By Izah Morales
INQUIRER.net

IF you don’t count calories, you won’t mind splurging on ice cream.

In his monograph, Chris Clarke’s “The Science of Ice Cream” said that ice cream’s history is linked to the development of refrigeration techniques.

The idea of ice cream came about with the use of cooling to dissolve salts; the inclusion of cream in ice water during the mid-17th century; the invention of ice cream maker in the mid-19th century and later the mechanical refrigeration in early 20th century — as noted in Caroline Liddell and Robin Weir, Ices: The Definitive Guide published in 1993.

The University of Guelph Dairy Science and Technology also documented Mr. Jacob Fussell, father of the American ice cream industry who began commercializing ice cream production in Baltimore, Maryland in 1851.

Since that day, ice cream has become a favorite dessert that can take away the gloom in one’s face.

While summer is still months away, the Peninsula Manila recently launched its new lobby dessert menu with Selecta Ice cream and the Unilever Food Solutions.

The new menu includes Choco Loco Brownie Sundae,

Banana Split Hit, Fruit n’ Yogurt Cophe, Nutty Page Boy, Tutti Fruity Tropicana, Sweet Strawberry Treat, Pinoy Paradise, Café Crumble Creation, and I Dream of Cookies n’ Cream.

Just by looking at the mouth-watering ice cream concoctions, one will likely stop and think twice about counting calories.

For example, the Choco Loco Brownie Sundae comes with rich chocolate brownie fudge, chocolate hazelnut ice cream scoops with moist brownie chunks and whipped cream.

Still counting the calories?

The Banana Split Hit, on the other hand, is a concoction of strawberry, chocolate and vanilla ice cream in the middle sandwiched by banana slices and garnished with chocolate sauce, almond flakes, whipped cream and chocolate petals.

If you want less calories, you can go for the Fruit n’ Yogurt Cophe.

It is made of yoghurt ice cream (97 percent

fat-free) flavored with wildberry, strawberry, mango and fruit passion.

There are other flavors you can try, but remember, you can stop counting calories before the ice cream melts.