It appears from the high temperatures this last weekend that we are in the “dog days” of summer.  As a result, everyone is looking for something cool to eat or drink.  Taste of Home has just the thing with their new book, “Frosty Treats & More.” 

 

It contains 201 cool ideas for icy sweets.  This cookbook is packed with recipes for ice-cold drinks and desserts beyond just ice cream.  There are gorgeous ice cream cakes and freezer pies, old fashioned sodas, shakes and floats, irresistible ice cream sandwiches, pops and novelties and refreshing sherbets, party drinks and more.

 

There is a beginning section that includes:  using your ice cream maker, the difference between ice cream, custard and sherbet, and serving secrets.  The first section contains Cool Beverages such as Peachy Berry Shakes, Jungle Float, Mango-Green Tea Smoothies, Grasshopper Shakes and Chilly Coffee Punch.  There are full-color photographs with each recipe that will have you adding all kinds of ingredients to your next shopping list.

 

Then the book moves into the obvious frosty item, ice cream.  This section includes all sorts of tempting possibilities for homemade ice cream including Chocolate Crunch Ice Cream, Citrus-Melon Sorbet, Peanut Butter Cheesecake Ice Cream, Java Crunch ice Cream, Butterfinger Ice Cream, Super Strawberry Sherbet, and Lemon gelato.  If you think the names sound yummy, just wait until you see the pictures.

 

The Frosty Dessert section is just as bad with such tempting items as Butter Brickle Ice Cream Pie, Rainbow Sherbet Dessert, Spumoni Baked Alaska, and Cookie Ice Cream Pie.  The concluding sections are full of Chilly Sandwiches, Icy Pops, and Super Sundaes.

 

This is a truly tempting cookbook particularly at this humid time of year, but the recipes look like they would be wonderful at any time.