290 ice cream base recipes

Cashew nut cookies with brown sugar, sour cream, and a buttery vanilla icing topped with whole cashews. Soft drop cookies with a caramel-like depth from the brown sugar base.

Pistachio kulfi pops made the traditional Indian way: whole milk slowly reduced to a concentrated, caramelized base, then frozen with chopped pistachios. No ice cream maker required.

Simple frozen dessert made with ice cream and a splash of sherry, frozen in a tray. A no-bake, 2-ingredient base you can customize with nuts, chocolate, or fruit.

Chocolate fleck frozen yogurt creates tiny shards of dark chocolate throughout a tangy vanilla yogurt base. A lighter alternative to chocolate ice cream with the chocolate technique that creates the fleck effect.

Cardamom kulfi pops made the traditional Indian way, whole milk reduced down to a thick, caramelized base with ground cardamom, then frozen into creamy cones or popsicles. No ice cream maker needed.

Peach caramel crisp: ripe peaches baked over a hardened caramel base and crowned with ground almond praline streusel, served warm with vanilla ice cream. Summer fruit dessert elevated with French patisserie technique.

Three-layer orange cream brownies with a fudgy walnut brownie base, fluffy orange buttercream middle, and a glossy chocolate icing top. The Terry's Chocolate Orange in bar form, cut into 36 perfect bites.

Homemade chocolate Irish cream with whiskey, rum, creme de cacao, sweetened condensed milk, and a touch of chocolate syrup. A blender-based copycat of Bailey's that costs less and tastes richer. Serve over crushed ice.

COMMENT: What makes this dessert so irresistible? As it bakes, a pudding sauce forms beneath the cake layer. Cocoa-based and made without eggs, its an old-fashioned treat that should be served with a dollop of whipped cream or vanilla ice cream and a big spoon.

De Luxe rennet custard, an old-fashioned milk-based pudding set with rennet and dressed up with cranberry sauce, toasted coconut, orange segments, raspberries, walnuts, and pineapple. A vintage dessert that tastes like an ice cream sundae, minus the freezer.

Fried Mexican ice cream coats frozen ice cream balls in cinnamon-sugar cornflake crumbs, then flash-fries for a crunchy hot shell over cold creamy center. Restaurant-style dessert at home.

Mexican restaurant-style fried ice cream with rock-hard ice cream balls coated in crushed cornflakes, dipped in beer batter, and flash-fried at 375°F until golden. Crisp shell, frozen center, the showstopper dessert.

Pumpkin chiffon pie folds whipped egg whites and cream into a spiced pumpkin custard for a light, mousse-like Thanksgiving classic. Cloud-soft texture with all the warm pumpkin pie flavor.

Chocolate cream rum balls made from melted semi-sweet chocolate, heavy cream, dark rum, and icing sugar, then rolled in chocolate vermicelli, coconut, or cocoa. Five-ingredient no-bake holiday treat.

Old-fashioned peach pie with sliced fresh peaches, sugar, flour and nutmeg under a hand-woven lattice crust. Baked until the juices bubble through the weave. Serve warm with cream or vanilla ice cream.

Oven-baked dessert pancake (Dutch baby): a giant puffed pancake baked in a hot skillet with butter, then dusted with sugar and lemon juice. Fill with fruit or ice cream for an instant dessert.