three bowls

Well, who knew?

When the beets arrived in my house, I mentioned in passing that I had found a recipe for beet ice cream that I was holding as a last resort in case I couldn't get through the savory recipes I'd found.

The idea of beet ice cream sparked more interest from friends and family than almost anything else I've posted so far. 

I aim to please!  So while I did make two (2) savory recipes with the beets, I had enough left to try the beet ice cream from the Desert Candy blog.  Mercedes, the blog author, noted that several tasters didn't even know the ice cream was made of beets, so I was hopeful.

I followed the recipe, and added a little more OJ and orange zest and some semi-sweet chocolate chunks to help me along with the beet flavor.  Fingers crossed, I hoped that I would experience some of that alchemy that helped make the Beets with Mint and Yogurt so...tolerable.

Here's what it looks like:

Pretty, isn't it?   So how did it taste?

It tasted like this:

With this flavor awkwardly pasted on top of it.

In short, beet ice cream, at least in the version I made, tastes like beets in ice cream form, plain and simple.  I was hoping there would be some kind of transformation, but there was not.

If you like beets, maybe this is a good thing.  If you don't like beets...it's not.

It is, of course, entirely possible that I messed up the recipe, or the beets I used were bigger than the ones the recipe writer used.  My ice cream seems a lot more vibrant fuschia than hers, so that seems plausible.

Nevertheless, it was not a success.  The heartbreak of this is that it will be two days until my ice cream maker bowl is frozen again.  In the interim...I don't think even I can resort to eating this.