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. It's performing for the spicy food fiends and the spicy food fiends only.  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 for eating food that's too spicy. 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...