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7. Remove the dish from the freezer. 8. Remove the dish from the freezer 15
Spread the chocolate whipped cream over minutes before serving. Scatter the grated
the cake mixture, spreading it out to the chocolate on top, and spoon onto serving
edges. Cover the dish with foil and return it dishes.
to the freezer. Let freeze for 1 hour, or until
Store this cake in the freezer for up to
hard.
1 week.

Cool Tips for Building Ice Cream Cakes

• Begin with a completely cooled cake. cream from its carton and slice it,
patching these pieces on the cake until
• Freeze the cake to make slicing easier.
the layer is covered.
• Slice the cake with a sharp serrated
• Return the cake to the freezer between
knife.
layers if the kitchen is warm.
• Slice round layers horizontally into
• When the last layer of cake is on top,
halves, angel foods horizontally into
wrap the cake with foil and freeze until
three tiers, and loaves horizontally into
it is firm.
three or four slices. Cut sheet cakes
vertically into three sections. • An hour before serving, prepare the
frosting, such as a whipped cream
• Choose ice creams with attractive color
frosting, and coat the top and sides of
contrasts. If the cake is chocolate,
the cake. Garnish the top of the cake
choose vanilla, strawberry, or mint
with toasted sliced almonds,
chocolate chip ice cream, for example.
maraschino cherry halves, or grated
Alternate colors by placing a different
chocolate. Return the cake to the
ice cream on top of each layer. Allow at
freezer, uncovered, until serving time.
least 1 cup of each flavor ice cream, and
up to a pint of each for larger cakes. • After serving, place the cake in a cake
saver, and return it to the freezer.
• The finished cake takes less time to
freeze through if the ice cream is frozen • Ice cream cakes will keep for up to a
when it is placed on the cake, instead of week in the freezer. After that, they tend
softened and spread. Remove the ice to lose moisture and dry out.