inspired entirely by this book
based mostly on this recipe
i went with the haagen dazs recipe for two reasons: 1) the better homes & garden recipe calls for food coloring & artificial flavoring, which sounded distinctly unappetizing to me; and 2) i really like their ice cream. i ended up using their chocolate and cherry vanilla flavors, but went with ben & jerry's pistachio pistachio because i couldn't find haagen dazs pistachio anywhere. that was just fine as the pistachio pistachio was very tasty indeed. i did use part of the bh&g recipe for the center section (just raspberries, whipped cream and powdered sugar) and for the piped decor (whipped cream, powdered sugar and raspberry juice instead of food coloring). next time, i'll omit the raspberry layer and either add more cherries to the cherry vanilla layer or not mix in the whipped cream as the flavor was too subtle. we still managed to stuff ourselves silly with spumoni bombe despite these minor flaws.
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