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Cookies and Cream Ice Cream Cake with cherries on top
Cookies N' Cream Ice Cream Cake Recipe
Prep Time
10 mins
 

This Cookies N' Cream Ice Cream Cake recipe gives you the best of both worlds: amazing chocolate cake and frosty sweet ice cream (no churn!), topped with a whipped cream frosting.

Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Servings: 1 9-Inch Cake
Author: Dee Frances
Ingredients
For The Ice Cream
  • 1 ½ cups (360 ml/12fl oz) heavy whipping cream
  • 1 cup (240 ml/8fl oz) sweetened condensed milk
  • 14 Oreo cookies , finely ground
For The Cake
  • Your favorite chocolate cake. Baked in two 9-inch pans. Please see the recipe notes.
The Frosting (Stabilized Heavy Cream)
  • 3 cups (720 ml/24fl oz) heavy whipping cream
  • ¼ cup (30 g/1 oz) powdered sugar
  • 1 ½ tablespoons (11g/0.3oz) Dry milk powder
Toppings
  • ½ cup (85 g/3 oz) semi-sweet chopped chocolate
  • 2 teaspoons unflavored oil or shortening
  • 8 maraschino cherries , stem attached
  • 2 crushed Oreos
Instructions
To Make The Ice Cream
  1. The ice cream needs a minimum of 6-8 hours to set in the freezer, so it is essential to plan.
  2. Grease the bottom and sides of one 8-inch or 9-inch pan and line with parchment paper. Set aside.
  3. In a bowl of a standing mixer, fitted with the whisk attachment, pour the heavy cream and whip, starting on low speed and gradually increasing to high speed until the cream is thick.
  4. Pour in the sweetened condensed milk and gently fold to incorporate.
  5. Fold in the ground Oreos.
  6. Pour the mixture into the prepared pan and place in the freezer to set for a minimum of 6-8 hours or preferably overnight.
To Make The Frosting
  1. Pour the heavy cream into a chilled bowl of a standing mixer fitted with the whisk attachment. Add the powdered sugar and dry milk powder.
  2. Whip on low speed, gradually increasing speed to high until the cream is thick and stabilized.
Preparing the Toppings
  1. Melt the chocolate, then add the oil, and stir until smooth. The chocolate should be soft and warm but not hot.
  2. Line a bowl with a paper towel and gently place the maraschino cherries. Gently and slowly swirl the bowl to remove and access liquids.
Assembling
  1. Have the cake, ice cream, and frosting ready with your serving plate, a turn table (if using), and an offset spatula (if using).

  2. Place one cake layer on your serving plate, then top it with the ice cream, then top with the second layer of cake. (For an easy release, dip the bottom of the pan into a large bowl of water for 2 seconds.)
  3. Frost with the stabilized whipped cream, then place it back in the freezer to firm up for about 30-45 minutes.
  4. Remove from the freezer and use a spoon to drizzle the ganache.
  5. Fill a piping bag fitted with a large rose tip (I used Wilton 1M) with the remaining whipped cream and pipe eight rosettes on top of the cake.
  6. Sprinkle the top of the cake with the crushed Oreos and top each rosette with maraschino cherries.
  7. Freeze until serving.
Recipe Notes
  • The cake recipe and flavor are your choices. I recommend chocolate mostly because it balances the sweetness of the ice cream.
  • I like the ice cream to be smaller than the cake, so prevent it from running out as it melts.
  • A few options for assembling the cake: you can sandwich the ice cream between two layers of cake or one layer at the bottom.
  • For one layer at the bottom, make sure the ice cream is the width of the cake.
  • Decorate and top the cake as you wish. A naked ice cream cake is also a great option.