While it might be too hot to bake during the sultry summer months, it’s the perfect season to use ice cream as a creative outlet. Because what is better than cooling off with a delicious scoop or two, right? In this blog you’ll find loads of inspiration to encourage your customers to get creative with ice cream.
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New Ice Cream category
It’s fun to experiment with ice cream. And the best part is that no fancy equipment is needed to make fun ice cream treats at all. To celebrate the summer, we have curated a special selection of must-have products in our brand new Ice Cream Category. Here you’ll find everything you need to make the best summer desserts, from moulds to flavourings and sprinkles. But don’t worry, your customers don’t necessarily need an ice cream machine to enjoy our selection of products! Are you a baker? Why not try experimenting with the art of ice cream. Discover all our ice cream related items and add them to your assortment.
Recipes for ice cream treats
Not only do we have exciting ice cream products, but both FunCakes and Wilton offer loads of inspiration for delicious ice cream treats! For example, check out FunCakes’ latest recipe for Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Burgers. Delicious, refreshing and fun yet easy to make. Find summer dessert inspiration on the websites of FunCakes and Wilton and use the recipes to bring your ice cream products to the attention of your customers.
Ice cream and flavourings: an easy way to give a lovely twist to ice cream
Did you know you can add flavourings to ice creams as well? Just take your favourite neutrally flavoured store-bought ice cream, such as vanilla, and add to taste a flavour of your choice. But you can also use them in freshly churned ice cream, of course. This is such an easy hack to create any ice cream flavour you’d like with little effort. At CakeSupplies we have an extensive range of flavourings available, so try out any flavour combination because, really, the sky is the limit! Thanks to 46 FunCakes flavour pastes you can keep on trying out new flavours of ice cream. Sugarflair’s 100% Natural Flavours are also particularly suited to add to ice cream. So all your customers need this summer is some vanilla ice cream and their favourite flavouring!
Ingredients for making ice cream at home
Some of your customers might actually be into churning their own ice cream. We understand, because it’s fun to do and yields delicious results. To help them create the best homemade ice cream, you can highlight the products below in your store because they are essential when making ice cream at home.
Glucose syrup
Glucose syrup is a key ingredient when making ice cream. Why? Glucose syrup is better suited than regular sugar at binding water molecules. And you don’t want any unwelcome ice crystals in your ice cream. So adding glucose syrup to your ice cream base will ensure a smoother ice cream. Just like the ice cream from your favourite ice cream parlour! We have several good quality glucose syrups in our assortment, for example from FunCakes and PME. You can substitute glucose syrup with inverted sugar, which we also sell.
Xanthan gum and other stabilizers
Xanthan gum is also a useful ingredient, because it helps stabilize the ice cream base and results in better texture and less icy ice cream. This is due to the fact that it prevents the formation of large ice cream crystals. While ice cream parlours use commercial stabilizers in their ice cream, you can easily reach the same results at home with xanthan gum. But whole milk powder, cornstarch, and agar agar are also good stabilizers. You can order all these ingredients at CakeSupplies.
Citric acid
Making a sherbet? Then citric acid is your friend. Citric acid will brighten fruit sherbets without having to add more liquid to your ice cream as you would when using lemon juice, for example.
Cool for the summer with all things ice cream
With the tips from this blog, your store is cool for the summer and your customers will leave your shop full of inspiration! Additionally, by focusing on ice cream you will distinguish yourself from other stores in the cake decorating branche. which means you will stand out to (potential) customers. Share these fun ice cream ideas on your website, social media channels or your newsletter as well for more exposure. Enjoy the scoop!