![]() So, I guess if you’re looking for an ice cream cake that comes together fairly simply and feeds a big gang (with oh-so-essential leftovers for midnight snacking) this is the tutorial for you. That was all I had time for, as I also prepped a spaghetti & meatball and Caesar salad feast for a dozen of us that Saturday night. As in, I didn’t make any of the ice cream, nor the meringues, and, yep, even the fudgy brownie layer was from a box. I should probably preface this tutorial by stating that this is a semi-homemade cake. Birthdays comes but once a year let’s celebrate them to the fullest. A few mini chocolate chips adorn the top and an ’11’ in sparklers provides the finishing touch. The base is frosted with a stabilized whipped cream (using gelatine). The top is scoops of four Haagen Daaz flavours, packed in with mini meringues. The base has five layers: a chocolate cookie crust, vanilla chip ice cream, dark chocolate ice cream, fudgy brownie, and birthday cake ice cream (the kids picked the flavours, obviously). He loves crisp meringues, why not work those into the topping.Īfter one shopping trip, lots of scooping and sculpting and melting and freezing, we had a birthday cake. A brownie layer would be good, and a chocolate cookie crumb base. He’s pretty keen on ice cream, however, and with this in mind, an idea for an epic ( it must be epic) layered, ice cream cake began to take shape in my little book. Noah’s not into frosting at all, in fact, he wants nothing to do with it. Treasure hunts are a thing of the past for my 6th grader – and that is all okay there will always be birthday cake. ![]() There would be no robot cake this year, no pinata-thumping or eating doughnuts off of string. It’s really teetering on the edge of childhood. I wrote ‘Noah’s 11th Birthday’ and drew a line underneath the words, pausing for a moment to take in that number.Įleven. Mere moments after I had seen my parents out the door for their return trip home, I opened my trusty notebook, where I jot down ideas and details for every gathering we host. Our home was a-buzz with birthday excitement last weekend, even if the party planning only started sometime Friday afternoon. ![]()
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