1. Make home made viennetta
Alida over at My Little Italian Kitchen wows with this home made viennetta – stunning!
2. Use white chocolate
White chocolate and lemon are combined here to make a zesty refreshing summer treat from the Law Student’s Cookbook.
3. Paint mint leaves with chocolate for decoration
Holly over at English Girl Canadian man paints her home grown mint leaves with chocolate for an ice cream decoration.
4. Make it with 3 ingredients
Banana + peanut butter + chocolate = ice cream awesomeness from Laura at I’d Much Rather Bake Than…
5. Make semifreddo
No ice cream machine? This no churn coffee and chocolate semifreddo by Mainly Baking will do!
6. Make it with cookies
Rebecca over at Bakenquilt blitzes up a packet of mint fudge cookies in this ingenious mint cookie frozen yogurt!
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7. Make Ice Cream Bars
Kate the Gluten Free Alchemist creates these gorgeous white chocolate raspberry ripple coconut milk ice cream bars and bites – beautiful (and vegan?).
8. Serve it with rum baked peaches
Anne’s Kitchen whips up these rum baked peaches and serves them with coconut milk chocolate ice cream.
9. Make a boozy ice cream float
Hannah over at the Corner Cottage Bakery has her chocolate in a boozy ice cream float; for grown-ups only!
10. Make it low fat
Caroline Makes her low fat ice cream with quark and chocolate syrup. She also has 10 topping ideas.
11. Make it from buffalo milk
Dom over at Belleau Kitchen visited Italy recently and discovered the wonderful world of buffalo milk ice cream.
12. Add blackcurrants
Blackcurrant White Chocolate Cheesecake Ice Cream by Lapin d’Or. Yum!
13. Add blackcurrants and hot caramel fudge sauce
Choclette over at Chocolate Log Blog smothers her white chocolate ice cream in hot caramel fudge and blackcurrant sauces. Oh… my… goodness….!
14. Serve with summer berries
Karen over at Lavender and Lovage serves her white chocolate sundaes up with a generous helping of summer berries and fudge sauce.
15. Serve with Hydrox cookies and raspberry espresso hot fudge sauce
Alexandra, The Lass in the Apron, makes her sundaes with home made hydrox cookies and raspberry espresso hot fudge sauce – oh yes please!
16. Make it with only four ingredients
Louisa at Eat Your Veg knows how to impress her children with this four ingredient chocolate banana ice cream.
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17. Use to sandwich together the layers of a chocolate cake
Pridhi over at Drizzling Delicacies sandwiches her eggless chocolate cake together with chocolate ice cream before scoffing with a great big spoon- clever!
There you have the round up of the We Should Cocoa challenge for July 2014 which was all about chocolate ice cream and ice cream toppings. I hope you enjoyed it – I know I am craving chocolate ice cream now!
We Should Cocoa is a chocolate-based food blogging challenge hosted by the lovely Choclette over at Chocolate Log Blog. I had the pleasure of guest hosting it over this month and drooling over each and every mouth watering photograph and recipe. A great big thank you to everyone who linked up.
Visit the We Should Cocoa Pinterest board for previous We Should Cocoa entries and if you fancy a go at entering a recipe yourself August’s challenge is being hosted by Rebecca over at BakeNQuilt.
Mum of three, daydream adventurer, OU Life Sciences graduate, occasional crafter, ex-pat Canadian & quite possibly Britain's most northerly food blogger.
yvonne clark says
Some fab ideas there especially the white chocolate one
Felicity Kelly says
Some amazing and inspiring ideas here, yummy
Heather Haigh says
Ooh, some lovely ideas. I adore ice-cream with a hot sauce, especially chocolate fudge. And I love buying ripe bananas at a knock down price at our local shop (15p a bunch last shop) and freezing the lot for instant ice-creams.
Kate @ Veggie Desserts says
What an amazing drool-enhancing roundup. So many amazing chocolate treats!
Elizabeth says
Everyone did such a fantastic job this month with the challenge, I was well impressed!
Camilla @FabFood4All says
I may just be drooling now – a fabulous round-up of ice-creams:-)
Elizabeth says
Heehee, thanks Camilla 🙂
Jacqueline Meldrum says
What a naughty looking roundup. My stomach is growling. Nice style write up too!
Elizabeth says
Thanks Jacqueline 🙂
Stuart Vettese says
Fab round up – off to get some cool treats now!
Elizabeth says
Thanks Stuart, plenty of inspiration for cool treats here! 😀
Emma | Fork and Good says
I love those chocolate mint leaves! Such a great round up 🙂
Elizabeth says
Me too! Such a clever idea 🙂 Glad you like the round up!
Johanna GGG says
great round up elizabeth – makes me want some ice cream – I confess I haven’t been in ice cream mode because we haven’t had great ice cream weather – despite having a child who could eat ice cream for three meals every day!
BTW watched an Australia show about Scottish independence referendum tonight and they spent a bit of time in Shetland so I was thinking of you – such beautiful scenery!
Elizabeth says
I can’t imagine this time of year would be ideal for ice cream for you – does it get very cold? Do you have snow? The Scottish Referendum is quite a hot topic here in Shetland, but I’m undecided of yet if I am going to vote or not. I have no idea if I will spend the rest of my life here in Scotland or some day move back to Canada.
Johanna GGG says
E would like to vote but can’t because he no longer lives in Scotland. So I guess it is up to those who live in Scotland now to vote in the referendum. In Australia voting is compulsory so I always get surprised at the low turnout in voting in countries where it is not.
We joke that our cold days are a balmy day in Scotland – the weather is a high of 17 C today which is fairly normal and will drop to a cold 13 C tomorrow. However though it probably seems warm to you – it is cold here but I am sure it will amuse you just like Aussies laugh at the ‘warm’ weather in scotland (22 C is a really lovely mild day in Melbourne). When I was first told that 25 C was a heatwave in Edinburgh I thought my friend was joking but then I found that it really was horribly hot there because the buildings aren’t made for heat. Likewise our buildings aren’t really made for really cold weather so we feel it more. There is snow in the hills outside melbourne but rarely in melbourne.
Nazima says
lovely ideas here – I must enter Choclette’s challenge again soon. I have not cooked much with it recently but will look out for the next month’s challenge. Love the collage
Elizabeth says
It’s a fab challenge – BakeNQuilt is hosting for August. I’m looking forward to seeing the challenge theme! Glad you like the collage 🙂
Fuss Free Helen says
Lovely round up, and some really good ideas in there too.
Elizabeth says
Thanks Helen 🙂
Lou, Eat Your Veg says
So many fabulously tempting ice cream recipes here! Thanks so much for my mention!
Elizabeth says
Thank you for sharing! I love a quick banana ice cream, me and to add chocolate to it…. yum!
Kate - gluten free alchemist says
Fantastic round up Elizabeth. I love the way you have presented everyone’s entries….. really refreshing and eye-catching! And what a mouth-watering, tempting, summery bunch of recipes. I want to eat each and every one!
Elizabeth says
Thanks Kate, I wanted to try something a little different with this round up. Thanks for sharing your own beautiful recipe – those bars are AMAZING!
Rebecca says
Fun challenge, thanks for hosting!
Elizabeth says
It is a fun challenge – I look forward to seeing what the challenge theme is for next month! Have fun hosting! 🙂
Alexandra McDermott says
Oh, what a gorgeous round-up, Elizabeth! I love the way you wrote it up, and everyone created such delicious–and cool–desserts. I hear spoons clinking in frosted glasses . . .
Elizabeth says
Thanks Alexandra, and thanks for linking up your own gorgeous recipe! I wanted to try something a little different for the round up and I think it worked well. 🙂
Alida says
Love this round up!! So many yummy recipes Elizabeth. I love them all and that coffee semifreddo looks delicious.
Thank you again for hosting x
Elizabeth says
Thanks Alida, and thank you for sharing your own beautiful creation!
Dom says
Such a fab round-up love the montage at the start. Nice to see a refreshing idea and of course all those gorgeous chocolate ice creams!
Elizabeth says
Thanks Dom – there were so many beautiful photographs to work with that I wanted to show them off in one image 🙂
Holly Nelson says
Amazing – some delicious ideas there! The rum baked peaches sound super yum!
Elizabeth says
Don’t they!
Laura says
After seeing this lot I definitely need to eat more ice cream!
Elizabeth says
I know what you mean! I am seriously craving ice cream just now 🙂
Choclette says
Fabulous, thank you Elizabeth. Love the way you’ve done the round-up with big photographs and a magnificent collage – think I need lessons! Interesting how popular white chocolate proved to be.
Elizabeth says
Thanks Choclette, so glad you like it – I wanted to try something a little different with this round up. I too was surprised how many white chocolate entries there were this month – and they all look so gorgeous!
Alexandra McDermott says
Mmm, white chocolate ice cream. I had a cup of white chocolate-raspberry gelato while I was visiting friends in Burlington, Ontario, last week, and it was just divine.
Elizabeth says
You know, I don’t believe I’ve ever tried white chocolate ice cream! I need to remedy this 🙂
Karen says
A LOVELY round up Elizabeth and such tasty treats to tempt me too! Karen
Elizabeth says
Thanks Karen – there were so many mouth watering entries this month! Love all the sundaes too – so many variations. Thanks for sharing yours!