Ice cream recipes

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.

Chocolate chip pancakes made with pancake mix, served as a sandwich with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream between two warm cakes. A fun weekend breakfast or dessert.

Classic French profiteroles with choux pastry puffs, vanilla ice cream filling, and warm chocolate sauce. Make-ahead dessert that scales for a crowd.

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.

Frozen pumpkin pie made with vanilla ice cream, pumpkin puree, and brown sugar in a baked pie shell. Topped with meringue and flash-baked like a Baked Alaska.

North Pole cherry pie: vanilla ice cream packed into a baked pie shell and topped with cherry pie filling. Three ingredients, no oven needed, frozen and ready to slice.

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.

Quick caramel apple pie with quartered caramel candies, caramel ice cream topping, diced unpeeled apples, and a pecan topping. Uses a store-bought crust for easy assembly.

Frozen coffee ice cream pie with a Girl Scout Thin Mint cookie crust and chocolate ganache topping. A no-bake freezer dessert with only four ingredients.

Meringue pecan pie binds Ritz cracker crumbs and chopped pecans into a stiff egg-white meringue, then bakes into a chewy-crisp slice. No pie crust required. Top with ice cream or fresh fruit and whipped cream.

A retro no-bake strawberry parfait pie made with lemon gelatin, strawberry ice cream, and fresh berries in a flaky pie shell. Includes a pineapple variation. Cool, creamy, and ready from fridge to table in about an hour.

No-bake angel food cake layered and frosted with butterscotch whipped cream, then covered in crunchy toffee bits. Just 5 ingredients and 20 minutes of hands-on time before it chills.

No-bake chocolate cream pie built from vanilla ice cream, milk, and instant pudding poured into graham cracker crusts and chilled until sliceable. Five ingredients, two pies.

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.

Easy Butterfinger pecan cake: chocolate poke cake soaked in butterscotch sauce, topped with whipped topping folded with crushed Butterfingers and pecans. Five ingredients, all crowd-pleaser.

Oreo crumble cake with a crushed cookie base, chocolate-pecan fudge layer, and whipped vanilla ice cream top. A layered frozen dessert that slices like an ice cream cake.