Easy Ice-cream Cake

This is a belated post.

One of Master Prince's request is to have ice-cream cake as the birthday cake. Came across a simple recipe using ready made ice-cream by mylittlespace.

To put it very simply, all you need is ice-cream of your choice - be it Haagen dazs, Baskin Robbins, etc. Whisk it in semi-cold state until 'soft', pour into container and re-freeze it.

Needless to say the kids simply loved them. First time there were no birthday cake leftovers as the kids readily came back for seconds until all gone - all within 15 mins too, imagine that!! Lolz Even the adults didn't manage to get a slice. Well since it was a kids party, the adults couldn't kick a fuss ;)

Added a layer of marshmallow for the bottom chocolate layer.

The top layer was vanilla ice-cream. Thought it looked a little plain all white so added a swirl.

My freezer was very cold so it took some effort cutting the ice-cream cake up even with a warmed knife. The oreo biscuit base was frozen solid - note to self to use less butter the next time.

Chocolate Rose Cake

This cake is especially dedicated to my niece who visited a few weeks ago. Been wanting to try this since I saw this beautiful cake created by iambaker. A pink coloured rose cake would have been really sweet but since my niece's favourite cake is chocolate, chocolate it is.

Used Wilton tip 2D, but think next time will use 1M tip instead. Hm, think I need more practise with those swirls. Anyway glad I finally made it.

If you haven't guessed the chocolate cake recipe is by Ina Garten as previously shared - its a good hardy recipe so haven't had reason to try others.