I shared HERE how I made my son an ice cream cake for his birthday. I was a little intimidated to do an ice cream cake, mostly because it's so humid here and I just knew the humidity would be an issue. It was actually pretty easy, once I figured it all out. Here are some pics with an explanation of how I did it.
First I just baked a cake (I used a store bought mix) in two 8 inch rounds. After they cooled, I removed them from the pans and wrapped them in wax paper and secured it with masking tape.
Then I used one of the cake pans and spread some (slightly melted) ice cream into it. I put waxed paper under and on top of the ice cream. After I put the wax paper on top of the ice cream, I gently pressed down with my hands to smooth it out. The heat from your hands will kind of melt and squish the ice cream so it's flat on top.
Here's a pic of the ice cream in the cake pan and one of the cake layers ready to go into the freezer. |
I froze the cake layers and the ice cream for several hours in the freezer.
Then I took the cake layers out and cut any high spots off the top so they would be flat and even.
I also took the ice cream out and cut about an inch away from the sides. You want the ice cream layer to be a little smaller than the cake layers, otherwise, the frosting won't stick to it very well. For some reason, if you kind of "indent" the ice cream a little, the frosting is able to "hold on" to the cake a little better. Does that make sense?
Then I just stacked them up with the ice cream in the middle and put the assembled cake back into the freezer for a couple of hours.
Here's what it looked like after it was assembled. You can see how the ice cream is "indented" a little. |
After a couple of hours, I took it back out of the freezer and frosted it. I could only frost about 1/3 of the cake at a time, then I had to put it back in the freezer so it wouldn't melt. It was a long process. :)
And here's the finished product! It was really good! |
Here it is after we cut into it. So yummy! |
Doesn't it make you want a slice? :) |
Well, hopefully you picked up a tip or two on how to make an ice cream cake. Let me know if any of you try it. It's such a perfect cake for a summer birthday.
~Lisa
Gosh, your cake looks great!!! I have never made an icecream cake before. I actually might try this some time. We love cake with icecream, so why not combine the two? I even have an extra freezer downstairs I could use. You decorated it so cute too.
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