cold and yummy!

Yep, you guessed it, I made an Ice Cream Cake and made it for under $10.00 PLUS it tastes just as good as ice cream shop bought!

What you will need to make this is
1. Spring form pan
2. 2 flavors of ice cream - the small boxed cartons work the best
3. Fudge frosting (or filling of your choice)
4. Oreo cookies (or other cookie for crust)
5. Whip cream
Optional:  Cake plate, cake box

We opted to make a chocolate and strawberry cake with fudge filling, it took us most of the morning to make it BUT the majority of the time was the freezing of each layer before making the next.
Here's all you have to do.

Line the bottom of a spring form pan with a sheet of wax paper, this helps at the very end to keep the crust together.

After lining the paper, I opened up the chocolate ice cream and let it soften, once able I sliced it in thin layers and add them to a bowl to prepare it to be stirred until smooth.

We used Oreo cookies to make our crust, we separated the frosting from the cookies and then crushed them with a rolling pin.

To make the crust stick together, mix 2 cups with 4 tablespoons of butter (I know, sounds strange to add butter to an ice cream cake but trust me...you don't notice it)

Line the bottom of the cake pan with the cookie crumbles, making sure that it is as level as you can.

After you have stirred the first layer of ice cream until it is smooth and easier to spread, pour it on top of the cookie layer.

Smooth out as much as possible and put in the freezer, I froze mine for about an hour to make sure it was completely frozen.  After the hour I warmed up a tub of Fudge frosting and spread that on top of the re-frozen chocolate ice cream.

You guessed it...freeze again for about an hour.

About 15 minutes before this layer is to be done, I pulled out the strawberry ice cream and again let it sit until warm enough to stir until smooth.

Add the creamy ice cream on top of the frozen fudge layer and smooth out.

Freeze this layer too for about 30mn to an hour, this is only to add any decorations if wanted.  Since I was adding whip cream puffs to mine I wanted to make sure that they did not melt into the strawberry layer.  I also added a few remaining cookie crumbles to each puff for a little color.

I froze the entire cake again until it was soon to be served, then loosened the spring pan to allow to slowly pull the ice cream out of the pan and peel the wax paper from the bottom of the cookie crust.

I also found a cake box to put the remaining ice cream in for storage.

This was a big hit at my house and I am sure it will be a cake that will be requested for birthdays.  The best part, is that it really only cost me less than $10.00!

-  Ice cream $1.99 each
-  Cookies $2.50
-  Frosting $2.50
- Whip Cream $1.50

Let me know what creations you made and send pictures of how you chose to decorate yours!

Happy baking everyone!