Ice Cream Sundae

by Sabrina Snyder

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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 0 minutes
Total Time 10 minutes
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Build the ultimate Ice Cream Sundaes with recipes for homemade toppings and lots of tasty fun ideas to customize them! These will be a hit!

This Frozen Treat is perfect for when you want something sweet and delicious but don’t want to have to turn on the oven. Check out my Chocolate Milkshake and my Banana Split for more tasty treats to enjoy!

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Why You’ll Love This Sundae?

  • Can be made using all homemade recipes or sub in store bought items if your short on time.
  • Lots of ideas included to help you customize them for your Summer party!

Sabrina’s Ice Cream Sundae Recipe

Ice Cream Sundaes are an iconic American dessert, but there is some debate over their origin. Many places lay claim to the sundae, including Illinois, Louisiana, Ohio, and New York. But no one really knows who made the first one. One origin story for the popular ice cream treat is that it got its name from Sunday, as in the day of the week. According to this version of events, ice cream sodas were considered too “frilly” to serve on Sundays. So, soda fountains created a new dessert variation, the sundae, to serve the town on weekends. No matter how it came about, I think we can all agree we’re happy to have it now! This is the perfect dessert recipe to enjoy during the Summer.

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Dinner, then Dessert

Ice Cream Sundae Recipe

Build the ultimate Ice Cream Sundaes with recipes for homemade toppings and lots of tasty fun ideas to customize them! These will be a hit!
Yield 2 Serving
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 0 minutes
Total Time 10 minutes
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Author Sabrina Snyder
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Instructions

  • Add ice cream to a bowl.
  • Add chocolate ganache drizzled over ice cream.
  • Add caramel sauce drizzled over ice cream.
  • Top with whipped cream.
  • Add cherry over whipped cream.
  • Sprinkle peanuts over entire dish.

Nutrition

Calories: 395kcal | Carbohydrates: 50g | Protein: 7g | Fat: 19g | Saturated Fat: 9g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 6g | Cholesterol: 49mg | Sodium: 216mg | Potassium: 350mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 41g | Vitamin A: 488IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 165mg | Iron: 1mg

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Note from Sabrina

Sometimes when I’m serving these I like to make some cookies so everyone has the option to turn them into an Ice Cream Sandwich Sundae too! First pick out what kind of cookie you want to use. Chocolate chip, sugar cookies, or peanut butter cookies would all taste great. Scoop the ice cream over one of the cookies, then add any of the toppings you want before adding the top of the cookie sandwich.

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About this Recipe

Rich, easy sundaes are the ultimate ice cream treat that are sure to be a hit with everyone and a great way to cool down when it’s hot out. You can make the recipe in just a few minutes with store-bought ingredients, or make it entirely from scratch with Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream, Caramel Sauce, Chocolate Ganache, Whipped Cream, crushed peanuts. Either way, the finished dish is sure to bring a smile to anyone’s face! Finishing it off with whipped cream and a cherry gives this dessert the perfect nostalgic look, like it came right out of an old fashioned soda shop.

Can this be made ahead of time?

This isn’t really a dessert that can be made ahead of time and is best eaten as soon as it is made. But the good news is, if you don’t finish your sundae, you can just pop it in the freezer and pull it back out when you want to finish enjoying it. If you want to be prepared, you could always prep all of the ingredients ahead of time as they will all store well and it will make assembly a breeze.

How to Store

  • Serve: It’s best to serve your Sundae within minutes of adding the toppings. That way the ice cream won’t have time to melt, and it will still have a beautiful presentation. Don’t leave the toppings out for more than 2 hours.
  • Store: Ice cream should be placed back in the freezer after the last sundae is made. Store your ganache, caramel, and whipped cream separately in airtight containers in the fridge.
  • Freeze: If you can’t finish, you can put the recipe in an airtight container to store in the freezer for up to 2 months. For the best results, take the cherries off before freezing and add new ones before you enjoy.

Ideas to Serve

For a fun dessert night with family and friends, you can make a DIY ice cream parlor at your own kitchen counter. First, set up some bowls and spoons for people to grab their own. Take out the vanilla ice cream or any other ice cream flavors you want to use as the base. Put out the caramel sauce, ganache, whipped cream, peanuts, and cherries for everyone to top off their own dish. It will only take a few minutes to arrange, and it doubles as a dessert plus an activity for everyone to enjoy their own delicious ice cream creations.

Variations

  • Flavors: You can use the same toppings and basic recipe with a variety of different ice cream flavors as the base. Try out these ice cream flavors: Strawberry, Chocolate, Chocolate Chip, Coffee, Mint Chip, or Cookie Dough to experiment with different sundae concoctions.
  • Sauces: There are plenty of other sauces and syrups you can pour over this recipe. Try out fruit syrups like blueberry, Raspberry, Strawberry, or Pineapple sauce. You could also use chocolate syrup, peanut butter syrup, marshmallow toppings, or magic shell. Or, you could use Hot Fudge for rich hot fudge sundaes.
  • Fruit Toppings: For some extra flavor try add-ons like sliced strawberries or bananas.
  • Candy Toppings: You could add candy toppings such as butterscotch chips, fudge pieces, gummy bears, M&Ms, or Reese’s pieces.
  • Crunchy Toppings: For crunchy toppings, try sprinkling broken waffle ice cream cones, cookie crumbs, or broken pretzel bits on top of the Sundae.

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About the Author: Sabrina Snyder

Sabrina is a professionally trained Private Chef of over 10 years with ServSafe Manager certification in food safety. She creates all the recipes here on Dinner, then Dessert, fueled in no small part by her love for bacon.

Sabrina Snyder is a professionally trained personal and private chef of over 10 years who is the creator and developer of all the recipes on Dinner, then Dessert.

She is also the author of the cookbook Dinner, then Dessert – Satisfying Meals Using Only 3, 5 or 7 Ingredients, published by Harper Collins.

She started Dinner, then Dessert as a business in her office as a lunch service for her coworkers who admired her lunches before going to culinary school and becoming a full time personal chef and private chef.

As a personal chef Sabrina would cook for families one day a week and cook their entire week of dinners. All grocery shopping, cooking and cleaning was done along with instructions on reheating. As a private chef she cooked for private parties and cooked in family homes in the evenings for families on a nightly basis after working as a personal chef during the day.

Sabrina has been certified as a ServSafe Manager since 2007 and was a longstanding member of the USPCA Personal Chef Association including being on the board of the Washington DC Chapter of Chefs in the US Personal Chef Association when they won Chapter of the year.

As a member of the community of food website creators Sabrina Snyder has spoken at many conferences regarding her experiences as a food writer including the Indulge Food Conference, Everything Food Conference, Haven Food Conference and IACP Annual Food Professionals Conference.

Sabrina lives with her family in sunny California.

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  1. That gravy is to die for! The potatoes are so smooth and the flavor is exactly like what you get at the restaurant. 5 stars!

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  2. Just wanted to say, when you click on the “About” button, it asks for a login, instead of showing your “About” page.

    Good recipe too 🙂

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