606 ice cream recipes

Fruited cream puffs: shortcut pate a choux made with pancake mix, filled with ice cream and topped with sweetened strawberries. Ten elegant frozen desserts from pantry staples.

Fresh bananas and Bartlett pears drizzled with melted vanilla ice cream as a ready-made custard sauce, topped with chopped pecans. No cooking, no custard-making. The ice cream is the sauce.

Orange macaroon drink blended from orange juice, coconut cream, almond extract, and crushed ice. A tropical, creamy smoothie that tastes like a liquid macaroon in just 5 minutes.

A creamy frozen cocktail blending brown creme de cacao, Triple Sec, and vanilla ice cream into a velvety, chocolatey adult milkshake. Three ingredients, five minutes, pure indulgence.

Coffee mud pie with a crushed chocolate wafer crust, softened coffee ice cream, and cold fudge sauce. The classic frozen Mississippi mud pie copycat that slices like a dream after a 10-hour freeze.

Brazilian iced chocolate with melted unsweetened chocolate, double-strength coffee, milk, and chilled cola poured over ice. A fizzy, caffeinated chocolate drink topped with whipped cream or ice cream.

Rum truffle dessert cocktail: dark rum, crème de cacao, and hazelnut liqueur blended with chocolate ice cream and crowned with whipped cream. Served in a brandy snifter for a sip-it-slow sweet finish.

Classic peach Melba: vanilla ice cream crowned with a poached peach half, glossy raspberry-currant sauce, crushed macaroons, and a piped collar of whipped cream. Auguste Escoffier's signature dessert from 1893.

Coffee soda built with chilled double-strength coffee, half and half, coffee ice cream, and a top-up of fizzy soda water. The grown-up float you'd find at a 1950s soda fountain counter.

This creamy Cedar Island Mint Hummer blends creme de menthe, creme de cacao, and vanilla ice cream into a frosty after-dinner cocktail that's ready in minutes.

Frozen mocha toffee dessert with coffee-spiked vanilla ice cream and crushed toffee bars in a ladyfinger-lined springform pan, topped with Kahlua whipped cream. No-bake and make-ahead.

Creamy chocolate punch with melted semi-sweet chocolate, milk, vanilla ice cream, club soda, and whipped cream. A bubbly, kid-friendly party drink that serves 12.

Silky Bavarian vanilla cream dessert set with gelatin and enriched with vanilla ice cream. Unmold and serve with fresh fruit.

Rhubarb tart with orange glaze layers tart-sweet rhubarb over buttery puff pastry, then gets brushed with a reduced citrus syrup. Two rectangles, one sheet pan, one of the easiest stone-fruit-season desserts going.

Banshee cocktail with creme de banana, creme de cacao, and sweet cream shaken over crushed ice. A creamy, dessert-style drink ready in two minutes.

Round Island Hummer is a frozen cocktail blending vanilla ice cream with creme de cacao and creme de almond into a rich, creamy after-dinner drink.