Frozen confectionary

You'll get more howls of delight than of fear when you bring this spooky ice-cream cake out! A firm favourite from The Australian Women's Weekly Kids' Perfect Party Book.

Sandwiched with strawberries and cream ice-cream and drizzled with icing, these light-as-air choux puffs are irresistible.

With a crunchy biscuit base, ice-cream filling with sliced banana, toffeed pecans and a drizzle of caramel sauce, this decadent tart will satisfy the sweetest tooth.

Also known as turón, these popular Filipino deep-fried bananas make an excellent dessert with refreshing coconut ice-cream.

Ice-cream bombe mixture needs to be prepared at least a day ahead, keep in the freezer until required. Cake base can also be prepared a day ahead, keep in an airtight container. Cover bombe with whipped cream just before serving. Note

This is best made a day in advance of serving. If you don’t want to use alcohol, replace the liqueur with fruit juice. Note

MAKES 6 Fizzy citrus spiders: Store syrup in a sealed bottle in the fridge. Fizzy citrus spiders: Freeze the combined syrup and soda water to make ice-blocks. Note

Experiment with different food colourings and wafers to create the perfect ice-cream castle by Woman's Day. If it begins to melt during decorating, pop it back in the freezer for a while.

Assuming you find yourself with left-over doughnuts to hand, a big assumption granted, there's no better way to eat them than grilled with maple syrup.

This beautiful ice-cream is packed full of sweet, juicy rhubarb and crushed ginger biscuits for ultimate flavour and texture.

Gelato flavours used for this recipe: lemon, green apple, strawberry and mango although any flavours can be used. A very firm ice-cream may be used in place of the gelato, scoop it directly onto the ice-cream cones just before serving. Make sure the oven trays and cake board fit in your freezer before starting. Note

Prosecco is Italian sparkling white wine. You can use any sparkling white wine of your choice. You can use raspberries and raspberry-flavoured liqueur (framboise), if you like. Note

Neopolitan ice-cream could be used by dividing the flavours into separate bowls to soften. Only one round sponge is needed for this recipe. Note

Edible glitter is available from specialist cake decorating shops Note

If you’re looking for a nostalgic drink to make, you can’t go past making creaming soda spiders! With only two ingredients you can’t mess this recipe up, and it makes for such a delicious treat! Looking for other drinks ideas? Try making these spider floats. We used creaming soda but you can use any fizzy […]