I decided to create an ice cream cake for my birthday, and orange and vanilla sounded perfect. First, I had to find the right recipe(s), and I asked Chef Google to find out how ice cream cakes are made. Apparently, one needs a springform pan – of course, I didn’t own a springform pan, so I checked Amazon for just the right thing.
The Norpro silicone springform looked perfect, with a glass bottom which can also be used in the oven. The recipe I used for the cake is a Soda Cake – you use a white cake box mix and add 12 oz of soda to it, and bake. The form is 9 inches – my round cake pans were 8 inches. I baked the cake in the springform, baking it as one cake. I used diet orange soda and a few drops of orange food color. My cake slicer thingy cut it into 2 after it was completely cooled.
For the ice cream, I made my Loch Ness Vanilla Bean Ice Cream, which makes about 1 quart – we used about 1 pint of it in the cake, popped the second layer on top, and then put it in the freezer overnight, still in the cute red springform thing.
The frosting was made of whipped cream, with a touch of Torani orange syrup and more of the orange food coloring. We pulled the frozen cake/ice cream out of the freezer the morning of the celebration (my birthday and Father’s Day) and Barbara managed to frost it before the ice cream got melty, then we put it back in the freezer, uncovered. I had gotten an orange, actually to put in Dad’s sangria, but she sectioned it and made the cake pretty before freezing. It was beautiful! And it was scrumptious!
Orange Vanilla Ice Cream Cake
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- 1 box white cake mix
- 1 12-oz serving of orange soda - diet soda works just as well
- 1 pint of vanilla ice cream (see link above for recipe)
- 1 cup of whipping/heavy cream
- Torani orange syrup to taste
- Americolor Electric Orange food coloring - optional
Instructions
MAKE THE CAKE THE DAY BEFORE! Follow the directions on the cake mix except the only addition is the soda - no eggs, no oil.
If you want the color to be more orange, use food coloring.
In order to use the springform to hold the cake together while the ice cream freezes, the cake needs to be the size of the springform. I used the springform to bake the cake, but you can use any pan that is the same size.
Allow the cake to cool completely before working with the ice cream. I froze it before making the ice cream.
We used the ice cream right out of the ice cream freezer, which is generally a soft-serve consistency. Just plop some on top of the bottom layer and use a spatula to smooth it out.
Use as many layers as you want - cake - ice cream - cake, ending with cake on top. Put it back in the freezer for several hours before attempting to frost.
For frosting: Whip the cream with the orange syrup and add food coloring (optional!)
Put the whole thing back in the freezer until it is time to add candles!
This is the Father’s Day dads being celebrated, enjoying the cake.
I didn’t really make up this recipe but there are so many recipes like this – the soda cake, ice cream cake in general – and I did not use just one or two references, but several. From one of my favorite recipe blogs, kitchn, here’s How to Make an Ice Cream Cake (Even Better than Dairy Queen!) But it’s a cake made entirely of ice cream and crushed cookies, not a layered ice cream/cake confection.
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