Ice Cream Magic is a cool shaker that makes ice cream in about 3 minutes. You just fill the bottom with some ice, water and salt and the top with one of the ice cream recipe ingredients and your ready to go. Just shake and in a couple of minutes, delicious ice cream.

This Key Note report examines the ice cream and frozen desserts industry in the UK, which is estimated to have grown by 3% in 2012.

Ice cream makes up the majority of the market; the sector can be further divided into take-home ice cream and wrapped impulse sales. Premium and luxury ice creams are the driving force behind growth in the industry, and new flavours and product innovation are also pushing up sales. Both large global brands and smaller UK specialists operate in the market. The frozen desserts market is dominated by own labels.

Having just picked apples from our very small orchard, it’s hard sometimes to find new and more unusual uses for the windfalls other than chutneys and apple pies – both with eaters and cookers – so I was impressed when I found this delicious recipe online.

It makes enough for a 6 person dinner party and would be wonderful with cream or ice cream.