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15 refreshing freezer desserts for when it’s too hot to cook
Elevate summer entertaining with these shimmering granita recipes. Icy, elegant, and effortlessly refined, these no-churn desserts are pure class.
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Shortcuts and showstoppers: Katrina Meynink’s 25 finest frozen desserts
Katrina Meynink keeps things nice and icy with these cool treats featuring pistachios, sea salt and miso caramel. Brain freeze never tasted so fancy.
From food fad to cafe fixture: Why acai bowls have outlasted the hype (and how to MYO)
Equal parts healthy breakfast bowl and vibrant dessert, the acai bowl can be customised to suit almost any palate.
- Jane de Graaff
Adam Liaw’s honey and walnut semifreddo
Semifreddo does the same job as ice-cream but not special equipment required.
- 2 hrs +
- Adam Liaw
Torrone semifreddo (Italian ice-cream cake with nougat)
Add in your favourite flavours to this creamy frozen dessert, no ice-cream maker required.
- 2 hrs +
- Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Neapolitan Christmas Bombe ice-cream cake
This is Neapolitan for adults with a touch of Christmas. It's make-ahead joy that requires very little effort beyond a collation of ingredients. Given you are trying to swirl the different flavours and colours, this is easiest to make in ½ litre batches of ice-cream flavours at a time. Otherwise the separate colours meld and you lose the effect. Pausing and letting it set before completing with the remaining ice-cream is the easiest way to create more definitive layers.
- 2 hrs +
- Katrina Meynink
Chocolate and cinnamon ice-cream sandwiches
These ice-cream sandwiches will keep, individually covered with plastic wrap and stored in an airtight container in the freezer, for up to one week.
- 30 mins - 1 hr
Rum 'n' raisin 'n' rum ball ice-cream sandwiches
Because it's important to have a double hit of rum-addled goodness this Christmas. Just don't eat and drive, the rum flavour is gloriously robust in these decadent ice-cream sandwiches. Rum and raisin ice-cream is pelted with errant rum ball mixture and dulce de leche, and is all the better for it.
- 2 hrs +
- Katrina Meynink
Salted caramel, ginger nut and spiced toffee ice-cream slab
Find the best quality gingernuts you can for this recipe. When paired with the caramel and creamy ice-cream, you need biscuits with a strong hit of ginger so the flavour still sings and shines despite all the competition. I went rogue from the supermarket frozen aisle to my local ice-cream shop and this cake was all the better for it – the caramel was brilliantly salty and while I have suggested white chocolate below, a condensed milk flavour is also particularly excellent.
- 2 hrs +
- Katrina Meynink
Frozen yoghurt and passionfruit curd cake
The curd is important here – the frozen yoghurt has an icier, blockier texture than regular ice-cream so the curd acts as a brilliant softener, making it easier for you to cut through when serving. Commonly yoghurt desserts are cut through with cream to create a creamier texture but I love the icy texture here – it is offset by the rich curd beautifully and feels like a lighter, fresher Christmas Day dessert.
- 2 hrs +
- Katrina Meynink