ice cream

Pop off the lid of a pint of Graeter's Summer Peach Ice Cream ($5 in stores), and you're greeted by a peachy-pink surface generously studded with chunks of the stone fruit. Dip your spoon in, and its true-to-life peaches and cream flavor washes over your mouth, urging you to take just one more bite. Refreshing, sweet (but not cloyingly so), and creamy, it's peach ice cream done right.

Can't make it into a Graeter's storefront? Don't worry about missing out: this Cincinnati family-owned favorite has expanded beyond its hometown, with pints available at select grocery stores countrywide, as well as online. We don't often find mail-order ice cream worth the expense of overnight shipping, but in this case, we wholeheartedly endorse the practice for this satisfying Summer treat — a six-pack of pints (the smallest shipping order available) makes for a great gift for Father's Day, birthdays, and more. Just make certain to try a scoop before the flavor's limited Summer run is over.

Cookies and ice cream may be righteous treats in their own rights, but sandwich them together and they become a supersweet indulgence far greater than the sum of their parts. Once you've mastered the basics of assembly, it's time to start thinking flavor combinations. It's hard to beat the classic chocolate cookie with vanilla ice cream, but if you're feeling more adventurous, then check out our suggestions. Just keep in mind that many of these flavors can be mixed and matched. As long as you stick to a relatively thin, soft, chewy cookie and use your best judgment, the results are bound to be delicious.

Ice cream is a hot topic around these parts, so it was with much excitement that we dug into the latest lineup of limited edition flavors from Dreyer's (known as Edy's east of the Rockies). We hoped these new additions to the supermarket ice cream section, which range from cake batter to salted caramel with pretzel, could live up their promise. Ice cream scoop at the ready, we dug in, and (spoiler alert!) may have found a new obsession along the way.

Dreyer's Slow Churned Sunny Salted Caramel Pretzel

Take vanilla ice cream and add a generous swirl of salted caramel and chunks of pretzels and it's bound to be a recipe for success, right? While promising in theory, this flavor fell short due to one crucial error: the pretzel chunks were unpalatably soggy rather than crisp and crunchy. And what a shame: the caramel has a strong salty punch, and the ice cream a just-right level of sweetness. This flavor would likely have earned full marks if the creamery had first enrobed the pretzel chunks in chocolate to provide a barrier from the ice cream's moisture and preserve their crunch.

Keep reading to see how the other flavors fared, and for our top pick.

Sweet and creamy ice cream pints fly off the shelves in the Summer months, and while Ben & Jerry's is a popular brand, you might like the more basic yet scrumptious Häagen-Dazs flavors. Below shows what 100 calories of raspberry sorbet looks like, but chances are one little scoop just won't be enough. Check out the chart below to see how many calories are in your favorite flavors of ice cream, gelato, sorbet, and frozen yogurt, so you can arm yourself before polishing off an entire pint.

Don't see your favorite flavor? Keep reading to find out the calorie amounts of other ice cream flavors as well as gelato, sorbet, and frozen yogurt.