Ice cream cakes can be very expensive. Unfortunately, they are also highly desirable among the younger crowd. While making an ice cream cake at home can be difficult and time consuming, there is another confection that may prove to be just as popular - - the ice cream cookie cake. It offers not only a viable alternative to an ice cream cake, but a delicious option as well. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
Make a Frozen Cookie Cake
1. Determine the flavor(s) of ice cream and cookies that you want to use. You can even use more than a single flavor, if you want. The combinations are almost endless.
2. Decide the type(s) of syrups or flavorings you want to use in your cookie cake as well as the toppings you might want to put on top.
3. Decide the shape you want to use for your cookie cake. It can be rectangle, square, round, or virtually any shape that you can achieve with a baking pan or casserole dish. Make a heart, a butterfly, a cartoon character's outline shape or anything else you may desire as long as you can purchase a mold for the shape in question.
4. Decide if you will decorate the top of the cookie cake and, if so, with what? You can do the standard "Happy Birthday," customize it with a name, or add any type of design that you can achieve with pre-made or handmade icing. If you don't have all of the ingredients and supplies on hand, make a trip to the store to purchase them.
5. Begin putting your cookie cake together. Using the form you have chosen crumble up the cookie flavors you have chosen and place them in a solid layer on the bottom of the pan or dish. Make certain the bottom is well covered with cookies and that the layer is at least one inch in thickness.
6. On top of the cookie layer squirt or spoon the flavored topping choice or one of your own making. Add a layer of slightly softened ice cream; any flavor of your choosing. Make sure the layer is at least two to three inches in thickness.
7. Add another layer of your choice of flavored topping. Sprinkle a lighter layer of cookies to begin the second layer of your cake. They can be the same type of cookie previously used or another flavor. Top with your second layer of slightly softened ice cream. It can be the same flavor previously used on you can choose another flavor option.
8. Decorate the top of your cookie cake if you so choose. You can use pre-make cake icing or icing of your own choosing. You can also use standard plastic cake decorations of your choice as long as they can be removed from the cookie cake before serving.
9. Freeze everything thoroughly before serving.
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