No matter what age, when the heat goes up, we all scream for ice cream. The real treat is making your own ice cream at home. If you choose the old-fashioned ice cream churn or some new methods, homemade ice cream tastes like summer from days gone by.

No Churn Strawberry Cream Cheese Ice Cream
Photo credit: Rebecca Denton

Treat yourself to some of these unique ice cream recipes we curated to cool you and your family this summer. Enjoy!

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Peach Melba Ice Cream With Raspberry Sauce
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Peach Melba Ice Cream With Raspberry Sauce

A French chef created this dessert with sugared peaches, raspberry sauce and ice cream at a London hotel during the late 19th century in honor of the Australian opera singer Nellie Melba.

See more: Fresh Peach Ice Cream Recipe

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North Carolina Field & Family Spring 2026
Flip through the pages of the Spring 2026 edition of North Carolina Field and Family magazine. In this issue, impress your guests with creative yet easy spring holiday recipes, learn how farmers face challenges planning the future of their farmland, meet some North Carolina beef producers raising the steaks, start your engines with eight reasons to visit Richmond County, get crabby with Sheri Castle’s Deviled Crab recipe and much more.

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