How to Make Ice Cream

In every joyous celebration, ice cream and cake are always present. These two wonderfully tasteful desserts give tremendous happiness and satisfaction with just one bite – the ice cream melts together beautifully with the cake. It’s no wonder that some genius had thought about combining the two ingredients to create a truly decadent and sinful dessert.

The ice cream cake is composed of regular cake and hard or soft serve ice cream. Its overall appearance is just like that of a layer or sheet cake. Numerous stores and ice cream parlors offer their own versions of the wonderful ice cream cake. Dairy Queen, for example, has their own ice cream cake called Blizzard Cakes. The Blizzard cake is a combination of the Blizzard ice cream with layers of chocolate and fudge crunch. A typical Blizzard Cake serves up to ten people and can be customized for any type of occasion or non-occasion for that matter. The famous ice cream company, Baskin and Robbins also offers ice cream cakes consisting of the delicious combinations of their ice cream flavors.

While store bought ice cream cakes are mouth watering, they can be quite expensive as well. If you want to save money and learn how to make an ice cream cake, try doing it at home. It will be so much fun.

To make your own version of an ice cream cake, you will need cake and ice cream. Whether homemade or store bought, it could be any flavour of cake and ice cream. First, you will need to cut the cake in inch thick slabs. For a first timer, it is best to make a circular ice cream cake. Once you get the hang of it, you can experiment using a rectangular or other shaped pan to create your ice cream cake.

On the bottom of your circular cake pan, assemble a bottom layer of cake then make a layer of ice cream with the same thickness. Continue adding layers of cake and ice cream until your cake pan is full. Make sure that the topmost layer is cake so that you can add frosting and other toppings later on. In the meantime, cover the ice cream cake with plastic wrap and place in the freezer for a couple of hours. The key to a perfectly made ice cream cake is the right softness of cake. It should not be too runny or too hard. It doesn’t hurt to work swiftly when making the cake too.

When the cake is frozen, you can take out your delicious ice cream cake and frost it with soft serve or slightly melted ice cream. Adding toppings such as cherries, crushed Oreos or M&Ms will add more flavour and fun to your cake. The cake should be taken out 10 to 15 minutes prior to serving, this way your ice cream cake masterpiece won’t be too melted and runny.

Make and enjoy your very on ice cream cake now. It is definitely the best of both worldly desserts. Your whole family will surely love it.