La ice cream cake is the perfect dessert for summer, great for every important event of your life, birthdays, anniversaries or simply to enrich a dinner among friends.
For ice cream cake, of course, you mean a cake that as filling uses ice cream, and we will see that it is possible to prepare it in the house in a simple way.
The base of the ice cream cake
Let’s start by talking about the base of the cake, normally for ice cream cake you use a base of sponge cake thin that was softened with a wet for desserts.
You can choose if you prepare sponge cake from you or buy already cut discs that will make it all easier.
As for the wet, you can also get rid of it, the wet can be a rum wet, orange juice or simply water and sugar.
Always staying on the basic theme, if you don’t want to use sponge cake, you can make a layer of cookies Pavesini or savoiardi or use the ready ice cream cookies.
Ice cream: which to choose?
Now we go to the filling, then to the ice cream, for a cake of 8 people it takes about 1kg of ice cream.
Here you are also free to choose what you prefer.
If you want to use artisan ice cream purchased in ice cream, industrial ice cream or if you want to make your own home, ice cream is free to choose.
Ice cream cake composition
Now that we have decided how to make the base and which ice cream to use we have nothing but compose our cake and finally decorate it.
- We take a hinge mold and start creating our base, in this case the sponge cake, creating a thin layer, then we proceed to humidify the sponge cake with the wet.
- Now we take the ice cream and put in the mold paying attention not to move or break the base. If you want you can add pieces of fruit, crumbled cookies coarsely to create crispness or chocolate drops. Needless to tell you that this is an operation to do fast enough because otherwise the ice cream melts.
- At this point put the mold in the freezer for at least 5-6 hours, the ideal would be to put it in a temperature breaker.
- After the time, take the mold and gently unform the cake, now there is nothing left to decorate it.
Here too you have millions of possibilities for decoration, for example you can create a smooth layer of whipped cream and create on this layer of always cream decorations through the use of the sac a few.
Another idea can be to leave it with ice cream in sight and fresh fruit to create a composition in the center.
In short, the ideas are so many and everything depends on your imagination, finished the decoration put back in the freezer.
Pull out the freezer 10-15 minutes before serving to prevent ice cream from being too hard.
As you create ice cream cake you can also do ice cream cookies in the houseYou just have to make these cookies ready!
