{"id":6165,"date":"2013-08-27T20:03:38","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T20:03:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2019-04-16T12:37:27","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T12:37:27","slug":"how-not-to-make-an-ice-cream-cake-html-d2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laughfrodisiac.com\/2013\/08\/27\/how-not-to-make-an-ice-cream-cake-html-d2\/","title":{"rendered":"How NOT to Make an Ice Cream Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This was DELICIOUS.<\/font>
However, don’t do what I did. Follow the instructions of someone who knows what they are doing.<\/font>
Or…<\/span>
If you don’t like being told how to do something, and you prefer being AWESOME,<\/font> read on.<\/font><\/div>\n
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Tip of the Day: Do not assemble an ice cream cake when the cake parts are still hot.
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<\/span>     My birthday this year was quite uneventful, so I decided that my birthday cake would be special: Ice cream cake! I’ve never made one before, and haven’t had one since elementary school, when other kids had those Carvel cakes at their parties. So now it was my time. (THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN MY TIIIIME!) However, I didn’t think the process through enough. So, this post is more of a ‘What Not to Do’ version of ‘How to Make an Ice Cream Cake’. Some truly amazing cake wreck pictures wait ahead. <\/font>
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It looks nice, right? <\/p>\n

What’s hard to tell, though, is that the frosting melted into the top, coloring the cake, and then all of it slid off into those soupy corners, mixing with the ice cream to make admittedly delicious, viscous plasma. The top looks iced, but it’s mostly just the cocoa that seeped into the pores.<\/div>\n

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     Every time I bake something with my mom’s knowledge, it needs to be chocolate and peanut butter. This is her rule. It’s a good one, but it gets old. After so many chocolate peanut butter cakes throughout the years, I wanted my birthday cake to be different. First of all, instead of the chocolate cake base I always always make in some form, I went with vanilla. I chose my favorite vanilla cake recipe, a doubled variation on Isa Chandra’s Vanilla Bean Cupcakes, minus the vanilla bean (which I have never had\/used and that makes me sad. Future birthday present? Actually if you want to get me a present, get me a Vitamix), converted into layer cakes. And then I proceeded to throw together the most ridiculously poor ice cream cake probably ever seen. (Poor looking, and poorly constructed. Obviously not poor tasting!)<\/font><\/div>\n

<\/span>\"Picture\"<\/a>It doesn’t look too bad when it’s sliced, does it? But it was, oh it was. Have faith.<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n

First, make the cake.<\/p>\n

BEST EVER VANILLA CAKE<\/strong>
Adapted from Isa Chandra Moskowitz’s Vanilla Bean cupcakes<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

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