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Ice Cream Cake w/ Fudgy Crunchies (DQ Cake)

This DQ Style Ice Cream Cake w/ Fudgy Crunchies is just like the one you’d get at Dairy Queen, but you can make it all your own with any flavors you like. Perfect for your ice-cream loving birthday friends and family.

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Ice Cream Cake

Ice Cream Cake with Fudgy Crunchies + Desserts Cookbook Giveaway!

5 from 1 vote
This ice cream cake is easy, impressive, and a foolproof crowd pleaser. This is our kids' first choice for birthdays. The Oreo crust is heavenly. The chocolatey filling made of fudgy crunchies is reminiscent of DQ's famous ice cream cakes. Irresistible!
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Freeze: 1 hour
Total Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
Servings: 12 servings
Author: Amy Dong

Ingredients  

  • 1 package Oreo cookies, 15.5oz cream filling removed. Reserve 8 cookies for the crunch filling.
  • 7 TB salted butter, melted
  • half gallon mint chip ice cream, or other flavor
  • half gallon vanilla bean ice cream, or other flavor
  • 1 cup easy homemade fudge sauce, *see below
  • 2 cups easy homemade whipped cream for decorating and serving, *see below

Instructions

  • Make fudge sauce (recipe below) and whipped cream (recipe below), and set aside in fridge.
  • Coarsely break up 8 chocolate cookies (no cream filling) into bits for the crunch filling. Set aside.
  • Process remainder of chocolate cookies into fine crumbs, using food processor (or enclose cookies in heavy duty freezer bags and crush finely with rolling pin.) Combine fine chocolate crumbs with melted butter. Mix well. Lightly grease bottom of a 9 inch springform pan, and press crumb mixture tightly and evenly into bottom of pan. Tip: Use bottom of a flat-bottom cup to do the pressing. Place pan in freezer.
  • Meanwhile, allow mint chip ice cream to soften at room temp about 5-10 minutes. Spread approx. three-fourths of the entire tub of ice cream evenly over crumb crust (or use as much as you'd like.) Place pan in freezer.
  • Mix 1 cup of lukewarm fudge sauce with the 8 coarsely broken cookie bits. Spread this filling evenly over first ice cream layer, leaving 1 cm space around edges.
  • Freeze 30 minutes.
  • Slightly soften vanilla bean ice cream, and spread about three-fourths of entire tub evenly over the fudge filling. Freeze until firm.
  • Decorate with homemade whipped cream as desired. Keep frozen until ready to serve. Before serving, let sit at room temp approx. 5 minutes, and remove carefully from springform pan.

Nutrition (per serving)

Calories: 951kcal | Carbohydrates: 121g | Protein: 14g | Fat: 48g | Saturated Fat: 27g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 11g | Trans Fat: 0.3g | Cholesterol: 136mg | Sodium: 499mg | Potassium: 762mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 57g | Vitamin A: 1394IU | Vitamin C: 13mg | Calcium: 407mg | Iron: 5mg
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Method: Freezer

* Recipe for Homemade Fudge Sauce   *Recipe for Homemade Whipped Cream

AND I did not forget the Giveaway:  GIVEAWAY NOW CLOSED.

Desserts Cookbook Giveaway 1

In honor of summer, I’m giving away this beautiful new cookbook, Cool Desserts.  Perfect for sunny days!  Chef Carla Bardi is the author of this beautiful book, among several cookbooks, while running a vineyard and restaurant in Italy.  Her new Cool Desserts book features all the warm-weather desserts you could crave this season!

Desserts Cookbook Giveaway 2

I love, love this book.  Every single recipe is accompanied by mouthwatering photos galore.   Each recipe is easy yet impressive.  Carla’s collection of recipes is super easy to follow and absolutely gorgeous.  I’m pretty sure you’ll adore the style.

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91 comments

    • Aimee Noel Callagy

    What size Springform Pan are we supposed to use?

      • chewoutloud

      Aimee, I use an 8.5 – 9″ Springform; the less diameter, the thicker the cake (and vice-versa.) Enjoy!

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    I love ice cream cake!

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    Strawberry shortcake

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