20 Cool Ice Cream Concoctions

The best part about grilling season is the focus on simple fresh ingredients. It's one of the easiest times to enjoy eating in season but no matter what you've got on the fire, high-end chow or hot dogs — a cool dessert is sure to follow. Ice cream is a great way to finish off your meal and boy oh boy, do we have you covered!

If there's one thing we love here at The Kitchn, it's ice cream. Check out a few of our favorites below. Some are dairy free, others are vegan and all of them are flat out tasty. Don't see what you're looking for? Don't forget to check our archives where you'll find every flavor under the sun!

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• David Lebovitz's Guinness-Milk Chocolate Ice Cream
• Ice Cream Sandwiches Made with Super Thin Brownies
• DIY Wedding Recipe: Creamy, Tangy Lemon Ice Cream
• Recipe: Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream
• Recipe: Dark Chocolate Ice Cream With Fig & Cardamom

• Pink Lemonade Ice Cream
• Recipe Review: Rick Bayless' Dairy Free Avocado Ice Cream
• Recipe: Balsamic Drizzled Ice Cream (Easiest Fanciest Dessert)
• Almost-Instant Sweet Wine Ice Cream
• Recipe: Blackberry Buttermilk Ice Cream

• How To: Make Ice Cream Without an Ice Cream Maker
• Quick Treat: How To Make a Perfect Ice Cream Sandwich
• How To Make Chocolate Covered Ice Cream Bites
• How To Make Ice Cream Sandwiches At Home
• Ice Cream Pie! Made with 1-Ingredient Ice Cream

• Vegan Vanilla Coconut Ice Cream
• Cool Treats: Beer and Ice Cream Floats
• Recipe: Herbed Ice Cream (Rosemary, Served With Mulberries)
• Garden Cooking: Thomas Keller's Beet Ice Cream
• Try This! Philadelphia-Style Ice Cream

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Comments (8)

I'm picking up an ice cream maker tomorrow--how I love craigslist.

I have a question for those of you who do this a lot--some recipes call for, say 1c of heavy cream--do you buy the pint, which is twice as big, and find a way to store the leftovers? I'm concerned it'd go bad in the fridge and you can't freeze the leftovers and thaw to use in ice cream, can you? I suspect not but since heavy cream is a bit pricey I don't want to be throwing any of it away :)

@sweetpeacooks Easy. Just make two batches of ice cream!

Kakugori, I figured someone would say that! :) Biscuits are also tasty...

Can I throw another into the mix? For my friend's birthday, our fellow friend & I collaborated. She made s'mores ice cream, and I made homemade graham crackers. IT WAS THE MOST AMAZING COMBINATION!!!! Here's my blog post about it.

beer floats sound even better than my favorite root beer floats. we love frozen desserts too! http://thekosherfoodies.com/category/dessert/frozen/

We made some goat cheese dried fig ice cream awhile back (inspired by a flavor of Jeni's ice creams). The recipe's not too tricky.

I'm pretty much in love with goat cheese ice cream now: http://byov.blogspot.com/2010/04/success-fig-goat-cheese-swirl-ice-cream.html

sweetpeacooks - I personally but it in bulk from Costco because it's the least expensive and then use the rest to make cream biscuits.... they mix in seconds and then freeze perfectly.

http://www.thekitchn.com/thekitchn/how-to/how-to-make-cream-biscuits-in-less-than-15-minutes-kitchen-home-hacks-109151