Frozen Dessert

GELATO DI PESCA This recipe was sensational when we made it with ripe, flavorful peaches. If your peaches aren't great, try something similar, like nectarines.

In this recipe we call for creamed honey, another name for the crystallized, or non-liquid, form of this sweetener.

What could be more basic than an ice cream sundae? Our version has a luscious chocolate-caramel sauce spiked with bourbon and studded with macadamia nuts.

The filling is wonderfully creamy, like ice cream, but is made without using an ice cream machine. Be sure to have plenty of extra fruit to go along with the torte.

A luscious caramel-lime sauce makes this dessert a real star.

Cardamom and nutmeg are lovely notes of spice in these super sundaes. Caramel ice cream would be good here, too.

Use a Microplane grater or the smallest holes on a box grater to remove the lemon peel in thin, fine pieces. Any delicate buttery cookies — such as pirouettes, small shortbreads, or tender madeleines — would be delicious with the granita.

This recipe is an accompaniment for Flourless Chocolate-Orange Almond Cake .

Active time: 45 min Start to finish: 2 3/4 hr

"My husband and I recently went to Chez Mimi in nearby Santa Monica," writes Randi Fine of Sherman Oaks, California. "We shared a luscious dessert called caramel chomeur, a cake baked atop caramel sauce and served with vanilla ice cream. I've searched my cookbooks, but I can't find a recipe close to it." Chef Mimi Hebert tells us that this dessert from the Great Depression era was called chomeur (from the French word for "unemployed") because it was inexpensive to make.

A favorite test-kitchen Muscat wine is Bonny Doon's Muscat Vin de Glacière from California.

You'll need a candy thermometer to monitor the fudge sauce and the marshmallows.

Begin making these frozen treats at least one day before serving.