Baked Ice-Cream Cake

For ages I have been meaning to make a cake that is the simplest to make imaginable. A cake that is fool proof and has only a few steps so my ‘not so savvy’ baker friends can produce a successful creation.

Now I have baked with many liquid ingredients over the years, soda, yoghurt, cordial, alcohol you name it so it’s no surprise that I have gone down the melted ice-cream avenue for this recipe.

However this is not as silly as it sounds. Ice-cream is made of cream/milk, eggs, sugar (sometimes vanilla and salt). Looking at these ingredients these are all core ingredients in a cake batter where all that is missing is the flour….So if I melt my favorite ice-cream and mix it with flour I could produce the most simplest, fool proof, amazing tasting, flavor adaptable (use which ever ice-cream you desire) 5 minute cake.

Hello success!

Ingredients:

Cake:

500g ice-cream (I used Salted Caramel Popcorn flavour)
225g flour

Icing:

330g ice-cream
160g butter
180g icing sugar

Method:

Pre-heat the oven to 180c degrees and line a 25cm cake tin with baking paper.
Place the ice-cream in a bowl and leave to melt completely.
Add the flour to the melted ice-cream and with a hand whisk stir until well combined.
Pour the mix into the cake tin and bake for 35 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the center comes out clean.
Meanwhile to make the icing place the ice-cream in a saucepan on the stove on a high heat.
Stir for 5 minutes until the mix becomes a thick caramel, set aside.
Beat the butter and icing sugar for 2 minutes until light and fluffy.
Add the cooled caramel and using the electric beaters again beat until well combine and fluffy.
Once the cake is cooked leave in the tin for 5 minutes then on a cooling rack.
Once the cake is cooled cut in half horizontally and top each cake layer with the icing.
Place one layer on top of the other and enjoy.