Ice cream recipes

Flourless chestnut and pecan torte with a bourbon-coffee-chocolate filling, bittersweet chocolate ganache icing, and bourbon chantilly cream. Rich, nutty, and deeply warming. The kind of torte that ends a dinner party with a standing ovation.

Authentic German apple strudel made the traditional way: hand-stretched dough pulled paper-thin, a poppy seed, sugar, and cinnamon filling, diced apples, and a soak of cream. Bakes up golden and flaky.

Outstanding, the light herb and cheese enriched batter sealed in the juices and kept the chicken breast cutlets super moist.

These macarons are sandwiched with strawberry-rhubarb cream.

Copycat Macaroni Grill pasta with grilled chicken, pancetta, red onion, and scallions tossed in a silky Asiago cream sauce. Restaurant-style white sauce pasta you can make at home.

No-bake marshmallow cream peach pie folds melted marshmallows, whipped cream, and diced fresh peaches into a graham cracker crust. Five ingredients, no oven, hours of fridge time for a cool summer slice.

Pureed black bean soup simmered in chicken broth with garlic and carrots, finished with heavy cream. Topped with sour cream, cilantro, and diced tomatoes.

Georgian potato soup blends cream-puree vegetables with apple juice, applesauce, raisins, and apricots, then adds diced potatoes for bite. Sweet-savory Caucasian soup finished with cottage cheese cream.

Rich cheddar beer soup with diced ham, jalapeños, cream, Worcestershire, and dry mustard. A hearty, pub-style cheese soup with real kick that warms you from the inside out.

Penne with green peas, diced tomatoes, fresh basil, and a touch of cream. A quick 30-minute pasta dinner with just enough richness from a splash of heavy cream.

Oven-baked garlic soup with chickpeas, summer squash, tomatoes, and two cheeses stirred in at the end with heavy cream. A hands-off, vegetarian one-dish soup baked right in the casserole.

Skillet-pressed roast beef hash cake with diced potatoes, onions, and green pepper, finished with heavy cream. A flipped-and-crusted diner-style hash for using up Sunday roast leftovers.

Creamy hearts of palm and leek soup blended silky smooth with whipping cream, topped with a fresh garnish of diced tomato, scallion, and hearts of palm.

A rustic pie-cake hybrid loaded with diced apples and pecans, baked in a pie plate and served warm with rum butter sauce and whipped cream.

Gratineed oysters on the half shell with diced apples and a Calvados sabayon broiled golden. An elegant French appetizer pairing briny oysters with apple brandy cream.

Pecan breaded oysters sauteed golden and served on the half shell with a vanilla bean, cucumber, and tomato cream sauce. A refined seafood appetizer with Southern elegance.