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Dagmar’s Ice Cream Birthday Cake

Ice Cream Cake Having four summer birthdays  has forced me to be creative when it comes to birthday cakes.

All year I’m on the look-out for amazing – but easy – ice cream cake recipes. My criteria is simply – something I don’t have to bake but the kids will love.

Pedro has been quite happy with his ice cream sandwich cake for several years now – but Dagmar has yet to find the perfect cake.

This year I discovered a recipe I had torn out of an old issue of Family Circle magazine. I don’t even know the year or the month of the issue!

Using ice cream sandwiches cut and stacked around the edge and filled with ice cream, the recipe was fancy enough to be pretty, but super easy!  Dagmar loved it!

Layered Ice Cream Cake

15 oreo cookies
1 tablespoon milk
8-9 ice cream sandwiches
3 pints ice cream (we used all chocolate mint – but you could do layers of whatever flavors you wish – such as vanilla and strawberry)
1 – 8 ounce container of Cool Whip

Spray the bottom and sides of a 9 inch springform pan with cooking spray and line the edges with waxed paper.

Finely crush 12 of the Oreo cookies ina food processor. Add the milk and pulse again. Set aside.

Unwrap the ice cream sandwiches and cut into quarters. Stack strips of sandwiches on end around the edge of the springform pan.  (It is helpful to have someone helping you on this step – the ice cream gets soft fast. I unwrapped and Dagmar cut and placed.) This creates the cool strips around the edge of the cake!

Spoon the cookie crumbs into the bottom of the pan and press firmly over the bottom. Freeze on hour.

Remove the ice cream from the freezer and let it soften for 15 minutes. Carefully spread the ice cream in the crust – using layers if you choose. We just filled the crust with chocolate mint ice cream.

Frost the entire cake with thawed Cool Whip

The recipe called for crushing the remaining 3 Oreos and sprinkling them on top of the Cool Whip – but we wanted more of topping, so we crushed the remaining 3 Oreos with a large Butterfinger bar and sprinkled it over the top.

Return to the freezer – overnight if possible.

Before serving, carefully remove the side of the pan and pull off the waxed paper. Cut into wedges to serve.

Then just sit back and bask in the compliments!

Enjoy!

Ice Cream Sandwich Cake

Pedro turned 12 this week and the next day Dagmar turned 14. It makes for a busy week!

When they were younger it always meant 2 back-to-back birthday cakes in the heat of the summer.

A few years ago we discovered this wonderful recipe for an ice cream cake that uses ice cream sandwiches.

We made it for Pedro’s birthday and it has become his cake of choose every year since. It is super easy and you don’t even need to turn the oven on!

Ice Cream Sandwich Cake

Line a 9 x 13 pan with one box of ice cream sandwiches (I think it was about 12). You can cut them to fit.

Then cover them all with a nice layer of whipped cream.

Lay another layer of ice cream sandwiches on top and cover that with more whipped cream.

Put in the freezer.

I told you it was easy!

You can add other layers of course. Maybe some chopped up candy bars, or chocolate syrup, or crushed oreos, whatever you have on hand!

We used regular ice cream sandwiches for the first layer and then a special s’mores ice cream sandwich for the top layer. We also sprinkled M & M’s on the top since it was a birthday cake! Yummy!