Calm down. Making homemade ice cream isn’t as difficult as you may think. It’s amazing how only a few ingredients commonly found at the grocery store can create endless flavor possibilities. While some ice cream cookbooks can border on the academic or the gourmet, Stop Screaming! is a basic guide for those starting out making this chilled dessert.

Covering both the equipment and techniques to make ice cream at home, Stop Screaming! reveals the barrier to entry for this culinary hobby can be as low as a few hundred dollars. With broad recipes that allow for plenty of experimentation, this cookbook is a great foundation to build upon and eventually reach some truly unique flavors (for example: have you ever had dragon fruit sorbet?).