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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Hi, how can I make this cake with chocolate ice cream? Would I use chocolate or vanilla cake? Could you give me some ideas? Thanks!
I net wither one would work great! The chocolate cake would just be a little chocolatier..and the vanilla would be a light chocolate!
I am about to attempt this recipe for a gathering this evening, I noticed when I went to the store that hagan daz ice cream doesn’t come in a pint 414 fl oz compared to an pint which is 437fl oz and even the cake boxes vary. so I am hoping that I got the right mix of ingredients. I am using starbucks coffee ice cream and chocolate cake and yellow cake with talenti salted caramel ice cream it says it gelato is there a difference? I will l let you know how they turn out. either they will be a big hit At the party or I will end up buying a cake! ( I pray they turn out!)
I think it will be fine 🙂 But let me know!!
EVERYONE THOUGHT THE CAKES WEER GREAT THE CARAMEL CAME OUT A LITTLE MORE DENSE THAN THE CHOCOLATE BUT THE GIRLS ENJOYED BOTH CAKES THIS IS A RECIPE I WILL DEFINITELY USE AGAIN!!
Great recipe! I have a similar one for ice cream bread that only uses self-rising flour and ice cream. It makes an amazing, moist, dessert bread. I love using different ice creams to get different results! It does not get much easier than that, and I absolutely LOVE the look in people’s faces when you tell them the ingredients!
I have the recipe here –
http://ashaleigh.wordpress.com/2011/09/01/ice-cream-bread-will-change-your-life/
Thanks for sharing your recipe!!!!❤
De-li-cious!! We made this cake for a party and it worked wonderfully. Ours turned out such a beautiful golden brown that I didn’t want to glaze it. i did because who can resist that?! Next time I think I’ll thicken the glaze a bit though.
Thanks so much! Keep the yummy coming!
The first time a made this cake, I used only 1 box cake mix and 1 pint of ice cream. It was very good. I then re read the ingredients and saw that it says to add 3 eggs, so I made it again with the eggs and the first cake was much better than the latter. So I say cake mix and ice cream only!! Thank you for sharing this recipe, it doesn’t get much easier!!
I had so much feedback on this recipe that I made it again without the eggs and it was perfect everytime. BUT I went ahead and tried it with the eggs and it also worked, so I thought that the addition of the eggs might help people have better success.
Most of the issues were because the cake didn’t cook through, which basically means that the batter is cold and isn’t cooking evenly.
But, I agree with you that it is great without the eggs.
So glad to hear positive feedback because I love this cake and hated that so many had trouble!
Thanks for posting this recipe. After reading all the comments, I plopped the almost completely melted ice cream into my mixing bowl, then held it over a hot water bath while stirring for a couple of minutes to make sure the ice cream was all melted and not too cold. Then I added 3 room temperature eggs, cake mix and mixed it all up according to package directions. I decided to make cupcakes so the kids wouldn’t complain their sibling got the bigger piece ; )
It was a big hit! My daughter is dreaming about all the different possible combinations. I see more melted ice cream cakes in my future…
SUCCESS! My husband loves it!
yayyyy!!!
Making this now! I let the ice cream sit out since 7:30 this morning.
Fingers crossed!
Cake turned out great, I think without the eggs it would not have turned out. With just the melted ice cream I don’t think there is enough liquid.
By the way, I’ll post my results when I am finished. I love the idea. Using butter cream cake mix with butter pecan ice cream. Adding rum glaze with chopped pecans! Can’t wait till the ice cream melts and I can start baking!