The Skinny Ice Cream Maker: Delicious Lower Fat, Lower Calorie Ice Cream, Frozen Yogurt & Sorbet Recipes For Your Ice Cream Maker

I loved this book. Great advice on what ice cream makers to get! Great recipes that are awesome if you are trying to stay away from sugar and the fattening side effects of ice cream... but still craving and needing that sweet joy of frozen yumminess.I thought the recipes were both easy to follow, easy to make, and especially easy to modify. This book was great incentive to go get a good ice cream maker and start enjoying. From ice cream to yogurt, making the flavors I really wanted in the way that I wanted them for less than I could buy at the store, and made my way made all the difference to me. I would recommend this book to anyone who has the desire to make great frozen confections and still manage fat and sugar content.

Recipes look GREAT, but could not find the 'yields' for the recipes. Am I not looking in the right place(s)? Have I overlooked something?Will continue looking or just try a recipe and see how much it makes.

Hey it's free and has some really different approaches. Anyone with a small ice cream maker can take one of these basic recipes and use as is or build on them.

We bought this and it has been worth every penny. The ice is a good size and it makes it within minutes. The cubes last longer if placed in freezer for a few hours to harden off. I love it.

I thought this would give me some fun ideas for healthier frozen treats for my kids, all the recipes just call for artificial sweetener. I haven't been inspired to try any of the recipes for my kids. I just go light on the sugar and add fruit rather than using all that artificial stuff .

I LOVE ice cream and this book lets me love it even more. Lots of flavor ideas which I have really been enjoying making. Easy to find ingredients and best of all they are lower fat than those I usually make at home. The frozen yogurt recipes are good too. Lots to like!!

Some good recipes, many are redundant, which is annoying, but shows that once you've mastered the concept, creating your own mixtures is easy.

Good recipes.

I have been using this book almost constantly since I purchased it in June. I am a big fan, especially since I love using my own ingredients rather than buying the 'synthetic' stuff they call ice cream. I have always preferred the 'clotted/full cream' varieties of ice cream to the 'milk powder' base that most ice creams are made of. Having said that, I am not a particular fan of ice cream normally. Instead, the 'low fat yoghurt' recipes in this book have really caught my taste, as well as those of my children. I am less keen on the recipes using the 'half fat custard' but then I don't really like custard. The strawberry yoghurt I have made endless times, but also the lemon 'ice cream' which is rather good and made using low fat evaporated milk and low fat creme fraiche.It doesn't taste as if it is only 45 cals a scoop (strawberry yoghurt), or maybe 65 cals (I think) for the lemon ice cream, but they taste soooo good. I haven't used a half and half sweetener before but it doesn't have an after tang so I have no problem using 1 1/2 oz instead of the usual 4oz of caster/granulated sugar that normal recipes would call for. I haven't even tried to use the Ben & Jerry book ice cream book I also purchased, thinking that the children might not enjoy the 'skinny recipes', silly me!If you want to lose weight, but don't want to eat something that tastes as if it's a calorie controlled recipe, then, within reason, this should be your book of choice for puddings. Also, it's worth noting that most of the recipes are very simple (strawberry yoghurt requires 3 items, strawberries, yoghurt and half and half), and don't really require 'unusual' ingredients. For me the half and half was the only item that I hadn't purchased fairly regularly before.

Sorry but I should never have bought this book but it was recommended several times when looking for ice cream recipes for a nut allergy sufferer. It is based on poor nutritional advice of low saturated fat/cholesterol from the discredited work of Ancel Keyes which has made the USA obese and now most of the western world. We need these fat-soluble vitamins not statins, and our cholesterol level is genetic; the lower your cholesterol level the greater your All Risk Mortality!

It just offers you ways to substitute ingredients and use pre made shop bought low fat alternatives- not really homemade in my eyes if you use pre bought custard. Plus low fat condensed milk may have less fat but does have more sugar. I had hoped for more inventive ways of healthy ice cream like using fruit or making versions that could rely on more milk and less cream. The flavours are ok but it all tasted quite packaged because of the pre made custard. Basically you don't need it because take your normal recipe and buy low fat custard instead of using cream, eggs and milk or use low fat creme fraiche and a lot of sugar to offset the sour taste.

Always making my own ice cream from scratch,I decided to give this book a go. There are very few ingredients,which is great budget wise. I have made some slight measurement adjustments for my 1.5 litre bowl. I just doubled the quantities to fill a 1.3 litre freezer container. My freezer is now slowly filling up ready for the summer. The dark chocolate ice cream is delicious, but try adding the zest peel of an orange during the blend process,then the juice during the churn process, yum...my Hubby's favourite (so far).

I don't get these recipes at all. This book contains a basic recipe which largely consists of custard and creme fraiche and many flavour variations of the same recipe. The mixture is so thick when you put it in your machine so it sticks to the "beater" and no churning happens. Normally ice cream needs to be quite liquid to begin with otherwise its pretty pointless putting it in in a churner as no churning happens. Taste is sour from the creme fraiche which is really unpleasant.