I thought I would let you know September 6th is National Coffee Ice Cream Day #CoffeeIceCreamDay. If you love Coffee and Ice Cream today is your day to splurge and treat yourself. As for me I wouldn’t mind having Ice Cream or Coffee but please don’t mix them while Charlie and David are different and wouldn’t mind having Coffee Ice Cream. How about you?
Caffeine and ice cream lovers unite for National Coffee Ice Cream Day this September 6! Celebrating a combination that has swept the world by storm since at least 1919, this day recognizes a particular flavor that often goes unnoticed. Not anymore! Coffee ice cream lovers, today is your day in the sun, and those who have yet to expand their frozen dessert palette, get ready to taste decadence!
History of National Coffee Ice Cream Day
Ice cream is the ultimate comfort food. It’s a perfect conclusion to a great meal — and so is coffee. So why not combine the two and make something incredible? It takes time! While gelato and sorbet can be traced as far back as 3000 B.C. and people have been drinking coffee since at least the 15th century, it took quite some time for coffee-flavored ice cream to come about. Coffee may have been discovered in the Middle East in the 9th century, however, it wasn’t considered a household beverage until after the 17th century — that’s when the drink started gaining traction in Britain. The French’s relationship with the Ottomans paved the way for high society to bring coffee to the world. Venetians eventually figured out how to make coffee sweeter and, voila, the drink skyrocketed to fame.
The first flavored ice cream was invented at the request of Roman emperor Nero. His servants went to the mountains and collected snow to make a frozen dessert flavored with honey, nuts, and fruit toppings. The invention of gelato is mostly credited to Bernardo Buontalenti, a 16th century Florence native who served it to the court of Catherine de’ Medici. By 1770, Giovanni Basiolo made his success in New York selling semi-frozen coffee and milk products popular in Genoa. Finally, in 1869, coffee ice cream was first used in a parfait and then appeared again in a cookbook in 1919. Today, it’s become a staple in most ice cream shops’ flavor lists and is a perfect pick-me-up with a side of sweet, creamy goodness.
National Coffee Ice Cream Day Activities
- I’m sure you know most local Ice Cream Parlors offer a Coffee flavor Ice Cream and may even have a discount on National Coffee Ice Cream Day. If your out and about you should stop by your favorite restaurant and grab yourself a cone-full!
- If you’ve got a knack for making magic in the kitchen, maybe try making your own Ice Cream! With today’s technology, making Ice Cream is considered relatively easy. There’s plenty of DIY recipes online you should try out.
- If Coffee Ice Cream isn’t exactly your thing, but you can still appreciate a Coffee dessert. Find an awesome Coffee Cake or Parfait recipe that you think you’ll like and give it a go.
COFFEE ICE CREAM FACTS THAT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND
- 400 billion cups of Coffee are consumed worldwide, making Coffee the world’s most popular alternative beverage to Water.
- 65% of Coffee is consumed during breakfast.
- The U.S. is the second-largest consumer of Ice Cream in the world, just after New Zealand.
- Ice cream Waffle Cones were accidentally made when a vendor ran out of Ice Cream cups and turned to a Waffle seller to meet the demands of customers
- The sale of Ice Cream significantly increased in times of Wars and recession.
Why People Love National Coffee Ice Cream Day
- People drink coffee every day but it’s nice to switch things up and enjoy something slightly different that you’ll love just as much.
- Ice Cream is the ultimate comfort food, and Ice Cream is a perfect conclusion to a great meal.
- Desserts are considered a common delicacy one generally enjoys following a meal. When coffee came about, it began to follow that same trend and Coffee and Ice Cream together give you the best of both worlds on one plate.
Recipe for Coffee Ice Cream
Ingredients:
- 1 1/2 cups whole milk
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 1/2 cups whole coffee beans (decaf unless you want the caffeine in your ice cream)
- Pinch salt
- 1 1/2 cups heavy cream, divided
- 5 large egg yolks
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 teaspoon finely ground coffee (press grinds through a fine mesh sieve)
Steep the milk with the sugar, coffee beans, salt, and cream:
- Heat the milk, sugar, whole coffee beans, salt, and 1/2 cup of the cream in a medium saucepan until it is quite warm and steamy, but not boiling. Once the mixture is warm, cover, remove from the heat, and let steep at room temperature for 1 hour.
- Set the remaining cream into a bowl over an ice bath with a sieve:Pour the remaining 1 cup of cream into a medium metal bowl and set it in a large bowl full of ice. Set a mesh strainer on top of the bowls. Set aside.
- Temper the egg yolks: Reheat the milk and coffee mixture on medium heat until it’s hot and steamy again (not boiling!). In a separate bowl, whisk the egg yolks together. Slowly pour the heated milk and coffee mixture into the egg yolks, whisking constantly so that the egg yolks are tempered by the warm milk, but not cooked by it. Scrape the warmed egg yolks back into the saucepan.
- Heat egg milk coffee mixture until it thickens:Stir the custard mixture constantly over medium heat with a heatproof, flat-bottomed spatula, scraping the bottom as you stir, until the mixture thickens and coats the spatula so that you can run your finger across the coating and have the coating not run. This can take about 10 minutes.
- Strain the custard: Pour the custard through the strainer and stir it into the cream that’s set over ice. Press on the coffee beans in the strainer to extract as much of the coffee flavor as possible. Then discard the beans. Mix in the vanilla and finely ground coffee, and stir until cool.
- Chill and process in ice cream maker:
- Chill the mixture thoroughly in the refrigerator, then freeze it in your ice cream maker according to the manufacturer’s instructions.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
