Ice cream cake

I've always wanted to make an ice cream cake. When I was little we would drive past Dairy Queen and they would always have signs up for their ice cream cakes. I would just drool and beg to get one. Every time the answer was "no". The very idea of a cake made of ice cream fascinated me. So when Javier's birthday came around I jumped on the idea of an ice cream cake. He was all for it. So now I had an excuse! I thought it would be quite simple and quick so me being the procrastinator that I am didn't get started until much too late. I spent hours searching the internet for the "perfect recipe". Ya, perfection doesn't exist. So after exhausting my resources I finally decided to just make up a recipe for myself. Typical me, right?

So I made a chocolate cake, I actually really liked the recipe I used. It was really moist and rich. I was going to say I would have to keep that recipe around but than I realized that I had already forgotten which recipe it was... Maybe I should pay more attention... next time.

After baking the perfect chocolate cake I put the strawberry ice cream into the same cake pans I used to bake the cake (after cleaning them, duh). Plopped them out on a plate and stuck them back in the freezer. As this was all last minute they didn't get to freeze for long, it would have been better to let them freeze for a couple hours not a couple minutes. But again I was procrastinating so that't all the time I had.

After opening the freezer and staring at the ice cream every 20 seconds or so I decided they were frozen enough. I took them out and one at a time stuck them between layers of cake.

And freeze!

Perfect, right?

Ya...not so perfect anymore. This is why freezing the ice cream for a longer duration would be helpful. But hey, it all worked out in the end so it's cool, right?

I made a plain vanilla whipped cream frosting and just simply quick frosted it. I was running out of time at this point. 

Done. Simple and YUMMY. Yes, it almost lived up to my expectations. I say almost because, well I had very high expectations. Would I make it again? YES! Would I change anything? YES! Sorta, I'm thinking a mint chocolate chip one with chocolate whipped cream frosting would be scrumptious. ;)

~Alyssa <3