Candy cane and ice cream cake
I love Christmas lights.
They bring back a tiny sliver of childish excitement each time I pass a house that has them twinkling in the pre-Christmas rush. It reminds me of when my son was little and we’d drive for miles looking for the houses with the best lights. When he was very young, we’d have dinner and I’d dress him in his Jarmies and a light jacket and off we’d go. It’s light till quite late pre- Christmas in Australia, so he would almost always be very sleepy by the time we headed home.It was gorgeous to see his little face looking up at those lights in absolute delight.
ice cream cake without an ice cream machine
Summer and Christmas in Australia means that we need to eat things that are easy and cool. They need to not only impress all the Christmas visitors we have around this time of year but can also be made a head. I don’t have an ice cream machine, so I have had to work out ways to make lovely ice cream desserts with out one. This dessert is as simple as it gets. The ice cream has 3 ingredients and is made in a matter of minutes. You are going to love it.
Chocolate and vanilla cake
Tonight I drove Skater to the station, he was on his way to a Christmas party. As we drove down our dark street illuminated only by the flashing lights up and down the street and the new moon and we both agreed we just love them.
Christmas Lights
How to make Ice cream Cake without an ice cream machine
Ingredients
- 150 gm Self Raising Flour or gluten free flour 1 cup
- 4 Tablespoons cocoa dark Dutch cocoa
- 70 gm caster sugar 1/3 cup
- 150 gm butter melted
- 100 gm biscuits ( Marie granita, or any sweet plain biscuit will do-or rice cookies
Ice Cream
- 395 ml condensed milk 1 tin
- 600 ml cream thickened or pure
- 1/2 vanilla bean
Glaze
- 150 ml cream
- 100 gm dark chocolate 70% is perfect
Instructions
- set the Oven 170C
- For the base, put the all the dry ingredients into a food processor and combine till fine. Add the melted butter.
- Press this into the base of the cake tin. For a thinner base don't use all of the base. Bake this for 15 minutes or until it looks a little bit puffy.Cool in the fridge.
- To make the ice cream, put the condensed milk, vanilla and cream into the bowl of a mixer and beat till thick and fluffy. The mixture will hold peaks.
- Pour the cream into the cake tin and freeze over night or until you are ready.
- To glaze, heat the cream till hot, cool a little then add the well chopped chocolate and stir till dissolved.
- Run a knife around the cake and de-mould. Pour the chocolate glaze over the ice cream cake and spread with a smooth pallet knife. Let it set a little before quickly decorating. You can refreeze the cake with the glaze if you prefer.
- Decorate with strawberries, raspberries or chocolate lollies what ever you like
I haven’t yet ventured out to look at the Christmas lights. Some areas are amazing! Ours sadly is not that great. I can’t say that I have noticed many at all.
Love the idea of this the ice cream cake but need a PAV.
I know you have a pav recipe here some where but I can’t find it.
Your web site is getting so big you need your own personal search engine…. TEE HEE
xx
Stunning! Looks just perfect – love the Chrissy candy canes.
Such a gorgeous holiday dessert, Tania! My family would love it…every single one of us (and that rarely happens!).
When I travel back home to Michigan, I always bring my ice cream maker. I only wish I would remember all of the parts. I’m forever forgetting some part. The first time it happened, a number of years ago, I learned how to make ice cream without a machine. I’m embarrassed, Tania, to say how many times I’ve made ice cream with a machine since then. I’ve been on the lookout for a good ice cream cake and I think you’ve just provided me with the recipe. Thanks, Tania. Tonight’s temperature is dropping into single digits with snow on the way. I think I’ll wait a little while before I attempt to make your cake. 😉
so cute! defs trying it out for my christmas party!
It looks amazing! Hard to believe it’s so simple to make!!
wow, i salute anyone who can made ice cream without ice cream maker……..
i had once made a ice cream cake, it’s an hillarious chaos since we need to set our ice conditioner into the lowest…..
then i got cold for that, what a worthed effort….
I still have yet to dare to attempt an ice cream cake. I need to take notes from you!
Ohhh that’s one great thing about celebrating Christmas in summer – you get to have ice cream cake! 🙂 It’s so cold here but I don’t mind eating ice cream cake all year around…and your cake looks so gorgeous! I’m always curious how people make ice cream cake, and now I know!
I really have to try this ice-cream it seems so easy and I bet it’s fabulous with all that wonderful cream! Lovely looking cake Tania.
I am obsessed with Christmas lights. They’re just so magical. We were so excited to be able to put some on our house this year.
Oh I LOVE Christmas lights, we have a street down the road from us that REALLY make an effort every year. People come from all over Sydney to see it, it’s in Davidson and you should come by and have a look, amazing!
Absolutely love the look of your cake too, I had no idea you could make icecream so easily without a churner. Brilliant!
I love the look of this ice cream cake. I can totally relate to driving small, over-tired kids around looking for the best lights – I’ve been doing it for two decades now! And I won’t stop – we’re back out again this weekend. xx
I have to try your quick ice cream recipe! The cake looks so tempting and festive, Tania.
What an effective dessert, and as you say, so perfect for our weather! We did the light tours when I was young too (often in pyjamas!) and I loved them 🙂
Christmas sounds delicious at your place Tania! We do the whole Christmas light drive still and it’s just wonderful. We have the world record breaking Christmas light house here in town so I’m really looking forward to seeing that one for sure xox
I killed my beautiful Nemox ice cream maker that I keep on the bench in the laundry room. It’s supposed to cut off if it gets too hard but it didn’t and burnt the motor. Until I can get it fixed, I’ll happily make this one.
We’re getting a new baby in the family today. Rob’s granddaughter is having his first great-grandchild as we speak. Much excitement from the old one. 🙂 You’d swear he had a hand in it.
Delicious!
I refuse to have an ice cream maker because I already have enough clutter on the bench so my household never gets homemade ice cream. This looks like a great summer dessert for guests.
Christmas is not quite the same once our kids have grown up but at least I have my niece’s two little girls now to watch as they unwrap presents.
Yes I agree Suzanne. It’s never as exciting with out little ones