Yep, We Seriously Want You to Add Bacon to Your Vanilla Ice Cream

    Lulu Powers
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    From House Beautiful

    "Making ice cream from scratch is hard, so I often opt instead to garnish vanilla Häagen-Dazs with something fun, like candied bacon - easy to make by brushing on maple syrup and brown sugar as it bakes. Delicious!" says master entertainer Lulu Powers. "Or, I let the ice cream soften a bit, mix in something like broken-up Butterfingers or cookies - or anything yum - and refreeze. Vanilla doesn't have to be vanilla."

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    Not into bacon? Try more of Lulu's favorite vanilla ice cream toppings:

    1. Candied bacon (shown)
    2. St-Germain liqueur, plus berries and chopped basil
    3. Dehydrated or fresh fruit
    4. Caramel popcorn
    5. Olive oil and lemon zest
    6. Cotton candy and edible gold flakes (buy on Amazon)
    7. Candied ginger or orange, grapefruit, or lemon peel
    8. Toasted coconut flakes
    9. Brown rice cereal, dipped in melted chocolate and cooled
    10. Whipped cream mixed with malted milk
    11. Hot fudge with crumbled candy canes (any time of year!)
    12. Crushed malt balls and toffee-dangerously good
    13. Chocolate-covered espresso beans
    14. Any flavor of Compartés chocolate bars, broken up
    15. Salty pretzel pieces
    16. Lillet rosé dessert wine
    17. Crumbled shortbread
    18. Crushed Oreos. I love them.

    This story originally appeared in the September 2017 issue of House Beautiful.

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