Saturday, August 1, 2009

Birthday Cake, the Ice Cream lover's way

This is how Tom prefers his birthday cake, and I suspect it is how Aaron would like one, too.

Springform pan
Two kinds of ice cream that work together
Cookies
chocolate sauce (or, another kind if chocolate doesn't work with the ice cream)
Cool-whip

Soften one kind of ice cream. Line the springform pan with plastic wrap. Fill the bottom of the pan with ice cream. Be sure you push it into the edges. Freeze again.

Crush the cookies. Soften the next thing of ice cream. Take the cake out and put a layer of crushed cookies in. Drizzle with chocolate sauce. Put the next kind of ice cream in.

Freeze solid.

Take it out, pop the edge off, and put it on a plate. "Frost" it with the cool-whip. You can color the cool-whip with food coloring, and use a plastic bag with the corner snipped to decorate the cake. It looks like a real birthday cake, but it is just ice cream.

1 comment:

Aaron said...

Who says you can't buy happiness? Happiness comes in a plastic bucket at $6.99 per gallon, a bit pricey right now, but you can buy it.

Best combo ever: Edy's (use a good brand!) Fudge Brownie, Cookie Dough, and GirlScout Thin Mint Ice creams for the three layers, and crushed caramel Twix bars and Oreos for the inner layers. A home run...