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Easy As Pie...Not Cake!
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Ice cream cakes are a great nostalgic dessert – a kid's party favourite, there's something quite retro & sentimental about them. When we designed our Gourmet Ice Cream Cakes, we wanted to put our spin on this delicious old-school treat! Here's how we did it.
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Ice cream cakes are a great nostalgic dessert – a kid's party favourite, there's something quite retro & sentimental about them.
When we designed our Gourmet Ice Cream Cakes, we wanted to put our spin on this delicious old-school treat.
Here's how we did it.
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Our Double Chocolate Ice Cream Cakes! Double the chocolate, double the yum.
1. Rethink the basics
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2. Give them a gourmet touch.
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Our Earl Grey Ice Cream Cake. Ain't she a beaut? Topped with torched meringue, on an almond dacquoise base.
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As seen earlier, our Double Chocolate Ice Cream Cake. Topped with a chocolate buttercream cone & dollops,
along with a vanilla macaron. On a chocolate fudge cake base.
One of our greatest challenges was figuring out how to adapt patisserie or conventional baking techniques to ice cream cakes.
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Torching marshmallows for our S'mores Ice Cream Cake. Those pillowy babies almost look like they're breathing...
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...lining the cake with crushed graham crackers. Therapeutic!
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Piping the chocolate buttercream cones for our Double Chocolate Ice Cream Cake.
There was a lot (delicious) of trial & error involved.
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Dotting the cake with flakes of 23 karat gold leaf...for that added sparkle.
Watch more snippets of how we create our cakes here!
The Results:
Our signature ice cream cakes!
Here's a detailed look at each one – which will you choose for your next birthday party?