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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Getting ready to make my first ice cream cake, after reading comments about no rise cakes my only solution is to add the eggs. Eggs are the ingredients to make baked items rise. The more eggs the higher the cake will rise. I wouldn’t add more than the 3 eggs for the recipe, don’t think you need anymore liquid. Also done on the outside and gooey on the inside sounds like oven temp is off. Next time use a cake tester or toothpick to check cake before taking cake out of oven. One last advice is to not open the oven door til time is up and be careful not to slam oven door do anything to jar/shake the cake while baking, my mom always told me this, she said it would make the cake fall, she was the best cook/baker ever!
Made this for my family for Valentines Day. For the Glaze I added a little spiced rum and cinnamon. Then topped it with Dulce De Leche. It was AMAZING! Thanks for such an easy recipe!
Do you need 3 eggs or NOT??? Thanks!
I have made it both ways, but have found that more people have better results with the addition of the eggs.
Made this cake tonight,did not turn out, it didn’t rise.
That’s a shame… did you mix the batter in the mixer for 2 minutes as the boxes generally say? That’s the thing a few people haven’t done.
I am really sorry to hear that! I make a version of this cake every few months and have never had an issue with it not rising.
Hi, I made this last night,and I must have done something wrong! I let my ice cream (Ben and Jerry’s Creme Brulee ‘) melt completely,and put it in with my cake mix(butter golden), omitting the oil,water,eggs,etc. Mixed it and baked it in a greased and floured bundt pan at 350 degrees and it was 3 inches high! What did I do wrong? Tasted great,but was a flop! Help! Please email me and tell me what to do! 🙂
THANKS SO MUCH!
Pam
did you beat it in the mixer for 2 minutes like the box says? That’s the only thing I can think you might have done wrong!
3 eggs,you sad you item tem. That Mayotte prbem.
I tried this cake vegan – used 2 cups flour, 1.5 cups sugar, 1 tbsp baking powder, and then a pint of vanilla coconut milk ice cream. I don’t know how the orig. recipe turns out, but with the coconut milk ice cream (which is dairy-free), it mixes to be more of a gummy dough than a batter. The final result is very moist with hints of coconut. Only downside was how gummy it turned out. We also subbed strong coffee for milk in the glaze. Same amounts, just coffee not milk!
Loved the recipe and enjoyed experimenting with it! Next time, I’ll probably try regular ice cream.
Loved this recipe, ran out tonight and bought the cake mix(Betty Crocker) and ice cream (butter pecan from turkey hill). My cake didn’t rise though, it was still good, will try again.
I’ve never been able to decide which is my favorite dessert – cake, or ice cream. Now I don’t have to! This is genius!
I am always on the lookout for things that look and taste llike a lot of work went into them,the flavor possibilities are endless on this one , can’t wait to try it 🙂
I made this recipe, only doubled it, two boxes of cake mix and 32oz. of ice cream and the batter was really thick, what did I do wrong or did I? I bought a butter cake recipe and southern slow churned pecan ice cream. Not all the ice cream was completely melted, but most of it was and there was also pecans in it, but not that many could that have anything to do with the really thick batter. Please email me at my email address and not this recipe website. Thanks
imbugs@comcast.net