These look like the real deal
For a lightened-up frozen cheesecake-style dessert, mix cream cheese with Greek yogurt instead of using 100% cream cheese. Top with a raspberry coulis, and freeze! Cut into bars to serve.
This easy and delicious dessert is made by combining milky coffee with vanilla pudding and whipped cream. Freeze the mixture in popsicle molds and drizzle with caramel sauce.
Semifreddo is an Italian dessert that combines ingredients like egg yolks, cream, and sugar. It's semi-frozen and has the texture of a frozen mousse. It can be flavored with chocolate, coffee, or berries, and many other variations exist.
This Sicilian frozen dessert is not only fresh and delicious, but it's also easy to make. The one pictured is made with water, sugar, and watermelon. Freeze the mixture, and it's ready to serve.
Dole Whip is a dessert phenomenon that at one time could only be found at Disneyland! It's a non-dairy pineapple flavor soft serve similar to ice cream. Make your own at home by blending frozen pineapple, a frozen banana, and a can of coconut milk.
An ice cream float is an American diner classic. The orange version combines fresh orange juice or orange soda with a scoop of vanilla ice cream, and some whipped cream on top. A delicious alternative uses ginger beer, vanilla ice cream, and chopped peaches.
Fruit sorbets can easily be made at home by blending frozen fruit with sugar and heavy cream, or coconut cream for a vegan alternative. Make two different contrasting flavors, such as peach and raspberry, and freeze them in layers in a loaf tin.
This chocolatey peanut butter pie responds very well to the freezer! The rich, creamy peanut butter filling turns into something like the best ice cream you've ever had.
This triple-layer chocolate dessert is decadent but still cooling. Prepare three different kinds of chocolate ganache: white chocolate, dark chocolate, and cookies and cream. Layer them in a cake tin and freeze.
Frozen tiramisu takes the best of Italian desserts and makes it perfect for a hot summer night. It stacks sponge finger biscuits soaked in coffee and booze with layers of sweet, creamy, coffee-flavored filling. Prepare it in a loaf pan lined with plastic wrap and freeze overnight.
Key lime pie is one of the more refreshing desserts already, but why not make it even cooler by freezing it! Add a mixture of cream cheese, condensed milk, powdered sugar, and lime juice to your biscuit base. Freeze overnight.
Cookie ice cream sandwiches are always a hit. You can make your own chocolate chip cookies or use store-bought ones to speed things up. It's best to choose a cookie that has a little flexibility to it. A delicious option for the filling is vanilla ice cream with fresh cherries roughly mashed in.
When you freeze a mousse, it develops the most delicious texture! This version adds Irish cream liqueur to a basic vanilla mousse, and is topped with a thin layer of chocolate ganache.
Change it up by using berry yogurt for the base, or blending tropical fruits with the plain yogurt.
Want to get drunk and enjoy a cooling popsicle at the same time? Look no further! These adult popsicles combine fresh peaches, tequila, and lime juice to make the summer treat you didn't know you needed.
Lemon is a flavor that pairs perfectly with cold desserts. This lemon cheesecake follows the usual recipe, but you simply place it in the freezer to set rather than the fridge. Top with lemon curd for that extra zesty flavor.
Yogurt bark is a super simple and healthy recipe you can make as a dessert or a snack for the kids. Combine plain yogurt with maple syrup and lemon juice and spread it on a tray lined with parchment paper. Sprinkle with chopped berries and maybe some granola or grated chocolate.
Berries and white chocolate are the perfect summer combination, especially when they're frozen! This simple cheesecake has a cream cheese filling that adds melted white chocolate and chopped strawberries. Freeze overnight and serve with fresh berries.
Sources: (Tasty) (Epicurious)
If you poach peaches in sugar and water, let them cool, and then freeze them, you'll get something similar to a peach sorbet that retains the shape of a fruit! It's delicious and refreshing. Serve with chopped strawberries and mint.
Eton mess is a traditional English dessert that combines three classics: strawberries, meringue, and whipped cream. To make it even better for summer, mash in vanilla ice cream and drizzle with a homemade strawberry sauce.
Baked Alaska is an American dessert that's really quite bizarre. A layer of ice cream sits on top a layer of cake, and is then surrounded by meringue and browned. It looks pretty magical!
If you like strawberries, and you like rosé, then this is the dessert for you! Mix the rosé with grapefruit juice, blended strawberries, and sugar. Freeze and you've got yourself a refreshing boozy treat.
Kulfi is an Indian dessert similar to ice cream, but it doesn't require an ice cream maker or any churning! Instead, whole milk is evaporated in a pan until it's almost caramelized. Once cooled, you add condensed milk and raspberries, or any other fruit you want, and blend. Pour the mixture into molds and freeze.
The Arctic roll is an English classic, somewhat similar to baked Alaska. This retro dessert magically wraps ice cream inside a baked cake! The cake is baked on a flat sheet and then cooled. It's then spread with a layer of high quality strawberry preserve, then vanilla ice cream shaped into a log is placed on top. The cake is rolled around the ice cream like a burrito.
When the summer heat reaches its peak, it can be difficult to satisfy your sweet tooth without feeling sluggish afterwards. Ice cream is obviously the king, but what about when you're throwing a dinner party or garden barbecue? It's nice to be able to serve up a more elevated dessert that's still appropriate for the weather. With these fantastic frozen recipes, you'll never have to worry about this again!
Click through the gallery for some summer dessert recipes that will hit the spot while keeping you cool.
Chill out with these refreshing summer dessert recipes
For when the heat is just too much!
FOOD Recipes
When the summer heat reaches its peak, it can be difficult to satisfy your sweet tooth without feeling sluggish afterwards. Ice cream is obviously the king, but what about when you're throwing a dinner party or garden barbecue? It's nice to be able to serve up a more elevated dessert that's still appropriate for the weather. With these fantastic frozen recipes, you'll never have to worry about this again!
Click through the gallery for some summer dessert recipes that will hit the spot while keeping you cool.