Ice Cream Cake - What's Your Flavor?

With Father’s Day this past weekend, many of us were celebrating with a variety of desserts. In my house, we choose to go with a simple ice cream cake that said Happy Father’s Day. It was a small, round chocolate and vanilla ice cream cake with cookie crumbs in the middle. Vanilla frosting covered the outer part of the cake with a little blue design decorating one side on top of the cake.

Many people think ice cream cake can be difficult to make, but that is not the case. All you need is a few basic ingredients and a springform pan. Below is a simple ice cream cake recipe that can be made in the comfort of your own kitchen.

Ingredients

1 (18 ounce) package small chocolate chip cookies

1/4 cup margarine, melted

1 cup hot fudge topping

2 quarts vanilla ice cream

1 cup whipped cream

12 cherries (or other fruit or topping of your choice)

Directions

1.      Crush half the cookies (about 20) to make crumbs. Combine crumbs with melted margarine and press into the bottom of a 9-inch springform pan or pie plate. Stand remaining cookies around edge of pan. Spread 3/4 cup fudge topping over crust. Freeze 15 minutes.

2.      Meanwhile, soften 1 quart of ice cream in microwave or on countertop. After crust has chilled, spread softened ice cream over fudge layer. Freeze 30 minutes.

3.      Scoop remaining quart of ice cream into balls and arrange over spread ice cream layer. Freeze until firm, 4 hours or overnight. To serve, garnish with remainder of fudge topping, whipped cream and cherries.

This recipe can be found at http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/chocolate-chip-cookie-ice-cream-cake/detail.aspx

What I like about this recipe is you can change up the ice cream flavor, as well as the fruit or other toppings you choose to decorate the cake with. You can also easily add two or three layers to this cake if you would like to use a variety of ice cream flavors.