From Midwest Living

Top this favorite frozen dessert with hot fudge sauce, strawberry sauce, or your favorite ice cream topping.

Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream

From Better Homes and Gardens

Name your pleasure! This six-in-one recipe for Italian ice cream gives you all kinds of flavoring options. One flavor will do--but serving a combo will really wow guests.

So-Good Gelato

From Fine Cooking Magazine

If you don't have an espresso machine, just pick up a cup at the local cafe.

Vanilla Ice Cream with Espresso-Caramel Sauce

From Better Homes and Gardens

Purists will insist on using a vanilla bean and making this recipe just like Grandma did. But the results are pretty darn good with vanilla extract and an electric ice-cream freezer

Old-Fashioned Vanilla Bean Ice Cream

From Better Homes and Gardens

Homemade brownies, topped with caramel sauce and vanilla ice cream, make this fudgy dessert recipe worth every calorie.

Fudge Brownies and Caramel a la Mode

From Better Homes and Gardens

This recipe uses summer's favorite fresh peaches, blueberries, and raspberries topped with a sugared pastry. Your kids will enjoy helping you cut a variety of fun shapes from the rolled pie dough.

Skillet Peaches a la Mode

From Food & Wine

This exceptionally creamy ice cream relies on two unexpected ingredients: corn starch (to help thicken it) and cream cheese (to make it scoopable).

Vanilla Bean Ice Cream

From Food & Wine

This is an excellent grown-up version of an ice cream sundae, made with lush nectarines cooked in bourbon. The best part: the crisp, buttery pound-cake croutons.

Bourbon-Nectarine Ice Cream Sundaes with Pound-Cake Croutons

From Better Homes and Gardens

Plantains, which look similar to a typical banana, need to be cooked before eating. In this dessert recipe, they're sweetened.

Caramelized Plantains with Rum-Raisin Sauce

From Fitness

Serve these warm sliced apples coated with creamy caramel and peanut butter sauce to a very happy crowd.

Peanut Butter-Caramel Apples

From Midwest Living

Spiral-shaped dough tops the fruit mixture to make a pretty topper for this summer dessert.

Granny Rendleman's Peach Pinwheel Dumplings

From Midwest Living

Puff pastry creates a flaky, buttery crust for the apples and cinnamon in this dessert. Serve it warm with vanilla ice cream and caramel sauce.

Caramel Apple-Pie Grilled Pizza

From Midwest Living

A pina-colada-flavored wine cooler is blended with ice cream to make this easy frozen drink.

Caribbean Milk Shake

From Better Homes and Gardens

Whirl together vanilla ice cream and lemonade in a blender for a tart sweet sensation. It takes seconds to make and disappears almost as quickly.

Lemon Drop Shakes

From Midwest Living

This light and airy dessert is topped with a sauce that's made from melted ice cream.

Vanilla Bean Souffle with Quick Vanilla Custard Sauce

From Midwest Living

Toss the fruit with cinnamon and sugar, then place in a pastry-lined baking dish. Add the top pastry for a double-crust fruit dessert.

Flamm's Peach Cobbler

From Better Homes and Gardens

Wholesome, rich, and delightfully creamy, this homemade ice cream is sure to be a family favorite dessert.

Classic Vanilla Ice Cream

From Midwest Living

Frozen peaches, almond extract, and dark rum make up this decadent ice cream topper.

Peanut Brittle and Holiday Peach Sauce over Ice Cream

From Taste of the South

Old-Fashioned Vanilla Ice Cream

From Better Homes and Gardens

Even if you can't vacation in the Caribbean, enjoy the taste of the tropics. Cook bananas and a quick caramel sauce on the grill, then spoon over ice cream.

Grilled Banana Sundaes

From Fitness

Fresh berries are sauteed in balsamic vinegar and honey to make a topper for light ice cream in this healthy dessert recipe.

Sauteed Strawberry Sundae

From Better Homes and Gardens

Want to try something new? This maple-nut pie recipe offers a creamy middle with a beautiful nut topping.

Maple-Nut Pie

From Better Homes and Gardens

You just can't buy the delicious homemade taste of this ice cream topper.

Caramel Crunch Ice-Cream Sauce

From Midwest Living

This classic dessert goes together easily, but looks impressive. Sponge cake is topped with Grand Marnier, ice cream, and meringue, then served with fresh berries.

To Each His Own Baked Alaska

From Family Circle

Few autumn desserts compare to baked spiced apples topped with scoops of vanilla ice cream. The cooking liquid becomes a warm sauce and melts the ice cream to the perfect consistency.

Baked Apples a la Mode