Salt and straw ice cream

Who: Kim and Tyler Malek – these two are cousins!What: Salt and Straw, artisan ice creamWhere: Portland, Oregon If you live in Portland, you know that Salt & Straw is really popular. What started as a small, hand–pushed ice cream cart has turned into a celebrated community hang out with a constant, gigantic line out the door—all within a year’s time.

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What if you could eat Salt & Straw ice cream all summer, without waiting in a single line?

Salt and straw ice cream base

The Salt and Straw Ice Cream Base is our go-to recipe for any of our ice cream creations. Discover here how you can start making your own ice creams at home.

I haven’t had the chance to taste ice cream from Salt and Straw yet, but when I saw this recipe, I knew their ice cream wasn’t just notorious for their innovations in flavor. I have never seen an ice cream base recipe quite like theirs. Xanthan gum? Dry milk powder? No eggs? It was going...Read More »

Salt & Straw Ice Cream Base recipe: The full recipe makes 1 1/2 pints (3 Servings) of mix not counting added flavors. Maximum amount of mix and added flavors our ice cream maker will accommodate is 1 1/2 pints. Otherwise it overflows the bucket when you churn the ice cream.

Homemade ice cream is a lot easier to pull off than you might think.

For this one, we channeled our inner child and metaphorically emptied our candy bags into ice cream. Unlike the Halloweens of our youth, instead of going door to door, we decided to go pot to pot, making our favorite treats (Twix, Reeses, Snickers, and Heath Bars) ourselves. It takes us 23 days to do it at Salt & Straw, with over 9 lbs of candy going into every single tub! By using our ice cream cookbook at home, it'll take a bit less time to raid the store for our top picks, then pack them…