Chocolate Ice Cream Cake – Bombe!!!

Name: Chocolate Ice Cream Cake …. Bombe!!
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 720 min
Total time: 750 min
Ingredients: 2 Chocolate Swiss Rolls (ready made); 1/2 Jar Cherries in Kirsch (Opie + juice); 1 Carton Cookie Dough Ice-cream; 1/2 Carton Chocolate ice-cream; 1-2 Meringue Nests crumbled; Icing Sugar (for dusting)

This Chocolate Ice Cream Cake – or call it a Bombe if you like is super flipping cool!

Detailed below is my my recipe, but please remember you can so easily change it up.

It can be filled with any other lovely fillings, any of your own choice.

Everyone loves an ice cream, especially in the summer, so why not make it into a cake, yum!

Actually forget that it works for any time of year really as long as you change the additions around

Chocolate Ice Cream Cake – Birthday Cake?

It can even be a beautiful birthday cake – decorated with candles or a Happy Birthday topper?

Or an Alternative Christmas Pudding?

And you know what it’s also very lovely in the winter time, especially Christmas!

In fact it’s the perfect, simplest alternative Christmas Pudding / dessert!

I always make one of these and have this and a more traditional Christmas Pudding too.

There are many who don’t like a traditional Christmas Pudding.

I know a lot of kids especially who aren’t keen. So you can make this (ahead of time) to serve at the same times as you serve the Christmas Pudding!!

You could even pop a piece of holly on the top!

What size Pudding basin for an ice cream bombe?

I used a 2 pint pudding basin

So what’s a 2 pint pudding basin you might ask? :

If you pour water right up to the brim of a so-called (2 pint) basin, it actually takes 2 ½ pints ish!

The measurements for this standard size are approximatly as follows:

3 ½ inches (9 cm) base diameter, 6 ½ inches (16 cm) top diameter and 4 ½ inches (11.5 cm) deep

However don’t stress too much – you can make it to any size

Always make two Ice Cream Cakes 🙂

And while you’re at it – why not make two? It’s so easy.

Then you have a spare for another occasion over the festivities!

You can feel quite smug when you get those surprise visitors and you can ‘hey presto’ it out of the freezer.

It just needs an approx 30 minutes defrost time

You simply line a pudding dish, all the details are below, it really is just a construction job!

Bang in your fillings. Pop a top on it and place in the freezer until you need it!

If you want to make your own ice cream I have a great no churn ice cream recipe – have a gander

Shop bought stuff works equally as well

I think it really is the perfect alternative Christmas Pudding!

You can make it so Christmassy!!

Cover the outside with buttercream maybe and cover in Malteasers?

Oh the choices are limitless.

Go on make cake, with ice cream – why not?

My choice was Chocolate Cookie dough ice-cream (obviously 🙂 ) , chocolate sponge, cherries (I love Cherries) and meringue, but here are a few more ideas:

Ideas for your Ice Cream Cake

Try slices of Panettone in whatever alcohol you like, with vanilla ice-cream with candid fruit in the middle and a few pistachios.

Or try ginger cake with lemon ice-cream and meringue and lemon curd… really whatever you fancy!!!)

This dessert is perfect for Summer parties and BBQ’s as everyone loves an ice-cream dessert don’t they? Use lovely summer fruits – so good!

And the best thing about this is it can be made ahead!!

This I love, as i like all the prep done before Christmas or a party for example.

No stress on the day…. that’s what I love about this pud

Have a go at an Ice Cream Cake?

Have a go using this Chocolate Ice Cream Cake – Bombe as a base idea and let me see what you come up with, it’s really just a simple ice-cream cake or dessert or whatever you like to call it!

Oh and please drop me a comment below the post, I do so love your comments.

I try so hard to give you ideas to make you and your family some lovely food! I hope I can inspire

So show me your Bombes!! 🙂

Another lovely recipe

Another lovely recipe you might like is this wonderful Chocolate Tart also no bake, it’s smooth, rich and a total chocolate hit!!!

Heavenly!!

Thanks Clare x

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