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Neapolitan ice-cream cake with berry sorbet, chocolate cookie crumb and toasted marshmallows.

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Get-ahead Christmas cooking: 15+ festive ice-cream desserts to make now and savour later

Save yourself the stress of cooking on Christmas Day and make a start on a batch of chilled cheery goodness ahead of time.

16 recipes
Neapolitan ice-cream cake topped with cookie crumb and toasted marshmallows.

Neapolitan ice-cream cake with toasted marshmallow topping recipe

  • 2 hrs +
  • Katrina Meynink
Neapolitan ice-cream, but make it festive.

Neapolitan Christmas Bombe ice-cream cake

  • 2 hrs +
  • Katrina Meynink
Crumbled gingerbread is an easy way to add a sweet crunch.
EASY

Donna Hay's Christmas popsicles

  • 2 hrs +
  • Donna Hay
Waffles sandwiched with rum 'n' raisin 'n' rum ball ice-cream.

Rum 'n' raisin 'n' rum ball ice-cream sandwiches

  • 2 hrs +
  • Katrina Meynink
Chocolate and cherry semifreddo with pistachio praline.

Pistachio semifreddo with chocolate and cherries

  • 2 hrs +
  • Helen Goh
Cherry Ripe in frozen from.
EASY

Roasted-cherry ripe ice-cream cake recipe

  • 2 hrs +
  • Katrina Meynink
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Adam Liaw Christmas food.

Christmas pudding ice-cream with pavlova shards

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
Plum pudding ice-cream with caramel sauce and hazelnut praline.
EASY

Plum pudding ice-cream with caramel sauce and hazelnut praline

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
Razzle dazzle: Black Forest brownie and ice-cream layer cake.

Black Forest Christmas Dazzle brownie and ice-cream layer cake

  • 2 hrs +
  • Katrina Meynink
Mango and passionfruit Viennetta-inspired ice-cream cake.

Cheat's Christmas Viennetta

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
Luke Mangan's family ice-cream plum puddings.

Luke Mangan's family ice-cream puddings

  • < 30 mins
  • Luke Mangan
Adam Liaw's frozen fruit salad.
EASY

Frozen fruit salad recipe

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
Ice-cream-stuffed panettone.
EASY

Ice-cream-stuffed panettone

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
Rum and raisin cassata.
EASY

Rum and raisin cassata

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
Nutty semifreddo with a central layer of nougat shards.

Pistachio, cardamom and nougat semifreddo

  • 2 hrs +
  • Katrina Meynink
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White Xmas parfait

White Christmas parfait

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Dan Lepard

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