Ice cream/2 recipes

Rhubarb-apple crunch layers tart rhubarb and sliced apples under a brown sugar oat crumble, baked until bubbling. Serve warm with vanilla ice cream for a spring dessert.

Banana split sundae for one with homemade microwave hot fudge, ice cream, peanuts, and a quartered banana. Single-serving solo dessert ready in five minutes.

Hot fudge sundae cake that bakes its own chocolate sauce underneath the cake layer. Pour hot water over the batter before baking, and the oven creates a fudgy pudding sauce beneath a light chocolate cake.

Frozen peanut butter ice cream pie with a chocolate wafer crust, toasted cashews, and clover honey. Top each slice with warm fudge for a no-bake dessert that hits creamy, crunchy, and chocolate-deep in one bite.

Silky vanilla Bavarian cream pie with an egg custard base, melted ice cream, and billowy whipped cream set in a baked pie shell. Old-school elegance that wobbles on the fork.

Whole Bartlett pears cored and filled with currant jelly, wrapped in golden puff pastry and baked, served pooled in Calvados caramel sauce. A bakery-window dessert that looks impossible but isn't.

Fudgy brownie pie with melted chocolate chips, sweetened condensed milk, and chopped nuts baked in a flaky crust. Best served warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

Caramel apple pie loads a frozen crust with cubed apples, melted caramel candies, and chopped pecans for a quick fall dessert. One bowl assembly, no peeling fuss, ready in an hour.

Orange freeze pie with orange gelatin, vanilla ice cream, mandarin oranges, and whipped topping in a ready crust. A cool, creamy no-bake summer dessert.

Chocolate lovers will adore this decadent cake made with almonds and served with vanilla ice cream.

German chocolate poke cake drenched in sweetened condensed milk and butterscotch, then scattered with crushed Heath bars and whipped cream. Five ingredients. Zero restraint.

An heirloom-style tarte tatin from Orléans with handmade laminated pastry and apples slow-simmered in butter caramel in a cast-iron skillet. Flip it, slice it, serve with ice cream.

Warm pear pudding cake with pecans, cinnamon, and cloves baked under a bubbling brown sugar caramel sauce. An old-fashioned comfort dessert best served hot with ice cream or whipped cream.

A boozy blended milkshake with vanilla ice cream, crushed Oreos, creme de menthe, and creme de cacao. Five minutes, one blender, and the best adult milkshake you'll ever make.

Fudgy brownie cakes steamed in canning jars inside a slow cooker. Rich cocoa buttermilk batter with walnuts, unmolded and served warm with ice cream.

Mississippi mud poke cake with German chocolate cake mix, sweetened condensed milk, caramel sauce, Cool Whip, and crushed Heath bars. Easy make-ahead dessert that chills overnight.