My baby girl turned 12 years old this weekend! I just don’t get where time goes. I was SO excited when I found out that we were going to have her. She made our family just perfect with two girls and two boys! Now on this birthday weekend, we had the shrieking laughter of her and a couple of her friends who had a sleep over. And you know, they had to have some good snacks while they were giggling at all hours of the night! As soon as I mentioned ice cream cake, they were hovering around with very eager expectation. This cake didn’t disappoint! They each had quite a very generous helping!
Now, if you love ice cream and you love chocolate and you love crunchy Oreo cookies, this is your dessert! It has it all! When my niece and nephew were young, they always requested an ice cream cake from Dairy Queen for their birthdays. This recipe is a copy cat of those expensive cakes. I love to use the homemade fudge sauce because it is like the best you’ve ever eaten, but of course you can buy sauce at the grocery store, too. I’m not sure how many jars you would need, but I’d guess a minimum of two to cover the cake. I bought 2 half gallons of ice cream for this and had some of each left over. I probably used 3/4 of a half gallon container.
Ice Cream Cake
Ingredients:
- 2 1/2 cups crushed Oreos
- 1/2 cup melted butter
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/4-1/2 gallon chocolate ice cream, slightly softened
- 1/4-1/2 gallon vanilla ice cream, slightly softened
- 8 ounces Cool Whip
Hot Fudge Sauce:
- 2 cup powdered sugar
- 2/3 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- 12 ounce can evaporated milk
- 1 stick margarine
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Directions:
Combine 2 cups Oreos with margarine and sugar.
Press into 9×13 pan.
Freeze 15 minutes.
Spread layer of each ice cream on top and freeze for 3 hours.
Combine first 4 hot fudge sauce ingredients in saucepan and bring to a boil for 8 minutes.
Remove from heat and stir in vanilla.
Cool to room temperature.
Spoon sauce on ice cream and freeze until firm.
Spread Cool Whip on top and sprinkle with Oreo crumbs.
Freeze 3 hours.
Wendell almost always got an ice cream cake for his birthday, sadly
this year I was so rushed I stuck an 8 and a 3 in a pecan pie and I was done. Will try your recipe it looks like aWINNER.
Do you re freeze after putting on the Kool whip?
Yes, you freeze the whole thing.
My daughter just saw this post and said to me, “I’m turning 12 this year.” But, I want to make this so badly that I don’t want to have to wait for her birthday. It’s her dad’s birthday next month. She came up with a solution, “So, let’s have it twice this year.” Sounds like a good idea to me! http://1camera1mom.blogspot.com
Sounds like a great idea to me!
Yum, DELICIOUS Wendell finally got his ice cream cake, a belated gift from a friend, THANK YOU.
So glad you both liked it!
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For the hot fudge sauce, do bring it to a rolling boil or a simmer? Never made it before but I sure want to!
It gets to a gentle rolling boil. Just be sure to keep stirring so it doesn’t scorch.
I make this hot fudge sauce alot, and I have found that it is much easier to do in the microwave–you don’t have to stand and stir constantly
Great recipe- we are an ice cream family so this will work wonderful for us! Have a great 4th!
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I smash up some rice crispies or frosted flakes and mix in with fudge
It makes this weird crunch that is very similar to DQ middle layer.
yeah,try rice krispy treat mixture as very 1st layer crust before oreo crust step and make sure to freeze before adding next layer! Yummmmmmm
Leave out the choc ice cream and add spanish peanuts on top of the cool whip (instead of the cookie crumbs) and this is what my family calls “Peanut Buster Bar”…named after the Peanut Buster Parfait at Dairy Queen.
I make this recipe, but my homemade sauce is :
1 can Hersheys Syrup
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 stick butter or margarine
Haven’t tried it with chocolate ice cream too, but I will next time.
This is the recipe almost everyone in my family requests for their birthday dessert.
What size is that Hershey syrup? Is the bottle Hershey syrup OK?
Do you still boil for 8 minutes?
Yes. I have always used butter & margarine interchangeably.
Thank for homemade s
yrup;)
stick of butter is how much exactly?
8 tablespoons
You use the butter in the ingredients …then you say margirine . Can I use butter in both parts of the recipe??
Sure can!
Sounds great I’m going to try this… My son doesn’t like cake,so we always buy a ice cream cake. Will try the recipe for fudge topping too.
This was a super easy & fun recipe to make with the kids! In the freezer, I’m sure it will be great! Thanks!
I’m going to use fudge sauce in a jar instead of making it…trying to make it less time consuming…I’m lazy!! Has anyone done this?
You certainly can do this. My sister does sometimes. I will say that the homemade fudge sauce is amazing!
Is this recipe printer friendly?
I’d probably just copy and paste it into a Word document and print. Ctrl+C = copy, Ctrl+V = paste.
This is a great recipe, absolutely delicious. I’ve been making this cake for 17 years and use Rich’s whip topping to decorate the top. I actually decorate it with flowers (I make roses with this whip cream) and write a birthday greeting as you would get at Dairy Q.
I’ve also used peanut butter chips to make a peanut butter fudge sauce instead of chocolate chips for the fudge sauce. .Use it with chocolate ice cream.
What do u use to write on it?
I don’t usually write on it. I sprinkle Oreo crumbs or shaved chocolate on top.
You can purchase the gel icing that comes in a tube that you can find at the grocery store. This works well. You have to be careful because some of the dyes “run” on the whip cream topping on the cake as it becomes room temp. I have also added confectioners sugar to the whip cream that i decorated the cake with, rewhipped it to make it stiff and use this for writing on the cake and also making roses for decorations.
So my fudge layer never froze up. It was still a liquid after freezing for a full day. Thoughts on what I did wrong??? Still delicious though!
The only thing I can think of was that it needed to cook longer to thicken up. Glad it still tasted good!
Hi Heidi. the problem is definetly that you did not cook the fudge long enough. It is usually 7 to 10 minutes exactly. Cook it at a med-hi heat stirring constantly while mixture keeps bubbling as it cooks. Cooking it to long, will make the fudge harder and it will be too sticky to eat when used on the cake.
Am I correct in assuming you take the centres out of the oreos before crushing them?
No, I don’t. If you crush them in the food processor it all blends up together. You don’t even see the white part.
If I make it ahead of time and leave it in the freezer overnight, do you know whether it should sit out a little bit before serving, or should it be served immediately after taken out? Wondering how fast it will soften.
It is best to let it soften just a little. It is much easier to cut & serve that way. One package of Oreos should be plenty for your crust.
One more thing: is one package of oreos enough to make 2 1/2 c of crushed? Thanks! Will try it this weekend.
I actually use exactly 22 oreos to cover a 9×13 pan, this makes the crust just perfect to easily cut the cake.
Thanks!!
I made it, used a caramel / chocolate swirly vanilla ice cream on the bottom. Was very good! Only problem was that the oreo crust was so firm that nobody could cut through it. Might have been a combination between me packing it too firmly, and freezing overnight in a glass pan. Otherwise it was a very yummy dessert! I did cook the chocolate syrup for 8 minutes and that was perfect. Had to stir a lot, otherwise it would caramelize too much on the bottom of the pot and get lumpy.
Can you use real butter instead of margarine? And, how about
homemade whipped cream on the top?
You can use either real butter or margarine and either topping will work great!
You could by a jar of fudge. Also, use any ice cream to create any flavor. I recently used mint chocolate chip. Oh so yummy!
I think you could do any variation at all and it would be great!
Looks delicious ! My husbands Grandmother makes this too and we call it YumYum !
How many adults will one cake serve?
Depends on the size pieces you cut. I’d say at least 15 adults can get a good size portion. More if you cut smaller pieces.
Thanks! I’m going to make it for my husbands birthday party!!!
about the size pieces; if you cut them 2″ by 2″ pieces you will get exactly 24 servings.. 3″ x 4″ pieces will give you 12 servings.
Do you cover the cake up when storing it in the freezer?
Yes, I do.
Thank you for sharing this recipe…here is my rendition from your inspiration:
http://pinterest911.blogspot.ca/2013/03/who-wants-ice-creamcake.html
I was wandering if you could use Graham Crackers for this with different flavors of ice cream?
Absolutely…I used this recipe with a twist of my own as seen in the link above…tasted so they were looking for more
Thank you again Kim for the original idea 
i made this last night and its delicious! thank you!
So glad you liked it! Thanks for letting me know!
Do you crush the entire oreo cookie with the cream, or just the cookie?
I crush the whole cookie in the food processor. You really don’t see the white part of the cookie when it is crushed really well.
Sounds good, thanks for your reply.
Made this cake for our birthdays today… it is wonderfully delicious and the hot fudge sauce that tops it is out of this world! Used GF graham crackers for part of the base (so I didn’t have to run out and get GF cookies). Family is already making plans for when we can have it again. Cheers!
So glad you loved it. I think the hot fudge is fabulous, too!
This cake is delicious! I tweaked it a bit by adding 1 T of instant coffee crystals to the chocolate sauce, pecan bits over the ice cream layer and mini chocolate chips on top of the Cool Whip instead of cookie crumbs. Thanks for sharing such a great recipe.
Your tweaking sounds delicious!:)
Made this for my 11 year old son’s birthday. Directions were perfect & it came out amazing! Definitely better than the store-bought. Just have to plan ahead of time to make sure there’s time to make. Will make this again! (& again…& again…) Thank you!
I’m so glad it turned out well for you! I love it, too!