Ice Sabers: 30 Chilled Treats Using the Force of Your Freezer! Author: Lara Starr | Language: English | ISBN:
1452107610 | Format: EPUB
Ice Sabers: 30 Chilled Treats Using the Force of Your Freezer! Description
Review
"delightful"
- Geekdad
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About the Author
Lara Starr is the author of Wookie Pies, Clone Scones, and Other Galactic Goodies She lives in Marin County, California.
Matthew Carden photographed Wookie Pies, Clone Scones, and Other Galactic Goodies. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
- Grade Level: Preschool and up
- Series: Star Wars Cookbook
- Paperback: 64 pages
- Publisher: Chronicle Books; Box Nov edition (April 2, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1452107610
- ISBN-13: 978-1452107615
- Product Dimensions: 11.5 x 9 x 2 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
With a 7-year old boy & 4-year old boy in our family, we are big Star Wars lego & Star Wars food-merchandising fans (despite not having seen the movies or tv series yet, the boys that is). We already have the various Williams-Sonoma Star Wars cookie cutter sets, so this popsicle mold is unique and a GENUIS idea. And, best of all, the frozen ice sabers look fantastic and fun. I've used the mold once and have only quickly flipped through the cookbook, so I can only comment on the popsicle mold and not so much the cookbook. Although I am a cookbook addict, it was the ice saber mold that I was drooling after even though it's a very basic, old school, nothing fancy design. Honestly, I am not that interested in the cookbook... yet. So, at $20, you're paying mostly for the cookbook cost, while the ice saber mold is just an added treat. But, I wish it were the other way around--larger ice saber mold with a smaller, complementing "cookbook"?
As the photo shows, the popsicle mold makes 4 popsicles at-a-time. The popsicles are petite, barely containing 1 ounce of liquid. I really wish these were bigger. Compared to a Zoku pop, these ice sabers are small, but then again, the Zoku pop is sizeable. But, because the ice sabers are small & slender, they freeze pretty quickly--not more than a couple hours (sorry, can't remember the time)? Obviously, this is longer than the quick Zoku pop freeze-time, but they are not the same type of popsicle experience anyway. My boys had no complaints about size. The mold unit itself was a bit too tall to fit into the freezer of my traditional top-freezer refrigerator, but it probably would've fit if I had removed the rack--kind of a pain-in-the-butt. Instead, I used our chest freezer to freeze the ice sabers.
When you buy this cookbook, you get the really cool ice saber molds and that's probably enough for a lot of you. Because the ice pop molds are really just that cool.
The book has 30 recipes for frozen treats. There are only 3 recipes for ice pops in Darth Vader Red, Obi-Wan Blue and Luke Green. The rest of the book is easy to make recipes inspired by the movies.
My daughter, who has strong cooking skills, really likes Chewie Chocolate Cheesecake Pops. This is one of the recipes that doesn't look like something from the movies, but each step is explained well and they are easy to make. A basic chocolate cheesecake without a crust is baked, frozen, cut into pieces and dipped in chocolate.
Sometimes the tie between the movie and the dessert is a catchy, rhyming or punning name such as Bananakin Splits or Tauntun Bon Bons. Other desserts like Ice Cream Clones look like something from the movies. The Twin Suns Sherbet Bombe is my favorite visually, it's simple to make and stunning. The name that had me laughing out loud is the incredibly refreshing citrus Mos Icely granita which is also my favorite recipe in the book.
So a fan, especially a younger fan who is learning to cook, would enjoy the cookbook. The recipes are simple and really nice for a hot summer day. The recipes are clearly written by author Lara Starr, and the photographs by Matthew Carden are just delightful, featuring lots of action figures with the various desserts. It's a soft cover book in full color.
The molds! One cup of liquid is enough to fill all 4 molds with a couple tsps left over. The molds stand easily in a fridge and the pops release easily after running a bit of warm water over the mold. I've had no issues with the molds.
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