I love ice cream cakes. Actually, my whole family likes ice cream cakes. But lets be honest, buying an ice cream cake can run $25-40 for a regular-sized cake. They are not cheap. I decided I will make them from now on and I have even made two ice cream cakes within the last week. One for my husband’s birthday and another for my middle son’s birthday party.
I made a Peanut Butter Chocolate Cookie Ice Cream Cake for my husband and a Birthday Cake Flavored Ice Cream Cake for my son. They were both delicious and one of my son’s friends said, “I am going to put in my birthday cake order with you from now on.” And my dad tried the cake and asked which brand of ice cream cake it was. He was floored when I said I made it with store-bought ingredients. But the best part is that you can make one for as little as $4 and up to $10 for a large cake. I was able to serve about 15 kids with one cake and have a quarter of the cake left over. For my husband’s cake, we served 8 and had enough left over for cake on several more nights.
My ice cream cakes are a bit more free-flowing, as the ice cream layers are not a perfect straight line. If you would like your cake to have a clean, crisp lines between ice cream layers, you can spread the first layers of ice cream and then freeze the cake until the ice cream is hard and then add the next layer of ice cream on top of it. This way the first and second layer will not blend at all. If you want to follow this step, you would need to freeze the ice cream cake for at least 45-60 minutes between layers.
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How can we make this for under $5 ?
You can make a basic ice cream cake, without extra candy or fruit, for under $5. We bought a cake mix for $1 and found 2 gallons of ice cream for less than $4. Watch your local stores and dollar stores for ice cream sales and you can definitely find the ice cream bargains. It seems like most stores have one brand or another on sale at most times during the year.
Let us know if you have made ice cream cake and if so, what flavors did you use?
Kristin Fitch
