How to Make a Popsicle Ice Cream Cake! By Cupcake Addiction
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00:00 Hi, I'm Elise and welcome to My Cupcake Addiction where today I'm going to be showing you how
00:18 to make a gorgeous, super simple, pull-apart popsicle ice cream cake.
00:23 I love this idea.
00:24 It's easy to make, really easy to serve and the kids are going to absolutely love it.
00:28 You're going to need some good quality ice cream.
00:30 I went with vanilla, chocolate and strawberry.
00:32 And get the best quality ice cream that you can find for this.
00:35 I've also got a spatula and a couple of spoons.
00:38 For garnishing and decorations, I've got some melted chocolate, some crushed nuts and some
00:41 sprinkles but you can use whatever you like here.
00:44 I've also got some popsicle sticks.
00:47 And for my tray today, I'm using a loaf pan.
00:49 So you want something that's sort of quite deep and quite long to get that really popsicle
00:53 sort of feel for your cake.
00:55 Let's get started.
00:56 The first thing that you want to do is you want to take your first color.
00:58 So for me, that's strawberry and I really let that soften.
01:01 So it's been on the bench for about half an hour or so just to let it soften down.
01:04 I've scooped that into my loaf pan and then I'm just going to use my spatula to smooth
01:08 it off so it's as even as possible.
01:10 You want to pop that off into the freezer.
01:12 This doesn't need to be set rock solid, about half an hour to 45 minutes just so that it
01:15 starts to firm up so that we can do our next layer.
01:18 With your first layer semi-set, you can scoop in your second layer and try to use about
01:22 the same amount of ice cream here so you get really nice even layers.
01:25 When your center layer has semi-set, you want to repeat that process with your third layer
01:29 which for me is the chocolate.
01:30 And I've used about a half a liter of ice cream for each of my layers.
01:34 Before that goes into the freezer, insert your popsicle sticks and make sure that they
01:37 go down into that center layer that's semi-firm so they're held in place nicely.
01:41 Perfect.
01:42 Now that's going to go off into the freezer to set for at least 12 hours.
01:45 I would make this definitely the day before, maybe even 2.
01:49 You do want that ice cream to be really really firmly set so that when we chop these popsicles
01:52 up, they're really really easy to serve and they don't melt too quickly.
01:56 To remove your popsicle cake from your loaf pan, I just filled my sink with some warm
02:00 water and then you just want to dip it right down to the rim but make sure no water goes
02:04 into the actual cake for about 3 seconds.
02:07 Bring it out, get rid of any excess water and then you just need to break the seal because
02:11 the ice cream is going to be kind of suctioned onto the loaf tin a little bit.
02:14 So I'm just running my knife down either edge and then tilt it over and gently and evenly
02:19 use those popsicle sticks to just slide it out.
02:23 Perfect.
02:24 Slide it onto your serving tray and you want to do this just prior to serving because it
02:27 is ice cream and it is going to melt.
02:29 To serve your popsicles, slice them off and hand them out to your guests.
02:33 You can serve them plain or you can provide your guests with some of that melted chocolate
02:37 and some of those nuts and sprinkles and let them decorate their own popsicles, particularly
02:42 popular with the kids.
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02:47 way of sweet and delicious treats and as always, thanks very much for watching.
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