Day 93: Alley-Pop’s Birthday Cake

Yield: 1 9inch cake
Time (Start to Finish): 4 hours

Ingredients:
Yellow Cake:
1 cup flour
1 tsp baking powder
¼ tsp salt
¼ cup softened butter
½ cup sugar
1 egg
1 egg white
1 tsp vanilla
¼ +1/8 cup whipping cream
Chocolate Cake:
¾ cup flour
¼ cup cocoa powder
1 tsp baking powder
¼ tsp salt
¼ cup softened butter
½ cup sugar
1 egg
1 egg white
1 tsp vanilla
¼ +1/8 cup whipping cream

1 quart mint chip ice cream

Chocolate Frosting
¾ cup cocoa powder, sifted
3 cups powdered sugar, sifted
1 stick butter
1 tsp vanilla
1/3 cup whipping cream (maybe more)

Directions:
1. This is the same for both cakes. Make them seperatly
2. Preheat oven to 350 and get a deep 8 by 11 pan. Deep enough for a layer of cake and one of ice cream and one of frosting.
3. Mix the butter and sugar until smooth, then add eggs, vanilla and mix again, scraping bowl. Then mix the salt, flour, (cocoa when making chocolate cake), baking powder. Alternate with the whipping cream. When everything is mixed together, make sure smooth
4. Spread the vanilla cake on the bottom of the pan, then add the chocolate cake on top, mix with a fork so it is marbled and bake until a knife comes out clean. Should be about 25-30 min
5. Take the cake, and when cool, feel free to cut off the bump in the middle so the cake is level, but put in the freezer so it is super chilled
6. Take the ice cream out and slice it and lay the slices on top of the cake. Don’t forget, feel free to cut the box the ice cream comes in, you wont be using it again! Smooth with your hand or with a knife until it is an even layer. There still should be about an inch of space on the top of the pan for the icing. Put back in the freezer
7. Frosting: make sure all the ingredients are room temp.
8. Add the cocoa, powdered sugar, BOTH SIFTED, butter, vanilla, and a little of the whipping cream and mix until smooth. If it is too thick, add more cream until it is spreadable.
9. Take the cake out of the freezer and spread the frosting evenly on top. Cover and put back in the freezer. Feel free to write happy birthday on it!! Enjoy!

Rating: 4.5 strawberries
Notes: The cake was PERFECT for this, but I think more ice cream next time for sure. It travels well as long as you get a lid with your pan, and it fed a ton of people! It was a success! Alley asked for this cake because she didn’t have an ice cream cake growing up, so, here it is! It worked, with left over, and it tasted amazing. I also didn’t even out the cake so it wasn’t as pretty as I would have liked, but that’s ok, the taste is what matters! Happy birthday Alley!!