Homemade Ice Cream Cake! It’second layered with a super easy, made from scratch chocolate cake, rich fudge sauce, your choice of luscious ice cream, as well as it’sec finished amongst last layer of fluffy sweetened whipped cream.
The BEST Ice Cream Cake!
This is really i of the ultimate celebrations cakes! You become iv layers of distinctive decadence inward each slice of cake.
And alongside it’sec combination of homemade layers as well as shop-bought layers it’s simple plenty withal perfectly impressive enough. The cake together with whipped cream are made fresh patch the water ice cream together with fudge sauce are store-bought to save time.
I don’t actually care to acknowledge how many slices I was able to smooth off within a weeks time. Let’second but order this cake is dangerously delicious!
The chocolate cake is perfectly fudgy (something between brownie together with cake texture) too y'all wouldn’t believe how tardily the batter is to make. It was inspired past my Easy Chocolate Cake simply I adjusted it for a slightly smaller size together with swapped buttermilk for sour cream so it didn’t freeze icy.
I recommend making the cake a solar day in advance and then it has plenty of time to firm upward completely in the freezer earlier serving.
Spoil yourself this weekend alongside this chocolate ice cream cake, no call for to wait for a birthday to make something this tempting!
Ice Cream Cake Recipe Ingredients
- ane loving cup (129g) unbleached all-function flour (spoon and grade to measure out)
- seven/8 cup (175g) granulated carbohydrate, plus iii Tbsp
- one/three cup (30g) Dutch process cocoa pulverization
- i/two tsp baking soda
- one/two tsp table salt
- three/four loving cup (170g) sour cream
- one/three loving cup vegetable fossil oil or canola fossil oil
- ane large egg
- ii tsp vanilla extract, summation one tsp
- 1 (10 oz) jar thick fudge sauce
- 48 oz. strawberry water ice cream or cookies too cream ice cream
- 2 cups heavy cream
How to Make too Ice Cream Cake
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- Line a springform pan with foil in addition to grease, preheat oven. You tin can also twine a wet cake strip around the pan if you desire a perfectly level cake.
- Whisk dry ingredients for the cake. Add moisture ingredients and so mix.
- Pour into prepared pan together with bake until ready. Let cool completely.
- Spread fudge sauce over in addition to freeze.
- Spoon so spread press slightly softened water ice cream over acme together with freeze.
- Remove cake from pan.
- Make sweetened whipped cream too spread over cake.
- Garnish alongside sprinkles or chopped chocolate as well as freeze until firm.
- Cut into slices too serve quickly and then it doesn’t melt.
Types of Ice Cream to Use
My favorite flavors of water ice cream to role hither are cookies as well as cream or strawberry. But other smashing choices would live mint chocolate fleck, cookie dough, chocolate, caramel, peanut butter, ruby, coffee, cheesecake, pistachio or vanilla edible bean.
Then another variation here is to spread the whipped cream over the acme together with sides of the cake, or for a thicker layer (that’s more equal inward size to the other layers) entirely spread it over the peak.
Storage Tips
- Keep ice cream cake must live stored inward the freezer. It volition not final rattling long at room temperature the ice cream melts chop-chop!
- This water ice cream cake volition live best served within ii weeks of preparing.
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Ice Cream Cake
Ingredients
For the chocolate cake
- one loving cup (129g) unbleached all-use flour (spoon too grade to measure)
- seven/eight loving cup (175g) granulated saccharide
- i/three loving cup (30g) Dutch procedure cocoa pulverization
- one/ii tsp baking soda
- ane/2 tsp common salt
- iii/4 loving cup (170g) sour cream
- one/iii cup vegetable fossil oil or canola rock oil
- 1 large egg
- two tsp vanilla extract
Fudge too water ice cream
- one (10 oz) jolt thick fudge sauce* (i cup)
- 48 oz. strawberry ice cream or cookies too cream water ice cream
Whipped cream topping
- two cups heavy cream
- iii Tbsp granulated sugar
- i tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- For the cake: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a ix-inch springform pan (that'second at to the lowest degree 3-inches high) amongst heavy duty xviii-inch broad aluminum foil (be sure not to tear foil, or you lot'll involve to starting time over with a new canvas). Spray bottom of foil amongst non-stick cooking spray too lightly spray the sides.
- In a large mixing bowl whisk together flour, vii/8 loving cup sugar, the cocoa pulverization, baking soda together with table salt.
- Add sour cream, vegetable oil, egg, as well as ii tsp vanilla extract. Using a wooden spoon or a spatula stir until good combined.
- Pour mixture into prepared pan too spread even. For a perfectly grade cake y'all can wind a wet cake strip around the pan earlier baking. This is optional just helpful.
- Bake inwards preheated oven until toothpick inserted into center comes out clean, well-nigh 25 to thirty minutes.
- Cool completely on a wire rack, virtually two hours.
- For the fudge sauce: Spread the fudge sauce evenly over the cake layer. Freeze ane hr. During the final thirty minutes withdraw the ice cream from the freezer too prepare in the fridge to soften.
- For the ice cream: Scoop slightly softened water ice cream out as well as dollop across the cake over the fudge layer. Gently press downwardly to degree in addition to spread even, spell filling inwards any spaces. Freeze ii hours until business firm.
- Remove the cake from the freezer, piece tilting the pan speedily go warm H2O around the outside call up of the pan (don't get cake wet!), then loosen the springform pans ring. Transfer to a platter amongst water ice cream layer upright (patch removing the foil) together with render to freezer.
- For the whipped topping: In a big mixing bowl combine the heavy cream, iii Tbsp sugar too one tsp vanilla.
- Using an electric paw mixer assail medium-depression speed whip mixture until it starts to thicken slightly, and so increase to high speed in addition to whip until real potent peaks course.
- Spread mixture over cake. You tin spread over just the top, or the peak too the sides. You tin besides pipe swirls of whipped cream around the top edge of the cake if desired too add sprinkles or finely chopped chocolate for decoration.
- Freeze until it's starting to business firm upwards, well-nigh ane 60 minutes, and so wrap with foil to preclude freezer burn down together with freeze i hour longer, or until firm. Cake tin can live frozen for two weeks.
- Cut into slices too serve rapidly later slicing.
Notes
- *Be sure to use a thick fudge sauce otherwise a runny fudge sauce volition live a mess too will just soak into the cake and go far soggy.
- Other delicious flavors of water ice cream to purpose hither include mint chocolate bit, cookie dough, chocolate, caramel (non salted or it's besides soft), peanut butter, cherry, java, cheesecake, pistachio or vanilla bean.