• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Home
  • About Me
    • Cookie & Privacy Statement
    • As Seen…
    • Blog Links
  • Reviews
  • Giveaways
  • We Should Cocoa
  • Tin and Thyme
  • Nav Social Menu

    • E-mail
    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • LinkedIn
    • Pinterest
    • RSS
    • Tumblr
    • Twitter
Tin and Thyme Logo 2020

Tin and Thyme

Vegetarian food blog showing you how to create simple delicious and nutritious whole food recipes of all types.

  • Baking
    • Biscuits
    • Bread & Buns
    • Brownies & Blondies
    • Bundt
    • Layer Cakes
    • Cupcakes
    • Large Cakes
    • Loaf Cakes
    • No Bake
    • Pancakes & Waffles
    • Small Cakes
    • Tarts, Pies & Pastries
    • Traybakes
    • Vegetable Cakes
  • meal
    • Breakfast
    • Lunch
    • Dinner Recipes
    • Sides
    • Snacks & Starters
    • Dessert
    • Pudding
  • Recipe Type
    • Bowl Food
    • Curry
    • Chocolates
    • Dips & Spreads
    • Drinks
    • Ice Cream
    • Leftovers
    • Pasta
    • Preserves
    • Salads
    • Sandwiches & Burgers
    • Sauces
    • Savoury Chocolate
    • Soup
    • Gifts
  • Seasonal
    • Spring
    • Summer
    • Autumn
    • Winter
    • Easter
    • Christmas
  • Blender
    • Froothie Evolve Blender
    • 9200A Blender
    • G2.3 Blender
    • Nutri Force
    • Vacuum Blender
    • HealthyFry
    • P200 Dehydrator
    • Pressure-Cook
    • ThermoCook
  • Vegan
Home » Recipe Collections » We Should Cocoa » 21 Cool Ice Cream Recipes for Summer

21 Cool Ice Cream Recipes for Summer

28th July 2013 by Choclette Filed Under: We Should Cocoa

Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Pinterest Share on LinkedIn Share on E-mail

Summer, isn’t it wonderful? It seems such a long time since we had one. When the temperature rises, my desire for ice cream goes up as well. It seems I’m not alone. Take a look at these 21 cool ice cream recipes. You’ll find some real stunners: the creativity that goes into them never ceases to amaze me.

This coolest of foods has fired my imagination and I’m now particularly keen to try making some with coconut milk. Thank you to everyone for another great We Should Cocoa challenge.

Next month Elizabeth’s Kitchen takes the #WeShouldCocoa reins. Do visit her blog on 1 August to find out what she has planned for us.

21 Cool Ice Cream Recipes for Summer

Coconut, Lime & Chocolate Ice Cream - one of 21 cool ice cream recipes for summer.

Gelato fan, Ali of Italian Inspiration didn’t in fact attempt to make a gelato for this challenge, but was inspired by some of the great Italian gelaterias to be adventurous. Her coconut lime and chocolate no churn ice cream sounds absolutely delightful and I’d guess the use of coconut milk rather than cream makes for a much lighter version than the standard condensed milk ice-cream.

blank

Ice cream is wonderful stuff, but when presented in a chocolate basket, it notches up several levels. Snowy of Cookbooks Galore made some vanilla ice-cream, then added honeycomb and then made some very stylish chocolate baskets to present it in – chocolate baskets with honeycomb ice cream.

blank

Ice cream pie is a new one on me, but I’m very pleased to be introduced to it. I love the layering effect of this very fast but effective children’s dessert from The After School Cake Tin.

Chocolate Lime Ice Cream - one of 21 cool ice cream recipes for summer.

Janice of Farmersgirl Kitchen multi tasked with her entry and enterprisingly used some lime curd to make this fabulous chocolate lime ice-cream. She then trialed a new ice-cream scoop with great success. I still haven’t managed to get a successful scoop, so I shall blame my tools and give Janice full credit for her excellent ice-cream.

Bowl of rhubarb and rose white chocolate ripple ice cream.

It’s July, it’s my birth month and it’s summer – yes really. What could be more appropriate to cool, soothe and enjoy in the hot and sunny days to come than the icy velvet of these 21 cool ice cream recipes. Some of you may be sick to death of seeing rose in just about all of my posts at this time of year. Since making rose syrup for the first time in 2012, I can’t get enough of it. I used it to make this no churn rhubarb, rose and white chocolate ice cream.

I don’t know why, but I seem incapable of making a clean scoop of ice-cream. I have two ice-cream scoops, but have not yet produced one single ball of perfection; hacking it out with an ice-pick is more the effect I get.

blank

Rhubarb and white chocolate ice cream was a popular choice this month, ie two of us made it. This version from Johanna of Green Gourmet Giraffe contains white chocolate chips and is beautifully swirled. Johanna is not much of an ice cream fan, but now she has tried this, things might have changed.

blank

There is no doubt that raspberry and chocolate is a winning combination but when it came to making ice-cream this month, there was nothing else it could be for Craig of The Usual Saucepans. He’s on a raspberry run and can’t get enough of them. His raspberry and chocolate ice cream is a no churn version, but unusually and quite delightfully contains creme fraiche.

blank

Semifreddo is another type of ice cream I’ve never made but want to. I can’t imagine I’d ever manage anything as spectacular as this rocky road semifreddo from Claire of Under the Blue Gum Tree. Raspberries, meringue, marshmallows and chocolate – what’s not to like?

blank

As a cheese lover, I was really pleased to see it made an appearance in this cream cheese ice cream with mars bar sauce from Janine of Cake of the Week. Cheesecake in ice cream form, now that is something I have to try.

blank

Something is telling me it must be time to try semifreddo. Chris from Blogging Around the World has come up with a delightful Lavender and Chocolate Semifreddo which was a bit of a herby gamble, but one that happily paid off.

blank

Caroline Makes white chocolate and chilli ice cream and she made it using some dinky little lolly moulds she picked up for a song. Chilli and chocolate is a winning combination for me, so I know I’d be content with one of these in my hand.

blank

A new one on me was this Italian Tartufo  from Jill of Lapin d’Or. Made from a Mary Berry recipe these amaretto biscuits soaked in amaretto and encased in ice-cream and chocolate sound heavenly.

blank

She who dares wins. Laura of I’d Much Rather Bake Than .., made her first attempt at a baked Alaska and it was a resounding success. I’ve never dared try anything like this, it sounds so preposterous. How can you put ice-cream in the oven without it melting all over the place? Well, it is entirely possible as this Black Forest Baked Alaska shows.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Tartufo - one of 21 cool ice cream recipes for summer.

My mouth has been watering since I saw the entry from Rebecca at BakeNQuilt. Peanut butter encased in chocolate ice-cream which is itself rolled in peanut butter cookie crumbs and then drizzled in chocolate sauce – wow. I think Rebecca might be regretting making chocolate peanut butter tartufo for one only.

blank

Boiling hot commuter rides, don’t sound like much fun, but it seems they do have their plus side. These amazing chocolate ice cream tacos may never have happened without those steamy train journeys. Hannah of Corner Cottage Bakery filled her homemade waffle tacos with a luscious chocolate and Amaretto ice-cream.

blank

Elizabeth of The Law Student’s Cookbook decided to dig out her ice-cream maker for this challenge. I think she must have been pleased she did because as well as making this Ben & Jerry’s mocha chip ice cream she’s made several others this month which sound very tasty too.

blank

More rocky road ice cream from Victoria of A Kick at the Pantry Door. This time with the ingenious technique of freezing it in individual portions using silicone moulds. No fuss and no waiting forever, for the ice-cream to thaw before serving.

Green Tea & Seaweed Ice Cream - one of 21 cool ice cream recipes for summer.

As I’ve said before and I’m sure will say again, I am continually astounded by the creativity shown in these challenges, but this green tea and Shetland seaweed ice cream from Elizabeth’s Kitchen is off the scale. Elizabeth, who incidentally is hosting next month’s We Should Cocoa, wasn’t happy with her first attempt, but the second one sounds delicious indeed.

Coconut Ice Lollies - one of 21 cool ice cream recipes for summer.

Coconut gets another outing with these coconut ice lollies from Becky of MintCustard. Inspired by bounty bars, these get a big thumbs up from me and have made me feel nostalgic for my childhood when a lolly was an occasional but much loved treat.

blank

When I’m really hot and bothered, nothing is so refreshing as a fruit ice, so I was pleased to see this sour cherry chocolate chip ice-cream from Nazima of Franglais Kitchen. Served with crumbled meringue and chopped candied almonds, this sounds absolute heaven.

Chocolate Caramel Salted Popcorn Ice Cream - one of 21 cool ice cream recipes for summer.

Dom of Belleau Kitchen knows how to curry favour; salted caramel is just about one of my favourite things. His chocolate caramel salted popcorn ice-cream is, in his own words, food porn. All I know is I would love to get my hands on a bowl full of this.

We hope you’ve enjoyed these 21 cool ice cream recipes for summer.

For more chocolate ice-cream inspiration, head on over to my Ice Cream & Other Frozen Treats board on Pinterest. You could also take a look at Kavey’s chocolate round up of Bloggers Scream for Ice Cream.

Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Pinterest Share on LinkedIn Share on E-mail

24 Comments

Previous Post: « Raspberry Rose and White Chocolate Traybake
Next Post: Chocolate Chelsea Buns: Sweet & Sticky Yeasty Delights »

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recipe Rating




Comments

  1. blankLaura Denman says

    31st July 2013 at 10:30 pm

    So many brilliant ideas. My ‘to make’ list just got a lot longer!

    Reply
  2. blankHannah says

    30th July 2013 at 10:52 am

    As always, a beautiful round up,- they all look so good. I hadnt even heard of tartufo until you set the challenge!

    Reply
  3. blankSusan Lindquist says

    29th July 2013 at 4:48 pm

    What wonderful offerings! I am feeling so contrite …. I had every intention of making brownie ice cream sundaes but missed deadline. Still on my docket, but just not for the round-up! Rats!

    Reply
    • blankChoclette says

      29th July 2013 at 8:04 pm

      Rats indeed Susan, always love your entries and an ice cream sundae would have been a lovely addition to the round-up. But so understand not making it – where does the time goooooooooo?

      Reply
  4. blankChristian Halfmann says

    29th July 2013 at 11:25 am

    It was really dangerous reading this round-up and … of course lovely, too. So many wonderful frozen treats. Luvly!

    Reply
    • blankChoclette says

      29th July 2013 at 8:05 pm

      Thanks Chris. Dangerous indeed, I could happily fill my freezer with the stuff after seeing this lot.

      Reply
  5. blankSuelle says

    29th July 2013 at 6:38 am

    Sorry I chickened out of this round – one of the few WSCs I’ve missed – but we don’t eat a lot of ice cream and I don’t see the point in making things which people then have to force themselves to eat, or worse still, don’t get eaten at all.

    I’ve enjoyed reading the round-up.

    Reply
    • blankChoclette says

      29th July 2013 at 8:02 pm

      We missed you Suelle, but entirely understand why you didn’t feel you could participate this time. Although I’m not quite sure I understand the lack of ice-cream love 😉

      Reply
  6. blankKit @ i-lostinausten says

    29th July 2013 at 6:31 am

    What a delightful round-up full with awesome recipes! YUMMY!

    Reply
    • blankChoclette says

      29th July 2013 at 8:05 pm

      Thanks Kit, look forward to you joining in again one day 🙂

      Reply
  7. blankJohanna GGG says

    28th July 2013 at 11:49 pm

    I agree that the creativity in this round is astounding – so many great ideas for ice cream – I have tried another ice cream since then which we still have in the freezer to use up some ice cream cones – but I suspect that in summer there may be more ice cream experiments chez GGG

    Reply
    • blankChoclette says

      29th July 2013 at 8:07 pm

      Oh Johanna, you have the ice-cream bug, wonderful. Though I do agree, it’s not quite so appealing in the depths of winter. What else have you experimented with?

      Reply
  8. blankJo says

    28th July 2013 at 8:34 pm

    So many delicious and unusual sounding ice-creams! I’ve never tried making my own before but now I feel very tempted to give it a go.

    Reply
    • blankChoclette says

      29th July 2013 at 8:08 pm

      Oh do give it a go Jo, some of the no churn recipes are really easy and well worth the effort.

      Reply
  9. blankbelleau kitchen says

    28th July 2013 at 8:17 pm

    Amazing round up. Well done us all!!!

    Reply
    • blankChoclette says

      29th July 2013 at 8:09 pm

      Well done indeed – super duper fabuliciously wonderful.

      Reply
  10. blankKatie says

    28th July 2013 at 7:13 pm

    Wow what an inventive and delicious sounding ice cream round-up. I’d want to try them all!

    Reply
    • blankChoclette says

      29th July 2013 at 8:10 pm

      There is nothing for it Katie, an ice-cream festival is needed.

      Reply
  11. blankJanice Pattie says

    28th July 2013 at 6:49 pm

    I see a couple of recipes I’d like to make featuring Amaretto, one of my favourite liqueurs. Another triumph for WSC, well done Choclette.

    Reply
    • blankChoclette says

      29th July 2013 at 8:12 pm

      Ooh yes Amaretto, it’s one of my favourites too Janice. Thank you and well done you too. Love your ice-cream.

      Reply
  12. blankVictoria Lee says

    28th July 2013 at 6:42 pm

    There are some seriously brilliant ideas here – great challenge and round up as always, looking forward to next month already 🙂 x

    Reply
    • blankChoclette says

      29th July 2013 at 8:12 pm

      Thanks Victoria, it will be here before you know it 🙂

      Reply
  13. blankAngie Schneider says

    28th July 2013 at 4:36 pm

    A cool round up! I need to eat some more ice cream!!

    Reply
    • blankChoclette says

      29th July 2013 at 8:13 pm

      Thanks Angie, I feel I need to try all of this ice-cream after this.

      Reply

Primary Sidebar

blankHello, welcome to Tin and Thyme. I’m Choclette, a vegetarian home cook and whole food recipe developer. I have a passion for flavour, cooking with the seasons, baking and chocolate. Welcome to my award winning blog. Here you’ll find delicious and nutritious recipes that are mostly easy to prepare and definitely easy to eat. Read More

Looking for something?

Connect with me

  • E-mail
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Pinterest
  • RSS
  • Twitter

Find a recipe

Tin and Thyme

Footer

Foodies100 Index of UK Food Blogs
Very Good Recipes Badge
  • Cookie & Privacy Statement

Copyright Choclette @ Tin and Thyme © 2021 - All Rights Reserved