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Ice Cream Cookie Cake Recipe

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Delicious ice cream cookie cake with a shortbread cookie crust topped with a thin layer of melted chocolate, and then layered with strawberry ice cream. This three layered dessert can be eaten with your hands!

Shortbread Ice Cream Cookie Cake

Celebrate With An Ice Cream Cookie Cake

Woo-hoo, it’s PAR-TY time!

We celebrated Ashley’s birthday this past weekend and for the occasion I created a fun scrumptious dessert that you are going to love!

This dessert is easier to make than a traditional birthday cake and just as festive!

When we visited my in-laws a couple of weekends ago my father-in-law made lemon bars, and I’ve been obsessing over the simple buttery shortbread crust he used ever since!

Initially I was going to make a giant cookie topped with chocolate and serve it with a scoop of ice cream, but it looked too plain.

It didn’t take long for our birthday celebration dessert to morph into this ice cream cookie cake pie-tart!

Shortbread Ice Cream Cookie Cake has a think layer of chocolate separating the crust from the ice cream! This tasty dessert can be sliced and eaten with your hands! The Foodie Affair

How To Make Ice Cream Cookie Cake

This recipe makes enough for two shortbread crusts, so if you only need one you can freeze half of the crust for another time or make cookies out of it!

I used a tart pan to mold the shortbread crust into and after it was cooked and cooled I spread a thin layer of melted chocolate over the crust!

Shortbread Ice Cream Cookie Cake has a think layer of chocolate separating the crust from the ice cream! This tasty dessert can be sliced and eaten with your hands! The Foodie Affair

Once it hardens the chocolate adds a thin barrier between the cookie and ice cream!

I wanted the ice cream to be pink, which just so happens to match the color of Tripler Army Medical Hospital where Ashley was born!

Yep, the building of the hospital is painted pink!

We always made a big deal out of that when she was older.

Shortbread Ice Cream Cookie Cake has a think layer of chocolate separating the crust from the ice cream! This tasty dessert can be sliced and eaten with your hands! The Foodie Affair

Festive Cake Can Be Customized

Every time we drove by the hospital we would point it out…”LOOK, there’s the PINK hospital that you were born at!“

We were thinking…”It LOOKS like the painting bid was picked based on the price of bargain basement paint!!” LOL

It is actually very pretty coral pink and if you’ve ever been to Hawaii and have visited The Royal Hawaiian Resort it’s similar in color.

We had a theme in mind. I definitely encourage you to mix up the ice cream with your favorite flavor.

How about tying some of the following:

  • Plain vanilla ice cream
  • Rocky Road
  • Chocolate
  • Cherry
  • Mint Chocolate Chip
  • Buttered Pecan
  • Cookies ‘n Cream

The list is endless! What is your favorite ice cream?

Shortbread Ice Cream Cookie Cake has a think layer of chocolate separating the crust from the ice cream! This tasty dessert can be sliced and eaten with your hands! The Foodie Affair

I used Tillamook’s creamy and luscious Oregon Strawberry ice cream, which is just as dreamy as it sounds!

Each of us picked up our piece with our hands and took bites like we were eating pizza!

Hey, that’s another name I can add to this dessert! Shortbread ice cream cookie-cake-pie-tart-dessert pizza!

Shortbread Ice Cream Cookie Cake on a white plate with colorful sprinkles

Ice Cream Cookie Cake Recipe

Yield: 8 Servings
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Additional Time: 4 hours
Total Time: 4 hours 45 minutes

Ice cream cookie cake with a shortbread crust, a thin layer of chocolate, then topped with your favorite ice cream topped with sprinkles. Nice change to a traditional birthday cake.

Ingredients

Shortbread Crust

  • 1 1/2 cups (3 sticks) butter, unsalted at room temperature
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt

Chocolate Layer

  • 1 1/4 milk chocolate, melted

Ice Cream Layer

  • 3 cups strawberry ice cream, softened

Decorate

  • whipped cream
  • sprinkles

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  • In a large bowl beat together the butter and sugar until combined. Add the vanilla.
  • In a separate bowl whisk together the flour and salt. Add to the butter mixture and mix on low until a dough forms.
  • Divide dough in half (you only need one for this recipe) and place each between two layers of parchment paper. Roll into a circular disk about 11 inches is diameter. Chill in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
  • Remove top layer of parchment paper and gently flip on 9 inch tart pan. Remove second layer of parchment paper and gently press into pan forming the crust. Pierce bottom of the dough with a fork. Bake for 25 minutes or until very light golden brown. Cool at room temperature.
  • Melt chocolate in the microwave or double boiler until creamy. Spread over cooled crust. Put in the refrigerator or freezer to harden. While hardening put about 3 cups of ice cream in a large bowl and left soften. Mix until it is creamy. Top on chocolate layer and smooth out covering the whole cookie-cake. Return to freezer for ice cream to harden. Decorate with whipped cream and sprinkles.
    • Nutrition Information:
    Yield: 8 Serving Size: 1
    Amount Per Serving: Calories: 435Total Fat: 7gSaturated Fat: 4gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 1gCholesterol: 17mgSodium: 103mgCarbohydrates: 85gFiber: 2gSugar: 29gProtein: 8g

    Please note that the nutritional information provided are guidelines and may vary based on the brand of products used. For your specific nutritional goals use My Fitness Pal or Verywell Fit recipe calculators. All content within this site is not intended as medical diagnosis or treatment and should not be considered a substitute for professional medical expertise.

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    Cuisine: American / Category: Dessert
    Shortbread Ice Cream Cookie Cake has a think layer of chocolate separating the crust from the ice cream! This tasty dessert can be sliced and eaten with your hands! The Foodie Affair
    Shortbread Ice Cream Cookie Cake has a think layer of chocolate separating the crust from the ice cream! This tasty dessert can be sliced and eaten with your hands! The Foodie Affair

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    1. Healing Tomato

      I never say no to Ice Cream Cake! Your cake looks so easy to make and so delicious. Must make it today

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    2. Debi

      I love shortbread. It’s so simple and perfect! And then to top it with ice cream is ingenious. This will be great all summer and fall long.

      Reply

    6. Julie Menghini

      How sweet that your daughter was born in a pink hospital! That Cookie, tart, pie, dessert, 8th wonder of the world, looks amazing and I know there wouldn’t be a bite left in my house!

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    13. Joy @ Joy Love Food

      This would definitely be a huge hit at my house, all three kids love pizza and ice-cream and my girls love all things pink, how fun that your daughter was born in a pink hospital! 🙂

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