This Melted Ice Cream Cake is so easy to make with melty ice cream and a couple other simple ingredients! Use any ice cream flavor you’d like to make a moist and tasty cake that you can’t get enough of!
Melted Ice Cream Cake Recipe
So today is Friday.
I’m not going to bore you with a lot of words.
Honestly, I don’t even HAVE a lot of words today. The week has fried my brain.
So I have the perfect Friday cake.
It’s easy and starts with a cake mix and a pint of your favorite ice cream.
Do I need to convince you any further?
You can use any flavor combination you want.
I chose the always reliable combination of vanilla cake and dulce de leche ice cream. Solid.
How to Make a Delicious Cake Using Melted Ice Cream
Let your ice cream sit on the counter for a bit. He needs to loosen up.
Then prepare the cake according to the box directions BUT omit the water and oil and sub in the melty ice cream. The entire pint.
*Let me break that down: You will need Cake Mix, a pint of ice cream and 3 eggs.
Easy!
Then bake it up. I used the always overlooked bundt pan that sits in my cupboard collecting dust.
Grease it and fill it and bake it…just follow the bake times on the box. When it’s baked and cooled…you can eat it. OR you can glaze it. Do whatever you want but I would go with the glaze. It’s ok to give in to the peer pressure.
Cover it all! Let it set…it won’t take long.
Then you can eat. BUT since I just bought this delicious looking dessert topping I might as well use it. I have heard you can make your own dulce de leche…but I am using a box cake mix and a pint of ice cream…let’s not complicate things.
I just gave it a little drizzle.
And then I cut it.
And THEN I ate it. With whipped cream.
Have a great weekend!
Melted Ice Cream Cake
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: Box Directions
- Total Time: 45 minutes
- Yield: About 16 slices (will vary) 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
Description
This Melted Ice Cream Cake is so easy to make with melty ice cream and a couple other simple ingredients! Use any ice cream flavor you’d like to make a moist and tasty cake that you can’t get enough of!
Ingredients
Cake
- 1 box cake mix (18.25 oz) in any flavor
- 1 pint ice cream, melted
- 3 eggs
Glaze:
- 1/4 cup milk
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
Instructions
Cake
- Preheat oven to 350
- Grease cake pan liberally with cooking spray or butter and flour.
- Mix the cake mix, eggs and ice cream together and beat for 2 minutes on medium speed.
- Follow box for baking times. Time will vary based on type of pan you use.
- Let cool and remove from pan.
- Allow to cool on wire rack.
Glaze:
- In medium saucepan combine ingredients with a whisk over low heat.
- Stir until glaze is smooth.
- Pour over cake.
Notes
**I have had mixed feedback on this recipe. All I can say is that I have made it numerous times and it turns out perfect. Make sure your ice cream isn’t still frozen, because if it’s still cold your batter will be cold and your cake will not cook all the way through.
Nutrition
- Serving Size:
- Calories: 152
- Sugar: 21.6 g
- Sodium: 49.6 mg
- Fat: 5.4 g
- Carbohydrates: 23.4 g
- Protein: 2.3 g
- Cholesterol: 59.6 mg
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That sounds fantastic! Thanks for such an easy to throw together recipe…..can’t wait to try it!
Just think of all the flavor combinations. That said, Im all in for the dulce de leche! Beautiful and yummy Shelly!
You mean I can bake a cake with a box of mix and my favorite ice cream? I love you.
Seriously, I think I love you!! We are having a bake sale tomorrow and I’m so making this tonight. I might try it with cherry garcia icecream though.
Yum! I knew I shouldn’t have finished off the ice cream last night!
And by the way…your brain is suppose to be fried by Friday, that’s why it’s called Fri-day isn’t it? Although, mine’s usually toast by Wednesday so I can’t say for sure. 🙂
Oh boy that looks yummy! I might just have to try it with the same ingredients you did. YUM!
You don’t need a lot of words with something that looks that good!!!
Have you ever tried to make your own dulce de leche? I see you use it here. I’d love a tutorial if anyone out there knows how. I’ve ruined quite a few batches. Thanks!
I’ve always been scared to make it…exploding cans and all that…but I have heard that it is so easy! I will have to give it a try!
It is very easy, just boil the sweetened milk in the pressure cooker (to save time). Compute that fluid takes about thirty minutes, to more textured forty to forty-five minutes, and solid texture, around pentinta minutes to an hour. Caution, do not holes in the box in this case!
Place sweetened condensed milk in pot of water, making sure to cover can, boil for 2 to 2.5 hours. make sure can is covered with water at all times. Makes easy Dulce de leche. I do it all the time and have never had a problem. DO NOT BOIL DRY! Cool well before opening. You can have can standing up words or on it’s side.
I do this, too. I use the pasta insert in my stock pot when I do. It makes getting the cans out a breeze and keeps the cans elevated away from the heat source to help with scorching. Also, remember to remove the paper labels from the unopened cans of sweetened condensed milk before you put them in the pot, otherwise you’re in for a bit of a mess.
I don’t have a lot of words right now either, I’m too busy slurping up drool. Looks EXCELLENT!
Oh my! So tempting.
And your photos are marvelous!!!