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Super Simple Homemade Banana Ice Cream Cake

This Super Simple Homemade Banana Ice Cream Cake was a last minute decision. Our daughter turned 13 and was having a party 5 days after her actual birthday. She had requested a cake for her party but I really did not want her special day to go by without a cake and without blowing out candles. She had already had mini cup cakes I had made her at netball that afternoon with her friends and she was having a flour based cake at her birthday party, so I decided to do an ice cream cake. And it was so simple. Here’s what you I did.

Ingredients

  • 6 frozen bananas
  • 1/4 cup milk of your choice (I used Coco Quench Coconut)
  • 300ml cream, whipped
  • Toppings of your choice – I used strawberries, grated 90% dark chocolate and maltesers

Method

  1. Blend the frozen bananas and milk in your food processor until thick and creamy (depending on the size of your bananas, you may need to add a little more liquid to process them til smooth)
  2. Line a rectangle cake tin with baking paper (I used a tin about 30 x 20)
  3. Pour your ice cream into the cake tin
  4. Freeze for 4 hours or until firm enough to touch (doesn’t have to be hard)
  5. Gently lift the cake out of the tin using the baking paper and turn upside down onto a plate (I used a chopping board. I put it over the top of the cake, then turned it upside down and peeled off the paper)
  6. Spread the whipped cream all over the cake
  7. Add toppings of your choice – I cut strawberries in half, popped in a few maltesers strategically (so one per piece) and then grated some 90% dark chocolate over
  8. Put back in the freezer for another 2 hours
  9. Get cake out aboout 10 minutes before you’re ready to serve so the ice cream isn’t hard.

Note: because this is not a churned ice cream cake using cream and glucose or dextrose, it does not have the smoothness and creaminess of a tub of ice cream. If you do want a creamier ice cream cake, here’s another Ice Cream Cake I made for Indrani’s 10th Birthday. It’s a lot longer process but more of a traditional ice cream cake.

The Dora candle on this cake was from Indrani’s 2nd birthday and the # 3 from her third birthday cake. Yes, I am a sentimental mush burger.

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