What’s on the Menu: 
Salt & Straw’s 17% Butterfat Base
Chocolate Chocolate Chip Ice Cream
Chili Crisp Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream 

“The finest and the funnest”: this is how Tyler Malek, the celebrated lead ice cream maker of the beloved Salt & Straw Ice Cream, describes the ice cream recipes in his second book, “America’s Most Iconic Ice Creams.” Each chapter in the book starts with a truly iconic recipe, one so good that it has earned a regular spot in Salt & Straw’s otherwise changing menu of inventive flavor options. From there, Tyler riffs. That’s exactly how we structured this livestream cooking class with Tyler. Our classic recipe had to be their Chocolate Chocolate Chip, of course. In making this flavor, you’ll learn to make the ice cream base that underpins all Salt & Straw recipes. A self-professed science nerd, Tyler will tell you all about how precise ratios of water, fat, milk solids and sugar interact with one another to produce the lush, scoopable texture we’re after. You’ll learn to make what the Salt & Straw folks call a “Chocolate Mom,” the simple homemade syrup that ensures your chocolate incorporates smoothly into the base. As that batch churns, we switch into mad scientist mode and make a playful variation that pairs the chocolate base with chunks of chili-spiked homemade peanut butter cups. Not convinced? Tyler will convince you. 

About Tyler: Tyler Malek is the Head Ice Cream Maker and Co-Founder of the Portland-based Salt & Straw Ice Cream. In 2011, Tyler started Salt & Straw with his cousin, Kim Malek, from a humble ice cream cart, and they have since grown the company to over 30 locations. Salt & Straw is known for crafting artisan ice creams with locally sourced flavors, designed to tell the narrative of artisans, meaningful food movements, and important social causes. Called “the Willy Wonka of ice cream,” Tyler to date has created over 1,500 unique flavors for Salt & Straw. He has been awarded as one of Forbes 30 Under 30 for “Changing the Way America Eats,” named Zagat 30 Under 30, Portland Business Journal’s 40 Under 40, and one of Eater Young Guns Semi-Finalists. 

What's Included: You will receive a .zip file that includes the cooking school video as well as PDFs of the recipe instructions.

How to Download: After you purchase your Milk Street Cooking School Video, you will receive an email from the Milk Street Store with the subject line "Your Cooking School Video is Ready for Download." Within this email there is a link that will direct you to a download page, click download now to download the .zip folder. To unzip the folder, double-click the zipped folder to open it. Please note: your video download file will have an approximate size of 500 MB.