Nut and caramel ice cream flavors

Toasted nuts, cooked caramel and maple, in buttery, salty-sweet flavors like butter pecan and pistachio.

This section holds the rich, toasty flavors: toasted nuts, caramel cooked until amber, and maple syrup. Butter pecan, pistachio and salted caramel are good places to start.

It is for anyone who likes a scoop with depth and a little salt, and for home makers who want to know how many nuts to fold in and how to prepare them.

Butter pecan

Buttery vanilla ice cream with salty, crunchy butter-toasted pecans
Pistachio

Pale green, nutty and a little savory, made with pistachio paste
Salted caramel

Cooked caramel flavor with a pinch of salt and an amber color
Praline pecan

Vanilla or caramel ice cream with candied pecans and caramel
Maple walnut

Maple syrup sweetness with toasted walnuts, a New England classic
Peanut butter

Tan, salty-sweet ice cream made with smooth peanut butter

What the moon badges mean

Rare Rare enough that you would most likely make it at home.
Hard to find Look for it in specialty shops and seasonal runs.
Sometimes found Found in some shops and some grocery freezers.
Easy to find Common in most grocery freezers.
Classic A classic you can buy almost anywhere.

Toasted nuts and cooked sugar

These flavors lean on roasted, buttery notes. The Guelph e-Book says nuts usually go in at about 10% by weight, names walnuts, pecans, hazelnuts, almonds and pistachios as the common choices, and says nuts should be oil roasted or heat treated. Under 21 CFR 135.110, if real nuts are paired with artificial nut flavor and the nuts are under 2% of the finished ice cream, the artificial flavor counts as predominant.

Make and serve them with these

Base Builder and Batch Scaler

Ice cream base recipe sized to your machine

Pick a style and your machine, and get a base formula in grams and cups with fat, sugar and solids checked.
Recipe Scaler and Converter

Ice cream recipe converter: cups to grams

Scale an ice cream recipe by a factor, a batch volume or your machine, and see every line in grams and cups.
Scoop size chart

Ice cream scoop sizes and the disher number chart

The number stamped on an ice cream scoop tells you how many level scoopfuls fill one quart, so a #8 holds 4 fluid ounces (1/2 cup) and a #16 holds 2.

Other flavor sections

6 flavors

Classic ice cream flavors

The flavors you can find in almost any freezer case, from plain vanilla to Neapolitan.
6 flavors

Chocolate and candy ice cream flavors

Mix-in flavors loaded with chips, fudge, marshmallows and candy pieces, from mint chocolate chip to s'mores.
10 flavors

Fruit ice cream flavors

Peach, cherry, berry, citrus and tropical flavors, from soft summer fruit to bright, tart lemon.
4 flavors

Coffee and tea ice cream flavors

Roasted coffee, mocha, green tea and spiced chai, for scoops that taste a little grown-up.
8 flavors

Bakery and dessert ice cream flavors

Cookies, cake, brownies and pie folded into ice cream, from cookies and cream to key lime pie.
4 flavors

Spice and floral ice cream flavors

Warm spices, cool mint and gentle florals, from cinnamon and pumpkin to honey lavender.
15 flavors

Regional and international ice cream flavors

Flavors tied to a place or a tradition, from spumoni and dulce de leche to kulfi and dondurma.
7 flavors

Modern and unusual ice cream flavors

Savory, herbal and surprising flavors, from sweet corn and black sesame to olive oil and basil.

Sources

Ice Cream Technology e-Book: Nuts in Ice Cream H. Douglas Goff, University of Guelph
21 CFR 135.110, Ice cream and frozen custard Electronic Code of Federal Regulations (eCFR)

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