The Identicals by Elin Hilderbrand is set on Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard. It tells the story of Tabitha and Harper – two identical twins whose lives are a mess. At one point Harper worked at an ice cream shop and they had the humorously named Shark Attack ice cream. I love ice cream that’s as far as I need to go with this decision.
Quote:
…Brendan had, one day, wandered into Mad Martha’s, ordered a double scoop of shark attack ice cream (vanilla ice cream colored blue, with white chocolate chunks and raspberry swirl, a wonderfully sick joke and very, very popular), and called Harper by name.
Preparation:
So this is right at the bottom in terms of difficulty because it has three ingredients: vanilla ice cream, white chocolate, and raspberry something or other. Au contraire, mes amis. Blue ice cream. Sounds so simple but how does one color hard (not soft serve ice cream). So I found soft-serve vanilla ice-cream at the store. I did not know that was a thing. In stores I mean. Blue dye – check. White chocolate chips – check. Raspberry swirl (Strawberry is way better so…) – check. Also – my quick-eyed daughter noticed gummy sharks in the candy aisle – yay!
My take:
I forgot how amazing gummies are in ice-cream. They turn into a perfect texture. Also – I haven’t had swirl in my ice-cream for years. Raspberry ripple we call it at home. The sharks are necessary to add to the effect – or to give any effect.
Lesson of the day:
Gimmicks can be fun to try. The blue coloring is good for shits and giggles. Bit of a pain in the ass though – and soft serve from stores (the one I bought anyway) is meh. Next time I will have white sandy beach attack (French Vanilla hard ice-cream would work wel) and skip the surf (what I assume the chocolate chips are for). But I will have “Sharks on a Beach” !!!!
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