Do you have a sudden desire for an afternoon snack but it’s too hot to enjoy a delicious hot dog? No problem, I have just the solution for you: a creamy, refreshing and invigorating lemon chocolate chip ice cream. This ice cream without ice cream maker is super easy and fast to prepare, made with a few simple ingredients.

You will get with this recipe a snack not too fat and light, suitable to improve the sultry summer days, when all that can save us from the heat are only the air conditioning and a cold ice cream, not to mention the granita! Mamma mia what a craving for granita I have now, I’m almost going to prepare it!

Anyway, you will find in this article a recipe that will surprise you, or at least that surprised me. I’ve always been talked about ice cream as something you could buy in an ice cream shop, since you can’t find the machine to make it in every home. But I didn’t give up, after all, let’s face it: what can’t you do with cream? It can make everything more magical, cream for desserts is a special ingredient that I love. What’s more, just a few days ago in a restaurant I tasted a lemon ice cream that brightened my day and at that moment a light bulb went on in me.

That’s why I’m here to write to you today, I only hope that you will enjoy this preparation. Enjoy!!!

Curiosity about ice cream

Have you ever wondered when and where ice cream was born? Well, I will answer you. In an old book, it is said that the art of ice cream was born in Italy and that the first ice creams in Paris were served to Catherine de’ Medici in 1533. The secret remained in the Louvre because the Florentine pastry chefs and cooks of the palace did not let anyone know about their art.

For this reason Parisians had to wait more than a century to taste an ice cream! The fashion of ice cream, in fact, was introduced in France in 1600 by a man called Procopio Coltelli, from Palermo, who opened in Paris a bar under his name: the Café Procope. The rapid success of this café, where they started to give ice creams the shape of an egg, pushed lemonade and soft drink sellers to imitate his example. Among these it is worth mentioning Tortoni, who with his delicious ice creams opened a bar of European fame.