Last week was Ray’s birthday, he’s the middle child in our family and his birthday falls right after Christmas and is always hard to throw together…especially if you’re me and don’t plan as well as you should! Every year our family travels to Colorado to visit my sister and her family during the week between Christmas and New Year’s. The problem with this is that we get home, usually, the day or two before his birthday. I know…tiny violins are playing for me now…I just need to get it together, right?!
Anyway, this year while scrambling to make Ray a cake, I rushed right away to one of my favorite places for inspiration…Pinterest! I LOVE it! I went straight to my Sweet Stuff board where I had pinned a Kit Kat Cake that I thought was really cool and decided that it would be perfect for my little man, Ray! Since he loves ice cream cakes, I decided to break out my Wilton Fanci Fill Cake Pan set and make this Kit Kat Ice Cream Cake! By the way, if you hadn’t noticed, I’m totally addicted to Pinterest…here’s a link to my boards.
These pans are really great…they have an indention so that the ice cream can be filled neatly in the center without having to try to cut it out yourself. Plus you can use these pans to fill cakes with other things like mousse, fruit fillings, cream cheese, or fill the whole thing with two different flavors of ice cream, like this Dreamy Ice Cream Cake.
I used a cake mix for this recipe, but you could use your favorite cake recipe instead. All it takes is enough batter to make a two layer 9-inch cake.
Bake the cake according to recipe instructions, but check it before the listed bake time because the pan has deep indentions and can cause the cake to bake faster.
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- Make sure to spray well with cooking spray
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- After baking, cool cakes on wire rack for about 10 minutes, then invert onto another wire rack and continue cooling.
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- Freeze until firm (about 1 hour)
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- Spread ice cream to even out and repeat on 2nd layer
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- Prepare Icing (recipe below)
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- Sandwich filled cake layers together with ice cream facing each other…freeze for at least 2 hours before proceeding
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- Ice cake while frozen to cover all sides generously
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- Just remember, it doesn’t have to be perfect! You’re going to hide it with candy!
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- Working quickly, place kit kat bars side by side all around the edge, making sure about 1/4″ is above the top of the cake
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- Pour enough M&Ms onto the top of the cake to spread out and fill evenly
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- Fill and press M&Ms into bottom edge of cake, tie with a bow if desired…voila!
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- One happy kid!
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- Happy Birthday, Ray!
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- One really cool cake!
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Jessica says
July 17, 2017 at 9:39 pmgday where do you buy those tins? Being in New Zealand I have never seen them before!
Jennifer says
July 19, 2017 at 11:22 amHi there! Amazon sells them. Here’s the link https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00I3AC55M/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00I3AC55M&linkCode=as2&tag=jenncook0c-20&linkId=c52ebf2dafa272f130b4a28b8c4f7fe8