COOK with Elizabeth

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28182, 22 January 1957, Page 2

COOK with Elizabeth

Ice Cream Novelties

Have you a children’s party on the calendar in the next few weeks? Very many households have, so a few ideas may be welcome. One thing that is essential these days for a good party is ice cream, and it is so much more fun if it comes in a different guise from the everyday affairs. Starting with firm ice cream, it is possible to do a dozen amusing things for the children. The dressing up must be done at the last moment, of course, but if everything is prepared and set ready, it takes but a moment or two to send any of these amusing novelties to the table. Ice Cream Mice: Firm chocolate ice cream, blanched and split almonds, whipped cream. Scoop chocolate ice cream out with a large tablespoon into tablespoon shapes, two to a plate. Stick in two tiny pieces of almond for two eyes on the most pointed end of the ice cream, set in two flat halves of split almond for ears. Pipe a squiggle of whipped cream on the other end for a tail. If the cream is set ready in the forcer with a plain writing pipe, and the almonds prepared ahead, the whole operation takes only seconds to do. Ice Cream Snow Men: Make ahead the requisite number of tiny top hats by stamping out of a thin chocolate cake some tiny rounds. Stick each on to a thin small chocolate biscuit with jam or icing. To make the men place a large scoop of ice cream on a plate, top with a small scoop. Press chocolate pieces down the front for buttons, set the top hats on top. Jelly Baby Boats: Make sails by cutting stiff white notepaper and threading with toothpicks. Cut slices of ice cream and’shape roughly as boats. Set two or three round flat sweets or chocolate buttons along the sides as portholes, stick in the mast and sail, and set a jelly baby on top to captain the ship. Ice Cream Clowns: One large round scoop of ice cream on a plate or dish. Set an ice cream cone peak end up on top and make a face underneath it with pieces of chocolate or coloured jube. Lollipop Cottages: Cut wedges off squares of ice cream to make a peaked roof. Arrange pieces of ice cream wafer on the slopes as roofing. Pipe a door and window on the front with brightly coloured cream, or press on flat sweets in position. Use a jelly bean for a chimney. Individual Cakes: Cut ice cream to flat rounds like small cakes. Ice vanilla wafer biscuits with white icing and pipe each child’s name across a biscuit. Stick the biscuits flat on each ice cream cake.