If you have tried eating a chocolate cake with a scoop of vanilla ice cream you know how heavenly the taste is. If you are fond of ice creams and want to give more meaning to your cakes then an ice cream is a great idea. You can try a lot of flavours. Just let your imagination run wild! Here’s some help on how to turn your imagination real by learning to make ice cream cakes.

Things you will need

• Baking flour
• Cocoa powder
• Sugar
• Baking soda
• Butter
• Butter cream
• Ice cream pack (family pack –vanilla flavour)
• A Spatula
• A chocolate bar
• Chocolate frosting
• A baking tray
• A freezing tray
• A cardboard covered with aluminium foil paper
• Salt to taste

The process of making an ice cream cake

• Begin by making a butter and sugar mix in a bowl. Add them alternatively and whisk them together. Keep whisking until the mixture is fluffy. Keep it aside.
• Remove the ice cream from the pack put it in a tray and spread it in a baking pan. Take a pan similar to the one you are using to bake the cake.
• Now let it freeze until it is hard.
• Now smear butter inside the baking pan and dust it with flour. Keep it aside.
• Now sieve the baking flour in a bowl making sure there are no lumps of flour. Add butter cream to this flour. Add sugar, cocoa powder, a pinch of salt and blend it all together. Once the batter is well blended add baking soda and the butter-sugar mix and blend again. Taste the batter to check of the sweetness is just the way you want it to be.
• Put this batter in the baking tray. Use a spatula to put entire content s of the bowl into the pan. Tap the baking pan gently on the table to let the batter set well.
• Now put the baking pan in the oven at 375 F for the next 35- 40 minutes.
• Check if the cake is baked once the time limit is crossed. Pierce a knife into the cake to check if it is done. If your knife comes out clean your cake is done.
• Now remove the pan and let it cool. Let it cool until you can touch it with no fear. A cool cake is easier to remove from the pan and you won’t have crumbs falling. Once the cake is cool, free the edges of the pan with a spatula or a knife and turn the cake upside down on a tray.
• Slice this cake from the centre horizontally and divide it in two.
• Now keep the first slice on the foil covered cardboard. Now remove the ice pan from the freezer. Free its edges with a knife and turn it upside down on the first cake. Now place the next slice over the ice cream layer.
• Quickly get the frosting and start frosting the cake. Begin from top and keep flattening it out to the sides. Go on the sides and moves the spatula around the edges of the cake covering all three layers.
• Now take the chocolate bar and scrape it over the cake. Use chocolate kept in a freezer to scrape over the cake.
• You can even use icing to create a design on the cake or write something if you do not want to use chocolate shavings.

If you do not wish to cut the cake then you can bake two separate cakes and use them as layers. You can even have just two layers – the first of ice cream and the next of cake. It is absolutely what shape you want to give your creativity with a cool and chocolaty ice cream cake.