Ice cream cone toppings. Who thought it would be a good idea to add weight to an already architecturally flawed design? With these add-ons supported only by a melty, soon-to-be liquid, you’re destined for a mess.

The only kitchen appliance I’ve ever regretted buying is an ice cream maker. It was the kind with a freezable vessel that spins, allegedly churning your creations to perfection, and I spent $50 on it. Sure, technically it “worked”, but at one point I left the bowl in my freezer for an entire week and could still hear fluid sloshing around when I shook it.

In the hierarchy of frozen desserts, frozen yogurt "popsicles" rarely make it into my top 10. Invented as a way to trick children into thinking they are eating "dessert," these icy sticks of fruit and yogurt rarely achieve the texture and flavour required to be considered "indulgent." This is all fixed, however, by swapping "regular" yogurt for the thicker, much more satisfying yogurt cheese.

I grew up in a family of ice cream enthusiasts. My dad has always been a staunch supporter of Ben & Jerry’s, and a veritable super fan of Chubby Hubby — you know, the one with peanut butter and, more importantly, salty pretzels.

If there is one thing I miss about living back home, it's being able to waltz into the supermarket and pick up a decent banana pudding. Now, if I want a good one, I have to make it myself and that requires more waiting than I can tolerate.

This is a story about getting ice cream for free. This story will detail how you can acquire said ice cream, from Ben & Jerry's, on the annual Free Cone Day, which takes TODAY. If you like ice cream and want to pay nothing for it, this is definitely the type of article that will help you to do that.

Besides eating it as quickly as possible, I have yet to find a truly elegant way for keeping ice cream from melting while I enjoy it. Luckily, cup genius and real American hero Donald Li has discovered that a bowl of a delicious frozen dairy fits perfectly in a Yeti Rambler.

Making a milkshake seems to have become an extreme sport. There are boozy shakes, lolly-encrusted shakes, and shakes that come with entire slices of cake. There is, however, one classic, iconic shake missing from this dairy-soaked fever dream: The chocolate malt.

There are two kinds of black foods: Those that admit they are full of charcoal, as if that's a thing you are supposed to want, and those that don't. (There is a third category, foods made with other ingredients such as black sesame, but this is rarer.)

It seems that ice cream has become increasingly about the optics. It's not enough to have a simple scoop in a cone; it has to be in the mouth of a fish, or come with a whole slice of pie. Ice cream rolls fit in with the visually arresting crowd, but there's an elegant simplicity to them that these other Instagram-able dairy desserts lack. If you've never seen a video of them being made, it's quite mesmerising.

Have you ever been tucking into an Ice Vovo, Wagon Wheel, Caramel Crowns or Mint Slice and thought to yourself: "this is delish, but it needs to be cold as buggery"? Well, it appears the biscuit gods have heard you. Arnott's is teaming up with Peters Ice Cream to turn four of its favourite products into frozen desserts. Here are the details!

Welcome to this week's edition of Will It Sous Vide?, the column where I make things with my immersion circulator.

Today (April 4) between noon and 8pm, Ben & Jerry's is giving away free ice cream in most Australian states and territories. There's no catch - just show up at a participating store and order your free scoop of delectable ice cream! Here are the details.

Easter is still a fair way off, but McDonald's is getting into the festive spirit early by resurrecting the Cadbury Creme Eggs McFlurry. As the name implies, it comprises of Cadbury Creme Eggs mixed with McFlurry ice cream. The result is sinfully delicious.

The Crumb Shed Sydney is a pop-up ice creamery that specialises in bespoke Golden Gaytimes ranging from Unicorn Breath (vanilla crumb, musk sticks, strawberry hard candy, popping candy, edible glitter) to Crumb Choc Millionaire (chocolate crumb, smashed potato crisps, desiccated coconut, 100s & 1000s). For today only, it's giving away free Gaytimes between 4pm to 6pm while stocks last. Here are the details!

Tahini is a sesame paste most commonly used in hummus, baba ghanoush, and salad dressings, but it can add moisture and nutty goodness to a whole variety of sweets.

To celebrate the launch of its new “Voicemail” ice cream, Messina is teaming up with Deliveroo to offer Melbourne- and Sydney-based customers a 500ml tub of the stuff for just $1. The oddly-named dessert comprises salted caramel gelato with baked cheesecake, candied macadamia nuts and hazelnut fudge - and it's every bit as decedent as it sounds. Here's how to snag a tub for $1.

We previously discovered the wonder of making popsicles with just two ingredients, but if you're more of an ice cream person, here's a scoopable frozen dessert alternative that's nearly as easy.

Dessert should be sweet, but adding a bit of savoury in there can keep you from experiencing sugar burnout. Swapping out the cookies in an ice cream sandwich for a good, chewy piece of bread makes it less one note, while still being firmly dessert.