Here are our 16 best ice cream recipes — from cakes to sandwiches

Yes, you can eat ice cream for breakfast when you make this healthy vegan version. Top it with your favorite fruit, nuts, seeds or granola. 

At the end of a good meal everyone will say they're stuffed — until they see this ice cream cake.

Siri Daly combined Carson's birthday and Father's Day celebrations by making this ice cream, chocolate and peanut butter combo. 

For TODAY's app-featured recipe, super star Martha Stewart shares her amazingly easy brownie sundae ice cream cake.

It's hard to believe that even with baking cake layers, this dessert really only has 5 ingredients (not counting pantry staples like oil and sugar). 

"Ice cream sandwiches are great, but when you dip them in chocolate and roll them through toppings, well, they make me so happy I could cry," says chef Chloe Coscarelli.

Brandi Milloy combines two crowd-pleasing treats to make one amazing funnel cake ice cream sandwich.

The ingenious thing about this recipe (beside it being a mash-up of two childhood favorites) is that the Rice Krispies treats mimic the texture of waffle cones.

Whip up a batch of these easy no-brainer ice cream sandwiches in only 5 minutes thanks to store-bought ice cream and chocolate chip cookies. 

Believe it or not, ice cream sandwiches are a typical breakfast food in Sicily. Instead of cookies, a brioche bun is the vehicle for creamy gelato in the flavor of your choice. Donatella Arpaia finishes these pistachio gelato sandwiches (called Brioche con Gelato in Italian) with a sprinkle of chopped nuts and a pinch of powdered sugar.

You don't need an ice cream machine to make this decadent blueberry cheesecake ice cream!

Break-and-bake cookies, which come packaged in eight-inch squares, are the secret to these incredible ice cream sandwich bars. 

This recipe is a unique twist on three summertime favorites: banana splits, cupcakes and ice cream.

The only thing better than a doughnut is one that's been warmed on the grill, topped with sweet rum-infused pineapple, ice cream and a boozy brown sugar sauce.

This soft-serve can be frozen for up to 3 days, and it only takes 4 ingredients to make! 

This recipe for DIY cookie butter core ice cream shows you exactly how to get the sensationally sweet taste of cookie butter at home.