The best time to try to make an ice cream cake is when it's 77 degrees outside and your kitchen is on the second floor of your house. Take my word for it.
Trust me--I succeeded. You can, too. This is very easy, and much cheaper than the beloved, tasteless DQ cakes that pop out during summer birthdays and other celebrations. You don't even have to wear extremely short shorts and look disdainfully at everyone to make it, but you can if you want.
I used my leftover hot fudge from the peanut butter pie I made earlier in the week for my husband's birthday. This cake is also for his birthday. My goal is to make him heavy enough that he can't run from me. Soon.
Feel free to go store-bought on all the ingredients. If you make your own ice cream sandwiches, use em, and tell me how you get that kind of free time.
Ingredients:
18 ice cream sandwiches (Much as I hate the Walmart, they have quite the selection of ice cream sandwich flavors. I picked a chocolate/vanilla hybrid.)
1 cup peanut butter, nearly melted
Hot fudge/Hot sauce (original recipe said 6 tablespoons, but I forbid you to measure this)
Caramel sauce (same forbidding here, as well)
12 Reese's cups, chopped (that's one package of 6 two packs...it sounds like common core math, I know, but they're right in the candy aisle)
Cool Whip (I used one of the big tubs o'Whip, but you just use how much you want. I won't know unless I'm there eating it)
If you have a nice, long serving plate, assemble and serve it on that. Can you believe I don't? I sure don't. So I assembled mine and it will be served on a cookie sheet. We ain't fancy folk. We want cake to mouth by any means necessary.
So, prep is best in assembling this cake. Chop the cups up, melt the peanut butter (30ish seconds should do), and make sure the Cool Whip is thawed. When you are ready:
Lay 6 sammiches out (3 across/2 down)
Spread half of the peanut butter on the sammiches
Spread 4 chopped cups evenly over the peanut butter
Drizzle hot fudge and caramel over cups
Lay another 6 sammiches on top of that, pressing a bit to make even
Spread other half of melted peanut butter on sammiches
Spread 4 chopped cups evenly over the peanut butter
Drizzle hot fudge and caramel over cups
Lay last 6 sammiches on top
Frost with Cool Whip
This is about what yours will look like in the Cool Whip frosting step. Ooey, gooey goodness, I say!
What I like to call the Cavities Shot. Always trying to drum up business. Tell my boss.
Make sure to check hand and forearm for stray peanut butter, hot fudge, and caramel splotches. Those are best licked off at the end as a reward for sweet, sweet assemblage without melting it all.
Do I need to mention that you must keep this bad boy frozen (Let it gooooooo! Let it gooooo!) until you serve it, and then put it back in the freezer, should any remain? Ok then.
I'm so very excited to try to transport this the 10 minutes it takes to get to my folks house. This is when I will praise the lead foot that my husband bought on e-Bay.
Assemble and enjoy!!!
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