Easy to make strawberry ice cream with mint, chocolate glaze, and walnuts

“In fact, ice cream is purchased year-round, of course, the lowest sales are in winter, in December. And here are the highest sales from April to September, shown with data from the last five years.” says Vilma Drulienė, Maxima Commercial Manager.

Incidentally, it is interesting that in 2019. Ice cream sold slightly less than in 2018. And in 2018, compared to 2017, ice cream sales increased by as much as 29 percent. Last year, a total of more than 38 million. servings of ice cream, he writes in a press release.

“Last year, the most popular were ice cream in a cup without vegetable fat, ice cream on a stick without vegetable fat, and ice cream in a cup with vegetable fat.” Vegan ice cream appeared in our range a few years ago, but we can see that its sales have already increased, “adds V. Drulienė.

And here, food production expert Brigita Baratinskaitė shares a simple but exclusive ice cream recipe.

Strawberry ice cream with mint, chocolate glaze and walnuts.

Will need:

• 2 cups of milk;
• 2 cups of fatty cream;
• 100 ml of cream;
• 1 cup of sugar
• pinch of salts;
• 2 cups of strawberry puree;
• a handful of annual leaves;
• 200 g of milk chocolate;
• A handful of almonds.

Put all the ingredients except the chocolate and the nuts in a bowl and mix well until smooth. Put in the ice cream machine and freeze. If you don’t have an ice cream machine, shake the ice cream dough in a suitable container for freezing. Stir the dough every half hour, so there will be less ice crystals in it. It is better to choose a plastic container, in which the ice cream chops evenly.

“Crush the almonds, toast in a hot dry skillet. Melt the chocolate and cream in a bowl on the steam bath. Serve the scoops of ice cream in a bowl, topped with melted chocolate and sprinkled with toasted almonds. Delicious! Share B. Baratinskaitė.