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Ice cream selection is great, I would add a sherbet for those who watch the cals.
As for toppings? I never really favored any. A good ice cream don't need to be "refined". I would say, real whipped cream from a spray can, and maybe a good choco syrup is all what I would care about. Fresh fruit or berry compote is great also.
Berry compote: melt unsalted butter, lemon juice and brown sugar in a pan, add chunks of mixed fruit, and cook until berries are warm and juices begin to be released, 2 to 3 minutes, stirring gently. Serve warm over ice cream. I bet, it will be a favorite!
In my opinion - stick to the basics here. Because you’re providing all kinds of toppings, you want to avoid ice creams that have too many competing flavors or mix-ins.
For home - I have a "perpetual" rumtopf, and I serve the fruit over the ice cream. I also soak raisins in rum. They are in a jar (I take some then add some). They are soaked in rum and sugar, and syrupy.
When I was working, we always had an ice cream social at the beginning of the school year. We did not have as many flavors of ice cream, but we always had vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry.
Toppings included chocolate sauce, hot fudge sauce, cherries, wet nuts, whipped cream, and sprinkles.
We also had several types of cakes, and we did floats.
I also had a social for my students in my classes at the end of the year, and while we did a lot of the above, we also did smoothies with ice cream.
As for toppings? I never really favored any. A good ice cream don't need to be "refined".
+1. Sundaes turn good ice cream with distinctive flavors into sweetened glop. Really, all I sense in a sundae are sweetness and coldness. My favorite ice cream of all is Haagen-Dazs' Pralines & Cream, which they are suddenly making again. I also favor Talenti's Caramel Cookie Crunch and Southern Butter Pecan.
I also like pear Helene with vanilla ice cream,pear halves and hot dark chocolate..yummy
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