Ice Cream Cake

I've been having fun lately with cakes. Making all different kinds of cakes. I really liked how this one turned out. I never have liked when I buy an ice cream cake, the ones that have cake in them, and there is more cake than ice cream. I want more ice cream than cake. This ice cream cake is perfect because you can add more ice cream if you want to or less if you want to! You can have it the way you like it, without all of the extra fat, and that is how desserts should be right?! For this ice cream cake, picture above, I used Rice Dreams Carob Almond, found here, and topped it with carob chips. Oh so YummY!

Ice Cream Cake

Ingredients

2 cups whole wheat flour

1 tablespoon baking powder

1 teaspoon salt

1 1/2 cups evaporated cane juice

2 eggs

3/4 cup rice milk

3/4 cup applesauce

1 recipe whipped cream

Ice cream of your choosing

Directions

Pre heat oven to 350*F. In a bowl combine flour, baking powder, salt, and evaporated cane juice. Then add the eggs, rice milk, and applesauce, and combine well. Pour into a parchment lined, and sprayed with cooking spray, 9 inch cake pan. Bake for 30-40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Let cool completely! When cooled, remove cake from pan, do not remove the parchment paper off the bottom of the cake. Cut in half. Remove top of cake and set aside. Place bottom of cake back into pan. Top with your choice of slightly thod ice cream as thick as you would like. Place top of cake on top of ice cream layer. Cover cake pan with plastic wrap and put into freezer, over night or until ice cream is refrozen. Remove from freezer. Place pan in a bowl of hot water to help loosen the cake. After cake comes out of pan remove parchment paper. Top with whipped cream, and enjoy!

Whipped Cream

Ingredients

2 cups heavy whipping cream

1/4 to 1/2 cup organic powdered sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions

In a bowl, pour whipping cream and start mixing on low, gradually increasing the speed. When the cream starts to thicken and soft peaks start to form, turn off mixer and add organic powdered sugar. Turn on mixer, slowly increasing the speed s the sugar combines. When the peaks start to turn a little more stiff, turn off the mixer and add the vanilla. Mix until stiff peaks form. Spread on cake and enjoy!