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Serves 6-8

Cassata Siciliana

Nothing could be easier than this wonderful Italian cassata - and it looks impressive too!

Serves 4-6 – makes 1½ pints (850 ml)

Coconut Ice Cream With Lime Syrup

Coconut milk powder is a brilliant ingredient when making coconut ice cream and, along with the lime syrup, gives this refreshing dessert more than a little Thai flavour.

Serves 6

Butterscotch and Banana Sundaes

I love Spanish turrón, the brittle, crisp almond confection, and it’s particularly good chopped and sprinkled over Hill Station vanilla ice cream and butterscotch sauce.

Serves 4-6 (makes about 1¼ pints/725 ml)

Ice cream is an emotive subject: people have very different ideas as to what is good ice cream, but home-made ice cream is still the best of all. This recipe is the best I know for a vanilla ice cream, but I have added some preserved stem ginger for

Makes 12

Frozen Chocolate Bananas

Sounds odd, doesn't it? But you'll believe it when you try it. These are truly sensational – better than ice cream or a sorbet. First you bite into crisp frozen chocolate and then meet the beautifully fragrant iced banana. Heaven.

Makes 1½ pints (900 ml)

Fig Ice Cream

Figs lend themselves particularly well to iced desserts - as Delia discovered on a visit to France.

Serves 4

Coffee Granita

Refreshing to eat and easy to make, all you need to serve this lovely dessert is some whipped cream.

Makes 2½ pints (1.5 litres)

Blueberry Crumble Fromage Frais Ice Cream

Summer fruits make wonderful ice creams, and one of my favourites is crumble ice cream. One of the best is made with blueberries – the colour looks very attractive, and the flavour of the blueberries and the added crunch of crumble make this a stunni

Serves 6-8

Blackcurrant Ice Cream

If you find blackcurrants a bit too strong, or can't track them down, use other fruit such as raspberries or loganberries. Either way, you'll need to eat this within three weeks of making it, but that's no hardship!