.
favorite ice cream: mint chocolate chip, favorite sorbet: yuzu
Chocolate – the more the smoother, the better.
Green tea, mmm….
Congrats on your new book and have fun in Italy!
Pistachio…yum
mango
Congratulations! Favorite flavor? No question……coffee.
Nice way to get us to stop lurking :)
My ice-cream preferences vary with time, but, currently, I have to say my favourite flavour is “coffee” :)
Belgian Chocolate!!
Looking forward to the new book.
Best from Brooklyn.
Straus yogurt sorbetto
Only one flavour allowed? Then it has to be the darkest possible chocolate. I did try to make your Caramel au beurre salé ice cream, David, but I think I made the caramel too dark, or dense; the ice cream was REALLY runny. I know the directions said to expect it to be runny, but I don’t think I expected to be quite that runny.
Anyway, congratulations on the publication of your new book.
Strawberry sorbet.
Who can choose a favorite ice cream? That’s crazy talk!
Chocolate!
Chocolat……congratulations on the book. It sounds like an interesting read.
Blackberry Cobbler
You mean I have to narrow it down to one flavor!! Zabaglione.
Congrats on the new book
Assam tea
My favorite ice cream would have to be homemade Vanilla and my favorite sorbet would be Orange.
raspberry chocolate truffle, yum!!
My favourite flavour of ice cream is Mint Chocolate chip (I know, boring). It’s the only flavour that I really enjoy, no matter how many times I order it.
earl grey, then hazelnut gelato!
It’s a tough call but Bitter Chocolate all the way.
Bi-Rite Creamery’s SALTED CARAMEL! Can’t wait for the book!
Coffee, preferably with caramel sauce!
Definitely cherry. This is based mostly on my grandfather’s homemade cherry ice cream, though. I’m not sure I’ve ever had store bought cherry ice cream.
Nothing beats homemade vanilla ice cream, made with uncooked eggs. Salmonella? Who cares when it tastes this good!
Cheesecake Icecream, it doesn’t really matter what the other flavour is as long as it ain’t banana.
Coffee, then CBS.
mint chocolate chip!
tin roof sundae!
Pomegrante sorbet–tangy and sweet
Congratulations on your book! How wonderful to spend time in Paris…can’t wait to see your book.
My favorite ice cream is cherry chocolate chip.
black sesame
I have to go with a plain and simple chocolate ice cream. It doesn’t get any better than that!
chocolate-chip cookie dough ice cream or lemon sorbet. but not at the same time.
My favorite ice cream is Jamoca Almond Fudge… and I love your blog! Can’t wait to read your book.
My favorite is chocolate fudge.
Peppermint oreo [soy] ice cream!
Vanilla, because it pairs up with almost anything: pie, brownies, hot fudge…
Ben and Jerry’s Half Baked (vanilla and chocolate swirled with cookie dough and brownie pieces).
Congrats on the book! Looking forward to reading it.
Many congratulations on the book!
My alltime anytime favorite is Saffron Cardamom Ice Cream!
My favorite ice cream is basil.
Lemon sorbet! Delicious, and it tastes like it could be considered healthy.
I recently had a lovely gorgonzola ice cream with fresh Georgia Strawberries.
Ben & Jerry’s – New York Super Fudge Chunk
Mint chocolate chip is one of my favorites. Looking forward to reading your new book!
Ben & Jerry’s Creme Brulee!
Strawberry-buttermilk is my new favorite!
Peppermint Stick. It must be pink! With candy!
Home-made pear ginger ice cream, sometimes with chocolate drizzled on it. Overkill, sure, but I’m already in deep anyway….congratulations on the book and an always entertaining blog.
creme fraiche ice cream with pralines (ate it at ICI in Berkeley, CA)
Mint Chocolate Chip. Mmmmmm
Congrats on the book!
Mint chocolate chip – from Straus Family Creamery here in happy cow California.
Can’t wait to read the book – congratulations!
mango!
Chocolate.
Pistachio rocks my world!!
Papaya is my favorite!
peanut butter Mmmmm
Oohh thank you for the opportunity-chocolate ice cream with things in it
Sweet Cream! Everyone goes on that vanilla is the pure flavor, but as much as I adore vanilla (and chocolate and everything else), once I savored sweet cream ice cream and could taste every bit of the cream…ah!
Love your books and blog. I own a zillion cookbooks, but there’s few that I really have cooked from with excellent results.
Yummmmm…. congrats on the book. Looks fabulous! Favorite flavor of ice cream…. chocolate, of course! but there are many, many more… :)
chocolate
chocolate marshmallow!
Green tea ice cream!
j’aime Pumpkin ice cream! Crazy happy for you and the new book, can’t wait to read!
Chocolate Chunk
Can’t beat a good mint chocolate flake!
vanilla bean with fresh blackberries
Happy New-Book Launch!
Chocolate ice cream is my favorite.
mango
My favorite go-to supermarket ice cream is Breyer’s Mint Chocolate Chip, otherwise I would have to say the Thai basil ice cream I had the other night, which was surprising and refreshing and delicious. Re: sorbet, I adore anything citrus — lemon, tangerine, grapefruit, kumquat, lime…
choclate and peanut butter, but with more chocolate flavor
For ice cream – dulce de leche. For sorbet – mango. Mmmmm….
Framboise du Berthillon. For obvious reasons.
Hail from Australia, Sydney!!
I absolutely love Cookies and Cream.
Unconditional Chocolate
mint chocolate chip ice creams, where the ‘s’ is for several spoonfuls.
Vanilla bean!
I just got an ice cream maker for my birthday and now I’m anxiously awaiting the arrival of “The Perfect Scoop”!
Rocky road please
jamoca almond fudge — yum yum yum!
tin roof sundae
Chocolate raspberry
Khulfi frozen custard. Cardamom and almond.
mmmm… citrus sorbets are the deal.
I’ll go with meyer lemon this time, but lime, key lime and regular old lemon are also in the rotation.
Carrot cake recipe from the LA times…. wow
there is nothing better than a fresh scoop of vanilla, garnished with a scratch of cinnamon, over a soft, warm brownie right out of the oven – nothing beats this.
Lime sorbet, lovely especially with a spoonful of lemoncello over top
Pretty much anything with ginger in it
mango sorbet
Pralines and cream! Yum!
tiramisu, with chunks of actual tiramisu in it
lavender
fresh mint ice cream(your recipe), please!
it closely beat out vanilla-honey and dulce de leche…
The best ice cream is homemade vanilla. We would make it using an antique hand cranked ice cream maker when I was a kid and there is nothing better.
Hello! Lime and lychee sorbet is my favourite.
Congrats for the book.
The Basil Ice Cream at Ici in Berkeley: not too sweet, just a refreshing breeze!
fresh mint ice cream(your recipe), please! it closely beat out lavender-vanilla-honey and dulce de leche
I’m a big fan of lemon sorbetto. One scoop of lemon sorbetto with one scoop of vanilla ice cream is just about the perfect combination.
(PS. if you see two comments from this IP address, that’s me and my wife posting from behind the same NAT firewall, not ballot-stuffing.)
Almond
peppermint stick!
Congrats on the book – can’t wait to read it! My favorite ice cream is still the tried-and-true chocolate peanut butter by Haagen Dazs. Kind of unoriginal (and not very French) but delicious nonetheless!
Strawberry!
Pistachio on a cold day.
mint chocolate chip!
Mango!
Can’t wait to read the book!
Black Raspberry! Congrats on the book!
Anything from Amorino. After returning from Paris a couple of weeks ago I’m having a hard time shaking my addiction. If I have to choose a flavour I’d pick Pistachio. Can’t wait to read your book.
Coffee chip at the perfect consistency. David has become one of my heroes.
Oh my, I’ll have to go with ginger. Mmmmm… Congrats on the new book!
hazelnut
palm sugar-toasted coconut
Congrats on the book! Mint chocolate chip is my current favorite.
Mmmmm, caramel! Or mint chocolate.
Blue Bell Homemade Vanilla or Strawberry from a little ice cream shop called “Cool” located in Isla Mujeres, Mexico.
grapefruit sorbet no wait vanilla bean for its simpleness. no wait is this all time or right now because right now I gotta say its bacon ice cream lve the crunchy salty sweet bacon
Any flavor as long as it is homemade.
strawberry (gotta have lots of fresh strawberry chunks)
Pear caramel
Chocolate with chocolate.
Vanilla bean
Waldbeer or Wildberry ice cream
chocolate mint any day.
a creamy vanilla with fresh chopped strawberries mixed in!
btw, your new book looks fabulous! and speaking of your books, someone purchased your ice cream book for my upcoming bridal shower — i am EXTREMELY excited to start using it!!
Ginger!!!
Kumquat Sorbet!!
Choosing one is tough…….so, for me Coffee and yummy Pistachio are my favorite ice cream flavors. Wishing you all the best on yet another great book!
I can’t name just one. My homemade favorites so far have been mango sorbet, mint chocolate chip (from an NPR recipe), and your amazing malted milk ice cream.
Chocolate!! It can have brownies chunks or peanut butter. I can easily settle down to a scoop of truly delicious chocolate ice cream.
Ginger. Ginger. Ginger!
I had my favorite sorbet to date at a place in Mexicali. It was made with red wine and strawberries and had a little brandy….
Thanks for the fun giveaway on top of the great blog, books, pics and everything!
Mint chocolate chip, of course.
I can’t wait to read your book.
Believe it or not…homemade durian ice cream.
congrats on the new book!!
Ice cream is my favorite food, so it’s hard to pick a single flavor. I like coffee Haagen Dazs because it’s simple and accessible, but actually my favorite flavor is vanilla with coffee sauce and walnuts, all mushed together.
Favorite sorbet flavor: piña colada.
Congrats on the book, I get my copy on Mother’s Day.
The best ice cream I have made and received rave rave reviews by my friends is Vanilla Bean with fresh Bing Cherries and Marzipan Bits. Totally yummy.
I love ice cream, so it is difficult to choose! I’ll pick a favorite sorbet flavor instead: mango. Yum.
Raspberry honey cassis sorbet
Pralines and Cream
My favourite ice cream flavour: pandan and coconut!
BTW love your blog, David! Keep up the good work and best of luck with your new blog.
Cheers,
Caroline
I love ice cream! All kinds! But one of my favorites is cinnamon.
My favourite ice cream flavour: pandan and coconut!
BTW love your blog, David! Keep up the good work and best of luck with your new book.
Cheers,
Caroline
My books have arrived but I am not at home :-( Can’t wait to read about your adventures.
My favorite Ice Cream flavor has got to be your rich Chocolate with the additions of nuts and marshmallows (no, not made from scratch like we used to do) to transform it into Rocky Road.
Pick me, Pick me!
Crème fraîche! (Preferably from The Perfect Scoop)
Congratulations! I am a raspberry sorbet fan. :) I don’t eat much ice cream anymore, but when I did – peanut butter chip.
Vanilla. With vanilla as a base, you can then add whatever yummy fruits, nuts, etc., and change up the flavor.
Huckleberry pie ice cream, absolute perfection.
Tough to choose but it’ll be black sesame!
Got to check out your new book. Congrats.
“Anise” from your book “The Perfect Scoop.”
Stracciatella gelato
Gotta be the exotic lavender vanilla!
Love chocolate! Looking forward to the Sweet Life!
Strawberry Mascarpone ice cream.
Natural frozen yogurt with raspberry puree, dried figs and toasted coconut swirled in.
Passion fruit sorbet!!
Blood Orange Sorbet-mmmmzzzah
Secretly, my favorite ice cream is probably chocolate, but I rarely eat it because not many people can make it well.
When that fails (as it does so often), I go for vanilla, salted caramel and coconut. And sweet corn when in season– it has these incredible nutty and sweet nuances that take something that would taste like plain ol’ vanilla into new heights.
Congratulations on your new book!
Has to be caramel. With a little sea salt on top. Oh yeah.
Melon sorbet……mmmmmmm……what could be better?
Mmmmm, this one has more than one answer — one flavor for each frozen delight!
Mint Chip Ice Cream, it was my favorite as a child and ice cream was delivered from Forsgate Farms once a week. The order always included mint chip, but not just a bright green mint ice cream with chips, but a minty ice cream with chopped chocolate slivers. Then there is frozen yogurt, favorite here would be mango. Favorite sorbet is Earl Gray Chocolate – deep dark chocolate scented with flowery, citrusy bergamot Earl Gray tea. And gelato would have to be Gianduja.
My favorite flavor is peanutbutter and chocolate
Caramel makes me swoon.
Vanilla Bean!
Mango Sorbet!
Congrats on your book!
Mint chocolate chip.
Congrats on the book!
Butter Pecan ice cream. Yum.
My favorite ice cream flavor is Vanilla Bean Ice Cream with Chocolate Chips!
I love straciatella gelato too!!
Congratulations on the book!
Ana
Salted Caramel
it has been mint chocolate chip vs. chocolate chocolate chip my whole life! i guess it depends on the moment…. ok, i’ll pick one, it’s mint chocolate chip!
by the way, the rhubarb fail is fabulous. made it with raspberries and served it with the buttermilk ice cream i just made.
David
My favorite flavor is an old New England favorite which is virtually extinct. It is Grapenut Ice Cream, and now the only way I can enjoy it, is to make it myself.
Congrats on your new book. I look forward to getting my copy shortly.
Mark
dark dark dark dark chocolate. ice cream. gosh, I’m going all over funny just thinking about it.
congratulations on the new book.
I’m an old fashioned girl, and I LOVE peppermint stick!!
And I’m sad that your computer czar won’t let me qualify the city in which you live by saying that it’s my very favorite in the world. (It rejected that answer………..)
almond almond
Pecan Pralines and Cream….yum. The book looks amazing. Keep ‘em coming!
my favorite ice cream flavor is pistachio
pear sorbet please!
Hmmm . . . I think my favorite frozen dessert is your chocolate sorbet recipe. Too Good!
I’m trying to pick just one as I’m reading through the comments and I keep changing my mind. At this moment it’s salted caramel. No! wait….
Nietzsche’s chocolate ascension at Christina’s in Cambridge, MA.
Apricot brandy from Valhalla here in Tassie!
My favorite type of ice cream is homemade peach ice cream with fresh ripe peaches. My grandpa hand churned it, back in the day and nothing I’ve had since rivals it. Luckily I have the recipe.
Goat-milk caramel (Cajeta) with caramelized cocoa nibs
My favourite is sweet cream, preferably served with very bittersweet hot fudge sauce.
Chocolate with brownie bits
this week my favorite is oreo cake batter from jp licks in boston
coffee, of course
Pistachio gelato!
Ginger ice cream!
Mmm. Mango!
Pistachio honey almond
FIG thanks
Mmm, so hard to choose… but in this moment, I would say chocolate and peanut butter ice cream is my favorite. It’s the mix of the salty and sweet. Devastating.
Cinnamon, although Grape-Nuts is a close second.
On a side note, did you actually talk about “zizi”? On purpose, or were you trying to say something else??
Banana gelato – so hard to find and so so yummy.
I love matcha tea and sweet plum ice cream. And I love your blog.
e.
I won an All-Clad pot once. My favorite pot!
I can use more. Lemon verbena.
salted butter caramel !!!
Oh for the perfect raspberry ripple…not raspberry cheesecake, not raspberry sorbet, not raspberry yogourt…Raspberry Ripple Ice Cream!
chocolate/caramel
How exciting! The ice cream I dream about because it is so out of my reach is riso (rice) gelato from one of the top places in Florence. The texture is bewitching.
LEMON SORBET does it for me. So light and zesty and wonderful. While I am a chocoholic, I find lemon sorbet a refreshing alternative.
Good luck with the book! When will you post tour dates and places???
Hagen Daaz used to make a vanilla peanut butter that was divine! I can’t find it any more so my new favorite is lemon sorbet over pineapple and cantelope with a shot of Midori poured over it!
Gianduia Ice cream with cocoa nibs
hazelnut
Calvados
lemon sorbet
Guiness Ice Cream!
Pineapple
Pink grapefruit mint sorbet…tart and refreshing!
definitely salted caramel
Dark chocolate with dry roasted peanuts
Ben and Jerry’s half baked!!
Peach sorbet!
My very favorite ice cream is Quick Coconut Ice Cream with Saffron! Luscious and creamy!
The best ice cream I’ve ever had was olive oil ice cream topped with strawberries in balsamic vinegar, passionfruit puree, topped with basil oil and fleur de sel. Yum!
Fave ice cream and memory would have to be kick-the-can vanilla. (Cottage tradition of homemade ice cream: Put ingredients in coffee can and kick,shake about until sort-of done). More of a smooth soft serve. homeparents.about.com/od/recipesandcrafts/r/icecream.htm
chocolate chip cookie dough
Honeydew melon ice. Yummm.
butter pecan
salted caramel !!
Without a doubt, hazelnut gelato. Yum.
Looking forward to the book!
real mint with dark, dark chocolate chips. preferably from toscannini’s or christina’s in cambridge…
Coffee
My favorite ice cream is coffee.
My favorite ice cream book is The Perfect Scoop.
Can’t wait to try your bacon ice cream recipe, but I’m especially fond of fresh peach, taro, and coconut. Congratulations!
sticky toffee pudding ice cream!
luv this blog!
Nothing makes me happier than Rocky Road Ice Cream. I love the texture of the frozen nuts mixed with the fluffiness of the marshmallow and the creaminess of the ice cream. The only thing that could make this better is some sort of berry…
Basil ice cream from Ici in Berkeley California: not too sweet, just a refreshing breeze.
Mint Chocolate
Sophie’s choice… This is considered cruel in some countries…
I’ll have to say Cherry Garcia by Ben and Jerry. Commercial, yes, delicious? Absolutely!
wonderful homemade vanilla icecream
Caramelized banana from Maple’s Organic in Portland Maine.
Also their chocolate sorbetto.
Moose Tracks
salted caramel
pistachio in any incarnation
salted caramel ice cream. love it.
Chocolate- Classic!
homemade chocolate and peanut butter
Thanks for setting up this giveaway! I like chocolate.
My favourite flavour of icecream is Cream Puff flavoured icecream! : )
Salted Carmel hands down!
Mango sorbet
Pistachio.
Mint chocolate chip!
peanut butter and chocolate, of course!
Love homemade strawberry–or maybe it was just that we always made it during the summer with the whole extended family, while we kids chased fireflies… Thanks for the tasty blog!
Salted Carmel! And if i am feeling fancy…i go with the Sam’s Sundae at Bi-Rite in SF (of course with Salted Carmel ice cream)!
My favorite ice cream flavor is mint chocolate chip – I prefer “kiss” shaped chips :-)
Congrats on the book – can’t wait to get my hands on your recipes!
Salted butter caramel ice cream–from your website, or salted butter almond.
I’ve been making ice cream from The Perfect Scoop using the Cuisinart machine you recommended for years. Also love Coffee Stracciatella using Scharffen Berger bittersweet. Room for Dessert is my favorite baking book, along with my Maida books, of course. Can’t wait to buy The Sweet Life in Paris. Congratulations! We were at the marche bio this past November on the Sunday it snowed–and came back to read your blog about it.
Best,
Susan
Mango sorbet and Dulce De Leche Ice Cream are old favorites. However, I love trying experimental flavors, such as Thai Chili Chocolate from il Laboratorio del Gelato or Mexican Chocolate from Christina’s in Cambridge, not to mention, an Extra Tart Lemon FroYo recipe from a certain someone which convinced me I should give FroYo another chance!
pure creamy vanilla, the best test of texture and flavour
Yogurt gelato. Yum!
rum raisin
butter cream ice cream. It’s like eating a stick of butter, but delicious!
1) Ube 2) White Chocolate and Cherry 3) Mango Sorbet 4) Salted caramel 5) Green Tea (Your recipe!)
Huckleberry ice cream made from huckleberries picked in the Cascade Mountains.
I love to make salted butter caramel with my granddaughters…it’s our favorite!
vanilla bean : I’m a purist and I have the book ready to start reading on my way to France next week!!
Rum raisen!!
vanilla – its easy to make it into whatever you want, and it’s not half bad by itself either!
Butter Pecan
vanilla bean; a purist; I have the book ready to read on my way to France next week!!
Passion fruit sorbet. Preferably with coconut sorbet.
coffee…
My favorite ice cream flavour is Pralines and cream! But a close second would be cherry cheesecake icecream! Thank you!
Espresso ice cream with ripples of chocolate throughout.
It is really the only perfect marriage I know of.
Chocolate chip cookie dough ….peppermint stick….capuccino chip….rootbeer float..
Thank you! -Deana
Louisiana Peche avec sauce du Caramel Pecan. Best wishes on the new book, I can hardly wait to get it! bonne nuit! CoCo
That chocolate desert looks scrumptious! My favourite ice cream flavour? Coconut.
My favourite sorbet ? Chocolate.
Strawberry. The real stuff.
Fig and Mascapone – yum. Just for a few weeks in the summer….
Banana and Skor bar with walnuts at La Cigale in Quebec!
Coffee. Ever since I was 4.
Ice Cream: Vanilla (you can add stuff on top!) or my easy peasy chocolate (coco powder, sugar, cream, whole milk) which is surprisingly good.
Sorbet: Red Raspberry
mint chocolate chip – hands down… with or without the green food coloring!
Mexican chocolate (the only kind I’ve made myself) – followed closely by Cherry Garcia…
Raspberry sorbet with extra fresh raspberries mixed in…amazing!
Chocolate! Deep, dark for real chocolate!
oh no i have to choose one? i like really rich flavors so i’ll go with chocolate…. or mocha… mmmm mocha or oreo…. or chocolate chip cookie dough….. but i also have made really awesome chai tea ice cream and i really like lemon too….. this is like choosing a favorite kid only so much worse!
and the winner is….. mocha (unless i change my mind)
ok now it’s time to look in my freezer and see what i’ve got because i clearly need ice cream now
Coconut.
Mint Chocolate Chip
Fresh red bean ice cream – dense, not too sweet, and lightly studded with whole azuki.
I’m lactose intolerant, but this homemade treat is totally worth the stomachache – every time!
My favorite ice cream is watermelon–since I was young. Perfect for summer.
My favorite sorbet is lemon.
Such a hard question, but I’d have to say hazelnut gelato.
Love your blog–I’m a longtime lurker. Can’t wait to read your book!
Caramel. Or Grapefruit Gelato.
My all time favorite ice cream flavor is mint chocolate chip (green, not white).
I only get to pick one!! Hard to do but if you insist I’ll go with Ginger. thanks
by way of Gluten-Free Girl. Cool site.
Thank you.
Favorite ice cream is Tillamook Mud Slide. Right now.
Raspberry sorbet.
Vanilla with homemade caramel sauce. Looking forward to the new book.
Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup. Congrats on the new book!
Spumoni Ice Cream
Lemon Verbena. I’m so glad I found you (through the NYT morning-bun pop over recipe). The dessert cookbook is my fave, more so than Lindsey’s.
Coffee…and thanks for always making me smile!
Mint chocolate!
Chocolate peanut butter ice cream is pretty awesome
Favorite icecream is Ben & Jerry’s Creme Brulee. Delicious!
Chocolate
pistachio. please. =0)
Congrats on the new book!
My favorite frozen desert would be……
just simple – LEMON SORBET!
Coconut milk Ice Cream with chocolate, caramel, pecans and cranberry!!
Ginger and saffron ice cream
Green tea, always.
Ube Ice Cream. Naturally purple and absolutely delicious.
Home-churned Vanilla…nothing is better on a hot day!
Lavender-rose…..so refreshing and heavenly smelling…
Impossible to choose just one! Good vanilla, ginger Häagen-Dazs, chocolate almond, mint chocolate chip…
If you’re ever in the Boston area, you *must* try Toscanini’s in Cambridge (Christina’s is good too, but I prefer Toscanini’s). I adore their brown sugar bourbon, gingersnap, mango, and kulfi flavors. They’re amazingly good!
when i make an annual trip to the Bloomsburg Fair in Bloomsburg, PA, i like to get cinnamon ice cream over a warm apple dumpling.
ben and jerry’s phish food runs a very close second.
Baskin & Robbins’ Pistachio Almond
Caramel ice cream, coconut sorbet.
Chocolate ice cream is my favorite, if I had to pick just one. I know, not very original. Congrats on the book! I can’t wait to get my copy.
Tamarind and palm sugar sorbet….refreshingly exotic ^_^
CINNAMON
black raspberry chocolate chunk
My favorite flavor is chocolate hazlenut. I can’t wait to read your new book!
Congratulations David!
My daughter Samantha ( her blog is Thesecondlunch ) introduced me to your blog last year and I’ve been enjoying reading you ever since. Love it!!
Mint chocolate chip ice cream or, when I go to Turkey, sour cherry sorbet YUM
I can’t wait to get your book! Merci!
I had a cucumber sorbet once, and I’ve been dreaming of it ever since!
Chocolate ice cream with a hint of cinnamon and other spices…a la Mexican hot chocolate. Although I see in Elisa’s post above mention of Haagen-Dazs ginger ice cream!?!?! Is there really such an animal…must hunt down…or try my hand at making my own.
Congrats on the new book! Look forward to reading it. If I had to pick a favorite ice cream, it would be Stracciatella. With your ice cream book and an ICE 20, I can now try to make it at home. Thanks!
pistachio for me!
Haagen Dazs peppermint bark, sold at Christmas only
Cantaloupe ice cream.
Nocciola (hazelnut) is my favorite by a long shot. Thankfully, American ice cream shops have begun to carry this flavor and understand why Italians are just so crazy for it!
Many congratulations on your new book and continued success!!
I never comment–although of course I am going to now, but this post, as with all your posts, made me laugh out loud. Do I have to choose just one flavor of ice cream? How about this…. coffee ice cream with oreos in a bowl–but plain oreo ice cream when in a cone.
Cinnamon! The best I ever had was from Max and Gretti’s a little bit outside Zermatt, Switzerland…
- coffee
- butter pecan, individually not together
pistachio
Cinnamon–my fav was from this place called Max and Gretti’s a little bit outside of Zermatt, Switzerland…
Must be raspberry.
Now I’ll have to get my hands on that while I read your newest book…
black sesame!! oui oui!!! :D
CONGRATULATIONS on your book coming out! I’m totally going to get it soon (just not RIGHT this moment)! I find myself reading your posts all the time for learning and entertainment value and am enjoying it thoroughly so I know your book will be awesome.
It was actually your vanilla ice-cream base that I used to make my black sesame ice-cream with my new Cuisinart ICE-30 machine, which I do like very much already. It just works.
I do wish you left a recipe for pastry creme on your site. I would use it for my fruit tart!
Keep up the good work!
Chocolate sorbet – I use the recipe from the Perfect Scoop of course :-) – I use Lindt bitterwseet chocolate, mmmmmmmmmmmmm. So easy to make and impresses any guest (although its hard not to lick it out of the icecream maker while its mixing before said guests arrive!)
Tough question! I truly love deep chocolate ice cream and raspberry sorbet
My favorite ice cream is Rum Raisin.
butter pecan
mmmm.
Mango!
Tangerine Sorbet (from The Perfect Scoop of course!!!) is top of list today.
Well, over 2 thousand people have beat me to the punch.
Chocolate
Plain and simple, purely decadent chocolate.
Now, as a soon to be graduate, I would be forever indebted to acquire your cookbook, which, right now, is only a dream. My meager wages do not afford me such luxuries.
Oh but all the fun I would have if given the wonderful opportunity!
Chocolate made with El Ray bittersweet!
I’m looking forward to your new book…
I heart black licorice (liquorice) ice cream…
mango sorbet!
Ben and Jerry’s, .Cherry Garcia.
Bourbon ice cream, I use bourbon in place of vanilla in all the desserts I make, obviously a Kentuckian!
Uber-vanilla bean ice cream with twice the vanilla called for in the recipe.
I love all ice cream but my favorite coffee.
Thanks and congratulations
Mint Chocolate Chip!
I love buttermilk sorbet and am dreaming of it with rhubarb compote after reading about your failed tart.
Peanut butter chocolate.
Giovanna’s Blackberry with Red Wine Sorbet
Congratulations on your new book. I’ve pre-ordered mine and can’t wait to receive it in the mail soon!
My favorite ice cream is “Everything But the Kitchen Sink”..Ben and Jerry’s. We are coming to Paris for a visit in July
Pistache!
Congratulations on your new book. I’ve pre-ordered mine and can’t wait to receive it in the mail soon!
Vanilla!!!
pear sorbet!
I’m a sucker for the old fashioned, almost-neon green mint chocolate chip. Definitely the most refreshing on a hot summer’s day.
So hard to decide! Right this minute I would choose Coffee with dark chocolate bits, for my favourite ice cream, and Raspberry for my preferred sorbet flavour.
Favorite= lemon sorbet :)
So excited for your new book!
And I’ll be in Paris in 2 weeks!!
Vanilla.
Coffee walnut.. Caffeine in a cone.. Yumm : )
Congrats on the book. Can’t wait to read it.
madagascan vanilla bean ice cream! simplicity at its best…
Rocky Road.
Looking forward to reading the new book!
my favorite ice cream is chocolate moose tracks!
Fresh mint sorbet or lemon. Sounds like spring.
The fresh mint icecream from The Perfect Scoop. It’s a dangerous addiction ….
Anything with chocolate of course, but pumpkin spice comes in a very close second!
Roasted coconut
Rocky Road.
Can’t wait to read your book.
In response to this question, I have always have said, “If it’s ice cream, then it’s my favorite flavor.” seriously. chocolate ice cream? yes! salted caramel ice cream? yes! garlic ice cream? yes! green pea ice cream? yes!
but, for the sake of the all-clad, I will pick just one.
Right now, at this very moment, as some cinnamon apples bake in the oven my favorite flavor of ice cream is praline.
Vanilla
new fave thanks to Perfect Scoop, chocolate sorbet made from Guittard Fr Vanilla Chocolate. it’s like frozen Gateau Victoire.
This is the easiest question I’ve answered all day: Mint Chocolate Chip, especially with extra dark chocolate chips.
Chocolate Mint Chip made by me in my ice cream maker!
banana choclolate walnut
right now it’s definitely ginger.
yum!
It’s a tie between blood orange sorbet and salted peanut gelato.
mint chocolate with pistachio. am french living in hongkong. i must say your blogs always give me a cheerful start of the day.
thanks for sharing.
mmmm… haagen dazs coffee
Anything coffee flavored!
p.s. just made your Chocolate Cherry Fruit cake from RIPE FOR DESSERTS. MMM Good! Congrats and will get the new book
At the moment: bourbon ice cream
Lemon sorbet for me!
Congrats on the new book…
I love lemon sorbet with ginger cookies, but I often wonder what a ginger sorbet might taste like.
I enjoy your blog and I look forward to reading your book.
Oooh! Defenitely cinnamon. The contrast of the warm spice with the coldness of the ice cream is unstoppable.
Homemade MMMMMMMANGO!!!
salted caramel or dulce de leche yummmmm
can’t wait to get my hands on the new book!!
Mango Sorbet — as served at Musee Guimet. Otherwise, raspberry sorbet
vanilla caramel fudge
It’s sinful, but Häagen-Dazs dulce de leche, over caramelized pears.
My favourite – hokey pokey ice cream – vanilla with honeycomb mmmmmmmmmm!
Congratulations for your book, can’t wait to read it.
My favorite ice cream is Praline & Cream.
salted caramel
The new book sounds fab! I love French vanilla ice-cream and bitter lemon sorbet
Avocado…it’s also a great bubble tea flavour!
Dulce de Leche. I want those pans!
I LIVE!! for ice cream so that is a hard question , but I think I’d have to go with dark chocolate and orange as my favorite.
Favorite ice cream…that is actually a hard one. I am going to have to say coffee ice cream with Oreos. It was so freaking awesome and fattening. Which makes it the best :)
Seattle Sorbet Sweet Dark Cherry and any salted caramel. I received your book yesterday and am really enjoying it. Congrats.
Coconut icecream!
Mango
Funny, I just told my boyfriend what my top 5 favorite ice cream flavors are, but my favorite is….Pistachio
vanilla bean w/ caramelized cocoa nibs folded in
clearly butterscotch.
Melon flavored ice-cream….so refreshingly gooda!
mango!
ice cream and sorbet
… definitely mint chocolate ….
Congrats on the book, David! I can’t wait to read it.
My favorite ice cream flavor completely depends on my mood. But I can never turn down a scoop of pistachio. Or salted caramel. Or anything with chocolate, really. In general, I can’t turn down ice cream.
Green tea. :)
cookies & cream…can’t beat a classic.
Congratulations and safe journies to you on your book tour!!!!!
Homemade vanilla with cacao nibs.
Congratulations on the new book. I am looking forward to picking up a copy.
Favorite ice cream? Pistachio gelato, but it can’t be the electric green color. It has to be the darker green color with the right balance of salty and sweet. Grom has a nice one.
Johanna
salted caramel
Mocha chocolate chip ice cream…YUM
nociola
So many flavors to choose from! But like several others I’ll go with lemon sorbet.
I love love LOVE salted caramel ice cream! xxoo
Can’t wait to read the book!
My favorite flavor of ice cream is butter pecan, where the pecans are sugar coated and crunchy.
I’m excited to pick up the new book! Congratulations.
Favorites:
pear sorbet (a lovely family place in SF – the name escapes me.
taro ice cream (preferably from the Chinatown Icecream Factory in NYC)
Blood Orange sorbet …. but the shop has now gone from my suburb!
strawberry
pistachio with roasted almonds
Chocolate Raspberry Truffle
See you Sunday!
Chocolate…..of course
Dark chocolate sorbet – simple but oh so lovely.
Mayan Chocolate… perfectly spicy and sweet.
Orange-custard-chocolate chip from the Babcock creamery at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Sublime.
My favorite ice cream, if I make it- Green Tea from your book. If I’m buying, it’s a tie between Blue Bottle Vietnamese Coffee or Balsamic Caramel from Humphry Slocombe in San Francisco.
Congrats on your new book! Come to SF soon for a signing.
Gosh, there are a lot of comments. My favorite is vanilla! Isn’t that original? It’s true, however.
My favorite flavor is chocolate
Grapefruit sorbet!
Kishu Mandarin sorbet…love citrus sorbets.
Cookies and cream!
Mango sorbet
My favorite flavor of ice cream is Chocolate.
Thank you!
Vanilla Ice Cream
Sure pistachio is great, was always my favorite until I tasted vanilla armagnac… the brandy did it for me!
Congratulations on the new book — I’m going to Paris next month so I can’t wait to slide it into my carry-on and pop it open upon takeoff! I hate to fly so I’m counting on it to distract me as we cross the Atlantic.
Nothing fancy…chocolate. Especially B-R’s Chocolate Mousse Royale. But not Rocky Road.
Spumoni! I used to sneak it from the freezer in the first restaurant where I worked!
Black Mission Fig!
Vanilla is the greatest flavor ever discovered and works superbly with ice cream. The perfect ending to almost any meal.
Salted caramel. Yum.
blood orange sorbet
Something called Lemon Sherbetter, by a company called Gaga’s based in Rhode Island. It’s the perfect tart, slightly creamy, not too rich and still refreshing, blend of ice cream and sorbet! No one else makes anything quite like it. Nom.
Ice cream or sorbet? What a dilemma. Okay, ice cream. Lemon custard. Looking forward to the book. Congrats. It’s not as easy as it sounds.
chocolate!
PHISH FOOD!!!! The most delectable of all ice creams!
thanks for the opportunity!
David,
My all-time favorite flavor is coconut. So coconut ice cream is my top choice. The combination of coconut and dark chocolate is inspiring, in fact I could rhapsodize for more lines than required for this entry on the combination! There is hot, cold, one hot (chocolate) the other cold (ice cream), toasted, grated, real versus fake (no fake coconuts just fakers flaking coconut), and more.
you get the idea. :)
with reverent thoughts to the master,
Linden J.
p.s. loved your book on chocolate. It was recommended on the scharfenberger website and is even there this moment! alors, c’est manifique. Merci David, à la prochaine
Coffee Ice Cream.
Rocky Road ice cream!!
Maple gingersnap has been a favorite of mine for a while now… :)
chocolate almond
Cherry Garcia. Yum!
chocolate chip (like Will Wrights made in L.A. in the 60s, with vanilla beans and bittersweet chocolate)
malted milk ball
[or is it salted burnt caramel?]
I love ice cream . . . coffee, cinnamon, coconut, mint chip, vanilla. . . so many!
I’m looking forward to your book!!
My favorite ice creams are mint chocolate chip, cherry garcia and moose tracks. There are many many more; I can hardly decide what is my favorite.
Lemon custard
Candied Bacon Ice Cream.
Coconut almond chip
Raspberry Ice Cream with Chocolate Swirl
Orange Chocolate is my fave (I think) but so many others mentioned would make me very happy as well.
Congratulations on your new book, David. Happy bookselling.
Coconut
My favourite sorbet is pear and chrysanthemum sorbet. We Chinese people often poach fruits in a light syrup made of rock sugar, to which dried flowers can be added. I once took this idea to a sorbet, steeping asian pears in a chrysanthemum syrup and added some liquid glucose, then liquidised everything, passed it through the sieve and then churned it as a sorbet. The flavour is as pure as anything you cna get and perfect for a summer day.
My favourite sorbet is pear and chrysanthemum sorbet. We Chinese people often poach fruits in a light syrup made of rock sugar, to which dried flowers can be added. I once took this idea to a sorbet, steeping asian pears in a chrysanthemum syrup and added some liquid glucose, then liquidised everything, passed it through the sieve and then churned it as a sorbet. The flavour is as pure as anything you can get and perfect for a summer day.
I had a huge scroll down to get here. Lots of folks wanting that cookware set, including me. Just plain old vanilla but coffee is pretty good, too.
Toasted Coconut!
my all time favorite is peanut butter ice cream. yum!
chocolate hazelnut
Blueberry wafflecone.
Burnt Almond Fudge.
The very unlikely tangerine ice cream with a blackberry swirl. I dream about it.
creme brulee
Do I need to pick one ? just one favorite ? I mean, in the winter, it’s rum raisin, summertime I like strawberry or lavender-blueberry..at xmas, it’s hard to go wrong with peppermint stick ice cream….and then there’s chocolate…
well, I guess I’ve got to say that my favorite is mint-chocolate-chip – that’s got to be what I make and eat most of.
Chocolate chip has always been my favorite!
Love the new book. I can’t put it down :)
Green Tea, but only at Japanese restaurants. The rest tastes like perfume!
roasted banana
at home: Coffee or Butter Pecan or Salted Caramel
in France: Prune-Armagnac
Vanilla Swiss Almond from Haagen Dazs.
I love the classics.
ice cream: coffee
gelato: dark chocolate
sorbet: lemon
Chocolate!
ice cream would probably be blackberry cheesecake, sorbet would have to be cabernet.
or, you know, something with way too much chocolate in it.
congrats on the book! I can’t wait to get my hands on it.
Burnt Sugar Ice Cream!
If I have to pick just one, it’s lemon sorbet, Yum!
I near about fell out of my chair when I saw there were 2647 comments! Now I know why. Congratulations on the book and your ever growing popularity!
I wish I could be at the WHSmith book signing in a couple of weeks but I’ll be in the US enjoying mint chocolate chip ice cream. I almost always choose that flavor but I love coffee, mango sorbet and green tea ice cream too!
gianduja, the first that came to my mind in this early hour of the day. good luck!
Hazelnut (ice cream, gelato, etc.) Preferably homemade.
Mackinac Island Fudge. Mmm. (Can only be consumed in small quantities).
Salted caramel, vanilla bean, or anything with cake swirled in….
Congrats, Dave! Looking forward to reading your book.
Cherry Garcia from Ben and Jerry’s tops my list.
Stay fabulous!
my favorite is raspberry sorbet
fleur de sel caramel..!
favorite all time ice cream?
your salted caramel ice cream.
heavenly.
waffle cone and fudge
A gourmet French Vanilla – sweet, dense & creamy. Calorie counting desserts is just wrong… if it ain’t rich it ain’t right! Can’t wait to delight in David’s new book while relaxing café side.
I’m not a ‘brown’ kind of person… the only time I absolutely love the color ‘brown’ is when I have a CHOCOLATE ice cream in my hand! So there, the most CHOCOLATEY flavor wins! :-)
Congrats on your new book! I can’t wait to lay my hands on it!
Cheers
Favouite but not one you’d want everday or it would ruin its “specialness”:
basil pernod ice cream
Green tea, preferably coated in mochi!
Coconut!
sticky orange chocolate
mmm dulce de leche is my favorite
Salted butter caramel, mais bien sur!
Congrats on the publication of the new book. I can’t wait to read it.
chocolate stout
Ginger-Vermouth
I received your book today and it will be fun to read. Dulce de leche is my favorite ice cream
read this all the time and am coming to whsmith for your signing on the 19th. how to choose best ice cream or sorbet…crikey! Well, I choose mango sorbet. Berthillon is easiest to get.
Hmm… so difficult.. a tie between coconut, english toffee, cookies n creme and black sesame
This week, it’s green tea.
Coffee with chocolate chunks! Can’t wait for my all-clad set to arrive in the mail!
-Heather
My favorite flavor of sorbet is Raspberry, particularly the Double Rainbow brand that we get at Trader Joes!
Peach Ice Cream
Favorite ice cream/sorbet flavor? Only one? That’s evil. It’s a toss-up between… anything caramel-y or dulce de leche or the similar if I’m feeling decadent, or a melon flavor of some type any other time.
Caramel gelato, Mango sorbet, plain old Vanilla and the list goes on..
Toscanini’s burnt caramel. So good.
black sesame!!!!!
Chocolate chip ice cream (with whole chocolate chips). YUM! Raspberry Sorbet
It is so hard to list just one…but since you did ask for one: My favorite flavor is Coconut without any flakes. I have been trying to replicate the amazing coconut ice cream I had in Thailand, but nothing I try seems quite right.
homemade milky way ice cream
nutella!
My all-time favourite is VANILLA WITH CARAMEL SWIRL… but thanks to my Filipino friend, now I’m in love with MAIS-QUESO (corn & cheese)!
Congratulations on the new book!
My absolute favorite flavor is your recipe for coffee ice cream. YUM! I think the fact that you steep whole beans in the milk/cream is the true secret… no water to get in the way of flavor like in brewed coffee.
Peach Ice Cream….mmmm
I LOVE LOVE LOVE dark chocolate gelato (plus many other flavors but nearly anything with chocolate is my best friend)
Pistachio
Working my way through the Perfect Scoop right now and I have to say so far the Malted Milk is the best I’ve ever had. My copy of “The Sweet Life” arrived today and I am greatly enjoying it! All the best.
mascapone with fresh peach swirl
mint chocolate chip (if its not green)! Can’t wait to get the book.
Coffee
Can’t beat a nice simple scoop of CHOCOLATE ice cream.
My favorite sorbet is melon. I don’t know what’s better: how delicious it is, or how I don’t feel guilty for eating it considering how delicious it is. If I should feel guilty, I hope no one ever tells me. Ignorance is bliss!
David, I’m so excited for your new book! Congratulations!
Long-time follower of your blog. First time commenter. Congrats on your new book. Marron Glace sends me into spasms of Italian-esque pleasure!
mango!!! just got back from a few days in paris and the loire and thought of you everyday. everyday we had at least one Welcome TO France moment. keep up the great writing…
Creme fraiche at Bi-Rite Creamery in San Francisco
Well done on your new book! Lemon is my favourite flavour.
Chocolate, not too milky, not too dark, perhaps with a swirl of hazelnut or even caramel! And preferably a gelato style! Delish!
Chocolate !
I appreciate reading your adventures in Paris.
Black glutinous rice
Salted Caramel!
or Chocolate Chip!
mud pie — coffee ice cream with cookies & cream and ribbons of fudge! mmm…
mud pie — coffee ice cream with cookies & cream and ribbons of fudge! mmm…
mud pie — coffee ice cream with cookies & cream and ribbons of fudge! mmm…
lime-yoghurt
a favorite ice cream flavor? psh. please. like anyone can choose just one. right now i’m real big on cannelle and pistache though!
sorry, didn’t mean to submit three times. :( my computer was giving me problems… :( :( :(
My favorite flavor of ice cream is Salted Caramel, by and large!
dark chocolate ice cream and raspberry sorbet together
Oh, that would be strawberry/red currant. Best served with dark, dark chocolate mousse.
Coffee with toffee bits or carmelized nuts….. yum.
Coconut sorbet. Strawberry ice cream. (They both win in my life.)
Chocolate.
Is it any wonder I love your blog?
Peach
First off, congrats on your book release! It’s on my Amazon wishlist for when I get my next paycheck.
My favorite flavor of frozen bliss is vanilla with brownie chunks. However, your recipe for mango sorbet is out of this world, and is my favorite non-dairy frozen treat.
Salted caramel.
I love love love kona coffee ice cream. Love.
Vanilla!
Any with coffee. Yum..
My favorite ice cream flavor is cookies and cream hands down!
Any with coffee. Yum..
My favorite ice cream is chocolate fudge brownie. So good!
Congratulations on your new book! And as for ice cream? My favorite is so trashy–but so delicious — bubblegum ice cream!
Chocolate with a hint of buttermilk for that silky tang
passion fruit and coconut sorbe!
Today my favorite ice cream, because it is the one I’m eating now is mascarpone with pine nuts.
can’t wait to read your book — congratulations!
and — vanilla
Lemon sorbet. There’s something so enjoyable in it’s simplicity.
Amerena -
Looking forward to getting a copy of your book on the 20th!
Mexican Chocolate! Can’t wait to see the book.
B&J Cookie Dough. Should I admit to that?
Also, basil sorbet from the place next to the cinema in the middle of Strasbourg :)
Salted caramel, or no, maybe deep dark chocolate, or wait a minute, pear sorbet…no, no, it’s coffee with cocoa nibs…but maybe it’s…I HAVE TO CHOOSE JUST ONE?!?
OK, vanilla.
Cookies & cream! (embarrassing to say!)
congrats on the new book!
and grapefruit sorbet can’t be beat during the summer!
Simply vanilla!
Congratulations on your book. Can’t wait to have my own copy, I love your writting.
My favorite is probably lime sorbet.
meringued milk
Cherry Lemonade Sorbet (Bent Spoon in Princeton, NJ)
easy…chocolate chip cookie dough. rose ice cream is different but a close second.
Lilikoi Mac Nut. I’m in Hawaii.
Mocha Chip !
Can’t wait to get my hands on your book. … ! And perhaps another bowl of mocha chip ice cream…. (so what if it’s breakfast time right now, coffee = breakfast no?)
Gianduia.
chocolate still reigns supreme.
Woo hoo on the new book, can’t wait to get it. I love ice cream, hard to pick a favorite. One I never pass up when I can get it is green tea, and in Japan you can get it soft serve! Best of luck on the book!
Earl grey tea ice cream, or maybe it was sorbet. I have to ask my husband, he is the chef who made it for me!
Also, I just want to say thank you. I pre ordered your book on Amazon as a birthday present to myself, and now I cannot wait for it to arrive. I love your blog and want to say thanks for taking the time to write it, and always being so witty and interesting.
really boozy prune armagnac
pink peppercorn!
Congratulations! Rocky Road for me.
pistache!
or my newfound love: salted butter caramel.. mmmm
White chocolate raspberry
I love “pain d’épice” ice cream
chocolate with chocolate
Yoghurt. Not frozen yoghurt, but the creamy, slightly bitter with just enough sugar, full-fledged, ice cream flavor of “Yaourt”!
Any ice cream made with good chocolate!
ginger black sesame
My family’s favorite ice cream and a mint – lime-flavored homemade ice cream / ice cream. Hungry make mint syrup with flavoring and mint leaves decorating.
In summer the heat is very refreshing.
Congratluations!
I wrote ViMiZo in Hungary
dulche de leche~!
Your book has been in my Amazon wish list forEVER. Congrats!
Ben and Jerry’s Cherry Garcia is divine! Good luck on the book!
Oh, and my favorite flavour is definitely your Malted Milk.
Rum raisin. Congratulations on the new book!
mint chocolate chip
Great great great! My favorite ice cream flavor is yoghurt, and then fior di latte.
Congratulations on the book!
any kind of chocolate
Raspberry and Chocolate
Congrats on the book!
Mine is “caramel au beurre salé”
Strawberry
Looking forward to your book. Congrats on my behalf.
By the way, it’s elderflower-ginger-sorbet.
It’s so difficult to choose, but at the moment I’m all about the pisatchio ice cream. Nom!
my new fave: blood orange sorbetto.
Pistachio though the other suggestions in the comments all sound great.
Any coffee/chocolate ice cream
You make us chose just one? Fine, if it has to be one I am going with caramel beurre salé. I haven’t tried out your recipe that tops Bertillon yet, but I have high hopes :-)
CHOCOLATE!
Congratulations on the book! Will definitely be buying a copy. Favorite ice cream flavor, you mean just one? Okay, I’m an old school kind of girl, so probably have to go for strawberry cheesecake. Although I do like the sound of lemon and rosemary…
Rocky Road! or homemade vanilla :)
I’d love to win!
Love your blog.
pistacio, and any creamy icecream with big chunks of fruit
Chocolate, from the Perchè no! gelateria in Florence, Italy. I was there two weeks ago. All their gelato is made on-site and is to die for.
Congratulations on your book, wonder if we’ll be having it here in the middle east.
hmm, my favorite ice cream, it’s quite difficult since I LOVE LOVE LOVE ice cream and I make them myself. If I start on all my favorites, it will be a long list. Especially, I have to say, I love ice cream with alcohol in it, like tiramisu ice cream, blackforest (dark chocolate and vanilla ice cream with a nice kick of the kirsch and sour cherries) or margarita sobet (yum), But my all time favorite and the comfort ice cream for me is simply a good vanilla ice cream with a nice dose of raspberry sauce.
Cheers!
salted caramel
Raspberry sorbet, with fresh raspberries!!! Mumms! Congratulations on your book!
My favourite ice cream is peppermint stick (with NO chocolate, thank you very much!), but yuzu sorbet is probably my favourite frozen dessert. Or sudachi when I can get it.
If I ask the junior high French exchange student I’m advising what zizi means, and I going to embarrass myself and her? :-)
Burnt caramel. Congratulations!
Mmmmmm… Pistachio! Or Vanilla Bean! (but honestly I’ve never met a flavour of ice cream I didn’t like!)
Hokey Pokey!
It’s not as dodgy as it sounds – its a New Zealand institution, together with a few other things. Now I’m an expat I am forced to make it at home…and making hokey pokey is a dangerous business.
Ummm, so many I like, but to choose one it would have to be the wonderful combination of pineapple and passionfruit sorbet . . . sorry, have to go get some now!
cinnamon ice cream or grapefruit sorbet… congratulations on your book!
dark dark dark chocolate
Turkish coffee ice cream!
I can’t wait to read your book before my trip to Paris this summer.
black currant, raspberry and passion fruit sorbet!!!
Maple syrup and pecan.
macadamia is my all-time favourite
It has to be vanila ice-cream !
Mandingo, which I found in Tuscany last fall, it is divine
speculoos
Pistachio
Vanilla Bean :)
strawberry
Blueberry cheesecake ice cream just like the one you can get at Baskin Robbins
Passion fruit and chocolate
strawberry forever
mexican vanilla…especially from amy’s ice cream in austin!
Congrats on the book! My favorite has got to be malted banana ice cream. Yummm.
Yogurt and berry gelato. Felicitations on your book!
Caramel salé from Comus & Gasteria in Brussels – best ice cream creations ever!
And, David, congrats for the release and for your work in general, I love reading from you!
I love mint chocolate chip!
Strawberry and cream
It has to be your bacon ice-cream – absolutely decadent!
Green tea or cheesecake!
Pistachio.
Can’t wait to get the new book – it looks great.
Kiwi sorbet! Tastes so fresh and bright…
Pistachio!
Cassis sorbet. Congrats on the book! I look forward to reading it.
Congrats on the new book – really looking forward to reading it.
Fave ice cream has to be vanilla. But proper, genuine vanilla with a few too many vanilla seeds.
tough one, but i guess i’ll stick to my all time fave:
CHOCOLATE!
Peanut butter chocolate baby! Something they’ve never heard of hear in the UK…if I want it…I have to make it myself!
Basil
Congratulations !
Ice Cream – Spéculoos.
Congrats on the new book!
… is a strawberry and cream!
Thanks for all the stories and recipes.
My current favourite is strawberry. Although it changes constantly, so i can’t guarantee that it will be strawberry tomorrow :)
Congrats on the book, looking forward to it.
Vanilla icecream :)
Butterscotch Pecan
Love your blog!!!
Mango rocks it for me!
David, I can’t WAIT to try your buckwheat ice cream w/cocoa nibs. But until then, my favorites are caramel (w/salt) and another, japanese curry with curried cashew brittle mixed in at the end!
Beautiful book; I can’t wait to read it.
Thanks for what you do.
Thyme ! First time (sic) I ever tried a “savory” ingredient in ice cream, at a now defunct bistro called Quatorze on 14th street in Manhattan. Such a revelation !
I will always be a sucker for Double Rainbow Ultra Chocolate, as it’s what I grew up on, but I also adore anything with walnuts or almonds in, and I quite like mint chocolate flavours (mint chip, chocolate-mint, whatever).
Congrats on the new book! I’m hopping over to Paris for a day next weekend, so I’ll be sure to pick up a copy if I can find it in London.
Slightly trashy – banana and toffee. In a biscuit cone. Dipped in chocolate.
I’m not high maintenance, honest.
Raspberry lime sorbet. Thanks for the blog. Congrats on the book!
It’s between Corby Kummer’s / Toscanini’s Burnt Caramel, and Orange & Scarlett’s (Atlanta, may be defunct?) “Georgia Pine” (honey, toasted pine nut, and goat feta).
Congrats on the book! My favorite flavor is peanut butter banana!
As chez Berthillon is a long way away from where I live….my favourite is the Turkish mulberry icecream (from the Mado cafe in Auburn, Sydney Australia).
Love the blog… congrats on the book!
Cranberry caramel
Coffee Heath Bar Crunch
Lemon sorbet! Yummy! Nothing better on a warm summer day.. It’s fresh, and not too sweet…
Liquorice from a fab gelateria in Spoleto, Umbria, Italy
Plum pudding!
Toasted marshmallow flavour!
i love cannelle and pistachio !!!
Deep, dark chocolate ice cream
Can’t beat a really good rich and creamy vanilla, hmmmm!
mint chocolate chip with the chocolate flakes (and ok, i won’t lie, green colored, which to me seems to make it taste better)
Li Hing Mui, fell in love with it when i lived in Hawaii, I can’t find it in the mainland. It is sour, salty and sweet.
Favourite ice cream – mango.
Congratulations on the new recipe book, can’t wait to get a copy.
Mint cookie ice cream, green as a Vulcan’s blood. (Why is Vulcan blood green? It’s copper-based, yes, but so is octopus blood, and that’s blue.)
ooh, ooh, uh… choc chip vanilla. No, butter pecan. No wait, cherry garcia. Okay. choc chip vanilla. I’ll stick with that.
Thanks for the blog.
I have two favorites! For many years and still going strong… coffee. My new just discovered gelato, toasted almond. Yum! Congrats on the book!
mh, can’t decide wether it’s yoghurt or walnut ice cream.
GREEN, NUTTY, CREAMY PISTACHIO!!!!!
PS.: love your blog :)
Honeycomb! Which is why I think it’s very important to protect the honey bee from becoming extinct! Bees 4 life :)
Mint chocolate chip. My copy of the book came this past Tuesday from Amazon.
chocolate
Chocolate Fudge Brownie.
Any kind of real italian gelatto (maybe that doesn’t count :-)
Butter Pecan
Coffee. No brainer.
Coffee. No brainer.
definately dark chocolate ice cream with chocolate fudge brownies pieces!!
Mangosteen sorbet with toasted macadamia
Coffee. No brainer.
strawberry-basil sorbet… Hmmm!
Ben & Jerry’s Coffee Heath Bar Crunch. 1 pint at a time!
My favorite ice cream is a dark chocolate fudge with dark chocolate chunks and toasted peanuts and almonds in a fudge swirl–sort of a homemade combo learned at the pages of the best food blogger’s ice cream book.
My favorite ice cream flavour is black rasberry.
Lemon sorbet, like I found in Germany, with white wine drizzled over top.
Yum. :)
First of all, congratulations on your book! I’m obivously not counting on winning, but definitely planning on buying it. I think you’re great!
As for my favorite flavor of ice cream (and I’m an ice cream girl all the way, forget sorbet), I’m going to go with mint chocolate chip. (real mint, big chunks of dark chocolate, none of that crappy Safeway brand stuff!)
Peppermint Stick (Sadly, hard to find in the UK)
For gelato, I can’t buy without having a scoop of PISTACHIO, while the other two scoops vary between nocciole, gianduja, panna . . ..
Peppermint Stick (Sadly, hard to find in the UK)
Ben & Jerry’s Fossil Fuel – Sweet Cream Ice Cream with Chocolate Cookie Pieces, Fudge Dinosaurs and a Fudge Swirl (actually almost any B&J’S!)
Chocolate fudge and wasabi.
It’s so moreish!!
Summer Berries and Cream although Haagen Daaz recently changed it to Summer Berries Smoothie, which I have not tried. For sorbet, framboise.
I’m giving your new book out as hostess gifts for newbies to Paris.
Best on the book!
Coffee
Caramel au beurre salé.
Sour cream. Especially if it accompanies “kaiserschmarren”. Yummm….
Congratulations on the book! It’s already on my wishlist.
Caramel au beurre salé. Congratulations on your new book.
Just made buttermilk recently, and it is now my favorite! Congratulations on your book!
Butter Pecan. Wonderful on a hot day. Congrats on the book!
burnt sugar!!
Congrats for the book ! Lime sorbet is my absolute favorite.
it is a wonderful book.
I love goat milk cinnamon with fig ice cream
Favorite ice cream? Homemade fresh peach (with very ripe just picked peaches!). I like it right after you crank it and NOT before it is “cured.” YUM! Nothing says summer like that!
I am digging strawberry cheesecake with graham cracker crumbs over the top!
Dulce de Leche!
Hmm, favorite ice cream flavor: vanilla with any nuts!
favorite sorbet flavor: mango!
Great blog. Congratulations on the book.
Vanilla ice cream and any citrus fruit flavour sorbet. I hope not to be disqualified for entering both. It does say or in the directions.
Congratulation for another success!
Vanilla. With raspberries.
strawberry!
Rocky Road! Reminds me of my dearl old dad!
Love The Perfect Scoop!
Mocha Almond Fudge – in the winter
Ginger – after any kind of Asian food
Lemon Sorbet – in the summer
Chocolate chip mint
Mmmmm… my favourite sorbet is tangy lemon.
I have just discovered your blog David, and it is great. Needless to say Paris is my favourite city in the whole world and you’re one of the lucky ducks that lives there..
Joghurt – which for some reason seems to be the only flavour that Australian ice cream shops consistently don’t do. Guess I’ll have to make my own…
PS: Will there ever be a re-print of “Room for Dessert”??
rosewater sorbet!
Fav Flav? Buttermilk.
French vanilla, made from creme anglaise left to mature at least overnight. Is there anything simpler, or better?
Coconut.
Congratulations on the new book! I can’t wait to read it.
Anything homemade, esp. if it’s really eggy and involves caramel.
buttermilk gelato – it has the perfect balance of sweet and tangy to work with most dessert items.
congratulations on the new book – i cant wait to read it!
Lavender
salted butter caramel!!
raspberry sorbet with dark chocolate bits
I like peppermint stick ice cream. You rock David.
Haagen Daaz- Vanilla Caramel Brownie Unfortunately it was a limited edition one that they have since discontinued. :(
I’m a sucker for mint chocolate chip. Always have been, always will be. In my mind, humanity reached perfection the moment someone dropped those sweet sweet chips into a bin of mint-rich ice cream.
Pralines and Cream Ice cream
Lemon, Lemon, Lemon….
Lavender Ice Cream on a hot summer day is divine!
dulce de leche. sigh.
and I have some big plans to get out my ice cream maker and try some buttermilk ice cream soon.
Hi,
I love your blog, but this is my first comment ever in here. My favorite – egg ice-cream with rum raisins and cocoa filing, of local brand in my country.
I received my book yesterday- but am waiting until Mother’s Day to open it up- oh the torture.
Favorite ice cream: maple walnut
Keep up the great work!
Butter Pecan. But I am a woman, so I reserve the right to change my mind, depending on my mood. Congrats on the book!
Meow
it’s easy!! heath bar crunch!
can’t wait to see the book!
rum and raisin
Mint chocolate Chip. Classic, refreshing… delicious. :)
When I was growing up, the seasonal ice cream shop in my town had banana ice cream with fudgy swirls. It was insanely good and I can’t find it anywhere now. Chunky Monkey just doesn’t compare. Since that is now lost forever, my favorite is fresh pistachio gelato!
Chocolate Chip Mint!
Congratulations on your book, David!
Ice Cream: Haagen Dazs Bailey’s Irish Cream
Sorbet: Lemon. (I’m more of an Italian Ice gal, really, & lemon is pure nostalgia for me.)
Terrific artwork in your book, by the way …
Chocolate chunk with cherries. Then again any one would really do.
Jane
Lavender with burnt caramel and macadamia swirls.
Followed by quince crema inglese.
white chocolate with maltesers
there’s nothing like good old fashion mint ice cream to bring me right back to my childhood days of savouring that special ice cream treat under the blazing hot sun O.o (even though i’ve moved on to more ‘sophisticated’ flavours like sea salt caramel and matcha ice cream!)
congrats on the new book! looks amazing!
mint chocolate chip
Chocolate Almond!! And I love reading your blog! I hope to be back in Paris a year from now for a couple of weeks…. Your book looks great too!!
Have a great day!
Strawberry sorbet is the best!
Cant wait to read your new book, and who else but Daniel Craig would do?
Mandarin Orange Sorbet. Got your book yesterday and love it!! Can’t wait to try the recipes.
*Mon dieu! +2k Comments! :O Impressive*
Butterscotch Ice Cream! :D If I win (dreaming), I prefer receive your book (autographed, of course!) ’cause it’s easier ship a book than a hole pack of pans! hahahah
We grow musk melons here in the hot south. I make a sorbet with strained melon pulp, lime juice and lime zest. MMMMMMMMMM so refreshing.
Real vanilla ice cream! It’s creamy, delish and matches pretty much everything.
Looking forward to the book :)
We grow musk melons here in the hot south. I make a sorbet with strained melon pulp, lime juice and lime zest. MMMMMMMMMM so refreshing.
Mint chocolate chip!!!
rum ice cream (with caramal sauce)
Chocolate
Mint Chocolate Chip when store bought or malted milk (via The Perfect Scoop) when homemade =)
Blueberry vanilla is my favorite!
Mint Choc Chip
I can’t resist real pistachio gelato.
Chocolate Fudge Crackle. Used to have that a lot as a kid!
Congrats on the book!
I can’t pick just one ice cream, so I’ll say my favorite sorbet is guava.
The cover of your new book looks so chic! I know some people may be repelled by this but my favourite ice-cream flavour is DURIAN ( a thorny and pungent smelling tropical fruit)! There is this gelato shop here in Melbourne, Australia that makes killer durian gelato. Gotta love it.
Salty Caramel
roasted marshmallow and strawberry/lemon from Gregs Ice cream
baci and Pistachio gelato
had best coconut ice cream in thailand
I adore coffee ice cream! Congratulations on the new book.
Stracciatella!!
This past weekend, in honor of the Kentucky Derby, I created a mint julep ice cream (based upon your mint ice cream recipe) and that is definitely top of my list at the moment.
Can’t wait to read your new book!
I love Mint Chip…even adapted the Agave Sweetened Ice Cream recipe to make it for me and my DBF. Part of how I know we are soul mates is because he LOVES Mint Chip too!
Hazelnut
I love a good strawberry ice cream!
pistachio
strawberry and vanilla
My favorite basic ice cream flavor has to be coffee! I’m a sucker for gilding the lily though…. mmm brownies… mmm fudge sauce.
Right now it is a tie between salted caramel and lavender honey
Coffee, coffee, coffee
choc chip cookie dough
I prefer to double dip – a scoop of green tea and one of ginger
Blue Bell Homemade Vanilla
Can’t wait to see the book!
vanilla bean.
Congratulations on the new book!
Mango sorbet.
Raw milk vanilla ice cream- with homemade hot fudge ohhhh and maybe a homemade fudge brownie under the ice cream- and next month I would include some fresh strawberries.
Chocolate and peanut butter–either Haagen Dazs or Chocolate Shoppe takes care of the craving.
White chocolate sorbet
Fruits of the Forrest (mixed berry sorbet from a local ice-cream shop)
Lavender
i have two, only because they go so well together… chocolate gelato and hazelnut gelato.
Right now I’m hooked on mango sorbet.
Chocolate sorbet. :)
lemon sorbet is my go-to dessert, also lemon ice cream (your recipe of course, and lemon sabayon (French Laundry recipe)…congrats on the new book!!
LOVE the book!
Ginger Ice Cream
Buttered Pecan
I love vanilla ice cream with vanilla beans. Congrats on your book, I have and love The Perfect Scoop.
Love, love, love chocolate icecream.
Hmm, tough call. I’m an old-fashioned cookies’n'cream girl, but mint chocolate chip, caramel, and plain ol’ chocolate are up there. Although bacio and biscotti are *fantastic* in the gelato department. Tough call. At least the summer is coming — hot weather makes me crave it daily! (And they just opened an Amorino near my apartment in Paris…)
Congratuations on the book, David. My fave flavor is chocolate espresso.
Basil Sorbet
B&J’s Black and Tan ice cream
Congrats!
Cherry Garcia – Cherry Ice Cream with Cherries & Fudge Flakes
Chocolate Peanut Butter!
David,
Somehow managed to get “the book” in hand last week and I have been laughing out loud.
Blood orange granita with vanilla ice cream (all hand made of course)
Many thanks!
Coffee ice cream. Congrats on the book!
Bon Jour-Lemon sorbet with a vodka boost. Looking forward to reading your book before coming to Paris-only 20 days but who’s counting?
Vanilla, if it is really good
I love mango sorbet.
chocolate chip cookie dough
Coconut ice cream is my favorite.
love pistachio almond ice-cream! yummy!!
Rose petal ice cream – trust me, it’s extraordinary!
CHOCOLATE…..dark chocolate definitely. Although, I love huckleberry ice cream and blackberry sorbet. All homemade with love of course! Or is it lust?
CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR BOOK!!! BRAVO!!!!!
I made cucumber-mint sorbet last weekend and I have to say, it is now officially my favourite. So amazingly refreshing!
love pistachio almond ice-cream!! yummy!
Mango-lime, sorbet or gelato, any time… any season!
peanut butter chocolate
home made vanilla dulce de leche ripple
Ben & Jerry’s Oatmeal Cookie Chunk
My favorite ice cream flavor is…Coffee Hazelnut.
I love your site…and books…
chocolate hazelnut
Chocolate peanut butter
homemade strawberry with chunks of berries. yum!
excited for your book!
My favorite flavor is this super-citrus (lemon, lime, a touch of orange, and some others) we picked up from a local shop; my husband’s is cranberry.
Pistache.
Félicitations, David!
I found your website when searching for a recipe for crystallized ginger and have been a happy reader ever since. So, in appreciation for a great blog—ginger ice cream!
Mint chocolate chip has been a favorite since childhood. Thanks for the giveaway!
Congrats!! Another book to enjoy!
It’s beautifully simple but mint chocolate chip — it’s therapy as well as a great fresh finish to a great meal.
Chocolate and Peanut Butter!
*sigh* Asking me to choose a favorite ice cream is like asking me to choose which of my children is my favorite…it’s impossible! Although if I absolutely have to pick, I’ll say vanilla…good ol’ vanilla.
Cheers!
I lOVE raspberry sorbet!
vanilla with pieces of fondant au chocolat (bertillon)
Straciatella is my favourite!
Here`s to hoping I win!
Mint chocolate chip, with shattery chocolate bits.
Lemon Verbena Sorbet
fruits des bois.
Might be boring – but for me it will always be chocolate! In addition I’d take some pink grapefruit.
mmm, blood orange gelato.. *hurries over to freezer*
tiramisu
Pistachio has got to be it. Cheers!
Pistachio… deelish!
Chocolate…vanilla…wait – homemade fresh peach!
le vrai sorbet fraise avec une pointe de menthe!
Congratulations for your new book David!
Tiger’s tail ice cream – black licorice and orange, and spumoni ice cream.
Pistachio.
black raspberry (sometimes called black caps) with a sprinkle of toasted coconut on top. mmmmm! congratulations on the new book!
I know it’s simple, but I love raspberry.
Strwberry with chunks of fruit
yeah! A new book. My favorite is vanilla… YUM! YUM!
Strwberry with chunks of fruit
vanilla ice cream
Orange Ginger.
cardamon vanilla ice milk
favorite ice cream is peanut butter chocolate chip
favorite sorbet is coconut lime
favorite gelato is bacio
that about covers it. :) I can’t wait to read the new book, hopefully while eating one of the previously mentioned delicacies.
I adore your malted milk ice cream!!! Turns out that the “ulu” knife that my mother in law gave me as a gift actually has a use, which is chopping up the malted milk balls!
Although the Chocolate Lace ice cream from Dr. Mike’s in Connecticut has a lot going for it also . . .
And don’t even get me started on gelato flavors!!!
Blood orange sorbet.
(Serve it with a glass of Moscato d’Asti for a taste sensation!).
Congrats on your new book – I love this blog (I tell everyone it’s essential reading before visiting Paris).
Framboise from Bertillion on the Ile Saint Louis. My favorite frozen delight in my favorite city.
Cardamom ice cream rocks my world. You could throw some of your white chocolate in there too!
I just made peanut butter icecream with walnuts and 70% Chocolate from Patric Chocolate. oh so good.
Congrats on your new book! How nice is AllClad to be doing this? Very nice people. And you too for giving away your book.
Mint chocolate chip!
I love strawberry sorbet!
Maple walnut or Black Raspberry
Congrats on your new book – I’m sure I’ll love it once I have a chance to go get it.
Oh, how exciting!
Earl Grey ice cream is my favorite – I tasted it at a gourmet ice cream shop in the Bay Area and it blew my mind!
Green Tea Ice Cream. Congrats on the book!
Coffee.
sweet cream with fresh blackberries or raspberries.
can’t wait to read the book!
pear sorbet with bits of course!
I just ordered your ice cream book along with my new ice cream maker!! I’ve been making your vanilla frozen yogurt recipe with Greek yogurt and putting brownies pieces in it and its heavenly. That’s my favorite fro yo! I also love chocolate ice cream and can’t wait to try out your recipe.
I had a champagne sorbet once made with Moet White Star. That whole meal was memorable but the sorbet stood out…
Congratulations on the new book, I look forward to reading it.
Carmel Cashew
Wattleseed ice cream. Tried it for the first time at A.O.C. in Los Angeles. Now I see Vosges sells it. Tried it with David’s souffle cake. Unbelieveable. Now where can I get wattleseeds?
Will be returning to Paris after 20 years. Thanks, David, for the many suggestions.
My favorite ice cream is Mint Chocolate Chip and my favorite sorbet is Raspberry
I like a sweet vanilla with a caramel ribbon. Mmmm…
Lemon. The more tart, the better. I like lemon tarts as well!
peppermint!!
I’m headed to Amazon after this to order my copy! I like swirls of fresh fruit, so how about Oregon Blackberry Swirl in a nice rich vanilla base?
Your Chocolate Guinness ice cream, definitely.
Strawberry!
Breyers Vanilla. My Standard. But it does vary based on my mood! =)
A scoop of passion fruit gelato and a scoop of coconut ice cream – in the same bowl on a hot day!
Congrats on the new book!
i love ben and jerrys magic brownie ice cream: Black Raspberry Ice Cream Swirled with Sweet Cream Ice Cream & Fudgy Brownies. yuuummmm.
Cardamom fromage frais sherbet
Mint sorbet from Pozetto.
Congrats on the book, can’t wait to read it!
Favorite flavor – Hazlenut
Favorite flavor will always be Ben & Jerry’s Mint Chocolate Cookie (with Oreo pieces)
Blueberry pie; lots of berries, a bit of crunch, a hint of lemon. Yum!
Ben & Jerrys Triple Caramel Chunk
Stracciatella. Definitely.
dulce de leche!!!
Love any kind of ice cream but I will always be satisfied with just plain old chocolate–comfort food at it’s best!
Passion fruit sorbet!
(Really like sesame gelato from l’arte in NYC, but does that count? HA!)
Mango sorbet for me!!!
Green Tea!
Coffee
Cherry sorbet…..
you need soo many cherries to get that strength of intensity….. yum yum!
Ben & Jerry’s Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, or Cinnamon Buns. Any ice cream with chunks of some other dessert (cheesecake, pecan pie, blueberry pie, cupcake, cookie, etc.) is a winner for me.
I love Hazelnut Mocha, yum!
Your book arrived yesterday, and I am thoroughly enjoying it!
My favorite sorbet is Black Currant.
chocolate ice cream
Mint chocolate chip. Definitely.
Caramel au beurre sale, bien sur!
P.S.—-I ABSOLUTELY LOVE your book. I’m alomst finished and read most of it on the train from Paris to Cologne, literally laughing the whole way. My fellow train mates didn’t appreciate the book as much as I did.
Mint chocolate chip!
Has to be chocolate – dark, dark chocolate ice cream!
Congratulations on the new book!
I’m a sucker for any coffee ice cream with dark chocolate chips or chunks in it.
Coffee!
My favorite sorbet is blood orange! :-)
It changes daily, but today, I would have to go with peanut butter cup, yum! Love reading your blogs and salivating at your recipes!
Toasted Almond! Leatherby’s in Sacramento has the best!!
grapefruit sorbet all the way
Favorite? Oh, dear, oh, dear . . .
So many ice creams, so little time.
Lately, it would have to be a Pimms Cup ice cream served at the St Michaels Manor hotel restaurant in St Albans.
After that, there was this pear ice cream I had in Tuscany year before last.
Dark chocolate ice cream.
Congratulations!
Pistachio (with hot fudge on it)
Coffe with dark chocolate covered espresso beans – divine.
Toasted Almond! Leatherby’s in Sacramento has the best!! Fenton’s is a close second.
Red bean ice cream is one of my faves
MINT, no chocolate please.
My favorite ice cream is Maine Maple Walnut made fresh and tasty by Giffords.
Looking forward to reading this book and trying the recipes. My favorite flavor of sorbet is Peach.
coconut….or peanut butter and chocolate!
my favorite ice cream is chocolate chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream. yummy!
My favorite ice cream is Vanilla. If I am having gelato it is anything with hazelnuts.
My favorite is blood orange
Yogurt (ice cream)
Cassis (sorbet)
this season’s fav is honeycrisp apple sorbet!
Crème fraîche ice cream with wild strawberries made with Vermont Butter and Cheese Crème fraîche !!
uh, chocolate!
Looking forward to reading the book. Love the coffee ice cream recipe in your ice cream book!
Favorite flavor: buttermilk — lemon verbena. Lovely blend of flavors!
chocolate sorbet, pure indulgence!
Coffee ice cream (preferably Brigham’s)
Chocolate-Almond! But it’s custard.
I just made buttermilk ice cream for the first time, and now that’s my favorite.
cookie dough!
Chocolate-Almond! But it’s custard.
BiRite’s burnt caramel.
My favorite ice cream is vanilla, my favorite gelatos are chocolate and passion fruit.
At the moment – Guiness
Banana from Schneider’s Sweet Shop in Bellevue, Kentucky!
chocolate!
Blood Orange!
Congrats to you for the new book! Can’t wait to get my copy.
coffee ice cream! so delicious!
congratulations on your book!
A real good dark chocolate!
Butter Pecan/Caramel
Salted Butter Caramel Ice Cream – David’s recipe on the blog.
Vanilla I know its boring but a true test of the ice cream maker.
Favorite ice cream: Ciao Bella’s malted milk ball gelato. Heaven. Damn, now I’m craving some…
Ummmmmm Rocky road!!!
Pomegranate Chocolate Chip, absolutely.
coconut!
caramel cinnamon ice cream!
So many delicious ice cream flavors… today I will go with coconut!
Can’t wait to get your book!
chocolate with blood orange
Well, it’s not the Caramel at Berthillion! I think it’s the sweet cream at L’Epi Dupin.
congratulations on the book! I can’t pass up banana fudge ice cream.
black cherry
Vanilla bean with grated Mexican soft cinnamon.
Rhubarb
Favorite Ice Cream – French Vanilla
Favorite Sorbet – Raspberry
Congrats on your new book – can’t wait to read it!
Chocolate fudge, or chocolate with caramel, or just plain old chocolate.
Plain vanilla for me!
Pistachio!
Fresh from the garden raspberry! Nothing can beat that….well maybe juneberry…do I have to pick just one? Peanut butter is third choice, coffee a fourth…..oh man…I can’t choose.
My favorite ice cream changes pretty frequently, but I right now my favorite is fennel ice cream. It’s surprisingly delicious.
blood orange sorbet!!!!!!
Lemon is my favourite flavour of sorbet!
My favorite ice cream is a really good vanilla! .. second would be cherry pecan.
mint chocolate chip!
Super chouette!
Homemade ginger peach.
Or maybe Mexican chocolate, with a touch of ancho chile….
Mango Sorbet!
Today’s my birthday … :) That should pack some extra good luck!
Your Oatmeal Raisin Cookie Ice cream recipe is the best!
raspberry :D
Tie between Cardamom and Alice B. Toklas (chocolate brownie). Sometimes one on top of the other.
Congratulations on your publication!
Green tea ice cream, definitely! K x
Super chouette!
Mexican chocolate, with a touch of ancho chile.
Or homemade vanilla topped with Kensington Marmalade.
Mint Chocolate Chip without a doubt, but I’ve also been experimenting with a recipe for Brown Sugar ice cream. God I could sure use some more All-Clad.
Though I love sooo many varieties of ice cream, when in Europe, I always go for stracciatella. In fact, I may go buy some right now…
I love me some cookies & cream.
It doesn’t get any better than fresh peach frozen yogurt.
My favorite ice cream used to be chocolate but now it’s Carrot Cake. Thanks!!
Straight up vanilla – cuz it’s a great base for everything and anything else! Congrats on the new book. Sounds like a fabulous read!
Salted caramel!
I have to go with blood orange sorbet. My favorite way to enjoy it is accompanied with a cup of drinking chocolate; a truly divine combo. Congrats on the book, can’t wait to get my hands on a copy!
Coffee with dark chocolate chunks
Congratulations on the publication!
Depends on the weather, but mint chocolate chip for summer. Or lemon sorbet.
Favorite flavor of ice cream is ginger.
Just got your latest book and love it!
I’m more of a experimenting kind of ice-cream eater – and I like those which have
more “natural” stuff in it – real fruit etc. One of my all time favourites is Badam
Kewara. Unfortunately you’ll have to go to India to try this one – Badam is
Almonds (praline) and Kewara is a flower essence that is very indigenous to India
- it has the most divine fragrance – and very refreshing – something that is critical
for the hot Indian Summers.
From the western flavours – I like Belgian Chocolate and Spumoni (but that’s more
gelato category now, isn’t it?)
Congratulations on your book, BTW – and many thanks for the wonderful blog -
I’ve learnt a lot of new stuff from you!
Lately my favorite has been B&J’s oatmeal cookie dough. Moosetracks is another classic.
Graeter’s Blackberry Chocolate Chip
Ohhh man. I only get to pick one? Well then I guess Raspberry sorbet would be it. I could stand eating only that for the rest of my life!
Cassata Siciliana gelato. Ricotta + cream + bits of candied fruit = delicious.
Butter Pecan
Favorite flavor used to be Irish Coffee but I haven’t seen it in years. Current favorite is a tie between butter pecan and coffee.
My absolute favorite is the cheesecake gelato that made at my job using my cheesecake recipe. I bake it off and the gelato maker throws the whole thing into the gelato machine with his base. It’s sooooo wrong but tastes so right.
Dark chocolate with orange but how cruel to make me pick just one.
Where do I begin? Vanilla, pistachio, that salted caramel one you have on this site…too many more to list
Oh, I’m a lemon lover, lemon ice cream, lemon sorbet, either one works for me…
My favourite is definitely vanilla, but I haven’t gotten around to trying to make your salted butter caramel ice cream. Looks scrumptious. Who knows, could be a new favourite?
Deeply Chocolate Gelato
Salted Caramel
Soba Ice Cream – delish!
I am an equal opportunity eater, but I am thrilled with anything coffee, or salted caramel. I also love the tart flavor of plain yogurt. Ooh, maybe yogurt with pistachio and honey swirl!
vanilla bean, pistachio and green tea!
Congratulations on your new book!
Well, this week it’s Rhubarb, but ask me next week. I have never met a flavor I didn’t like.
Lemon sorbet, or maybe Mango, but also Strawberry or Raspberry – and I might prefer ice cream – something simple like chocolate or vanilla, or maybe double-fudge with caramel …
The book sounds delicious.
And i’ll have a coconut mango sorbet to go with it!
Mint Chocolate Chip (the green kind with thin slivers of chocolate)….though Dulce De Leche is a veryclose second.
Vanilla or malted vanilla, tangy frozen yogurt, mango sorbet.
I used to love praline pecan. I recently tried a pomegranate-chocolate chip that was lovely.
homemade peaches – n – cream
My favourite ice cream is bourbon vanilla
Triumph Brewery’s Stout from the Bent Spoon in Princeton, NJ
Avocado is actually an amazingly rich and creamy flavor
Toss up between really good white chocolate or fresh raspberry ! on off days salted caramel !!
It’s a tie between Salted Caramel or Cardamom for me.
Rose ice cream is my absolute favorite
My favorite is the Salted Caramel at Bi-Rite Creamery, right here in San Francisco (where I also bought David’s ice cream book). Ambrosia!
Somehow the combination of a scoop of vanilla bean gelato and a scoop of passionfruit sorbet transmogrifies both into a sum far greater than its parts. Congrats on the book! Now I have to book a trip to Paris so I can check out the recommendations I’ve been collecting from you.
If done right, spumoni. Otherwise, green tea ice cream!
Pumpkin ice cream!
Lemon Verbena
Rocky road
Vanilla!
Tiramisu every time!!
Wonderful! The book sounds like great fun!
My absolute all-time favorite ice cream flavor is coffee. I do have a weakness for Italian Lemon sorbetto, all slushy in the glass.
Vanilla
My favorite ice cream or sorbet? Would you also ask me to select a favorite child!!!?
MMMM…..chocolate. Cookie dough. Ben & Jerry’s Cherry Garcia. Peanut butter cup. Cherry vanilla. Shall I go on?
I love coconut ice cream
The book looks beautiful! My favorite sorbet is limoncello.
Lemon and fresh orange sorbet!
coconut! *swoons*
Pumpkin – always pumpkin
Dear David.
Tried your receipe for the new dough you bake (ie the butter etc.) Oh my nerves!
Its fablousity esp with a berry tart…I had a little dough bake-off with my neighbor who can really cook but she uses the old way with cold water, etc…this is much easier
and tastes better than Bisquik and I really don’t cook but mine won hands down..all you have to do now is some gourmet goodie or dessert that can be cooked in the microwave. keep up the great work and what a great site….
Jon-Henri
I’m lucky enough to live near Kimball’s Ice Cream in Mass. So hard to choose one flavor! But I think it has to be their peach ice cream, available for only a week or two each summer…
Coffee ice cream- does it get any better than that?
I really liked the rosemary-dulce de leche at Ici.
my fave is chocolate with hazelnuts. yummmmmmmmmm
Peach from Kimball’s! (Like mother like daughter…)
It’s not available now but Baskin Robbins used to make Chocolate Rasperry Truffle, one of their International Creme Flavors. Yummy.
I’m definitely getting your book.. I love your Madelaine recipe.
Just read a *glowing* review of the new book! Congrats!
So far, nothing beats your salted butter caramel ice cream…
My favorite ice cream is always the last one I made, usually from a David Lebovitz recipe. They all rock. But, since I must name one flavour, I’d say that unforgettable mix of pistaches and marrons I had many years ago in Avignon.
lavender ice cream has always done it for me
Belgian dark chocolate!!!!!!!!
Pickled-ginger ice cream for me.
Mmmm – strawberry rhubarb sorbet. And for a reliable fallback – chocolate!
lavender honey
Definitely the lemon basil sorbet we make at home. Wonderfully refreshing on a hot summer’s day. Also a sheep’s milk yogurt sorbet (called that, but definitely more like gelato.) It’s served with a drizzle of aged balsamic on it
Simple, perfect vanilla
Cherry!
cioccolato bianco variegato alla nutella (white chocolate ice cream swirled with nutella)
Homemade vanilla bean, But I can’t just pick one, I love Haagen Daz cassis but, I don’t know what happened to it? Cherry Garcia, and a Mexican style walnut “nuez”ice cream on a stick.
coffee ice-cream
or
rasberry sorbet
Vanilla. It works with everything, especially orange juice…tastes just like an orange creamsicle…my favourite!
Raspberry sorbet
Blueberry ice cream…
with fresh, just picked blueberries from my friend’s organic farm.
I love strawberry, either as ice crream or sorbet!
My favorite sorbet is golden mango.
Chocolate Sorbet
Mint chocolate chip!
Lemon custard or chocolate (preferably with crushed almonds from Amy’s Ice Cream in Austin)
Pear sorbet with cassis (black currant) sorbet is divine. I had it in Japan, in a little town called Daito (north-east side of Honshu). A wonderful treat.
Cinnamon or salted caramel. And now I’ll be thinking about them all day long. Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..
Whole Foods 365 Brand Vanilla… It’s wonderfully creamy, with a clean vanilla bean flavor that begs to be overeaten! I almost can’t have it in the freezer….
Since I was a child, my favorite cold treat has been Lime Sherbet. Now I love all things lime.
Oooh, butter pecan ice cream is my favorite. And it’s one of the most difficult to get a good taste of as well. You can NOT just throw pecans into vanilla and call it a day!
Off to get a scoop…
pistachio is the best and wish it is availabe in the states.
strawberry! sorry, is that boring?
mango sorbet
It has to be clotted cream ice-cream, ideally from a little dairy in Devon or Cornwall. A heart-attack with every spoonful, but so worth it :D
strawberry, boring i know..but perfect in summer!
I think I have to go with green tea ice cream. So rich and still delightfully refreshing on a hot Summer day.
Greetings!
I am so excited to read your book – and extra excited about this contest. I have been to Paris 5 times, and have no personal friends living in this city to give me “personal” tips- and your book will do that, no doubt. We’ve conversed before about the Thermomix, and your macarons.
Cassis ice cream and sorbet aremy favorites. I find it nowhere but France, so I make my own when my black current bushes decide to produce berries – about every three years!
Pick me! Pick me! Mr. Random Generator! (Just glad someone is “generating”!)
Congratualtions on your book, David.
Cheers,
Valerie
Salted caramel ice cream!
Congrats on your new book release may you continued to be blessed My fav is pistachio I love it please pick me Merci David have a great week Love Cheyenne
I love either blueberry or huckleberry!
Pablo Pistachio (in honor of the Toledo Museum of Art) by Tofts, a local company. Alas, as often happens with my favorite anything, it was discontinued. Without it, butter pecan.
chocolate/espresso
Mmm… Guinness chocolate, from your book of course.
Mmm I think that chocolate hazelnut has to be my favorite.
Noccola as served in high class gelato shops in Rome.
My favorite ice cream is chocolate.
Coconut Ice Cream (and so so many more!)
Congratulations on your book!
Mint Chocolate Chip is my favorite.
caramel–burnt caramel, salted caramel
if I can pick only flavor, then it has to be chocolate
mmmm… honeycomb ice cream… the best!
My favorite ice cream flavor is Chai tea, available here in Montreal at the Havre des glaces, Jean-Talon market. It tastes a bit more cardamome than when I do the real thing, but the flavor is subtle, yet explosive and delicious.
A must try if you come by Montreal and like this kind of tea.
Coffee Chip.
Your milk chocolate Guinness. That stuff is deadly – in a good way, of course. Can’t wait to read the book!
Black sesame from O’mei in Santa Cruz, with the little black sesame candies they make to go with.
Home-churned vanilla, made in the old hand cranked bucket like when I was a child.
vanilla with crystallized ginger
Pistaccio!
And I love my new All-clad 2 burner sized stove top grill!
Mascarpone with stracciatella or chunks of chocolate truffles.
Very favorite, very special for me is Eggnog ice cream, but only if it’s the homemade Christmas treat made by the Armstrong family of St. Croix, USVI. They’ve been making seasonal ice creams for many years, pumpkin at Thanksgiving, eggnog at Christmas, etc. So it’s rare and you can’t always be sure you’ll be quick enough to get some, since they don’t take orders!
Tough choice, but I have to say that salted butter caramel is my favorite.
Definitely chocolate!
Coffee ice cream, hands down!
vanilla
Homemade vanilla bean!
Can’t wait to read your newest book!!
anthing with salted caramel
congrats on the book…can’t wait to read it!
Jeni’s in Columbus, OH makes a great bourbon butter pecan and Queen City Cayanne (right up your alley David!) but I’d have to go with their Dark Chocolate Gelato… going to have to go get some now.
Bacio, bacio, bacio!
Mine that Bird had a better chance winning the Derby than I do of this, but still it’s fun to enter. My fave ice cream at the moment is Maple Butter Brickle that I make myself, but honestly I’ve never met an ice cream that I didn’t love. Can’t wait to read your book! As for the All Clad – geez, what a dream!
Oreo Cake Batter
taro ice cream from fosselmans!
So many options! I absolutely love the mint julep ice cream they make at The Bent Spoon in Princeton (made with bourbon and mint). Yum!
Moose tracks ice cream is lovely! Tiny peanut-butter cups and caramel swirl. If only if came in chocolate ice cream.
I live for mango sorbet — In a previous life, i was a mango, i swear it. It is the worlds most sublime fruit.
There is this ridiculously-delicious Carrot Cake ice cream made out of rice milk that I’m obsessed with. Can you say nom nom nom?
My favourite ice cream flavour is definitely caramel!
Recently I just discovered cucumber sorbet and loved it! I’ll try to imitate this recipe as soon my cucumbers start growing.
Ginger!
Coffee ice cream.
Caramel ice cream
Mulberry sherbet
I was about to type lemon (the simplest is almost always the best) until I saw lemon rosemary mentioned… I suspect I’ll have a new favorite if I try that. One of my fondest taste-memories is the piping hot black tea flavored with cardamom pods that I have with lunch at a nearby Lebanese restaurant. Wonder how that would translate into a sorbet?
Congrats on the new book.
Pear with a hint of lemon
I found your blog when I was searching for ice cream recipes after receiving an ice maker for my birthday. I read it during my lunch hour at work and it has become my favorite part of the day. My current favorite ice cream is Cappuccino Crunch (available at Dip-Top Orange, CT USA). Can’t wait to read the new book. Congratulations!
Japanese black sesame!
Congratulations on your new book!!! Can’t wait to read it. I love the photography on your blog…it makes me drool al the time;)
Favorite ice-cream: stracitella (I think this is how it is spelled) and plain vanilla
Dark/white chocolate combo.
rocky road all the way~
Vietnamese coffee almond fudge swirl (a mash-up of your recipes) is nirvana ice cream. Just as your new book is, as well! I certainly wouldn’t mind a few pieces of All-clad in my kitchen, either.
raspberrry chocolate chip
Chocolate!
I just discovered your blog after a 2 week trip to Paris…info I could have used, but am enjoying it now.
After staying in the heart of coconutland in Mexico in February, coconut ice creamis my current favorite.
Can’t wait to get your book!
No way to choose just one . . . my fav flavor definitely changes with my moods . . . lately it’s been Haagen-daz coffee or macadamia nut brittle. Though, it’s pretty hard to resist lemon & coconut sorbet!
Chocolate hazelnut
Earl Grey from Ici in Berkeley!
Ginger sorbet is my absolute favorite… Am waiting for the book to arrive.
Grapenut Icecream. It’s a Jamaican favorite (even though Jamaicans don’t really eat Grape nut cereal) and tastes like a malted vanilla
My favorite is whatever is on my spoon, but Crema di Limone at Cinco de Mayo in Oakland is really great…I need to go there now.
Ooh….Ginger Molasses from Christina’s in Cambridge, MA. It’s ice cream that tastes like the best ginger snap you could ever make.
Or dark chocolate with chili…
Or…
Peach.
Mint chocolate-chip has always been a favourite … I also love Cowie-Wowie, which if I’m remembering correctly is vanilla with caramel cups, almonds and chocolate chunks, from Cows in P.E.I.
Mint chip, of course! But minus all the fake green food coloring–the unnaturalness of the green can be off-putting sometimes.
Pistacio all the way!
My favourite flavor is chocolate
Chocolate. Go with the classic!
coconut!
Praline Ice Cream. MMMMMmmm
Olive Oil or straccitella.
Just the basic lemon sorbet for me: the tartier the better. Mmmmmm. For ice cream, one can’t go wrong with Raspberry Chocolate. YUM!
Coffee ice cream!
Mango Sorbet would be my first choice. So looking forward to reading your new book David.
Dulce de leche
Congratulations!
Passion fruit ice cream — the adult version of the Creamsicle!
Fig
Chocolate!!!
I love homemade melon sherbet… Yummy
Coffee Oreo cookie Mount Gay rum ice cream. Darn that Elise for posting it anyway – it’s amazing. I’m also a fan of your Strawberry Sour Cream…
I’m off to the store today to see if your book has arrived – gotta add to the collection! Congrats on the release.
mint chocolate chip (stracciatella)
Coffee! The book looks wonderful, too!
Chocolate chip
Congrats on your book!
Plum Sorbet.
Apricot ice cream
Peanut butter and chocolate ice cream.
mint chocolate chip!
Ben and Jerry’s Cherry Garcia Fro Yo!!!!!!!
Love all sorts but if I had to live the rest of my life just eating one it’d probably be some kind dark chocolate ice cream!
Definitely pistachio. Nutty goodness!
Hazelnut Gelato or Honeycomb
3339 comments?! 3341 by the time I got through speed reading the comments!!
Caramel au fleur de sel for me please….
Lemon ice cream with zest. Sorbet is good too, but I like the sweet and sour and creamy combo.
Ben and Jerry’s Cherry Garcia and not the lowfat yogurt crap either…the real deal bazillion calorie stuff! YUM! Congrats on the new book!
Mint chocolate chip ice cream.
My favorite ice-cream flavor is …. chocolate.
Ginger ice cream and congratulations on your new book! Can’t wait to add it to my bookshelves.
Congratulations on a great looking book, can’t wait to read it…I love the clever way they put your name on the door. My favourite flavour screamies would have to be pistachio and crystallized ginger…swoon!!! Thanks!!!
French vanilla bean ice cream with egg yolks and vanilla bean
Hmmmm… too many to narrow it down to one.. SALTED CARAMEL from Bi-Rite!!
Congratulations on your book, it looks great ^ ^
My favorite ice-cream used to be the creme brulee gelato at a small shop in Los Angeles, but Haagen-Daz’s honey-vanilla is now (much to my surprise) gaining on it.
hmmm – tough question
favorite ice cream flavor today: maple pecan or baby coconut
favorite sorbet: passion fruit
Can’t wait to read the new book!
Chocolate!!
Rocky road
chocolate!
coffee and chocolate chip – no doubt.
Travelling through Argentina last year, I found the wine-flavored combos in Mendoza to be some of the best I’ve ever had. Malbec Blackberry? Zomg!
So hard to choose–but mint chocolate chip ranks up there. The white kind, not the green with weird food coloring added. ;)
Hands down it’s Pistachio at Yotvata in Tel Aviv
Who doesn’t like ice cream (or can’t lie for All Clad)? It is difficult to choose a fav though. I would have to pick black walnut.
blood orange sorbet. so refreshing
Sour cherry vanilla. Mmmmmm.
mint
(the pink kind. ewww, right?)
cardamon
i’m so in love with the fleur de sel caramel ice cream from haagen dazs right now. other than my current crush – it is hard to beat a dark rich chocolate ice cream.
I love the Haagen Daaz Sticky Toffee Pudding ice cream, but I also have fond thoughts of this delicious fresh cardamom chai ice cream.
Chocolate!!!
Pistachio gelato makes a good case for itself, but it will always fall to Zuppa Inglese whenever I can get it.
coconut milk ice cream
Hmmm…..can I tell you my favorite GELATO flavor instead? Oh well, it doesn’t matter really – for ice cream or gelato my choice is always CHOCOLATE!
And yes, I brought my AllClad cookware in my suitcase when we moved to Italy!
I’m a simple girl. I love French Vanilla, the kind with the flecks of vanilla beans
Salted butter caramel…
Is your book being released in the UK, by any chance?
Pistachio
I have to pick only one!! I guess it would have to be coffee then. Although anything with caramel comes in a very close second. Looking forward to your new book!
Mango sorbet!
Lemon Verbena ice cream…summer is a coming!
cookies n cream
Lemon sorbet!!
Chocolate ice cream with peanut butter swirl. Actually, any flavor I happen to be eating at the moment is my favorite. :)
Can’t wait to read the book David!
Pear, but I like it with a scoop of chocolate.
Over 3000 comments bloody hell!
My favourite is yoghurt flavour Italian gelato
I really need some decent pans. Are they good on an Aga?
Lemon
Can’t wait to pick up the new book and read it
Might have to joint purchase it on amazon with the perfect scoop
since I just dusted off the ice cream maker.
K
pistachio
since i can’t name just one…there’s a tie between pistachio and chocolate chip cookie dough.
Sherry with raisin!
one scoop lemon, one raspberry please.
Normally I’d say strawberry, but my current favorite is honey fig ice cream which a local shop makes….
Malted Milk Ball – recipe from The Perfect Scoop!
Lychee sorbet and honey-lavender ice cream.
chocolate
Congratulations on your book!
Ginger ice cream is my current favorite.
Martha
Your salted caramel ice cream. Yum!
I love Paris and am looking forward to reading your new book.
Vanilla Honey
My favorite flavor has to be tin roof sundae. Anything with chocolate and crunch is good in my book.
Congratulations on your book! Salted caramel at Berthillon is my favorite, although I don’t discriminate when it comes to ice cream :o)
Butter pecan!
Coffee ice cream.
The raspberry-rose sorbet from David’s The Perfect Scoop cookbook. Delicious summertime treat! Congrats on your new book, David! Utterly charming.
It’s got to be chocolate!
salted caramel at berthillon… congrats on your book!
Butter Pecan with Hot Fudge.
Honey Lavander
pistachio ftw
Moose Tracks – but it has to be from Hershey’s Ice Cream. They are the original whom all the others aspire to be. Good sized swirls of dark chocolate, mini peanut butter cups, creamy vanilla ice cream. Yum!
If gelato is on the table, though, Straciatella from either Blue Ice in Rome or Capogiro in Philadelphia.
mint chocolate chip!!!
BURNT CARAMEL!
geranium, using the leaves of the rose geranium variety.
Butter pecan is the best, followed by Caramel.
Coffee Coffee Coffee!!
Congratulations on your book, I can’t wait to read it!
Without a doubt, Coffee (and any variations therein!). Congrats on the the book!
Pistachio. I like nuts!
Favorite ice cream: Poppy Seed- Marzipan from the Diba chocolate and ice cream store in Regensburg, Germany.
Holy Moses….3,000+ comments! oh my gosh….LOL
My favorite is chocolate almond, ever since childhood. When I was a kid, we used to go to an ice cream shop where the owner did every batch by hand. So good. When he slept, I’ve no idea….
Mango lime sorbet..sublime! Thank you for sharing your limitless talents with us all!
Congrats on your new book! My favorite flavor is totally the Salted Butter Caramel, with Coffee and Vanilla Bean as runner ups.
Red bean!
Rhubarb, just to be different.
good ole fashion Chocolate.
Hazelnut Ice cream
salted butter caramel….no, pistachio with dark chocolate, no mango sorbet, no—agh!
buttermilk
Crème de marron.
chocolate, caramel
My favorite ice cream is dulce de leche and sorbet or sherbet is pineapple.
Black cherry with chocolate chunks!
Love Chocolate Chocolate Chip, I want some now that I am thinking about it!
My favorite ice cream is slightly melted cinnamon ice cream. Great blog and great ideas–thanks!
Vanilla (homemade of course)
black cherry
Make mine mamey.
Dulce de leche please. mmmmm yum!
dulche de leche for me too!
coffee! bitter and sweet.
Sorbet : definitely strawberry
Ice Cream: cookies and cream .. mmmm
love the blog !
NUTELLA flavored ice cream is the BEST! (you have to top it with fresh toasted hazlenuts…YUM)
P.S. Your question did not accept my answer with “of course” followed by it! Nice, simple straight answer this time!
Grapefruit, what a great smell and wonderful taste!! Congrats on the book!
My favorite would have to be your malted milk ice cream!
Blackberry apricot. After trying this combo for the first time just recently, I was left wondering: “Where have you been all my life?”
I just love Salted Butter Caramel.
The last time I made ice cream, it was Girl Scout Cookie season and I made Samoa Ice Cream. Defintely the best thing I’ve ever eaten. I also like raspberry.
I love any kind of ice cream but I would say mocha almond might be my favorite. I would still take vanilla custard over ice cream any day (what can I say, I’m from WI!). On a really hot day, there is nothing better.
My favorite has to be mint chocolate chip!
Pistachio!
gianduia -mmmmmm. A friend of mine makes an amazing prickly pear sorbet…that would be number two.
mmm my favorite flavor has to be chocolate chip mint – the white kind. scrumptious.
david lebovitz-you rule!
Black Raspberry is my favourite ice cream flavour.
And your blog has my favourite recipe for Butterscotch Pudding.
This is my entry into the competition.
Thanks,
Carl
Washington, DC
Rocky Road, made with homemade marshmallows and toasted almonds. Congratulations on your book; my entire family is looking forward to it!
Peach!
burnt caramel (aka creme brulee in some circles)
Raspberry with Chocolate chips ala Graeter’s in Cincinnati
Cherry Garcia
My favorite (today) is an ice cream dessert called Tiramisu Affogato. Coffee and vanilla ice cream, pour over some espresso and crumbled vicenzovo (crisp lady fingers). The final touch is shaved bittersweet chocolate and freshly whipped cream.
lavender and prosecco sorbet. mmmmm
Reed’s (the Jamaican ginger beer company) Ginger.
Favorite current flavor is the dark chocolate by Luna & Larry’s Coconut Bliss organic ice cream. Made w/all organic ingredients: Coconut milk, agave syrup, cocoa, and vanilla. Tastes better than the richest dairy-based ice cream I’ve ever had (excluding any of your recipes, of course!!!). I have no affiliation w/this company, or else I’d really be eating pints of this stuff.
Love the coffee…always have!!! : )
Pumpkin Spice.
Mercy, I made your Salted Butter Caramel Ice Cream for my visiting sister and her family this weekend and we were all rendedred pretty speechless. It was so freaking delicious. Thanks!
mmmm… mint & chip!
Concord grape sorbet
My favorite is chocolate chip with mint!
I
Dulce de leche! :)
Mint chip gelato is my all time favorite but my new thing is a scoop of vanilla and almond gelato each. MMMMMM…good!
Cookies and cream! Congratulations!
Favorites (lots of runners up though):
Mint chip (ice cream)
Lemon (sorbet)
Congrats on your book!
I love the Guinness ice cream! :)
Dulce de Leche…nothing beats it!
fresh strawberry icecream and i want to try buttermilk icecream.
I love GREEN TEA ice cream!!!
my favorite flavor is vanilla – you can tell a good ice cream by the taste of the vanilla
I love your salted caramel ice cream. I’ve made it a few times and its always a hit.
Plain old vanilla bean. Can’t wait to get your new book!!
Peach!
chocolate chocolate chip, yes please!
The yoghurty milk flavoured deliciousness from when I lived in Spain… mmm…
Haagen Dazs – Melon
Definitely Cinnamon. I can’t wait to read your book!
rum raisin :)
Good quality vanilla… Mmmmm!
Mint chocolate chip makes me swoon.
I love chocolate sorbet!
My favorite flavor is Sugar-apple (also known as Sweetsop – Annona squamosa ), you should really try it!
My favourite is Dulce de Leche, the Argentinian Dulce de Leche!
Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream
So Many flavors……..well, If I have to pick my favorite, it would have to be butter pecan. For sorbet, definitely raspberry.
I have to choose just one???
Chocolate PB has been a life-long favorite.
Salted caramel!
chocolate/peppermint
Honeycomb!
Pear sorbet, which I first had at Maison Berthillon c.1992. And I have been dreaming about it since.
And mango sorbet.
And if I could still eat ice cream: without a doubt, coffee. Oh–to have a root beer float with coffee ice cream. Sigh.
just one flavor? then for today, it will be coffee.
Fresh peach- in August!
Simple. Classic. Vanilla Bean. Mmmmm
Vanilla bean… and I suspect brown butter ice cream, too, but I’ve never had the chance to taste it.
So, did anyone leave more than one comment and get the zizi punishment?
Coffee
Cruel, it’s like asking a mother to name her favorite child. Right now I crave…dulce de leche. Fine, I did it, I chose.
Caramel beurre salé or really fresh strawberry. Now I have to go out and get some. Thanks.
cassis from Berthillon, yum yum.
Felicitations!
pistachio, preferably gelato, not fake green.
Rum raisin from this little shack in the middle of nowhere that we used to stop at every summer on the way to my Aunt’s lake place. It was the best!
I think I too have to go with the cassis sorbet from Bertillon. (With their marrons glaces a close second).
PLease don’t flog me with a rubber zizi!
I had a basil/lemon sorbet in Santiago Chile last month that was hauntingly good.
Raspberry champagne sorbet — your receipe — one of the first I made in my ice cream maker!
Blackberry chocolate chip
mocha almond fudge
your vanilla with caramel bits and the one with the candied bacon bits. yummmmmmmm
of course pistachio gelato!
My favorite flavor of sorbet is mango.
3315 favourite ice-creams. Well, that would have been your next book sorted if everyone hadn’t chosen ice-creams from your last book. Never mind.
You could do worse than console yourself with a trip to Moro in London for their rosewater & cardamom ice-cream – my all-time favourite.
Agree with person near the beginning – round about where I realised there were thousands of responses – ice-cream in Istanbul is amazing. Actually, everything is.
Fosselman’s in South Pasadena makes the most brilliant ice cream called “Cappucino”. It’s a dark dark chewy chocolate with crunchy coffee bits. It’s my favorite!
rosemary ice cream–can’t wait to see the book!
Black sesame!
mint chocolate chip
Rhubarb sorbet!
durian ice cream, not for the faint hearted.
Congratulations David! I’m so excited to read your new book.
Favorite ice cream? Coconut!
Mint chocolate chip!
One of the yummiest ice cream flavors I enjoy is…raspberry…with chocolate sprinkles! :)
Fresh Peach
I saw your new book pop up on Amazon the other day as a new release… congrats again! :)
Have to say, my favorite ice cream flavor remains Ben & Jerry’s Phish Food. As for sorbet, I once had an apricot-flavored variety at a Lebanese restaurant here in New York… to die for!
Black Sesame, from Sundaes & Cones in the East Village of NY.
Mango :)
Hazelnut ice cream is my absolute favorite !!
I always fall back on mint chocolate chip as my default favorite!
Vanilla, really good vanilla. Love u David!
it’s a tie between butter brickle and cookies & cream. making me choose is like picking between two offspring… unfair =)
Dulce de leche!
Olive oil icecream. Sounds gross, but it is pure heaven in your mouth.
Cranberry Sorbet.
Congrats on the new book!
Coffee – Congrats on new book – can’t wait.
Blood orange sorbet.
Uh…mint chocolate chip, of course!
Mmm, pear sorbet. First tried it out in Paris and had non-stop cravings for it ever since :)
I adore dark chocolate ice cream. But my favorite sorbet is lime basil. Yum yum!
I have a new favorite – Salted Butter Carmel Swirl made by a local ice cream shop in Scottsdale, AZ. It is heavenly….
That’s such an unfair question- depending on the mood and situation! current favorite is taiwanese basil sorbet- refreshing with a kick!
Spumoni ice cream. The combination of chocolate plus pistachios and strawberry is the absolute best!
While I love a good sour cream or dulce de leche ice cream, I often find myself making the most basic tart frozen yogurt (yes, from TPS) because it’s so darn easy and so darn pleasing.
Kona coffee with dark chocolate sauce
since I was a kid.
Love the recipes and the ethos.
Mexican vanilla in Acapulco
dulce de leche, with chocolate sauce
Favorite ice cream to buy: Avocado from Mitchell’s in San Francisco
Favorite ice cream to make: David Lebovitz’s The Perfect Scoop Vanilla Ice Cream. (So much rich vanilla taste!)
Green Tea
Rum Raisin.
Oh good lord, your site must be getting pimped all over…3547 comments!? Thank your lucky stars you did that site redesign!
Raspberry Sorbet is so refreshing on a hot summer day!
mmm peanut butter cup
Pistachio ice cream (German style)
Cherry Garcia!
When I go to the ice cream stands in the summer, I always get peppermint stick with hot fudge…the crunchy, minty ice cream is so cold and fresh and the chocolate is so warm and luscious. Heaven!
I love salted carmel ice cream with raspberry puree
Favorite ice cream: Ginger
Favorite sorbet: Lemon
Passion fruit sorbet.
Me oh my….a favorite ice cream..
Can you believe as a young girl I did not like ice cream? What the heck was wrong with me???
I know! It was that marshmallowy cheap fluff my mom tried to pass off as “ice cream” LOL!
I found chocolate Hagan Daz about two years ago. Add chopped nuts and I’m in he-double a-ven!
And how sweet of you to add a giveaway :)
I have such a hard time ever answering the “what’s your favorite” question, especially when it concerns anything edible! After some serious soul searching, my answer is chocolate peanut butter ice cream!
Peppermint fudge ripple from Lappert’s — heaven in a cone!
hazelnut, pistachio and a good vanilla bean anytime!
I couldn’t possibly choose one favorite flavor!
Sorbet – either raspberry or Lemon.
Ice cream – chocolate or carmel or Walnut. Or maybe banana. Or Coconut Maybe all of those together in one huge bowl. But, honestly Melon ice cream is pretty awesome too. And there used to be a Chocolate cherry Garcia that they did with Frozen yogurt that was heavenly, but I think it got discontinued. And Blue Bell makes chocolate – chocolate chip cookie dough which is definitely inspired but impossible to get in Germany. I should try making it.
Lets face it, I have never met an ice cream or sorbet I didn’t like.
pistachio chocolate chunk
I loved the yogurt-flavored gelato sold in Berlin when I lived there– completely unlike frozen yogurt, and so rich and tangy. I’ve never found something similar here (albeit, I live in central Illinois)!
Blood orange sorbet
I have always been a sucker for Spumoni ice cream!
Dulce de Leche by Haagen Daz – yummmmmmmmm!!
I absolutely love the salted butter caramel recipe – I confess to making a batch and not sharing any of it with anyone…
I sometimes leave out the hard caramel bits, though because of one unfortunate experience with burning my hand with the liquid sugar once. Ouch.
I love reading your blog, though I haven’t commented before (by the time I read the entries, someone has already made the exact same comment I was thinking). The new book sounds like a fun read, and it’s going on my wish list right now. (Times being what they are, I have little income for the fun extras… Alas)
Bi-rite Creamery’s salted caramel. Or homemade strawberry and coconut milk!
cassis sorbet or coffee ice cream
Burnt Caramel. Can’t wait to read the book!
yogurt ice cream in Germany
salted caramel ice cream is my absolute favorite–especially alongside a slice of blackberry tart.
Neapolitan Ice Cream
Vanilla and strawberry!
I’m a big fan of chocolate fudge brownie!
Salted Carmel
Home made Milo (malt chocolate milk powder of the gods) ice cream or anything with tea or carmel.
Lemon Custard
Hazelnut ice cream is my favorite – this week.
Texas’ BlueBell Creameries’ Century Sundae. (Sighs)
maple walnut! it’s the flavor that i would be if i could chose how i tasted.
Malted milk ball!
alpine strawberry sorbetto
Lemon Sorbet, of course. Congratulations on the book.
Fresh mint chocolate chip
I recently got hooked on Ginger ice cream, but I cant have alot because (alas) I am mildly lactose intolerant. But I fell in love with Apple sorbet in Spain – too bad I cant find it stateside.
Without a doubt, cookies and creme. The absolute best.
Just discovered caramel fleur de sel – that’s the new favorite.
Chocolate hazelnut!
Chocolate hazelnut!
Baci, preferably eaten in Italy.
My double submission was accidental – no flogging please!
my fav? Homemade Cardamom/Cinnamon ice cream with Cashews
My favorite ice cream flavor is hazlenut with chocolate (gianduja)
there’s nothing better than passionfruit sorbet
Chocolate. Just plain chocolate.
My new favorite sorbet is the result of a few kitchen disasters recently… but the results are yummy! Candied orange and grapefruit sorbet with muscat.
Congrats on the new book!
Malted milk ice cream. Yum!!!
Sweet Cream ice cream from our local ice cream shop!!!
Dulce de leche.
Strawberry… from freshly picked strawberries.
Rum raisin
Toblerone!
Lemon! No Lime! mmm .. Strawberry!
Okay okay I’ll pick ONE
Raspberry :)
I adore chocolate – the more ‘chocolatey’ the better. No additions (e.g. ‘rocky road’), no extra flavors to detract from the chocolate experience (e.g. mocha).
My family mourned the closing of Langdon Dairy in Copake, New York, where Mrs. Langdon would make homemade Black Raspberry Ice Cream from berries in her field and her own cows’ milk. Granted it’s not probably the deliciousness one could find in Paris, but oh, the memory of it! We’re still on the hunt for something as good…
Ooooh…I’ve been waiting for this book! I’ve had it on my wish list :-)
Favorite ice cream? Vanilla. But growing up I loved Neopolitan ice cream.
My favorite ice cream flavor is raspberry, and if their is sorbet, I choose coconut.
Chocolate. I am a simple girl. But it has to be rich. And dark. Without stuff in it. Pure. Chocolate. Ahhh.
raspberry sorbet please
strawberry from blue marble in brooklyn!
Lemon sorbet with strawberries as a topping.
I’m a sucker for coconut.
Can’t wait to read your book- I’m a pastry chef in the East Bay and draw lots of inspiration from you…Thanks!
That would be Nardone (a glacier here in Lyon) Caramel Beurre Sale (no accents on my computer!).
Followed by their ginger – REALLY spicy
My favorite ice cream is Strawberry cream !
My favorite sorbet is mango.
Chocolate, chocolate, chocolate. I’m not sure why anyone would eat any other type!
My favorite ice cream flavor is your cinnamon. Or is the toasted coconut. Or maybe it was the Malted Milk. Or maybe the Chocolate, to which I added orange zest and chocolate chips. I think I could go on and on, since I’ve made most of them. And they were all wonderful.
I just went to the post office today and picked up my copy of your new book, which I ordered through Amazon a couple of months ago. Can’t wait to dig in.
Would love to win the cookware!
Really? I can only choose one? Then I’ll go with the first thing that popped into my head.
Butter Pecan.
Today? Lemon and mint.
Strawberry ice cream
I love a chunky rocky road.
I always default to mint chocolate chip but I had a orange chocolate ice cream in San Francisco that I still dream about…
Really good fresh ice cream, most any flavor, but especially vanilla bean!
Can’t wait to add your latest to my ever increasing collection of great cookbooks!!
Definitely have to say homemade malted milk ice cream with bittersweet chocolate stracciatella. Absolutely the best in the Perfect Scoop.
Cassis
I got your book yesterday, wow oh wow what a great read and super recipes.
Thank you David!
Can’t wait to see your book in person!
I am a vanilla bean girl…
Chocolate
butter brickle icecream
Panforte ice cream from The Perfect Scoop. Thanks for the inspiration David!
cookie dough!
I have to agree with my husband. Panforte is my favorite, although everything with chocolate is in second place.
chocolate- what else?
Lets see… PASSION FRUIT!
hmm… vanilla if you’re going to add stuff to it; otherwise really really really dark chocolate.
salty caramel from Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams
My favourite flavour of ice cream is caramel au beurre sale from Berthillon.
I have been lurking on this site since I first found it in March. I was in Paris for a week and looking desperately for a place to buy kouign aman. When I got home I tried Mr. Lebovitz’s recipe–it’s the best of the kouign aman recipes I’ve tried.
I can’t wait to get my hands on The Sweet Life in Paris–one of my favourite genres–stories about life in France with recipes to go along and pastry recipes at that!
My childhood default was always rocky road or rainbow sherbert. Nowadays, I’m a sucker for mint chocolate chip or (in the fall) pumpkin.
Chocolate sorbet!
I love Fleur de Lait ice cream!
Homemade vanilla :) Yum.
Coffee! Especially if its homemade with Blue Bottle coffee.
Love your blog. Currently tremendously fond of Bi-Rite’s mint chip, but I will gleefully eat anything with coffee or chocolate.
Heath Bar Crunch
Banana with a scattering of roasted peanuts
Black sesame! Although the fromage blanc sorbet swirled together with raspberry or concord grape sorbets at The Modern come close :)
coffee almond fudge…a magical combination of my favorite flavors in the form of my favorite dessert
congratulatins on your new book! it’s even created a buzz here in Brazil!
now, for the hard part… green tea? homemade vanilla ice cream (with real vanilla beans)? coffee? dulce de leche? condensed milk? tapioca? coconut? corn (I know it’s weird, but in Brazil it’s very commun) aaaaaaaahhh! too many options! Do I really have to choose? Ok… corn ice cream, in brazil it’s “milho verde”.
My favorite ice cream flavor is dark chocolate.
Favorite ice cream is chocolate with crushed up hazlenuts.
In fact, anything with chocolate. Could be rabbit turds pronounced in french because my french is so bad and I love chocolate so much that at the end of the day, I wouldn’t really care. Seriously. If the chocolate was good enough, well…
Also, I think this contest should go both ways (STOP IT!).
All contenders should sign a letter requesting a one night performance of DL with the Pussycat Dolls. Kim Kardashian did this and SHE CAN’T COOK!
normally would say vanilla peanut butter, but then there was that time in a restaurant when I had ginger ice cream with caramel.
Cinnamon, no peanut butter ripple. No, chocolate peanut butter.
Coconut!
cantaloupe or mango-tequila on a hot summer day.
Lychee Ice Cream from Polly Ann in SF. Yummmmmmmy!!
The BEST sorbet I had was in Paris…. A scoop of lime, a scoop of lemon, and a shot of gin over the top. Heavenly.
It’s traditional but… strawberry, preferably with rainbow sprinkles. I’m a kid at heart.
My most unforgettable ice cream flavor is piñon. The flavor was surprising and extraordinary and, sadly, I have only ever found it once, in Santa Fe.
What a great idea to have everyone share their favorite flavor…mine is Spumoni.
My favorite is real vanilla bean.
I am a purist. Only vanilla will do.
Oatmeal cookie chunk! Oatmeal cookie dough…plus chocolate chunks…plus cinnamon ice cream…. Oh my. Heaven on earth, indeed.
David, I love your books and your site! I’ve used many of your recipes and they’re always successful! Congratulations on the new book!
Okay, enough with the pleasantries and down to business! My favourite flavour of ice cream is peanut butter!
Mango ice cream! with chunks of fragrantly sweet mangos.. mmmmmm.
This may sound strange, but the “Rose Petal” ice cream at Ici in Berkeley….sublime!
The new book looks terrific, David!
Coffee ice cream and coconut sorbet. Yum!
Pistachio.
I think my favorite must be burnt caramel from Berthillon.
Can’t wait to see the new book!
chocolate + coffee is my favorite ice cream. Loving your comments on Twitter.
Coffee with some sort of chocolate additive in bits, for ice cream.
I have a huge love of black cherry ice cream.
Congratulations on your new book.
Strawberry cheesecake!
Cookies and Cream from Chicago-area Homers Ice Cream
My absolute favorite flavor of ice cream is blackberry.
nocciola gelato in Florence, butter pecan in the states.
Chocolate with peanut butter swirl. . . topped with extra peanut butter sauce! rocky road is my second favorite.
All-Clad stuff is the greatest. But I think I love salted caramel ice cream (from Il Laboratorio del Gelato especially) even better.
Hi David – I love your book (have it and have almost finished reading it). Your blog is my favourite and I love any flavour of Italian gelato ice cream (takes me back to my vacation in Germany in my teens – a thousand years ago!!)
Many congrats on the new book. Can’t wait to read it and try the recipes.
May I name both a sorbet and an ice cream? I love to have a scoop of mango sorbet with a scoop of dark chocolate ice cream, nestled together in the same dish.
plum! congrats on the book.
Blood orange sorbet. Yum!
Coffee ice cream!
Bitter chocolate sorbet. Congrats on the book, I look forward to reading it!
Butter pecan
Tonight it’s green apple sorbet. Tomorrow? Who knows…
I used to live in Paris and I had to leave, so I think that’s a good enough sob story to get me a little extra clout, right? ;-)
Bisous!
recently it’s been the brown bread ice cream from “scoops” in los angeles
congrats david my kids adore you, my favorite ice cream is nocciola and carrot marzipan….
see you in mexico??????
wild blueberry frozen yogurt or coffee ice cream
Peanut butter cookies are so much more important than social graces.
Your twitter updates and blog entries are great, and congratulations on your new book!
Favorite ice cream: REALLY good vanilla, preferably alongside a small, hot cup of coffee
Nectarine ice cream!
I love Rocky Road but with ACTUAL marshmallows, not marshmallow fluff.
Kiwi ice cream is so yummy!!
Vanilla! :)
Mmm… Rocky Road. Hands down.
peanut butter chocolate
Coconut
A few years ago my dad and I stumbled across a recipe for honey ice cream. I can’t remember where we found it, but its perfect in the summer with fresh berries.
I’m anxious to see your new book. My family loves The Perfect Scoop! Strawberry ice cream is my favorite…just made some earlier this week.
Banana ice cream from Kimball’s Farm
Lemon sorbet. With prosecco.
Mmm.
All I want is a signed copy of the book… but I’d be happy with new pots and pans too. Thanks
mmm… cardomom ice cream?
I’m a real sucker for dulce de leche. oh man.
Lemon sorbet!
Lemon sorbet!
Well, Chocolate anything, with the wonderful mix ins from your book. I’m going to work on Chocolate Saffron this summer in LA! Congrats on all the action — god I miss Paris, the pic on your latest book is a mixed pleasure for me ; )
I’m excited about reading your book! My favorite ice cream is cinnamon:)
Lavender or Vanilla Chocolate swirl
Simple vanilla bean, followed by strawberry as a close second.
caramel balsamic from O Chame in Berkeley!
carrot mango sorbet from Humphry Slocombe in San Francisco
All I want is a signed copy of the book… but I’d be happy with new pots and pans too. Thanks
I love coffee ice cream with chopped toffee bits mixed in.
Birthday cake flavor!
Honestly, nothing floats my boat more than a scoop of berry sherbert in a tall glass of ginger ale or Orangina.
Favorite ice cream is coffee w/ dark chocolate chunks. Yum!
Carmel
David, Congrats on the new book.
the cheap ice cream that my grandmother used to buy at the IGA in a plastic tub to make her “famous” ice cream cake that she would make for us on our birthdays – generally poorly sealed so icy and half melted at the same time – but it was grandma and it was wonderful
burnt caramel. no question.
Salted Butter Caramel from your website. Maybe you should publish that recipe in The Perfect-er Scoop?
Lychee sorbet! Goes so well with mango ice cream =)
Peanut butter oreo is absurdly tasty. :)
chocolate pretzel, but i’m going to try making vietnamese coffee ice cream…
Ricotta gelato from Cafe Sicilia in Noto!
Favorite gelato flavor? That’s tough, besides whatever my latest triumph in gelato making is. I go between frutti di bosco (either homemade or purchased) and my pear gelato made using the plum ice cream recipe from The Perfect Scoop.
i once had ginger & asian pear sorbet. i’ve had my eyes peeled for it ever since…
I love pink grapefruit sorbet.
mint-ting-a-ling it’s made by perry’s ice cream a local western new york brand, its like mint chip except instead of chips its chocolate covered chocolate cookie pieces. http://www.perrysicecream.com/icecream/premium/product.php?id=198. maple pecan is also a fave…
bring on the sweet life in paris and all-clad love, daddy needs some new pots and pans!!!
lemon sorbet
Mango sorbet!
The Crema made by Sonny’s in Minneapolis, MN.
6x chocolate from Ripples montreal
Chocolate with almonds
Coffee Coffee Coffee!!!!
Cookie dough ice cream!
Looking forward to reading your book! There ‘s an ice cream shop chain called Vedablu here in Malaysia and I love their green tea ice cream and lime sorbet but they do the best lemon curd ice cream cakes!
Green tea ice cream!!!
I could eat a gallon of Haagen Dazs’ Fleur De Sel Caramel right now.
Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream
Lemon sorbet
Love all things Paris!
Chocolate. Love all of your books. Can’t wait to read this one.
Chocolate. Love all of your books. Can’t wait to read this one.
Buko (baby coconut) from Mitchell’s in San Francisco. SO GOOD!!
My favorite is salted caramel from Bi-Rite. Y-U-M!
Chocolate Malted Crunch – Rite-Aid style, formerly Thrifty’s.
recent fav is definitely apricot,
but have many many close second favs though
tofu, green tea, coffee, vanilla, macadamia nuts,tiramisu, mango…
congrats on new book :)
Coffee
Ginger. I had ginger gelatto once and I’ve been looking for it again ever since.
Traditional flavor: Coffee Ice Cream
Non-traditional flavor: Ube Ice Cream
Hoorah on the new book!
Gingersnap!!!
Hmm.. this is a rather difficult decision, but I think I have to say that I like dark chocolate truffle/peanut butter swirl the best. Winning these would be excellent for me, I’m a foodie in college who just moved into a new apartment and I’m finding that cooking with inferior tools is very frustrating.
Bittersweet chocolate
W00t! new cookbook!
vanilla. really really good, sweet but not too sweet, creamy vanilla.
Mint chocolate chip
Pineapple Mint Sorbet
Chestnut Gelato
i just tried it last week for the first, but by far was my favorite – red velvet.
Homemade strawberry ice cream with extra strawberry, or if lazy, vanilla with chocolate fudge sauce.
ginger
Raspberry sorbet. I am sooo excited about your new book!
Fresh strawberry sorbet = summer evening, and in Sacramento that is pure bliss.
chocolate from Maison Berthillon, bien sur!!
My favorite is blood orange sorbet.
coconut
My favorite flavor is coffee
Hazelnut gelato – nocciola!
Big lurker, bu the cookware brought me out of the shadows. Keep writing, please! I’m loving you from Seattle . . .
Rum raisin
Lemon custard ice cream is my favorite. and congratulations on your book David!!
really really good strawberry ice cream =)
Bertillion’s tiramisu in Paris…to die for….I would fly back to Paris for another scoop.
Favorite sorbet hands down is coconut. I know, weird but I love the stuff.
Ice cream is harder. Mint chocolate chip, fresh peach, and rum raisin are all favorites.
I would have to say strawberry – yum!
hazelnut or apricot pistachio!
Butterscotch!
Chocolate peanut butter
Pistachio. Especially the one at Il Gelatauro, Bologna.
There can only be one flavour – chocolate!
Creme Fraiche——
Someone in family already put in the vote for Salted Butter Caramel, so……….but then there is your Chocolate Raspberry or Orange Popsicle or Roasted Banana, or any of your fresh fruit recipes. No, I can’t follow instructions and name only one. Eagerly awaiting the new book!
spumoni!
depends on my mood – coffee, chai/cinammon spiced, chocolate, or just plain old vanilla…best are really creamy though. sometimes with stuff (peanut butter, nuts, etc) but then sometimes that feels gimmic-y and i just want the plainer stuff.
Hands down – the refreshing taste of lemon sorbet. I love it! Congrats on the new book, can’t wait to check it out!
Strawberry sorbet is by far my favorite.
mint chocolate chip
double dutch ice cream! this flavor never fails my taste buds, I eat it when i’m happy more so when i’m in a celebratory mood. my family loves it too! a pint of it keeps us closer… even when i’m not so happy (moody or sad) a scoop or two of double dutch ice cream perks me up. :)
How can we choose just one? Pear sorbet with lemon zest? Lotus Cream- a flavor from a place in San Francisco, Old Uncle Gaylord’s-lemon ice cream with almond slivers? Double Rainbow’s Deep Dark Chocolate? Gianduia gelato?
By the way, love your blog! Almost as quick good as a trip to Paris.
i dream about the brown butter pecan from bi-rite creamery regularly. it’s a good thing i live so far from it.
Congratulations on your book!
Chocolate, chocolate-hazelnut, spicy chocolate, and peach ice cream are among my favorites. Really, it just depends on my mood, but chocolate usually wins.
Strawberry Sour Cream ice cream is my favorite. Love David’s ice cream book.
Can’t wait to get the new cookbook.
German chocolate cake ice cream is the best.
I hate to say this, but I can only remember zizi when the time is appropriate. Ooh what a big zizi! it has a certain poetic quality to the non-french ear, but sounds absolutely silly to the Parisians.
(absolutely full cream) vanilla. no substitute will do :)
Oh…favorite ice cream – so many choices. This week it is mango.
Good ol’ vanilla
My all time favorite is mint chocolate chip and I can’t wait to read your new book!!
Ice cream: vanilla bean just out of the [Italian top-loading front extruding] ice cream maker.
Sorbet: fresh mango flavored with cardamom, passionfruit lime, or cassis made WITH cassis liqueur.
carrot mango at Humphry Slocombe in san francisco
Guinness Milk Chocolate!!!
Congratulations, David and thanks for letting us live vicariously through you!
salted butter caramel ice cream, all the way.. amazing stuff!
Halva flavoured!
congrats!
my fav ice cream? thats like asking a parent which is their favorite child! I would have to say anything with toffee or peanut butter would be at the top of the list.
Black Raspberry Sorbet
homemade peaches and cream
Oregon Blackberry
Only one? Dulce de Leche or Toffee, although Hagen Daaz Sticky Toffee Pudding was a favorite of mine, too.
rocky road, for as long as I can remember
Yogurt sorbet has been my favourite since making it at work:)
I think it’ll have to be raspberry sorbet.
espresso!
raspberry sorbet! :)
Chocolate!
Followed by Mocha Almond Fudge. And a simple Vanilla Bean Custard. Mmmmmm!!
Stracciatella!
My fav will have to be Rum Raisin.
Hi
my two favorites are:
1.) Macaroom pistachio with dark chocolate swirl
2,) Mango cumcumber with lemon zest sorbet
Green apple sorbet from the Berthillion walkup stand on a warm June night on the Isle Saint Louis
Hi
saw you on Foddie- fabulous
my two favorites:
1.) Macaroom pistachio with dark chocolate swirl
2) Mango cumcumber with Lemon Zest sorbet
strawberry, the best
Hi David, I love your sense of humor and how you make cooking look so simple and fun! My favorite ice cream flavor is Saffron-Pistachio… you really have to try the Amul brand that is found in Indian stores… I wish I knew how to make it from scratch!
Coming to Paris next month and can’t wait!
Favorite flavor right now has to be Sea Salt Caramel from Bi-Rite Creamery in San Francisco. The Taro from Polly Ann’s (also in S.F.) has to be a close 2nd. Thanks, David! Greetings from the Bay!
Berthillon Caramel au Beurre Salé
Baskin Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip
Haagen Dazs Coffee
Nothing like free stuff to lure the lurkers out. Macadamia flavour for me please.
i have to narrow it down to one? c’est ne pas possible!
the go-to ice cream of choice when i’m looking for a tasty icy treat to accompany some other grand dessert creation would have to be sour cream. whether with chocolate or fruit, it finds a way to hold it’s own and make everything it surrounds that much better.
as a solo ice cream… hmmmm… saffron pistachio.
This must be like trying to win a lottery – my pick is Black Forest.
Dulce de Leche
Can I say all of them for favorite flavor? :P OK, if I must pick, it’d probably be butter pecan.
Will you be giving away copies of your book? I can’t wait to read it.
Its Mango for me
Congratulations on the shiny new book!
Favorite flavor is praline pecan.
Passion fruit
tangerine
Definately pistachio.
Mocha Chip – to die for!
Mocha Chip – to die for!
pistachio, David, congratulation!
I love your new book!
Mint chocolate chip is my favorite!!
Thanks for the new ideas!
Green Tea ice-cream.
Congrats on your new book!
Dark chocolate or caramel!
Ginger
Mango
Pistachio (kulfi style: http://bombay-bruxelles.blogspot.com/2009/04/pista-malai-kulfi-glace-indienne.html)
Peanut butter and chocolate
Chocolate and vanilla ice-cream, of course. Or vanilla and cherry? I can’t decide, I’m sorry. Please don’t make me!
I just discovered your blog. Looks promising. I’ll browse more when I have the time. Congratulations for the book!
Strawberry sorbet – it has such an intense flavour!
Irish Cream Coffee ice cream – made in New Zealand.
my favorite flavor is mocha.
thanks!
DIME BAR CRUNCH from a teeny-tiny delish ice-creamery in Oxford. Your book looks great.
Passionfruit, ginger, pistachio, and melone (cantaloupe) if well done.
Peppermint would have to be my all time favorite ice cream but if it’s Ice Cream, I’ll probably love it.
I love that there are 3838 comments! What a score David.
chocolate peanut butter
Just saw your bacon ice cream on Bizarre Foods. Looks yummy! I haven’t met an ice cream that I didn’t like. My favorite depends on my mood. Today, I’m in the mood for good, ol’ strawberry.
Molasses ginger snap for me!
Bertillion Caramel
Chocolate the most fabulous flavor in the world
Caramel butter salt!
I love pistachio ice cream. Congratulation on the book.
Caramel. No contest.
Coffee!!!!
Dave – Congratulations on your new book!
Coffee!!!!
Dave – Congratulations on your new book!
Mint Chocolate Chip
Creamy chocolate with a spoonful of butterscotch topping. My dad owned the local pharmacy in a resort town in the 60′s. I worked behind the counter at the soda fountain and that was our Saturday night treat as we watched the out-of-towners head down to the Pavilion for the weekly dance…good memories.
Cindy
Favorite ice cream flavor = “breakfast” ice cream. Pancake-steeped creme anglaise with candied bacon and maple swirl. mmmm.
Also, I’m shocked that more commenters haven’t picked up on what a zizi is. Think willie. :)
Coffee!
I’m looking forward to reading the book.
-Lisa
Quince & bitter almond.
double chocolate cheesecake
Black sesame ice-cream is my all-time favorite. If you have a recipe… please share! It is very difficult to find!
Mango or Lychee sorbet
Chocolate ice cream
Ginger Ice Cream
It is too difficult to choose so I will say that, I love most the last one I had…..strawberry sorbet with a little Baumes de Venise on top.
I can not wait to read the new book. ………..Congrats in advance!!
ginger ice cream
I don’t think I have a prayer of winning with all of the comments left but my favorite ice cream is Ben and Jerry’s Chunky Monkey although I have come to love Italian ice cream lately.
My favorite flavor of ice cream is butter pecan
Congrats on the book! Chocolate with any kind of nut.
Rhubarb sorbet for me!
I LOVE homemade oreo cookie ice cream!
My favorite flavor at the moment: Cassis sorbet. Normally I’m in to everything chocolate but cassis is so much more refreshing.
Belgian dark chocolate.
I bought The Perfect Scoop a couple of weeks ago and I’m completely in love with your chocolate ice cream recipe!
Congratulations on the new book.
Chocolate peanut butter! Looking forward to the new book :)
Home-made strawberry ice cream has total rights to world’s best ice cream flavor. Total. :)
Caramel!
I enjoy your blog. Congratulations on your book- it looks beautiful.
Can’t wait to get the book and try the recipes. Transport me to Paris,please!
Salted butter caramel or coffee with dark chocolate straciatella
chocolate hazlenut
my favourite flavour of ice cream has to be Maple Syrup with Gingerbread peices, found in the pier food market in San Francisco.
home made vanilla, with caramel on top!
Yaourt at Amorino here in Paris.!
Do I have to pick just one… Hmmm, passion fruit. I had some in Carcassonne last weekend. But then again, chocolat noir is a family favorite. And lemon gelato can’t be too far behind that, but the girls would argue for mint chocolate chip. And I have a weakness for caramel or tiramisu. Stop me now! Congrats on the new book.
A childhood favorite from Swenson’s in San Francisco. I think it was called Swiss Almond Vanilla. Almond flavored ice cream with chocolate covered almonds. Help me I’m drowning…
chocolate raspberry ice cream. with gummi bears. chopped up gummi worms will work in a pinch, too.
lavender ice cream!
lemon sorbet
coffee heath bar crunch (Ben and Jerry’s) or cassis sorbet from Berthillon in Paris!
Haagen Daz coffee flavor!
Chocolate.
Looking forward to reading the book.
lemon sorbet…just puts me in a good mood (what?…no shipments to neighborly Switzerland?)
Vanilla with chunks of strawberries.
I enjoy simple flavors, so it has to be Lemon Sorbet.
Mint ice cream made with fresh mint. Congratulations on the book, I can’t wait to read it!
Congrats on the new book!
My favorite sorbet is either Pineapple Coconut or raspberry.
Burnt sugar. Mmmm.
rum & raisin ice cream mmmmm
Watermelon sorbet with fresh mint. I cannot deny my southern roots! This one’s a charm in the the summahtime.
lemon sorbet
mmmmm orange sorbet
I just had grapefruit gelato – might be a new favorite. Coffee Oreo when I need comfort. Burnt Sugar can also be comforting, but makes me feel “edgy”. The chocolate ice cream from Berthillon may be one of my best food memories.
Mocha Chip
white chocolate and blackberry swirl
my favourite icecream flavour is mango … especially at this time of the year in South India (where I live) as its the peak of the mango season.
white chocolate and blackberry swirl
Coffee or Burnt Carmel.
cantaloup
mango! yum…
black raspberry chocolate chip for me.
Do I need to choose just one? Here are my top 3 (yes, I know they don’t give me extra entries, but I wouldn’t want to hurt the others’ feelings, ya know?):
Vanilla Bean
Caramel
Mint Chocolate Chip
I’m an American living in England and would have to say vanilla clotted cream ice cream is my favorite. I don’t recall having anything so decadent growing up in the middle of Ohio!
Peanut Butter sorbet… and its gluten free too! Look forward to checking out your cookbook
My favorite flavor has always been mint chocolate chip (or mint choclate chunk, mint chocolate swirl…. you get the idea). And it always tastes just a little bit better if it’s green. :)
I would normally say coffee, but I ate wonderful hazelnut meringue icecream at gelateria San Crispino in Rome. Just last week. I still dream about it.
stracciatella
Chocolate sorbet.
Ben and Jerry’s Coffee and Heath Bar
Baskin Robbins Peanut Butter Chocolate
Fig ice cream
My favorite ice cream is the rose ice cream I had at Shiraz in San Antonio, Texas.
Homemade Lemon Ice Cream! I just got the ice cream maker for my Kitchen Aid!!!
Homemade Lemon Ice Cream! I just got the ice cream maker for my Kitchen Aid!!!
Homemade Lemon Ice Cream! I just got the ice cream maker for my Kitchen Aid!!!
Mariage Freres Wedding Imperial. This is the easiest cheater caramel vanilla ice cream shortcut ever. Their teas are incredible for flavoring custards!
Homemade Lemon Ice Cream! I just got the ice cream maker for my Kitchen Aid!!!
Homemade Lemon Ice Cream! I just got the ice cream maker for my Kitchen Aid!!!
Rose, from Shiraz in San Antonio, TX.
pistachio. the real one. none of those chemically artificial “taste-like” pistachio concoction. ;)
mango!
Gelato cioccolato! Had some in Rome last summer that was delicious though the best I had was in college in Berkeley at a place called Vivoli.
chocolate with pepper !
Yam and Sweet Corn ice cream, exclusively.
I have only tasted them in South East Asia, Singapore and Malaysia, and I think Hong Kong too, but never in the US, I really miss them.
chocolate with pepper !
Wow, I guess you’re hitting some kind of ‘comments-record’ here!
Favourite ice cream flavour – I have to addmit its a classic – chocolate gelato from a real italian gelateria.
Have a nice day!
Mint chocolate chip – it’s a childhood favorite that I just can’t shake. Although salted butter caramel is quite fab, as well.
Reading your blog never fails to give me a chuckle and I assume it will be the same with your book! I’m looking forward to reading about your adventures.
I’m not sure if I could pick my favourite ice cream or sorbet flavour… Since I can’t eat dairy anymore though I’ve definitely gotten more into sorbet. A place recently closed in my neighbourhood that made a mean grapefruit sorbet and it went really well with their strawbery and lemon flavours. I’ve also become a fan of Turtle mountain desserts – non-dairy ice cream in flavours that will make you a believer. Peanut Butter Zig-zag may be my favourite but there are just so many!
Before living in Paris my favorite ice cream were pistachio and very dark chocolate, now is speculoos.
Congrats for the new book, cant wait to buy it!!!
Mint chocolate chip
Salted butter caramel, thanks to “The Perfect Scoop”
Raspberry sorbet!
DL is the best blog writer…and funniest too.
Coffee ice cream w/real grounds included. s.
Coffee! Simply the best.
Coffee! I’m a simple girl.
I’ll have to go with Nutella!
My favorite ice cream of all time is the burnt caramel ice cream as made by El Carmelo Restaurant in Havana, Cuba. I never got over it.
Other favorites: coffee ice cream and ginger ice cream.
Congratulations on your new book!
Green tea and ginger
Raspberry sorbet! Mmmm.
Salted butter caramel!
Butter Pecan!
Blood orange sorbet
greek yoghurt & honey, made at g&d’s cafe in oxford, england. well worth the trip. =)
elderflower sorbet.
My favorite sorbet: raspberry
My favorite ice cream: mint chocolate chip
Thanks!
Strawberry Balsamic
hmmm, it’s a toss-up between mint chocolate chip and a mix of orange sherbet and vanilla ice cream. depends on the day.
Pear from Berthillon, please!
Vanilla. I know, I know.
oooh. mint chip.
basil ice cream!
Ever since my honeymoon in Buenos Aires, my favorite is Dulce de Leche! If that’s not around, whatever has the highest Chocolate component is probably a safe bet. Or Caramel with Sea Salt.
Thanks for the most amusing twitter feed.
Can’t wait to read your new book.
Mine is another vote for Bi-Rite’s Salted Caramel. Must. Have. Some. Now.
Hi Dave,
Favorite right now is Dolce de Leche, but I’m planning on making your burnt sugar ice cream this weekend. Yum!
Thanks for your books and blog.
PattyA
My favorite flavour of ice cream is pistachio. Never liked it until I moved to Paris, and now I can’t get enough of it!
black mission fig.
I love pear or lemon sorbet, especially in the summer.
My favourite taste of icecream is BLUEBERRY.
Thank you
AnnaPP
mmm…cookie dough. or, on a hot summer day, lemon and strawberry sorbetto.
My fav ice cream is sticky toffee pudding which was put out by Haggan daz as a limited edition. Each spoonful was orgasmic—for lack of better words. Hope it comes back soon! :)
Mmm… Double Chocolate Peanut Butter Crunch – which is an amazing rich and delicious flavor from this place in my home town called Capannari’s that makes all homemade ice cream and is voted the best in Chicago!
Ginger. But it has to be very strongly flavored with a real bite to it, not the wimpy might-as-well-be-vanilla variety.
Mint, with chocolate. Congratulations on the book, and thanks for the great blog. I sure could use a nice set of cookware…
Coconut
Rum Raisin – yummy
looking forward to reading the book…
my favorite ice cream flavor is hazelnut. the creamy praline flavor with the crunch of italian roasted nuts topped by a chocolate sauce!
Honey Dew sorbet.
my favorite is “turtle soup” green icecream, with chunks of carmel, pecan turtles. it was my idea till Ben and Jerry used their mind reading tool to take it from me
Haagen Dazs Vanilla
How fun! I never comment, though I am a regular and avid reader of your blog. I lived for years at Walnut and Virginia and have spent my share of time at Chez Panisse and at the Cheese Board across the street.
My favorite ice cream — at the moment — is the Lemon Verbena from the Herb Farm Cookbook.
I was just thinking today, as the weather warms here in Western Ma where I live now, that I might find an orange sorbet in the Perfect Scoop to make over the weekend.
dulce de leche avec fleur de sel
banana dark chocolate chip
Pistacio ice cream or gelato
Ube macapuno ice cream is the best!! :) They sell them here in America. Translated in english, it is purple yam with sweet coconut strings Mmmmmmmmmmmm…………Yummy!!
Butter Pecan
(I hope I got in on time.)
Ben & Jerry’s HALF BAKED
How can anyone NOT like a really fabulous Gianduja gelato? Especially when it’s topped with a deep, dark, chocolate sauce? My favorite, hands down!
Moose tracks.
I can’t believe you expect us to choose just *one* favourite flavour, David, when you’ve given us all an entire book full of favourites to love … but given the springy mood I’m in at the moment, I’m going to say that lavender and honey ice cream (homemade, of course!) is my favourite. For now.
With 45 minutes left in the contest…
Anything with chocolate and caramel. Or a good quality vanilla.
Lychee Sorbet
chartreuse, homemade
If anyone ever made it, it would be blue cheese ice cream. Has someone?
Grapefruit sorbet.
I’d have to say vanilla- so simple, but when it’s done right it’s hard to beat
Chocolate! (I actually have your version of chocolate sorbet in my freezer right now! It’s wonderful!)
Coffee.
There’s a wonderful cherry flavor in Germany that’s very good as well!
Strawberry!
favorite ice cream? meyer lemon (Lindsey Shere)
honorable mention? cherry almond (from Perfect Scoop)
Real, fresh strawberry is my favorite.
congratulations on the book & thanks for the great blogging! my favorite flavor is peppermint with dark chocolate bits (preferably pink or white rather than green).
chocolate
I love homemade peppermint ice cream
Mint Chocolate Chip!
Dulce de leche with dulce de leche from Mora Iced Creamery on Bainbridge Island. Any gelato in Siena on Banci di Sopra is a very close second.
Good o’ fashion strawberry ice cream. Real cream and big chunks of strawberries. Yum!
My favorite ice cream flavor is:
Coffee Heath Bar Crunch
It is amazing -
Coffee
I’m not trying to suck up– I promise– but it’s your salted butter caramel ice cream. I make it once a month. Thank you for this gift of sugary cold goodness.
coffee.
French Vanilla.
chocolate with brownies
Blackberry Cassis Sorbet!
So many to love, how do you pick just one? Personal faves are Honey Cinnamon ice cream and also love, love, love grapefruit gelato. Congrats on the new book, can’t wait to get it!
Mango Sorbet or Kona Coffee mochi ice cream.
Rocky Road all the way!
Chocolate! The more chocolate, the better!
sweet cream from herrell’s in cambridge, mass is delish! i like mine topped with sno-caps…
lemon.
Hazelnut gelato. Is there any other kind?
Butter pecan!
Thanks to everyone for entering. The contest is now closed and the winner will be announced shortly. Good luck to all!