I made this cake for my husband, Ronnie's, birthday. He loves Marble Slab ice cream, namely vanilla with chocolate chips in a waffle cone... well... that's really all he gets. :) So, he mentioned it would be cool to have an ice cream cake for his birthday. I thought 'I can do that', and this is what I came up with.
Below are some pictures of the inside of the cake.
I baked the chocolate cake in a Fanci Fill pan (for an explanation of what the pan is see the
Ooo La La - Lingerie Shower post). After the cake cooled
completely I filled the middle spaces with ice cream. Now I knew that not any ice cream would do, it had to be Marble Slab Vanilla ice cream. So, I had gone to Marble Slab and picked up a quart to use in the cake [I didn't use the whole quart, we had some leftover - Happy Birthday to Ronnie! :) ]. After filling the cake with the ice cream I put a little icing on top one half (not over the ice cream though) and stacked the two halves together. Then I put the cake in the freezer to let the ice cream set again.
While the cake was in the freezer I prepared my cake board. Now, I wanted the cake to be like an ice cream cone taken apart and meshed with a cake, so I wanted to incorporate the waffle cone somehow. When I had called Marble Slab about buying the ice cream I also asked about buying some cones, but I asked if they could make me a couple of them that weren't shaped yet. It would be just a flat waffle cone circle. They said sure and told me I could pick them up the next day because they make their cones in the morning. Yippee. :) So, I took one of the flat waffle cones and placed it on the cake board. I wish it would have been a little bigger in diameter so it would've stuck out from under the cake a little more [it was pretty much the same diameter of the cake once the icing was on :) ], but I think it still looked good. After a while I took the cake out of the freezer and put the cake on top of the flat waffle cone. The cone wasn't perfectly flat, it bowed some, so when I put the (heavy) cake on top of it I heard the cone crack. Oh well, good thing that part of the cone didn't have to look nice. :) I crumb coated the cake with buttercream icing and put it back in the freezer to let it set.
After a bit I took the cake out and put a good top coat of buttercream icing on it. For the top of the cake I took a spoon and used the back to swirl around on the icing to make it look a little 'wavy' and a little fancier. Then I got some mini semi-sweet chocolate chips and patted them onto the icing on the sides of the cake. I put the cake back in the freezer until it was time to go to the restaurant for the party a little later that evening.
So, there you have it a Vanilla & Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Cone - Cake. :)
I thought the cake turned out really nicely. It kind of had an elegant look to it I thought. Oh, but after being frozen this cake was
very hard to cut into. My family
quietly waited had a really good laugh watching me try to slice this cake :) [I'm sure
I didn't look so elegant :) ]. After slicing the first piece to give to Ronnie, I let him finish cutting the rest - you know, so we could all get a slice of cake before the restaurant closed. :)
Ronnie really liked the cake, and he especially liked the fact that the ice cream was from Marble Slab. :)
