230 ice cream recipes

Caramelized bananas in brown sugar, butter, cinnamon, and lemon juice. A five-minute warm dessert served over vanilla ice cream.

Light angel food cake topped with vanilla ice cream and fresh blueberries macerated in Grand Marnier for an effortless summer dessert in 10 minutes.

Pears Melba with Bosc pears poached in Marsala and dry wine syrup, served over vanilla ice cream with pureed raspberry sauce. A classic French dessert with elegant simplicity.

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.

Classic bananas flambe with rum and banana liqueur, sauteed in butter and brown sugar with cinnamon. A dramatic tableside dessert served over vanilla ice cream.

Banana split sundaes for two with a microwave hot fudge sauce made from semisweet chocolate, sweetened condensed milk, and corn syrup. A 10-minute date-night dessert.

Chocolate truffle cake à la Café de Paris: layered chocolate cake split and filled with a glossy chocolate-fondant-cream ganache, chilled overnight for clean truffle slices.

Raspberry Alaskas tuck fresh raspberries and vanilla ice cream inside crisp puff pastry shells, then cloak the whole thing in glossy meringue and flash it under high heat for a hot-and-cold dessert that hits the table the second it browns.

This is a easy and tasty dessert, you can always server it after dinner.

Orange-glazed bananas baked in fresh orange juice, Grand Marnier, butter, and brown sugar with toasted walnuts. A 15-minute warm fruit dessert. Spoon over vanilla ice cream.

Chocolate mousse torte tops a deep devil's food cake with a silky coffee-liqueur chocolate mousse and a cloud of whipped cream. A make-ahead chocolate dessert with a grown-up Kahlua kick.

Bananas in rum caramel sauce with pineapple juice, cinnamon, and butter, served over vanilla ice cream. A quick stovetop dessert ready in 30 minutes.

Elegant cranberry twist on Peach Melba with poached peach halves, vanilla ice cream, and a pureed cranberry-kirsch sauce. A stunning dinner party dessert served in stemmed glasses.

Four-minute brownie pie with no crust needed. Beat everything together for 4 minutes, pour into a pie pan, and bake. Fudgy, crackly-topped, and best served warm with ice cream.

Classic New Orleans bananas Foster: halved bananas caramelized in brown sugar and butter, flambeed with rum, and spooned over French vanilla ice cream tableside.

Grilled dessert kabobs with pound cake cubes coated in peanut butter and chopped peanuts, skewered with banana and nectarine, and basted with warm caramel sauce. A fun cookout finish.