Chocolate plays a starring role in these cool, creamy treats including ice cream sandwiches, milkshakes, ice cream cakes, semifreddo, ice pops, and lots more.

 

A classic dessert gets a modern makeover, with chocolate ice cream mounded between layers of rich chocolate cake. This recipe makes nine individual-size baked Alaskas.

Cocoa powder flavors this creamy, custard-based ice cream. This basic chocolate ice cream is a delicious foundation for mix-ins such as crushed cookies, candy bar chunks, or chopped berries.

Soft, cake-like chocolate cookies are baked in a single sheet and then cut to size for these sandwiches made with store-bought mint-chip ice cream. Drizzle each ice cream sandwich with easy homemade hot fudge sauce.

Cool off with hot chocolate! Freeze our three luxurious variations on hot chocolate for out-of-the-ordinary ice pops. Dark-Chocolate Hot Cocoa is made with chopped bittersweet chocolate and a whisper of nutmeg; White-Chocolate Hot Cocoa with Coconut and Rum is enriched with coconut milk and spiked with rum; and Milk Chocolate and Peanut Butter Hot Cocoa has creamy peanut butter blended in.

This light-textured frozen dessert has layers of whipped cream, peanut butter, and chocolate. If you prefer, you can substitute purchased caramel sauce or dulce de leche for the chocolate sauce.

Chocolate frozen yogurt joins vanilla for a two-tone twist on the root beer float. This is a quick and easy weeknight dessert that kids will love to make.

Use a cookie cutter to make perfect circles of frozen chocolate custard for these deluxe ice cream sandwiches. The lacy honey-sweetened tuiles add a delicate crunch.

Raspberry sorbet and vanilla ice cream swirled with blackberries top chocolate buttermilk cake in this tricolor creation. The assembled ice-cream cake can be stored in the freezer for up to a week, making it a perfect dinner-party dessert.

Form these irresistible sandwiches by spreading peanut-butter ice cream between layers of thin, chewy brownies. Freeze for up to one week and cut immediately before serving.

Store-bought chocolate angel-food cake is the secret shortcut to this easy, impressive dessert. Beaten egg whites and whipped cream give the chocolate mousse its airy texture.

Chocolate chips and frozen cherries are whirled into chocolate ice cream to make this milkshake inspired by the famous German cake. Top each shake with whipped cream and a cherry if you like.

A layer of shredded coconut and a scoop of coconut sorbet perches on top of a chocolate wafer cookie, and the whole creation is cloaked in melted chocolate. Serious chocolate lovers can replace the coconut sorbet with chocolate ice cream.

Simmer bittersweet chocolate and ground cinnamon with heavy cream to make the Mexican chocolate sauce for these sundaes. Drizzle over dulce de leche or vanilla ice cream, and top with peanuts and toasted coconut.

What a marvelous way to use up ripe bananas! To make this easy dessert, puree the fruit and combine with melted chocolate, peanut butter, and whipped cream, then freeze until firm.

Foamed milk and a dusting of cocoa powder disguise these desserts as cappuccinos. Push a spoon through the foam to reveal the light and airy ice cream-like semifreddo beneath.