Ice Box Instrumental
The homemade ice cream cake
"You would not want to pick up a cake in the ice cream store?" I ask my son twenty-five years of age, on the phone. He moans like a three years old. "You try to tell you about it every year, Mom. I want to make me an ice cream cake for my birthday. I want a mint chocolate chip ice cream cake. I told all the guys in the band how great it is. Mama Go! "
He told all his friends. I thought she was to have birthday parties with his friends when he was ten, but apparently not.
At this time, just seems wrong to make a cake of homemade ice cream. They are beautifully decorated cakes in the freezer section of the grocery store, not to mention the ice cream local. I realize that the development of his ice cream birthday cake is more about reviving his childhood (which I have made ice cream cakes since he was two years age), and I recall baking and freezing of an ice cream cake volcano speaks his friends for years. I was so proud of that pie. (Do not give your mother the the cake.)
"How many close friends, Jake?" I ask, knowing that he's going to say something like I do not know, Mom. Can you do for twenty?
It was easy to make a cake for twenty small children freckled face twenty pairs of sneakers full of dirt the house when he was a child. It was not a problem dealing with the twenty little hands that hide twenty little boogers under the coffee table top instead of using a tissue. Twenty little gift bags full of plastic spiders and Jolly Ranchers. And twenty gifts that Jake was so excited I had to run to the bathroom every fifteen minutes. Ahhh, those were the days.
A cake now twenty two cakes in the freezer. This means that my husband take all the Lean Cuisines, frozen oat bread, pork chops and some gray and hairy, and trying to cram in extra fridge out in the building. (You know the extra fridge … It's called the Extra Fridge because it costs an extra thirty dollars a month in electricity bills so you can store two six-packs of soda brand supermarket diet, an empty bottle of mustard and two half bottles of tomato sauce).
We are removed from the freezer to accommodate the Humungous birthday cakes for Jake. His birthday party at night so this requires snacks too. Pick ten pounds of Buffalo wings the band, and five for regular people. My husband goes to Costco and purveys large quantities of chips and soda. Also coming home with a five CD audio of John Denver. "It's for Jake." I see through your lies to bald. "Jake does not like John Denver." Smile and take the shrink wrap of the Conference on Disarmament. "He does not? Well, I guess I'll have to listen, then. I just hate waste." (I guess you forgot the extra fridge.)
So the cake is ready, the appetizers are in place, the soda is chilling, and there are lots and lots of potatoes chips and salsa on the table. The family begins to arrive and mill around while John Denver plays in the background.
Then we heard the witness counterproductive. We look out the window and watch the first van-gray mass murderer stops. With a bit of shock and persuasion, side van door opens and falls to Jake. (The driver's door has not worked since the Great Wal * Mart Parking Lot Incident of '06.) Then the real show as the truck begins to mime the ability of a clown car, member of the band after band member emerges with some kind of instrument in hand. The truck just does not look big enough to hold them all. Yes, Jake is right. There are twenty of them, and they are all heading toward the door. (Except that stops by my maple tree and begins to "water". He must be the drummer.)
Twenty pairs of dirty Converse sneakers, twenty points up the hair of various colors-DOS (or hair-don'ts … depending on how you look, I guess Extravagant costumes and twenty …), I think her sisters to use. I have to open and close because at that moment I see Jake and his friends about ten years old again. What happens is that these ten year olds eat gobs more and are much stronger.
"Hey Mrs. M," shouts a lifelong friend of Jake, Sam. "Did you know you that one of his amazing ice cream cakes? "
"No, Sam, I made two."
"Okay," replies casually as beeline beyond me for the ranch dressing and Fritos.
By the end of the night, the house has been transformed into a waste site filled with paper plates stained by immersion, empty chip bags, and aluminum beverage cans enough to build a Toyota. There are also smashed chips in the carpet, and the Mohawks killed in these future captains industry. I also find it amusing to see the boys listening to John Denver with Jake's dad. Jake actually looks interested in what my husband is saying. I think indeed, as John Denver.
The band is not so bad, sing and play a version of punk-reggae-fusion of Happy Birthday for Jake. And as the wounded down Jake came up to me and gave me a big hug. "Thanks mom for making my cake. And thanks for letting the band come, too. You're a great mom."
It was worth it until next year.
Ice Cream Cake Recipe
2 boxes of cake mix (any flavor)
2-3 containers Cool Whip
1 gallon of ice cream in a rectangular box (any flavor)
2-3 cans of frosting (any flavor)
Making cakes as shown in the table, use two 9 x 12 pans to bake cakes. Cool cakes. Put one of the cakes on a sheet of aluminum foil covered cookie. Open ice cream box completely so that you have a brick of ice cream and cut the brick into 6 equal portions. At the top of the cake first, set each slice ice cream on the top of the cake, side by side so as to cover the entire top of cake and pinch each slice into the next so you have a solid layer ice cream. Next, take a half a can of frosting and spread it over the ice cream evenly. Try to make the frosting quickly because the ice cream begins to melt. Then use one of Whips calm and the proliferation of containers in the middle of the top of the frost and spread evenly. Now take his second cake and place on top of ice cream / merengue / Cool Whip layer. Covering in Saran wrap and stick it in the freezer for an hour.
After freeze for an hour take the cake and frost the cake completely. After frosting the cake, put a good thick layer of cool whip all over the glaze, as if the Cool Whip is the frosting. Then put it back in the freezer for eight hours.
To serve, remove cake from freezer 15 minutes before slicing.
This cake will serve 12-24 people, depending on how you cut the pieces, or how great the band!
About the Author
Beth McCain is an author and writer of many genres. Beth, and her husband, Lee are instructors and lecturers in applying the Law of Attraction to everyday life. If you would like to contact Beth, please visit: http://www.bethandleemccain.com
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