A gorgeously decadent Oreo Nutella Ice Cream Cake, perfect to cool you down this summer! Served with fresh berries, it’s an easy but showstopping dessert that no one will guess involved virtually no effort!
This is the 1000th post that I’ve published here on Kerry Cooks! I love you guys so much for taking the time to come and read my little nutella and cookie dough obsessed baking blog. Ice cream cake for everyone!
Why hello! It continues to be very warm here in the UK, leading many to believe that the period known as summer has truly arrived! Hooray! Of course that means an immediate scrabbling around for any recipes to cool us down in the heat. I’ve had a think about this before, and my faves continue to involve watermelon, frozen grapes and orange ice lollies.
This Oreo Nutella Ice Cream Cake is my latest summer cool-me-down and it is lush. It was inspired by my lovely friend Lucy, whose very clever idea I adapted here! It starts with an incredibly simple chocolate sponge – just butter, sugar, eggs, flour, vanilla and cocoa powder. We bake that up in two pans as usual. Then we’ll get a carton of your favourite ice cream – it could be cookie dough, or strawberry cheesecake, or double mint chocolate, or salted caramel… you get the picture – go crazy! Then, we’ll sandwich the ice cream between the two cakes, freeze the whole lot, then slice and serve with hot melted nutella and strawberries. Sound good? Let’s go!
The best thing about this dessert? You can make it in advance of a party or BBQ, then just take it out of the freezer about 2 hours before you want to serve it – a delicious dessert with zero stress! The only thing to do when you serve is to pair with chocolate sauce (or in this case, melted nutella!) or another sauce that you’d prefer – and I also served it with fresh berries.
Just a couple of notes – as I wanted a cookies and cream ice cream for the centre of my oreo cake (duh), I looked around in the supermarket for one, but I found they all contained lots of odd ingredients that I didn’t want to be eating. So instead, I used a good quality Cornish vanilla ice cream, and blitzed one and a half packets of Oreo’s into rubble, and mixed it all together. Don’t be afraid to add mix-in’s to your ice cream cake too – maltesers, fudge pieces, chocolate chips, popcorn, smarties, broken up biscuits – yum!
You’ll also need a deep round pan, the same size (or the same one) that you baked the chocolate cake in. Mine was a 9 inch springform tin – that’s important too, as ice cream cakes can set quite firmly.
- 170g light brown sugar
- 170g unsalted butter (very soft)
- 3 large free range eggs
- 130g self - raising flour
- 80g cocoa powder
- 1 tbsp vanilla bean paste
- large pinch salt
- 1 large carton of your favourite ice cream
- plus mix-in's - optional- I used 1.5 tubes of Oreo's
- Nutella or chocolate fudge sauce
- Berries
- First, preheat your oven to 190c/gas mark 5 and prepare your 9 inch cake pan or pans by greasing it liberally with butter on the bottom and sides.
- In a large bowl or stand mixer, combine the butter (it needs to be very soft so soften in the microwave for ten or twenty seconds if needed) and the sugar and mix until combined and light and fluffy. Add the three eggs one at a time along with the vanilla and salt, then measure out your flour and cocoa powder and sieve it together into the bowl with the butter sugar egg mixture.
- Gently mix everything until just incorporated, and then portion the cake batter into your pan or pans. Bake for 25 minutes on the middle shelf of the oven, or until the cake is slightly pulling away from the sides of the pan and springs back to a light touch. Set the cake layers aside to cool completely, then put one cake layer into the bottom of your tall 9 inch springform pan, followed by all of the ice cream. Finish with the second cake layer (dome side down) and then wrap everything in plenty of tight clingfilm. Pop into the freezer at least overnight.
- Simply soften your ice cream and decant to a large bowl to add any mix-ins (if you want to) like crushed oreo's, nuts or chocolate.
- Warm your nutella in the microwave and dollop all over the top of the cake, and top with chopped berries.
Enjoy! Don’t forget to tag your ice cream cakes #kerrycooks so I can see them on Instagram (I’m @kerryedwards).
I’m entering my Oreo Ice Cream Cake into August’s tea time treats link up!
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Karen says
August 29, 2015 at 11:50 amTHANKS so much for this wonderful entry into Tea Time Treats! LOVE the recipe and photos so much! Karen
Anne says
August 12, 2015 at 5:34 pmI have never made an icecream cake, yours looks really delicious! Now we have more freezer space its definitely on my to do list!
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zoetcm says
July 25, 2015 at 8:27 amOoh i really like the sound of an ice cream cake! Something a little different and perfect for hot Summer days 🙂
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Lucy @SupergoldenBakes says
July 13, 2015 at 9:34 amWow Kerry 1000 posts! I can’t even contemplate that. A tremendous achievement and here’s to many, many more. I love the sound of that ice cream cake and it looks amazing as well. I have been going through jars of Nutella recently having baked my Nutella Chocolate cake 6 or 7 times!
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amanda says
July 13, 2015 at 8:12 amDelicious!!!
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Jen says
July 6, 2015 at 9:33 pmCongratulations on getting to 1000 posts! Perfect cake for the celebration 🙂
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Sarah says
July 6, 2015 at 4:33 pmThat ice-cream cakes looks so good, Kerry!! Here’s to the next 1000 posts!
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Laura@howtocookgoodfood says
July 6, 2015 at 12:30 pmWhat a stunning 1000th post. I am definitely making this cake, love how it looks and imagine it tasted even better!
Becca @ Amuse Your Bouche says
July 6, 2015 at 10:24 amOh wow this looks outrageously good! I’ve never had an ice cream cake before but I would devour this 😀 congrats on 1000 posts!!
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Kerry Cooks says
July 6, 2015 at 2:09 pmThanks so much Becca! It was very tasty and refreshing!
Kerry Cooks says
July 8, 2015 at 3:27 pmThank you so much Becca!!
Lisa says
July 6, 2015 at 8:08 amI’ve bought icecream cakes before for my sister, she LOVES icecream. Never thought of making my own though. This looks great! Will definitely try it out! X
Emma @ Supper in the Suburbs says
July 6, 2015 at 7:44 amWow this looks amazing!!! The perfect way to cool off this summer 🙂 I wish I had one of these in my freezer…
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