DIY Ice Cream Cake

Inspired completely by Pinterest, I set my sights on making an ice cream cake this year for my son's 6th birthday. It was super quick and easy so I decided to share it with you guys.

Ingredients:

12 Ice Cream Sandwiches

16 ounce Container of Whipped Cream

Caramel and Chocolate Syrup

1/2 Gallon of Ice Cream (your flavor of choice)

Directions:

Line a 9"x13" dish with wax paper or plastic wrap. Spread softened ice cream evenly on the bottom of the dish (use the entire container). Next, layer with ice cream sandwiches. Gently press each one into the ice cream layer below. Place in freezer until ice cream is firm (usually take 1 to 1.5 hours). Remove from freezer once firm and place a serving tray larger enough to cover the dish. Flip ice cream cake over and remove the wax paper or plastic wrap. Spread softened whipped cream over the ice cream cake. Drizzle with syrup!!!     

Check out my YouTube video for more details!!

For the Love of Minions!!

I wanted to share some photos of the minion themed birthday I had for my son's 5th birthday. All of the decorations are handmade! My husband and I had a lot of fun making everything while we watched two seasons of The Good Wife...lol. 

This year I decided to finally make a miniature version of a dessert bar with cotton candy, chocolate covered pretzels, cookie brownies, chocolate drizzled rice krispies, minion cake and cupcakes.

My suggestion is to enlist a helper. I asked my niece to help. She dipped and drizzled everything in chocolate and made the cotton candy. My husband helped with the fondant work on the big minion. The big minion took two 8" cake pans and one 8" domed Betty Crocker pan. I used twinkies to make the minions on the cupcakes.

The minion decorations and games were super easy to make. We had pin the goggles on the minion and decided to put a "J"  on the uniform for my son James instead of a "G."

I know this is a bad picture but I completely forgot to take pictures of the good and evil minion bags that we made. We used purple and yellow bags, construction paper, cut outs, and
markers (brown, purple, yellow, black, and silver).

 We used minion cut outs for everything!!

Finally we decorated our front door using a yellow plastic table cover, blue poster board and computer paper.