For Josh’s birthday – post forthcoming – I made two ice cream cakes. Josh doesn’t like cake, so this is more his style.

I invented these recipes with inspiration on the second one (which I’ll explain) just based on what seemed like it would taste good! My one note is that, in the future, I wouldn’t use whipped cream on the edges as it immediately melted and started to slide off the frozen top of the cake. I’m still not sure if this is because I bought cheap whipped cream (I mean, it’s one ingredient; how can it  be different?!) or what. It defies logic. Anyhow…

The first cake, which I’ll call “the Josh” can be seen below.

From the bottom up it was:

Chocolate cake, Reese’s peanut butter cup ice cream, a layer of crunchy peanut butter (if you know Josh, you know he loves ice cream with peanut butter mixed in), another layer of chocolate cake, fudge frosting, peanut butter chips, whipped cream, and reese’s cups.

The second cake I called “Banana Sundae”

From the bottom up: Oreo crust, bananas, strawberry ice cream, chocolate sauce, chocolate cake, vanilla frosting, whipped cream, chocolate sauce, cherries, sprinkles (and nuts for a garnish–not shown).

And of course the funny candles and the birthday boy blowing them out! I think he really liked his cake. 🙂

Yum yum yum. I have this love of frozen banana. It tastes so good to me. I would have loved this cake with just frozen banana and strawberry ice cream. Overall, if I made these again (which I think I will) here are my notes: buy more ice cream. It takes a LOT. Maybe simplify each one. There was a lot going on and in some ways it was very overwhelming. One cake box will yield 4 layers of cake, so it’s ideal to make two cakes at once. I would probably add a second layer of vanilla instead of a flavored ice cream to each cake just to bring the flavor overload down a bit. But they were both amazing!