Are you sure you do not need me to pick up a cake at the ice cream store? I ask my twenty-five-year-old son on the phone. He whines like a 3 year old. You try to talk me out of it every year, Mom. I need you to make me an ice cream cake for my birthday. I need a mint tasty things chip ice cream cake.
I've told all the guys within the band how good it is. C'mon Mom! He is told all his friends. I thought he was over possessing special day parties with his colleagues when he was ten, but apparently not. In this day and age, it just seems wrong to make a homemade ice cream cake. There exists beautifully decorated desserts within the freezer section regarding the grocery store, not to mention within the regional ice cream parlor.
I realize that creating his ice cream special day cake is more about reliving his childhood I've created him ice cream desserts since he was 3 years old, and I recall baking and freezing a volcano ice cream cake that his colleagues talked about for years. He was so proud of that cake. Not of his mom; regarding the cake. How many colleagues are coming, Jake? I ask him, knowing full well that he is going to tell me something like I do not know, Mom. Can you make enough for twenty? It was easy to make a cake for twenty little freckled faced boys with twenty pairs of dirt-riddled sneakers within the home when he was a kid.
It was no challenge dealing with the twenty little hands that hide twenty little boogers below the tea table top instead of creating use of a Kleenex. Twenty little present bags full of glass spiders and Jolly Ranchers. And twenty gifts that created Jake so excited that he had to sprint to the bathroom every fifteen minutes. Ahhh, those were the days. A cake for twenty nowadays means 3 desserts within the freezer.
This entails my husband receiving out all the Lean Cuisines, frozen oat bread, pork chops, and something grey and hairy, and trying to stuff them into the extra fridge within the out building. You have knowledge of the extra fridge It's called the Extra Fridge due to the fact that it costs an extra thirty bucks a month on the electric bill so he can save 3 six-packs of grocery save brand diet soda, an empty bottle of mustard, and 3 half-bottles of ketchup. We take everything out regarding the freezer to fit the humungous special day desserts for Jake. His special day party is within the evening, so this requires appetizers as well. I pick up ten pounds of Buffalo wings for the band, and another 5 for the standard folk.
My husband goes to Costco and purveys massive amounts of chips and soda. He also returns home with a 5 CD audio set of Peter Denver. I look through his bald faced lie. Jake does not like Peter Denver. He smiles and takes the shrink wrap off the CD's.
He doesn't? Well I guess I'll need to listen to them, then. Guess he forgot related to the Extra Fridge. So the cake is ready, the appetizers are in place, the soda is chilling, and there exists piles and piles of chips and salsa on the table. The family begins to arrive and mill around while Peter Denver plays within the background. Then we hear the tell-tale backfire.
We look out the window and watch as the primer-gray serial killer van pulls up. With little banging and coaxing, the van's side door opens and out tumbles Jake. The driver door has not worked since the Good Wal Mart Parking Lot Incident of '06. Then the real display as the van begins to mime the capacity of a clown car; band member subsequent to band member emerges with some kind of instrument in hand. The van just does not look large enough to hold them all.
There exists twenty of them, and they can be all heading toward the door. Except the one who stops by my maple tree and begins to h2o it. He should be the drummer. Twenty pairs of dirty Converse sneakers, twenty spiked up, multi-colored hair-dos or hair-don'ts depending on how you look at it, I guess, and twenty outlandish outfits that I ponder their sisters should be wearing. I need to blink due to the fact that at that moment I look Jake and his colleagues as ten-year-olds again.
It just happens that these ten year olds have gobs more and are very many louder. M, shouts Jake's lifelong friend, Sam. Did you make two of your awesome ice cream cakes? No, Sam, I created two. Right on, he casually replies as he beelines past me for the ranch dip and the Fritos. By night's end, the home has transformed into a waste location filled with dip-smeared cardboard plates, empty chip bags, and enough aluminum soda cans to build a Toyota.
There exists also smashed chips within the carpet, and droopy Mohawks on these future captains of industry. I also locate it amusing to look the boys listening to Peter Denver with Jake's Dad. Jake actually looks interested in what my husband is saying. I ponder they actually like Peter Denver. The band isn't so bad; they sing and play a punk-reggae-fusion version of Happy Special day for Jake.
And as the party wound down, Jake came over to me and gave me a large hug. Thanks Mom for creating my cake. And thanks for letting the band come, too. It was all worth it until next year. Ice Cream Cake Mix 3 crates of cake combine any taste 3 to 4 containers of Cold Whip two gallon of ice cream in a rectangle container any taste 3 to 4 cans of frosting any taste Make the desserts as directed on the box, use 3 9 x 12 pans to fry the cakes.
Let the desserts cool. Place one regarding the desserts on a covered with foil cookie sheet. Reveal up the ice cream container completely such that you have knowledge of a brick of ice cream and slice the brick into seven even slices. On the top regarding first cake, lay each ice cream slice on top regarding the cake, side by side such that it covers the whole top regarding the cake and pinch each slice into the next so you have knowledge of a solid layer of ice cream. Next, take a 1/2 of a can of frosting and spread it over the ice cream evenly.
Try to do the frosting quickly due to the fact that the ice cream shall begin to melt. Next, use two of your Cold Whips and spread 1/2 the container on top regarding the frosting and spread evenly. Now take your 2nd cake, and lay it over the top regarding the ice cream or frosting or Cold Whip layer. Close in saran wrap and stick it within the freezer for an hour. Subsequent to freezing for an hour take the cake out and completely frost the whole cake.
Subsequent to frosting the cake, place an entire nice thick layer of Cold Whip over the frosting as if the Cold Whip is the frosting. Then place return within the freezer for eight hours. When you serve, pull cake out of freezer about 15 periods prior to slicing. This cake shall deliver 12-24 people depending on how you slice the pieces, or how large the band is!.
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