Fresh from the Freezer

This spicy chocolate ice cream is a tightrope walk between cold and hot, spicy and sweet, refined and whimsical. And it doesn’t fall off. When it comes to spicy desserts, I actually can’t say I’m the biggest fan. But when a birthday boy asks you to make him a spicy dark chocolate ice cream, you roll up your sleeves, put on your big boy boxers, and add two and a half tablespoons of cayenne powder into a perfectly unassuming chocolate ice cream. Yes, really . That much cayenne. You might be wondering why you need to empty your entire little container of cayenne powder to make this. It sounds like a ludicrous amount, right? Like the devil’s work.  Well, the thing is, dairy is a common remedy to too-spicy food. It has to do with the fat molecules in dairy coating the capsaicin… or something. Just the other day, in fact, I was watching a video of people trying increasingly spicy foods, and they all had tall glasses of milk on standby to help quell the raging flames in their mouths. ...