Ice Cream Cakes. Sort of.

A short while ago I made Raspberry & Marshmallow Cupcakes.  When two of my nieces taste tested them for me I asked them if I were to make marshmallow cakes again, what flavour should I put with them?  The answer was, of course, chocolate.  They were specific though.  They asked for chocolate chips and chocolate sauce.

So there I was soaking in the bath yesterday thinking about cake (this isn't as unusual as it sounds!), and I considered adding a flake as decoration, stuck out like a '99', and I realised just how much it would look like an ice cream.  Then the cogs really started turning.  How could I make it look even more like an ice cream?  It was simple.  Bake the cakes in flat-bottomed ice cream cones instead of paper cases.

Now, I've googled this since I sat down to write this blog and of course I'm not the first person to think of it, but I do wonder whether I'm the first to mess around with it quite this much....

Oh, wait.  You need photos first!



'99' Ice Cream Cakes

 Before I continue, I feel I should add that I didn't intend for the marshmallow topping to look like melting ice cream.  It should have been all pert and pretty like it just came out of the Mr Whippy machine, but some accidents are happy ones and I think these are just cute!

So, yes, I baked the little cakes inside ice cream cones... or rather, cups.  It was just bog standard vanilla sponge, but once they were cooled I took out the cores and filled them with marshmallow.  Next I pushed some chocolate chips down into the marshmallow, then added more marshmallow in a ring around the edge which gave me more of a well.  Then I poured in chocolate sauce.  Oh yes!  "And then what?  There can't be more!".  Oh yes there can.  I added more chocolate chips, then finished piping on the marshmallow.  I popped in the Flakes and dusted them with an equal mix of icing sugar and cornflour.

So there they are, my '99 Ice Cream Cakes.

You might think that I stopped at that little experiment but you'd be wrong.  Look here...

Haribo Ice Cream Cake

The Haribo Ice Cream Cake was inspired by my sister who recently made a cake and decorated it with Haribo.  I also have a friend who could quite possibly live on them, so she may want to be prepared for a cakey delivery tomorrow!  You know who you are.

I followed the same steps as with the '99' cakes, but substituted the chocolate sauce for raspberry sauce, and the chocolate chips and Flake for Haribo.

Personally I prefer the chocolate version, which happily for my friend means she gets more Haribo cakes.  Hurrah!

I have a headache now.  Perhaps it's too much baking and not enough eating.  Or maybe I got that the wrong way round... hmmmmmmm...

Tomorrow I have soup and stew to make, perhaps with a side order of sundried tomato and parmesan buns.  If I get around to it, there might be photos of those too.