Universal Gaytime

This ice cream took its lead from a commercial ice cream on a stick, and this very grown-up version made its debut at Paramount Restaurant in late 1998 as a slice sandwiched between two chocolate florentine wafers, offered as a dessert during Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. When I introduced it onto our London menus, we fashioned the same elements into a pyramid-shaped mould and rolled the ice cream in a fine coating of ‘gold dust’ before serving it. Although I use pyramid moulds, any