Today I’m sharing how to make this quick and easy yummy vanilla ice cream cake. While you don’t have to churn the ice cream in the ice cream machine at all, it takes about 45 minutes or so to assemble the ice cream cake with two slices of chocolate sponge minus the chilling. Based on this recipe, you can also create your own ice cream cake with any flavour you like, e.g. chocolate, durian or strawberry. For this vanilla ice cream cake, I used chocolate chip ice cream with some Oreo cookies that I had in the pantry. You can make this ice cream cake 2-3 days before you need it and keep it in the freezer. It’s great to make this delightful dessert for kids birthday parties; you save time and can busy yourself preparing other food on the day.
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some oreo cookies crumbs (without cream) or raisins
150g fresh topping cream for frosting the cake
Chocolate Cream
110g semi-sweet chocolate, chopped
15g soft butter
90g dairy whipping cream
1tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
Chocolate sponge cake – whisk egg yolks, sugar and vanilla extract with a hand whisk, followed by corn oil and milk. Stir well.
Sift flours and cocoa powder into egg yolk mixture, mixing well and set aside.
Whisk egg whites and lemon juice at low speed till foamy. Gradually add sugar and change to medium and high speed to beat till peak form.
Fold egg white mixture into yolk mixture in 2 batches till well combined with a rubber spatula.
Pour batter into a 8 inch round removable cake pan. Bake in preheated oven at 180 deg C for about 25 minutes. Remove cake from pan. Slice cake into two after cooling down.
Ice cream filling – Soak gelatin with 1 tablespoon water for one minute. Dissolve soaked gelatin in a double boiler, stirring well.
Whisk 100g fresh cream and vanilla extract at high speed till very stiff peaks. Add 300g chocolate chip ice cream into fresh cream and mix well at low speed, about 30 seconds. (Do not mix the mixture for too long, or else the ice cream will melts and becomes icy after freezing. ) Then add in the Oreo cookies crumbs and fold well with a rubber spatula.
Assemble ice cream cake – Place one piece of sponge cake in an adjustable cake ring. Pour in the ice cream mixture and flatten the top with a spatula. Place the second piece of sponge cake over the ice cream mixture and gently press the cake to even. Place the whole cake in a container or cake box, then inside the freezer till overnight.
Whisk the 150g fresh cream to peak forms. Take the ice cream cake out of the freezer. Then frost the whole cake quickly with fresh cream. Place the ice cream cake back to the freezer to let the frosting set and decorate the cake as desired in 2-3 hour later.
Chocolate Cream – Add semi-sweet chocolate and butter in a bowl. Bring whipping cream to boil and pour it over chocolate. Stir till chocolate melted and smooth, add vanilla extract, mix well and leave to cool and set aside for 20 minutes. Then pipe chocolate cream onto cake.
Notes
For making strawberry flavour, use strawberry ice cream and add some strawberry jam filling. Durian flavour – use durian ice cream with fresh durian flesh. You can purchase the adjustable cake ring online here if it is not available in the local baking supplies stores.