To delight your significant other, loving family, or invited friends, all you need to do is set aside a little free time and prepare a delicious sweet treat. An ice cream dessert can be a wonderful excuse to get together with your loved ones.

The wide selection of homemade sweet recipes offers a vast field of choice and imagination for home cooks. It could be the most simple ice cream with fruit or a luxurious, complex dessert made at home—it all depends on your preferences and available time. Below are several simple recipes for delicious sweet treats that you can always make at home.

Cherry Ice Cream Baba

Dessert with a scoop of ice cream

This delicious ice cream and fruit dessert recipe doesn't require much time or effort. To prepare this delicate dessert, you'll first need to stock up on the necessary ingredients.

Ingredients:

  • vanilla ice cream – 1.5 l;
  • candied cherries – 80 g;
  • cherry vodka – 6 tablespoons;
  • crushed pistachios – 50 g;
  • raisins – 60 g.

The recipe for making sauce at home involves using:

  • 125 grams of canned pitted cherries;
  • 1 tablespoon of starch;
  • 20 ml of cherry liqueur and the same amount of cherry vodka

Method of preparation

  1. The recipe begins with soaking raisins in cherry vodka and leaving them to swell in a lidded container.
  2. Grind the candied cherries with pistachios, mix with raisins and leave for some time in a closed container.
  3. Cut the vanilla ice cream into cubes and let it melt slightly until it becomes creamy.
  4. Place half the ice cream in a special baba mold and top with the berry mixture. Cover the cherry layer with ice cream, then place the dessert in the freezer.
  5. The sauce recipe begins with preparing a puree of canned cherries, which is then brought to a boil along with ½ of the juice.
  6. Mix the starch with the remaining juice, add to the boiling puree, then, without stirring, bring to a boil.
  7. Cool the finished sauce, mix with liqueur and vodka, and leave to cool further.
  8. Before serving the dessert, lower the pan with the baba into hot water, turn it over onto a flat plate and pour the sauce over it.

A delicious, original dessert prepared at home will leave a lasting impression on your guests.

Pancakes with ice cream

Pancakes with ice cream

This fruity treat, made with love at home and topped with ice cream, apples, and oranges, is sure to delight both children and adults.

The dough recipe requires the following products:

  • sifted wheat flour – 225 g;
  • milk – 125 ml;
  • eggs – 2 pieces;
  • powdered sugar – 85 g;
  • soda – 0.5 teaspoon.

The gravy recipe includes:

  • 4 tablespoons raspberry jam;
  • a tablespoon of lemon juice;
  • 2 tablespoons of water.

Recipe for filling and layer:

  • fruit assortment;
  • ice cream.

Method of preparation:

  1. To prepare this fruit treat at home, first you need to thoroughly mix powdered sugar, flour, and baking soda.
  2. Add milk and eggs to the resulting mixture. Mix everything thoroughly.
  3. Using a tablespoon, pour the resulting dough onto a hot frying pan and bake on both sides over low heat until golden brown.
  4. Wrap the finished pancakes in a damp napkin.
  5. The gravy recipe starts with dissolving raspberry jam in water, which then needs to be boiled for two minutes.
  6. After the specified time, add lemon juice to the jam and strain the sauce thoroughly.
  7. Between two pancakes, spread a layer of ice cream mixed with assorted fruits.

An incredibly delicious and mouth-watering dessert is ready to serve.

Delicate ice cream cake

Ice cream cake

Sundae is too simple a dish for a sweet holiday table. Try making a cake – a delicious, impressive ice cream dessert that's sure to impress your guests.

To prepare the dessert you will need:

  • Ice cream – 1 l;
  • raspberry jam – 150 g;
  • egg whites – 3 pieces;
  • sugar – 2 cups;
  • juice of half a lemon;
  • fresh berries – 100 g;
  • powdered sugar;
  • fruit syrup.

For the biscuit:

  • eggs – 6 pieces;
  • sugar – 150 g;
  • flour – 100 g;
  • starch – 20 g;
  • cocoa – 2 tablespoons.

Method of preparation

  1. For the sponge cake, knead the dough from the ingredients listed, cool it, and cut it into three layers according to thickness.
  2. Line a baking dish with plastic wrap, place the first layer of sponge cake, moisten with syrup and grease with jam.
  3. In the second sponge cake, cut out a round center, place slightly melted ice cream in it and cover with a third layer soaked in syrup.
  4. Place the cake pan in the freezer, and meanwhile beat the egg whites with sugar and lemon juice until stiff peaks form.
  5. Brush the frozen dessert with egg white foam on all sides, sprinkle with powdered sugar, and place in a hot oven for a minute.

The original, elegant treat is ready.

Video recipe for making ice cream dessert