Thursday, January 24, 2013

Cake Boss's Easy Ice Cream Cake

For Scout's birthday I made an ice cream cake. I saw how to make it on the Rachael Ray show.
What you'll need:
 2 tubs of ice cream, choose whichever kind of ice cream you want.
 1 box of cake mix, I did white but chocolate could work too
1 thing of whip cream.


Step 1: Let the ice cream thaw out a little bit then spread 1 tub of your ice cream in 9" cheesecake pan
Step 2: Add a middle, you could use crushed up Oreo or chocolate chip cookies.
Step 3: Add the second ice cream tub and put in freezer for about an hour
*Just a hint if the ice cream is too hard put in microwave for increments of 10-20 seconds.
Step 4: After ice cream is in the freezer cook cake as instructed on box.

This is what my ice cream looked like after I pulled it out of the freezer.


I used a knife to go around the edge to help I warmed it up with hot water.

Once the cake is done cut in half. Place one half on the bottom and then put the ice cream in the middle, basically like a sandwich.

For the frosting just put the whip cream all over and smooth. I obviously didn't do so well at that part...

Since I made the cake a day in advance I left it all in the freezer and decorated it about an hour before we ate it. 
Since my son is a huge train fan right now, we did a train theme. I used kit kats at the train tracks and just put recess peanut butter cups and peanut butter m&ms on the side.

This cake was so easy it definitely made a lot I better it could easily feed 10 adults. And the part that took the longest was baking the cake. If it weren't for that the cake would have been finished in less than 30 minutes.