Ice Cream Cake

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• 14 ice cream sandwiches
• 1 1/2 quarts vanilla ice cream (or your favorite flavor)
• 1 quart ice cream, vanilla with black cherries (or your favorite flavor)
• 1 cup vanilla wafer, crushed
• 1/4 cup butter, melted

Recipe

• 1 unwrap the ice cream sandwiches, one at a time, keeping the remaining ones in the freezer.].
• 2 cut 12 ice cream sandwiches in half, vertically. leave two uncut for now.
• 3 place in a container, and return to freezer, to keep them from melting.
• 4 take the vanilla ice creams out of the freezer, to thaw slightly.
• 5 mix the cookie crumbs with the melted butter, set aside.
• 6 grease a 10 inch springform cake pan with butter.
• 7 cut a rectangular strip of parchment paper, 34 inches long x 3 inches high, to fit inside the cake pan to line the sides.
• 8 press the cookie/butter crumbs on the bottom of the pan.
• 9 take out the cut up ice cream half from the freezer, and arrange vertically against the sides of the pan, forming chocolate and vanilla stripes.
• 10 fill in gaps with additional vanilla ice cream.
• 11 place the 1 ½ quart of vanilla ice cream into a bowl, and mush slightly with a spoon to even out its consistency.
• 12 form a vanilla layer, by spooning the vanilla ice cream over the cookie crumbs.
• 13 smooth it out.
• 14 prepare the vanilla with black cherries ice cream as above.
• 15 spoon over the vanilla layer, and smooth it out.
• 16 remove the one unwrapped ice cream sandwich and cut vertically, into ½ inch thick slices.
• 17 decorate the top of the cake with these slices, to create a design.
• 18 cover the cake with a foil parchment paper, and foil wrap, and return it to the freezer.
• 19 remove from the freezer 10 minutes before serving, for easier handling.
• 20 before serving, unwrap the cake, open the spring form, and remove sides, peel off the parchment paper from the sides.