Ice Cream

why it's helpful later. Then, I'm gonna take a half gallon of ice cream and soften it. Just unwrap my cardboard carton and then make slices in the ice cream , and put them into a bowl and you'd definitely wanna let your ice cream stand out for 10 to 15 minutes before you do this; otherwise, as you know, it's fairly hard and this is where you need a little bit of muscle. You just kinda have to work with it. Stir it until it's not all 1 big piece, but kind of more of a smooth consistency in my bowl. Now, you can use any flavor of ice cream that you want, and any cake flavor that you want, too. I've used 9-inch cake layers here, but in 8-inch springform pan. And why did I do that? It's because my cakes are gonna shrink while they bake. So, I've got chocolate cake here. I'm just gonna take one of my layers and put it into my pan, and then take half of your ice cream , put it on top. This is strawberry ice cream with chocolate cake, so it makes a really pretty finish. All right. So, you got that all the way to the edge. Add another cake layer. So, I'm gonna add the rest of my ice cream and by the way, it's okay if it goes a little bit over the top of the springform pan. Finish off with

For a spectacular ice cream cake, try this! Ice cream cakes are always a big hit, and I'm gonna show you how easy they are to make. So, first, you're gonna need

For the perfect ice cream sandwich, try this! Ice cream sandwiches were always my favorite as a kid, and I'm gonna show you a quick trick to make your own at home. First, you wanna start with a foil-lined 13 x 9 pan. You wanna use a heavy foil. I've got a half gallon of vanilla ice cream in this bowl. And it's been standing about 10 minutes, so I've been able to stir it nice and soft. I like to add some fun ingredients to the center of my sandwiches, like colored sprinkles or you could even use some mini-chocolate chips or chopped up peanuts. It adds a lot of really great color and flavor. And then transfer your ice cream to that foil-lined pan. If you're making sandwiches for a crowd, you may need 2 pans or you could even use a 15 x 10 baking pan and use a bit more ice cream . Sprinkle some more of your sprinkles on the top. You wanna put this in your freezer for about 6 hours or until it's really well firmed. This is what it's gonna look like. I've already got one done for you. You wanna find a big tray or cutting board that's gonna fit over your pan. Get that into your workspace and then just lift out your ice cream using that heavy foil. It's gonna be such a firm piece of ice cream . You can just flip it over on to your tray and then peel back the foil. The next thing you wanna do is find a cookie cutter. You want it to be a little bit smaller than your actual cookie. Now, just make cutouts in your ice cream and simply put it on the inside of your cookie and top it with your next cookie to make a sandwich. You wanna press them together just a little bit so that it sticks to that ice cream . Another fun thing that you can do with your sandwiches, [time=0:02:00 like I'm sure you've all seen in the ice cream shops, is to sprinkle the edges with something more. I like to use whatever I've stirred into the ice cream , and your kids can help with this. It's a lot of fun. So, I'm just gonna sprinkle it on and then you can kinda press it into the ice ream. Who knew you could make a perfect ice cream sandwich at home.

pop this right into my pan. Great! Now, I've got some softened ice cream . You can actually microwave this just to get it a little soft and I'm just gonna pour this right on, like this. I just love ice cream cakes. They're so delicious. There's something about the ice cream and the cake, it's like a perfect combination. So, now that we got our ice cream on here, I'm gonna smooth it out just to get a nice even coverage over the brownie, just like that. Now, what you need to do is just pop this in the freezer to get the ice cream nice and hard since it's already a little soft. And then we're gonna come back and put all the toppings on it.

This ice cream cake is definitely the cat's meow and it's so simple to make. What you wanna do is start out with a tray

really pointy cat-ear look and I'm just gonna dig it into the ice cream , like that. And I've got my little other cat here. This is a really fun fruit leathers, kids love these. Just peel

gonna tuck them under and sort of dig them in to the ice cream a little bit to give them a little bit of dimension. So, I've got my 1, 2, 3 whiskers and now for