Banana Bread Ice Cream

Serve this ice cream atop slices of banana bread for a double-dose banana-rama, or spoon it up with a puddle of hot fudge sauce. It's ridiculously good as soft serve, but takes a more cakey, banana bread-like texture when fully frozen.

Banana Cookies and Bourbon Ice Cream Sandwiches

Notes: Bourbon ice cream is a serving suggestion; you can skip this step and use your favorite flavor of ice cream. Use a stainless steel skillet to brown the butter--a dark-bottomed skillet will make it difficult to see the butter...

Peanut Butter Oat Cookies

Rich, oaty peanut butter cookies perfect for making ice cream sandwiches.

Lemon Basil Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Sandwiches

If you've made a mint chocolate chip ice cream before, this recipe follows the same basic procedure. But while mint leaves are usually steeped in the cream for upwards of an hour or two before getting strained out, basil benefits more from a short initial steeping before getting blended into the base. I forgo chocolate chips or drizzling melted chocolate for simply shaving chocolate directly into the ice cream as it's finishing the churn.

Vegan Banana Coconut Ice Cream

A dairy-free ice cream rich with banana and coconut flavor. The key to great ice-cream texture without the cream is to emulsify the pureed bananas with extra coconut oil, giving it a smooth, dense, real ice-cream richness.

Banana Oatmeal Cookies With Peanut Butter and Chocolate Chips

Inspired by the Elvis favorite of peanut butter and bananas, these oatmeal cookies get amped up even more with chocolate chips.

Peanut Butter Honey Ice Cream

A creamy, deeply peanutty scoop with the complex flavor of honey.

Jeni Britton Bauer's Oatmeal Cream Sandwiches

These sandwiches are like the classic oatmeal cream pie, but ramped up with chewy homemade oatmeal-molasses cookies and vanilla ice cream.

Banana Walnut Chocolate Chip Cookies

These easy Banana Walnut Chocolate Chip Cookies are the perfect way to use up that lone brown banana. They are soft, slightly chewy, and super banana-y. Meanwhile, the addition of oatmeal provides a wonderful texture and flavor that is somewhat reminiscent of freshly baked muffins!

Vanilla Ice Cream Sandwiches

Our recipe for ice cream sandwiches lets you recreate this childhood favorite, wrapping and all.