Smoked Honey Mint Chip Ice Cream

How can you improve on mint chip ice cream made with fresh mint leaves? Add honey and a touch of smoke.

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.

Scooped: Rosemary, Olive Oil, and Pine Honey Ice Cream

Oil doesn't hit you over the head in this ice cream—that's the rosemary's job. Its alpine punch recedes as the ice cream melts on the tongue, giving way to the sweet, resinous honey.

Maple Walnut Ice Cream

The scoop shop classic gets an upgrade with rich, dark maple syrup and an ice cream that actually tastes like walnuts.

Smoked Muscovado Sugar Vanilla Ice Cream

Like the flavors of raw sugar and vanilla? Wait until you add an element of smoke.

Scooped: Really Buttery Pecan Ice Cream

For most of my life, I never got the point of butter pecan ice cream. It always seemed like less than the sum of its parts: wan pecans poking out of bland vanilla ice cream? No thanks. When I started making ice cream, recipes for butter pecan didn't give me much hope. Three tablespoons of butter per quart? One? I had my doubts that the results would be all that satisfying.

Cherry Ice Cream

Without any egg yolks to get in the way, this ice cream tastes like pure cherry and nothing more—although if you'd like a hint of smoke try throwing the cherries on a hot grill until wilted and soft.

Grasshopper Ice Cream Pie

Your grandmother's classic gets an update with the addition of herbaceous Fernet Branca, a bittersweet cocoa nib fudge, and threads of crisp chocolate throughout.

Pecan Pie Ice Cream

Pie meets ice cream in this rich and creamy pecan-vanilla ice cream amped up with a salty molasses-twinged gooey swirl.

Wild Hickory Nut Shortbread Cookies

Crisp shortbread cookies made with wild foraged hickory nuts.