Currently baking out of Sky High, Irresistible Triple-Layer Cakes by Alisa Huntsman and Peter Wynn
There were no birthdays in my family this week, which is fortunate as I wouldn’t have shared this cake with them anyway. This is one of those cakes where I wanted to protectively curl my arm around it, while snarling and jabbing a sharp fork at anybody who dared come too close.
“Mine, all mine. My precioussssssss.”
You can go in all sorts of directions with this cake. The basic structure is a simple, one-bowl chocolate cake sandwiching any flavor of ice cream you want, capped off with a thick coating of chocolate ganache. For my ice cream layer, I made a vanilla gelato mixed with crushed Oreo cookies. Sometimes I’ve found that the cake part of ice cream cakes gets dry in the freezer, and the whole thing turns into a rock. But even after spending the night in the freezer, the cake was easy to cut through (running a knife under hot water for a few minutes makes cutting easy), and the cake part stayed softish. No dry cake here.
This ice cream cake hit all the right marks for a warm summer day. It was creamy and cool, with a nice chocolate punch. So the next time Bryan starts singing the song from the commercial of a well-known ice cream shop that sells ice cream cakes, I know how to shut him up fast.
And that’s usually not easy to do.
I just ordered this book today. I always make mile high birthday cakes and since we’ll be celebrating my sons and daughters birthday at the end of the week, I decided I needed to find something new. Like you I have 100s of cookbooks but of course I needed another one. I’ll see what mile high cakes are in Sky High, Irresistible Triple-Layer Cakes and hopefully come up with something different. If not, I guess i’ll reinvent an old one.
great post, I really like it. Thanks for posting.
Why oh why didn’t I call that realtor the other day??? Of course, getting stabbed with fork might deter some people from wanting to be your neighbor but I think getting a piece of this cake might be worth the risk.
I have always thought the same thing about ice cream cakes that actually included cake. I usually picked away the card board part they claimed was cake and just ate the ice cream. Cake that is dry and tasteless serves no purpose in life, don’t you think? LOL
Now, how do I get my chef to make me one of these? Have to work out a game plan!