16 Brrrilliant Frozen Chocolate Dessert Recipes (2024)

Created by Bobby Flay, this milkshake is modeled after his favorite candy bar: Fran's Gold Coconut Bar from Fran's Chocolates in Seattle. Flay spoons layers of thick chocolate milkshake and mousse-like coconut whipped cream parfait-style.

Recipe: Dark Chocolate Milkshake with "Fluffy" Coconut Whipped Cream

Here's a simple recipe for low-fat chocolate ice cream. Our version has all the richness you'll need but about 90 fewer calories than store-bought premium ice cream and a whopping 15 grams less total fat and 10 grams less saturated fat per serving.

Recipe: Homemade Chocolate Ice Cream

While a campfire might be too hot for the summer months, all the familiar flavors of s'mores are captured in this no-fuss ice cream cake.

Recipe: S'mores Ice Cream Cake

This simple chocolate shell hardens on your ice cream as it dries.

Recipe: Chocolate Shell

The texture of semifreddo (Italian for "half-cold") lies somewhere between ice cream and mousse. Slice this freezer treat for a neat presentation, or serve it in scoops.

Recipe: Peanut Butter-Chocolate Semifreddo

At the Penny Ice Creamery in Santa Cruz, California, Kendra Baker uses caramel ice cream in her bonbons, which have a silky chocolate shell and flaky sea salt on top.

Recipe: Ice Cream Bonbons

Take your basic scoop to the next level by rolling frozen balls of chocolate ice cream in an irresistible mix of chopped chocolate candy bars, toasted walnuts and mini-marshmallows.

Recipe: Rocky Road Cones

Like many pastry chefs, Ghaya Oliveira loves taking classic desserts, breaking them down into their components, and reconfiguring them. This approach inspired Grace Parisi to transform a traditional recipe for German chocolate cake into an elegant and incredibly delicious ice cream sundae.

Recipe: German Chocolate Cake Sundae

These mini meringue-coated chocolate ice-cream-and-cake concoctions are stunning desserts for a crowd.

Recipe: Baked Alaska with Chocolate Cake and Chocolate Ice Cream

Malted-milk powder and powdered nonfat dry milk add most of the body to this unbelievably creamy but low-fat ice cream. Stir in 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips or crushed chocolate wafer cookies for a chocolate-lover's delight.

Recipe: Chocolate Malt Ice Cream

This chocolate cake may look fancy - but inside it's just a good old ice cream cake.

Recipe: Chocolate Peppermint Ice Cream Cake

Shaped in sandwich form, our classic dessert packs creamy, cold slabs of refreshing mint chocolate-chip ice cream between two deep-chocolate cookies. United, the complementary flavors of the two key components become one of summer's most memorable melt-in-your-mouth treats.

Recipe: Chocolate-Mint Ice Cream Sandwiches

This ooey-gooey treat is like a big sundae in a springform pan. It's made with chocolate ice cream, our secret homemade Fudge Sauce (also delicious served hot over a bowl of plain ice cream), cookies, peanuts, and baby marshmallows. If you don't have time to make the sauce, a jar from the store will do just fine.

Recipe: Rocky Road Ice Cream Cake

These pops are so much better than the plastic-wrapped kind you pull out of your grocery-store freezer. With insane amounts of chocolate; real, wholesome ingredients; and total satisfaction for about 125 calories a pop, what more could you want?

Recipe: Chocolate Fudge Pops

This chocolaty ice cream — with a punch of tropical flavor from coconut milk — is the perfect smooth, creamy frozen treat for vegans or others going dairy-free.

Recipe: Chocolate-Coconut Ice Cream

To serve, sandwich small scoops of ice cream (chocolate, of course!) in between halfs of these light-as-air puffs. Top with warm chocolate sauce.

Recipe: Chocolate Profiteroles

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