An Epic Bake-Less Cake Recipe

Want a SUPER simple bake-less cake recipe that will make the perfect dessert for any celebration? Read on 🙂

I celebrated my birthday recently and it’s a tradition in our house for the mama bear to make us all a handmade cake, usually in a creative, quirky fun design.

This year was quite an impressive cake I’ve gotta say, it’s up there as one of my favs! A five decker layer ice-cream cake. Oh my goodness was it yummy.

The best thing is, it’s all made of ice-cream so it’s so simple to make as there’s no baking involved. Any age can make it and it will look super impressive!

How to make you ice-cream cake

You’ll need:

  • 5x tubs of ice-cream, all different colours and flavours ideally (you won’t need it all)
  • Sweets and biscuits to decorate
  • Melted chocolate
  • 5x round cake tins

You’ll need the ice-cream slightly squishy to mould it for the first stage. So either take it out of the freezer for 5/10 minutes, or usually by the time you get back from the shops it’s the perfect stage to start making your ice-cream cake.

Scoop out your ice-cream into the cake tins – one flavour for each tin. Press it down firmly to create about a 1 inch thick layer.

Pop all cake tins back in the freezer to solidify and wait at least an hour for it to properly freeze.

Take out each of your cake tins, and fill up a washing up bowl with boiling water. Just dip each cake tin in the hot water for about 5 seconds, wipe the bottom of the tin with a tea towel and turn the tin over onto a plate. The ice-cream should pop out relatively easily with a few shakes. Take a knife and score around the edges and repeat the water technique again if you’re struggling to get it out.

Place all the layers on top of each other, then use your creative imagination to decorate your ice-cream tower.

Melted chocolate makes a great effect if you drip it down the edge of the cake. Or you could cover your cake in melted chocolate stripes.

Then adorn your cake with yummy sweets and biscuits. My mum decorated mine in mini jammi-dodgers, chocolate fingers, cadburys crunchie and wafer biscuits as they are a few of my favs!

The more colourful it is, the more impressive it’ll look!

Remember to keep it in the freezer until you’re ready to present to the birthday girl or boy.

There you have it, a super epic bake-less cake recipe!

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