Birthday Cakes - The Decoration and The Appareance of The Cake Makes It All!

Birthday cake is generally a diverse-layered cake coated with chill or icing having exceptional special birthday beautifications (candles and a birthday greeting are the customary minimum).

Although birthday cakes are frequently some type of sponge cake, there is, in fact no restriction to possible differences. Cakes may be leavened with beaten eggs (sponge cake) or they may be chemically leavened butter cakes - and children’s birthday cakes in particular are often ‘Ice Cream Cakes’ that don’t even require baking. The cakes can be round, rectangular, square or any other shape. In fact, a particular characteristic of today’s birthday cakes is that they are shaped and decorated to depict specific themes or favorite characters etc. In other words, what distinguishes birthday cake from any other cake is mainly the decoration of the cake and its appearance. 

Ice Cream Birthday Cake

Ice Cream Cake can refer to two things: ice cream that is shaped like a cake, or - and this is what concerns us here - ice cream and cake layered together into a single confection. Ice Cream Cakes probably descend from Victorian ice cream bombes (desserts made from ice cream and fruit in elaborate molds, sometimes lined with cake or biscuits). The very first recipe, in print, for an ice cream bombe can be found in The Italian Confectioner (London: 1820), written by a highly respected Italian confectioner of the time, G.A. Jarrin.

A typical recipe for a modern Ice Cream Cake is given below. Without an iota of doubt, the unique feature, is that no roasting is needed:

Dairy Queen Ice Cream Cake

Butter the cake pan of your choice, then press wax paper over the bottom of the pan. If using Dairy Queen ice cream, spread it in the bottom of the pan. If you are using any other ice cream, allow it to soften, then spread on the bottom of pan until the pan is almost half full. Sprinkle with crushed Oreo cookies, then spoon hot fudge sauce (at room temperature) over the top of this. Put in freezer until frozen Sprinkle with grinded Oreo cookies, after that spoon hot fudge sauce (at room temperature) above this. Set in freezer until frozen.

Remove from freezer and add second layer of ice cream. Smooth it evenly with the top of the cake pan. Return to the freezer and freeze until very hard. Remove from freezer and frost with a mixture of equal parts ice cream and thawed frozen whipped topping beaten together. Return to freezer until serving time. Again put it into freezer till the time of serving.

Cake and ice cream have long been traditional American birthday fare. Now, with Ice Cream Birthday Cake, American originality comes to the fore front once again – producing simple, fast and wonderfully tasty desserts that have already captured birthday celebrations through out the world.

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