Pralines and Cream Ice Cream

[zarlon]

Oh my god.

I can't stop obsessing about this stuff. I just brushed my teeth and I want more. MOOORREEEE..

What are pralines, anyways? Some mixture of nuts and sugaryness?

(don't you dare tell me to google it!)

[Jeaninah]

Praline (pronounced PRAH-LEEN) is a family of confections made from nuts and sugar syrup

In Europe, the nuts are usually almonds or sometimes hazelnuts. In Louisiana and Texas, pecans are almost always used, and cream is often incorporated into the mixture.
As originally invented in France, pralines were whole almonds individually coated in caramelized sugar, as opposed to dark nougat, where a sheet of caramelized sugar covers many nuts. The powder made by grinding up such sugar-coated nuts is called 'pralin' or 'praliné' in French, and is an ingredient in many cakes and pastries.
In most other countries the word 'praline' is used to mean this powder, or even a paste, often used to fill chocolates, hence its use by synecdoche in The Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium to refer to filled chocolates in general. In Great Britain, the term can refer either to praline (the filling for chocolates) or, less commonly, to the original whole-nut pralines



HAHA I asked jeeves.

[Mike Ill]

haha nice thorough explanation.. :P

in other news claire i TOTALLY agree!! its my favorite ice cream EVER

SOOO GOOD!!!! especially when theres lots of 'pralines' :P

[veN]

oh wow i could TOTALLY go for some of that!

[zarlon]

i'm so close to going to bed... don't test my willpower with the pralines of the DEVIL!@#@!%#

ps thanks jeaninah :) jeeves knows all, eh

[Hot Karl]

Benjamin is nobody's friend. If Benjamin was an ice cream flavour, he'd be pralines and dick.

everytime i hear the world pralines i think of that quote.

[wtf_wtf]

Pralines and Cream Ice Cream *DROOL*

[zarlon]

Haha, oh no, it's 8 am and I think I might have some for breakfast!

[Disco_Whore]

^It's not a crime! When ice cream is -that- good, why pass it up?

Mmmm, now I really want some.

[impure]

have you ever been to the cold stone creamery?
charlie introduced me to that in the scottsdale mall, WOW.
they have creamery icecream in diffrent flavours and then they hand mix in whatever diffrent things you want.
at christmas i had the pumpkin pie, it had graham cracker crust, pumpkin pie filling and whip cream mixed in vanilla creamery.
it's like a mouthfull of heaven.
i dont know if they've come to canada but next time you're at bellisfair, do check it out.

[zarlon]

^ i dare not venture into the cold scary land of SCOTTSDALE