Review: Some interesting recipes, some odd flavor combinations
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 3, 2012
I picked up this book free during an Amazon giveaway. Recipes for making flavored frozen desserts, including ideas for using up small amounts of leftovers taking up room in the fridge.Some of the recipes use only natural ingredients and are reasonably healthy, and Chambers doesn't claim this is a healthy-eating book. The recipes themselves mostly look tasty and include pudding pops and fruit pops as well as Kool-Aid pops and juice pops. Some of the combinations, such as rosemary in apple cider or pistachios and cardamom in Earl Grey tea, sounded strange and I don't think I'd try them. I have my doubts about the appeal of the so-called "adult" pops (involving alcohol) but if you have a use for alcoholic frozen pop recipes, they are included. One problem I have found in mixing solid and liquid ingredients to freeze is that they don't stay mixed long enough to freeze, and Chambers does not address that problem. Maybe she is content to serve a layered pop. There is a table of contents, although it does not link to the Kindle navigation menu and only contains active links to the chapter headings. Spelling, grammar, and formatting are okay. The actual recipes only uses the first 85% of the file size; the last 15% promotes other cookbooks.