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[1] Celebrate National Ice Cream Month with a cookie crumble sundae (photo ©James Beard Foundation).
[2] Praline is just one of the exceptional dessert sauces from Somebody’s Mother’s.
[3] Vanilla ice cream, brownie crumbs and Baileys Irish Cream (photo © Baileys | Pinterest).
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July is National Ice Cream Month, an enticement to explore new ways to enjoy ice cream sundaes.
There are ice cream sundaes with fudge or butterscotch sauce; sundaes atop brownies, blondies and pound cake; and the less common but fun fried ice cream sundaes.
And there’s the ice cream cookie crumble, which crumbles the cookies as a base.
It’s an opportunity to combine your favorite cookies and ice cream, with a drizzle of anything from dulce de leche to fruit coulis. We’ve put together a list of options below.
The recipe in the photo is from Chef Todd Shoberg of Molina in Mill Valley, California. It was created for a fall dinner at the James Beard Foundation dinner. Chef Todd made the ice cream with Fernet—a bitter Italian herbal liqueur that is drunk as an after-dinner digestif (and, according to Wikipedia, is popular in the San Francisco Bay Area where Molina is located).
His cookie crumble has a base of homemade gingerbread cookie crumbs topped and a syrup made by reducing Coca-Cola. The syrup and ice cream moisten the cookies in a most delightful way.
> The history of the ice cream sundae.
> The history of ice cream.
> The different types of frozen desserts: a photo glossary.
> A year of ice cream holidays.
> Check out 25 more ice cream sundae recipes below.
HOW WILL YOUR COOKIE CRUMBLE?
Think beyond the obvious (chocolate or vanilla ice cream with fudge sauce over crumbled Oreos), and consider that you can:
Go childhood: Our favorite sundae was pistachio ice cream with hot fudge and mini almond biscotti. What was yours?
Go nouvelle: Combine modern ice cream flavors, like blood orange sorbet and deep chocolate cookies with a blackberry coulis; green tea ice cream with Chinese almond cookies and fresh raspberry sauce; espresso gelato with crumbled orange zest shortbread and dulce de leche sauce.
Go old-fashioned: Our Nana served vanilla ice cream with molasses clove cookies and butterscotch sauce.
Go seasonal: Pick flavors that represent the season—summer stone fruits, fall spices, Christmas peppermint, winter citrus, spring berries and herbs.
Go tropical: How about mango or passionfruit sorbet with coconut macadamia cookies?
MIX & MATCH YOUR COOKIE CRUMBLE SUNDAE
Pick Your Frozen Dessert
Pick your flavor of:
Gelato
Frozen Yogurt
Ice Cream
Sorbet
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Pick A Complementary Cookie
Some options:
Butter cookies/shortbread
Chocolate cookies, chocolate chip cookies, brownies
Fruit cookies: Fig Newtons, linzer, oatmeal raisin, thumbprints
Nut cookies: almond, amaretti, macadamia, pecan, pistachio, walnut, etc.
Spice cookies: clove, gingerbread/gingersnaps, molasses
More: anything from biscotti to meringues
Pick A Sauce
For complexity, you can add a tablespoon of alcohol to any topping. Here are the different types of dessert sauces.
Buttery: butterscotch, caramel, dulce de leche, hard sauce, rum sauce/rum raisin sauce
Chocolate: fudge sauce or syrup
Cream: hand-whipped to flowing (not stiff peaks), flavored as you wish
Custard: crème anglaise, custard sauce, zabaglione
Fruit Coulis or Purée: coulis is an extra step to strain a fruit puree and remove the seeds
Liqueur: coffee, chocolate (like Godiva), cream (like Baileys), fruit liqueur.
Syrup: flavored syrups for coffee can be used here
You can also let guests make their own sundaes, by setting up an ice cream buffet with cookies and toppings. Either way, a good time will be had by all.
MORE ICE CREAM SUNDAE RECIPES
Affogato
Bananas Foster Ice Cream Sundae
Banana Split Party Bar
Brownie Ice Cream Sundae With Scotch Whisky
Café Liégois Parfait
Cookie Crumble Sundae
Corn Flakes Pancake Sundae
Deconstructed S’mores Sundae
Elvis Presley Birthday Sundae
Frosé Sundae
Fruitcake Ice Cream Sundae
Gummi Worm Sundae
Hot Fudge Croissant Sundae
Hot Fudge Sundae Bar
Ice Cream Cake Sundae
Lemon Ice Cream Sundae With Homemade Ice Cream
Margarita Ice Cream Sundae
Olive Oil & Whiskey Sundae
Peach Melba Sundae
Pie Dough Crumbles Sundae Recipes
Strawberry Ice Cream Sundae Recipes
Tiramisu Sundae
Plus
Ice Cream Wreath (for a group)
Savory “Sundaes”
Beef Sundae
Taco Sundae
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