First Attempt At Ice Cream Cake....never Again!!!!!!
Decorating By ConnieB Updated 24 Oct 2006 , 8:29pm by RisqueBusiness
OK y'all, I decided I would do an ice cream cake for my friends daughters 8th birthday. This was the biggest cake disaster I have ever encountered in my life.
First of all the icecream wanted to keep seeping through the icing as I was trying to frost it. I would have to stop and put it back in the freezer fro a while to firm up again.
Then I proceeded to take the cake to the party. While I was riding down the road the top half of the cake started to slide of the layer of ice cream, the icing was falling off, the ice cream was melting really bad. 
I got to the house and told my friend that this is the worst cake in the history of cakes. I told her that I was thinking about throwing it out the window, and just telling them that I was attacked by an animal and it ate the cake...ha! ha!
The kids were tickled over the cake and ate it, and loved it, so did the adults. I have to say that what the cake lacked in appearance, it made up for in taste. I used the DH white cake mix with the vanilla/caramel coffee creamer, vanilla ice cream and Buttercream icing.
Hope y'all enjoyed this disasterous story 
Ha Ha! Ice cream cakes are tricky! You have to stop and freeze a lot between decorating and make sure the cake is super frozen before transporting or pack it in ice. I got introduced to decorating through ice cream cakes working at Baskin Robbins as a teenager so they hold a special place in my heart! I will tell you this much, I learned to ice cakes using melted down vanilla ice cream on ice cream cakes and now I can ice just about any cake with no problem using buttercream or any other icing for that matter!
My best friend owns an ice cream shop. Here is what she sent me when I asked about making them.
Ice Cream Cakes 101:
You need a springform cake pan. You scoop ice cream and place in the bottom of the pan halfway up (which will be your top layer when you flip the darn thing). Then you place crushed oreos on that layer. Then you scoop ice cream to fill up the rest of the pan. Dont smash the ice cream too much. Then you place the pan in the freezer to freeze it up pretty good. Then you remove the pan, flip the darn thing onto a cardboard round, and release the springform.
To ice the cake, you take ice cream and soften it up a bit until it is of spreadable consistency. And thats it!
Sorry it was such a disaster, but great that everyone loved it!
ive been wanting to try an ice cream cake but have been afraid of just that thing...melting ice cream...i tend to take my own sweet time decorating so after reading this i really dont think that i should even try this one...lol....
If you are going to do these more often, I would suggest the Wilton "Bank N Fill" pan (think that is the name of it). I used it for my son's cake (in my pics) and it worked great! You end up with a tunnel of ice cream or whatever you want to fill it with, so there would be no seepage of icecream into the icing. Was worth the money to me, especially since I used a 40% off coupon to buy it!
yeah, i agree!
we made 1 at the shop for a friend about 4 years ago.....
what a pain!!!!!!!!!!!!
plus it was the fugliest cake that ever came out of there.
i get requests all the time....NEVER AGAIN! 
I'm sorry, the Wilton pan I used is called FanciFill - here is the link if you want to see it: http://www.wilton.com/store/site/product.cfm?id=31F32F85-802D-F658-08306AABFBA26C0E
I got to the house and told my friend that this is the worst cake in the history of cakes. I told her that I was thinking about throwing it out the window, and just telling them that I was attacked by an animal and it ate the cake...ha! ha!
LOL your too funny, think I will use your excuse for my next cake disaster.
I know this pain all too well. The very same thing happened to me!
Now I know that the places like DQ use a whipped non-dairy topping to frost the cakes. And they have super-duper freezers too!
I did 2 of them...and like the others....NEVER AGAIN!! 
Well- I know that some BR's use a non-dairy topping to ice, but many use melted down vanilla ice cream. That's how I learned to do it.
I did a stint at Cold Stone Creamery.
They used the cake pans with removable bottoms but for the larger cakes they used the regular pans.
these are the things we were supposed to do:
1. Line the regular pans with seran wrap
2. Pack with soften icecream with custom mix-ins
3. Put a layer of cake
4. But in the freezer or blaster
5. Remove cake from pan onto a board
6. Decorate with Rich's Better cream
what we did...
1. Pack the soft icecream and mix ins into the pans
2.. put the cake in
3. throw in freezer
4. Remove cake and decorate.
How we removed the cakes from the pans.
Dip the pans into a sink with a few inches of hot water...and wait forever.
or blast the pans with a portable blow torch and bam..put a board under it and flip it out.
OK>
Then you put it back in freezer so it hardens and use the CAKE ICER TIP and a bench scraper and you ice your cakes!
Every now and then I get a customer who wants an ice cream cake. They like the fact that they can pick any flavor ice cream and cake flavor they want.
I use a 9" springform pan, before locking the plate into the pan I cover the plate with wax paper. Then I take a 10" cake and using the pan as a guide I cut the cake down to fit the pan. Then I split the cake in half. I lay one half of the cake in the pan and then scoop a 1/2 gallon of softened ice cream in the pan. I then sprinkle crushed oreos over the ice-cream and then put the other half of the cake on top. i gently push down on the top cake to get rid of any air pockets then wrap the whole thing in plastic wrap and throw it in the freezer overnight I like to give it a good 12 hours. I unmold the cake by using a hot damp kitchen towel aroung the pan then I unlock the pan and separate the cake from the pan. Then I put a board under the cake and throw the whole thing back in the freezer for about an hour. Then I decorate using non dairy bettercream frosting. Then it goes back in the freezer until the customer picks it up. It's a bit time consuming but it's definitely worth it....Kim
Do ice cream cakes actually have cake in them?? I've never heard of this. All we have around here is Carvel and it's just two layers of icecream with cookie crumbs in the middle...
Do ice cream cakes actually have cake in them?? I've never heard of this. All we have around here is Carvel and it's just two layers of icecream with cookie crumbs in the middle...
it can be made with or without the cake, but as cake decorators...I guess we chose the cake...
YUM..cake..ice cream............ahhhhhhhhhhhh 
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