The World’s Easiest Ice Cream Cake
We had a family birthday party today and I had offered to make an ice cream cake. When I started looking at recipes and seeing what was involved, I realized I didn’t have enough time - I had to come up with Plan B. Then it hit me!
I took a cookie sheet and covered it with aluminum foil. Then I placed 9 Klondike ice cream squares on the tray in three rows of three. I wrote Happy Birthday and finished the empty squares with Xs and Os for my tic tac toe board. I filled in the grid with Redi-Whip whipped cream from the canister. After I took this picture I added mini M&Ms around the edge for even more fun.
The whole ice cream cake cost less than $10 and took less than 10 minutes to make. Also, it was a huge hit and so easy to clean up.
Once I had made this one, I started to think that you could use more Klondike bars and cover the entire surface with regular icing, Cool Whip or Whipped Cream. You could even do something similar using layers of ice cream sandwiches.
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10 opinions for The World’s Easiest Ice Cream Cake
Erin - ExpectingExecutive
Sep 16, 2007 at 7:02 pm
I LOVE IT!!!! Thank you. This is perfect for the upcoming 3 year old’s birthday party with the family!
You are a mommy hero!
Have a great week-
Erin
http://www.ExpectingExecutive.com
Neena
Sep 17, 2007 at 2:23 am
This is very creative idea, especially difficult to come up with when you are in a time crunch.
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char
Sep 17, 2007 at 5:33 am
Erin - thanks! I hope your little one loves it.
Neena - I’m not sure how the idea popped in my head - but I think better under pressure.
Chris Cree
Sep 17, 2007 at 6:32 am
BRILLIANT!!!
And you’ve made me hungry too. Gotta go find myself a Klondike Bar!. Mmmm….
Katelyn
Sep 18, 2007 at 6:16 am
Awesome idea! I want to go home and make one right now. Think people will mind me closing the library to do it?
bill
Oct 4, 2007 at 7:50 am
Good lord, what an elegantly simple and effective concept!
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Kaitlyn
May 6, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Wow what a good idea. Now I know what I’m going to make my little brother! Good job, a genius idea!
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