The most common childhood dessert in my memories are my moms homemade icecream cakes. Often requested by others, this sweet treat is oh so decadent and beats DQ everytime. Requiring more to be assembled than baked at basically a third of the retail cost this is a recipe to keep.
One large cake:
10 cookies
2 tbsp melted butter
1.9L carton of icecream
1 jar of fudge topping
1 cool whip
Decorations
After making a few cakes myself, I have gotten to know what size of icecream container perfectly fits my spring form pans.
I had been appointed to make my nephew Hurleys birthday cake since our mom is away. I pretty much appointed myself since I've watch my mom whip this up before and had taken notes. She definitly has it down to a science.
My mom uses Oreo crumbs but I say when you have fresh delicious cookies on hand why not??
A little melted butter to bind
Blitz in the food processor
Pat down into a spring form pan
Wrap bottom in foil just to be sure and put crust in the freezer for about 5 minutes.
Meanwhile depending on the weather once you bring the icecream home from the store and put the rest of the groceries away it should be time. Unmold the icecream.
My mom usually buys the cheapest tub of icecream. The plastic tub makes one large cake and one small cake.
Using about inch thick slices, place them on the crust layer using an offset spatula fill in the spaces and smooth the top.
Now for the filling! We use fudge and are very passionate about this. FUDGE; not be misguided by chocolate sauce however you can use whatever flavour at this point.
Another layer of icecream
At this point my mom freezes it until firm before adding the cool whip layer and whatever decorations you prefer. We use light cool whip but in thinking more about it; it's kind of like ordering a diet coke with a Big Mac meal!
The decorations on top usually reflect the filling on the inside. At hurleys request my sister bought smartie icecream and smarties.
Happy 3rd Birthday Hurley!
I think uncle Jim was just as excited about the cake as the kids! And truth be told; I was too!
The other day I made my moms classic peanut buster parfait icecream cake; this one is my favourite!
I used GF homemade cookies for the crust.
The generous layer of Spanish salted peanuts on top of the fudge layer really makes this one something special!
With atleast a $20 savings to make this cake over buying it from DQ, as well as being able to completely customize the flavours; this is my go-to birthday cake!
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