Q: My mom's birthday is coming up, and I wanted to make her an "adult" ice cream cake in the Dairy Queen style — all ice cream, no cake.
I was hoping for some good ice cream combination ideas: I was thinking some combination of praline, almond, amaretto, and maybe some fresh peach ice cream as well — at least one or two of those? I know that's a lot of flavor options, so I could use some guidance. Thanks!
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Editor: Stephanie, that sounds delicious! We think any of the above options would be delicious. We also like the ice cream and sorbet combination in the cake pictured above, from Martha Stewart: Peaches and Cream Ice Cream Cake.
Readers, what are your thoughts and suggestions on Stephanie's cake?
Related: How Do I Make an Ice Cream Cake From Scratch?
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I have had great success with this basic formula from Eggs on Sunday:
http://eggsonsunday.wordpress.com/2008/02/18/chocolate-raspberry-ice-cream-cake/#more-242
The basic spring-form pan - cookie crumble - ganache top works well with pretty much any flavor of ice cream. I think my favorite ever was mint chocolate chip.
Here's another blog that used the same formula with beautiful results in a pistachio version:
http://thekitchensinkrecipes.com/2008/05/20/graduation-part-ii-ice-cream-cake/
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Stephanie - I think your version is amazing. I personally would LOVE to make all those different ice creams and then turn them into a cake. I have made different ice creams with our professional ice cream maker, it has a built in freezer, but as life gets busier I find less time for this. So lately I bought three flavours from Ciao Bella Ice Creams (actually I bought sorbettos) It is hands down the BEST ice cream in the market - try it once and if you have a palette for delicate flavours you won't go back to anything else. So anyway, I bought Mango, Passion Fruit and Rasberry sorbettos, layered them in a mold, red in middle and everyone LOVED it. So go to your local WF and see if you find the flvours you mentioned and give it a go - mom will love it.
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