Mini Pecan Pies

Bourbon-Vanilla Ice Cream

I know Robin Bellinger wrote an Essentials post about Vanilla Ice Cream a few weeks ago, and far be it from me to try and one-up a recipe adapted from Chez Panisse Desserts, but I just made the most amazing,...

Spiced Vanilla Ice Cream Recipe | Scooped

I have long resented the use of the word "vanilla" to mean bland, blah, and boring. Real vanilla is deep and complex. Anyone who thinks vanilla is boring hasn't tasted this ice cream.

Scotch Vanilla Bean Ice Cream

This is everything vanilla ice cream should be: impossibly rich and smooth with deep notes of honey, caramel, and flowers. A good Highland Scotch (I'm partial to Glenlivet 12) brings out the best flavors of vanilla while also adding depth. There's a good amount of salt to keep you coming back for another bite. Add salt slowly and adjust it to your tastes.

Irish Coffee Caramel Ice Cream with Shaved Dark Chocolate and Candied Pecans

It has buttery, smoky caramel, a dash of coffee grinds, and a generous helping of whisky for good measure. It's a bracing combination, but oh does it work. First you taste the coffee, roasted and rich, with the pleasant bitterness of an actual cup of joe. Then comes the caramel to sweeten things up just a tad, melting to sweet buttery goodness. Then the whisky: the more ice cream you eat, the more you taste it.

Coffee 'N Cookies 'N Cream Ice Cream

This recipe blends fragrant, creamy Tahitian vanilla bean with ground coffee for a sweet, rich, coffee-tinged base for crushed Oreos.

Everything Nice (Spiced-Rum Coffee With Butterscotch Whipped Cream)

In this variation on a classic Irish coffee, spiced rum takes the place of whiskey, lending its sweet, spiced caramel flavor to the coffee's roasted, bitter bite.

Mr. Softee-Style Vanilla Bean Soft-Serve

Let your ice cream thaw to the point of melting before serving; the gelatin will keep it from turning into soup.

Classic Vanilla Ice Milk

Like sorbet, ice milk is light and refreshing on a hot summer's day, but with the creamy, soft consistency you'll find in the best ice cream.

Scooped: Apple, Browned Butter, & Sour Cream Ice Cream

The time has come for us to end this ice cream series, October being halfway to Halloween. We wanted something to complement fall's palette of desserts: crumbles, crisps, cakes, and quickbreads, filled with apples, pears, walnuts, and cinnamon. With that in mind, apples and sour cream were a no-brainer, a lusciously tart rejoinder to rustic late-harvest food.

Pumpkin Spice Ice Cream

This ice cream tastes like a better, more homemade version of a Starbucks pumpkin spice latte (minus the coffee, which is pretty incidental), thanks to a dose of vanilla bean, cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, and a wee nip of bourbon.