Potato, pepper, cassava… Surprising artisanal ice creams to taste

Potato, pepper, cassava ... Here are artisanal ice creams with surprising tastes to taste -

Would you like chili, avocado or sweet potato ice cream?

To taste this astonishing sweetness at Desirs du Palais in Pointe-à-Pitre (Guadeloupe), you need to have eyes bigger than your stomach and an open mind.

For 17 years, Fabienne Youyoutte has competed in ingenuity to delight the taste buds of her customers.

The Guadeloupean artisan, pastry chef, ice cream maker and chocolate maker concocts sorbets made from fruits and vegetables “which remind her of her childhood with her grandmother, like the cassava flour that she put in her bowl of milk”.

To succeed in her bet of showing off her atypical alliances, she carries out several tests until she obtains the ultimate in taste.

“It took me five years to make my coconut ice cream because it contains fat, you have to find the right balance.

I also had in mind the taste of the great Guadeloupean glacier Lafages ”, explains the winner of the title“ Meilleur artisan de France 2019 ”of the Grands Prix de l'Artisanat Stars et Métiers, also crowned Chevalière of the National Order of Merit. 'Agriculture.

"I have only known how to do it for 12 years".

"I'm going to take a one-liter container to take away," asks Brigitte Rhodes, one of her most loyal customers.

She also takes a small pot for her own pleasure, others opt for the homemade cone.

“All my ice creams have a story,” says Fabienne Youyoutte.

The craftsman has already developed more than a hundred perfumes.

Crowned with success, five years ago she opened a second store in Guadeloupe, on the beach at Sainte-Anne.

For a nice tasting in the sun.

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