My dad’s birthday was yesterday so, I decided that it would be an excellent idea to MAKE an ice cream cake. You know instead of making my life easy and buying a Carvel one. Since I’ve never made homemade ice cream cake before, I looked at a lot of different recipes. Like the log roll style and cake with ice cream in the middle. but they all seemed so complicated. So, I came up with my own easy and delicious cookie ice cream cake recipe!
Easy and Delicious Cookie Ice Cream Cake Recipe
The Cookie Crust
Last week, I tried out a chocolate chip cookie recipe from Claire’s blog, homewiththewileys.com, and they were SO good. She reviewed a few different recipes, and I adapted her favorite one to make my own. So I knew this would be the perfect base for the bottom of my ice cream cake.
What you’ll need:
- 1 cup unsalted butter room temperature (I took mine out of the freezer and used the defrost setting on the microwave to make it soft)
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup white sugar
- 2½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 2 eggs room temperature
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- ½ tsp almond extract
- 1 cup Reece’s peanut butter chips OR white chocolate chips
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
This is going to make a TON of cookie dough. I froze most of it in small-sized golf ball form and used a quarter for the base of my ice cream cake.
How to make your cookie base:
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First, cream together the butter and sugars (I used a hand mixer but it’s absolutely easier in a mixer).
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In a separate large bowl, stir together the flour, salt, baking soda, and baking powder.
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Add the eggs and vanilla into your mixed butter and sugar bowl.
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Combine the dry ingredients into the wet.
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Gently fold in your peanut butter and chocolate chips.
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Chill all the dough for 2 hours.
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Preheat oven to 350°
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Put a thin layer of dough in a round cake pan (about ½ inch thick) leaving more dough around the sides so they are slightly more raised then the center. This will allow support for the ice cream!
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Bake for 12-14 minutes. (If baking cookies split into golf ball-sized pieces and bake 10-12 mins)
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Finally, remove from the oven and set aside.
Ice Cream Cake Recipe
What you’ll need:
- 1 gallon of ice cream of your choosing (I used Friendly’s cookies and cream)
- 1 sleeve of Oreos (crumbled with cream scraped out)
How to mold your ice cream cake:
- While you wait for your cookie crust to cool off, take your ice cream out of the freezer so it gets soft.
- Line a cake pan with parchment paper and spray with cooking spray.
- Take a full sleeve of Oreos and scrape out the cream.
- Place them in a plastic bag and beat with an ice cream scooper to crumble.
- Once your ice cream is soft (about 30-40mins) scoop half into your cake pan, making sure to flatten it out and mush together getting rid of any spaces in between.
- Next, add your layer of oreo crumble.
- Add the rest of your ice cream on top flatten with additional parchment paper.
- Freeze for an hour.
Assembling your cookie ice cream cake
- Transfer your cookie crust onto a serving plate.
- Next, remove your ice cream from the freezer and lift it out of the cake pan, lifting from the parchment paper.
- This is the fun part, flip it on top of your chocolate chip cookie base.
- Pull off the parchment paper and serve!
You can also put your ice cream cake back in the freezer. And take it out 30-40 minutes before you’re going to eat it. I took mine out while we were eating dinner. The longer you wait for it to defrost the better as the cookie was still a bit frozen when we ate it! While this is still a bit of work to accomplish, whoever you make this easy and delicious ice cream cake recipe for will surely love it.
If you like this recipe, be sure to check out these peach coconut ice pops!
