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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I just found your blog yesterday, and made it my mission to make this cake ASAP. So, I made it today. I used a spice cake mix with maple nut ice cream, and topped it with a maple glaze. Can you say AMAZING?! The cake stuck to the top of my fluted pan just the teensiest bit, so it wasn’t exactly the prettiest thing, but the flavor was out of this world. Thanks so much for the wonderful idea!
What a yummy flavor combo!!
hi!
I hate to show my ignorance, but I’m kinda confused…
“Then prepare the cake according to the box directions BUT omit the water and sub in the melty ice cream.”
I’m thinking you meant to omit ALL the ingredients, including the water? Then use the pint of ice cream instead (hence the comments on “two ingredients only!”) …Like I said, I’m confused!!
There are usually eggs, or some equiv. in ice cream, and plenty of fat, of course to replace the oil the cake mix might say to add when baking it the normal way.
Am I on the right track?
Hi, yes you are correct. My wording was definitely not clear. Omit the eggs, oil and water and sub in the melty ice cream, hence the 2 ingredients!
Thanks for the catch!
Hi Shelly,
I tried the recipe and doubled it, two cake mixes and two pints (32oz) of ice cream, the batter was super thick and brown on the outside, raw on the inside, what happened?
Katie
That’s strange. I have never tried to double the recipe, so I am not sure what happened… I have made it multiple times as written and have never had an issue. Since its so thick you might need to lower temperatures and up the bake time. Sorry your alteration didn’t work out 🙁
Great photos! This cake is pretty much…amazing!
I recently came across your blog, thanks to Pintrest! Your recipes are so yummy and your photography is fab! Im going to try the Melted Ice Cream Cake tonight!
So I tried to make this today and it was a total fail 🙁 It kinda imploded after I took it out of the oven and and once I took it out of the pan I realized the outside was cooked and the inside was totally raw. Any ideas on what I did wrong? Do you think it’s a problem that the ice cream was still cold when I dumped it in??
Oh man! That stinks! I can’t imagine why it wouldn’t have cooked properly for you…The ice cream should be pretty melty when you mix it in the batter…
It actually sounds like the oven temperature was off…
Thanks Shelly, I’ll have to try again sometime soon. The ice cream was starting to melt but was still cold enough to make the mixing bowl feel cold…
Only I would mess up something so easy!!
Hi Tiffany,
I tried it too and the same thing happened to me. My ice cream was not completely melted either, but most of it was and it was butter pecan ice cream with pecans and I thought that might have been the problem too. Don’t know, has the author of the recipe gotten back to you, I still really want to makie it. email me at imbugs@comcast.net
Katie
Mine also was a flop – Went back and reread the directions – I did exactly as described and used same ingredients – Not sure what went wrong ! 🙁
I have to tell you how much I just love your site. Another simple and simply divine recipe that I can’t wait to try with my 5 children. They LOVE having fun in the kitchen but I’ve always shied away from it… you make it so simple and I almost always have all the ingredients already in my pantry. What a fun treat it will be to make this on our last day before back to school. I am looking forward to making many more of your recipes for after school treats. Thank you for making me a better mom!!!!
I tried this with triple chocolate cake and mint chocolate chip ice cream, with a chocolate glaze…next time I’d add a little more mint in the cake (or make mint chocolate glaze). The cake’s texture was great!
What a fun combo!
Had a tub of cheap ice cream in the freezer, worked perfectly.
Make sure the ice cream is 100% melted be for adding sieved flour – if the mixture is cold- leave it out for an hour to get to room temp.
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i’ll be honest–no little pint of haagen dazs has ever lasted long enough to go into a batch of cake, however temptingly delicious it may be. 🙂
“And then I ate it. With whipped cream.” I love it! Can’t go wrong with a little whipped cream on top!
What a delicious looking cake and perfect when you are short on time.