How To Make A Dairy Queen Ice Cream Cake

Some people only like white cake, some only chocolate, but there is something about an ice cream cake that can please just about anyone. There is nothing overly difficult about making a ice cream cake at home. You will need just a few ingredients, a cake form or ring, time, and patience.

For this Dairy Queen ice cream cake recipe, the ingredients and directions are not exact to Dairy Queens Ice Cream Cake Recipe, but it is very similar and made with dessert ingredients easy found.I used to work as an assistant manager at Dairy Queen and making and decorating the dairy queen ice cream cakes was all part of the job. I've done my share of these.

Dairy Queen doesn't do anything special to make the dairy queen ice cream cake recipe that you can't do at home. To make the round cake, you will need:

• round piece of sturdy cardboard
• a round metal cake ring

Clear some space in your freezer. Fill your sink or a cookie sheet with some water.dip the cake ring so that the bottom of the ring gets wet. Place it on your piece of cardboard. This is to help freeze seal it on the cardboard before making the cake. Place the cardboard and cake ring in the freezer over night.

Dairy Queen uses a cookie crumb, but that may prove to be an ingrident that is hard to find. Oreo's work just as well. To get even closer to the Dairy Queen ice cream cake recipe, scoop out the creme filling in the oreos

• 1 Gallon chocolate ice cream
• 1 Gallon vanilla ice cream
• 1 16 oz package of OREO cookies
• 1/2 Cup of chocolate sauce
• 1 Jar of hot fudge

Crush OREO cookies into small pieces. In a mixing bowl, slowly mix in small amounts of liquid chocolate sauce (hershey's syrup will work) with crushed OREO's until the cookie crumbs are evenly coated. Don't add to much. You want the OREO cookie crumb to be coated with the sauce, but not drenched in it. You should be able to pick up the cookie crumb in you hand without a sticky mess.

Let the ice cream sit on the counter long enough to become spreadable. Watch this closely, to long and it won't re-freeze correctly. You will also want to let the fudge be left at room temp to be spreadable as well.

Spead and inch thick amount of white ice cream around the inside rim of the cake ring. Then fill the middle up half way with chocolate ice cream. Spread 1/2 inch thick layer of OREO cookie crumb in the middle. Use a knife to dip into the fudge and then hover over the middle of the ice cream cake. Cover the cookie crumb with about 1/2 inch thick layer of fudge. Fill the rest of the middle with chocolate ice cream up to almost the top. Cover the top with more vanilla ice cream.

Stick back in the freezer for at least 6 hours.

Dairy Queen uses whip cream topping, it really goes best with ice cream cake. The whipped cream that comes in a freezer tub will be much more spreadable them the canned whipped topping. After frosting, add your writing or decoration, then back into the freezer until ready to serve.

Remove 10 minutes prior to serving to allow to soften up enough for cutting.