Ice Cream Cake

For the period from October to December, there will be lots of Birthday celebration in my family.

Birthday cake will show up in the house almost every other week until we all are so "afraid" of eating another cake.  But of course, we enjoy singing the "Happy Birthday" songs , taking photos of the person boy/girl and blowing candlers.

Because of all these reason, I have decided to make a Ice cream birthday cake for my child and not an ordinary cake.  This is my second attempt of making Ice Cream Cake.  You will have to make this cake at least two days before you decorate it and serve it 



The Ice-Cream Birthday Cake!



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After 30mins in the freezer





Loosening the soften Ice-Cream



  

What you will need

Cookies* 150g

Unsalted butter 35g (room temperature)

A rolling Pin

A  big plastic bag

Detachable base cake tin**

Ice-cream 700g (Any flavour of your choice. I used strawberry cheesecake from walls)

Method

making the base

Put all the cookies in the big plastic bag

Hold on to the opening of the plastic bag and smash the cookies with the rolling pin until the cookies become fine crumbs

Pour the cookies crumbs out and mix well with the soften unsalted butter in a large mixing bowl

Pour the cookies mixture into the tin and press it down firmly and freeze it for 20-30 minutes

(If you immediately pour in the ice-cream, the cookies will absorb the ice-cream and become soft )

Ice cream

When you buy the ice-cream back from the supermarket, place it in the fridge where you usually put your food. We need the ice-cream to be soft

or if you have bought the ice-cream before hand, take it out from the freeze and place it in the fridge at least 1/2 hour before making the ice-cream cake.

Loosen the soften ice-cream with a pair of chopstick

Scoop the ice-cream into the cake tin and fill it up to the bream

Lift the cake tin up to about 10cm above the table, and  gently drop it onto the table

Repeat this step a few times. This is to allow the air bubbles to escape, so the ice-cream would be even

Cover the pan with aluminium foil and freeze the ice cream for at least 2days.

Decorating the cake

Remove the cake from the detachable pan and place it on a nice serving top,

Decorate it with treats you kids like such as candies, marshmallows, chocolate chips.

You can also wrap a nice ribbon around the side of your cake 

Note

*I used chocolate cookies. Use cookies without any cream.

** I used a heart shape tin.

You will need to work very fast when decoration the ice-cream cake if you are doing it in hot weather like Singapore

To cut the ice-cream cake, soak a pair of metal knife in a cup of hot water for about 10mins before you use it to cut the cake. The heat on the knife will do the work for you without having to use strength.