How to Make a Homemade Ice Cream Cake

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You'll love this ice cream cake recipe. It's easy, inexpensive and a huge crowd pleaser!

Learn how to make a delicious homemade Oreo Cookie ice cream cake for a fraction of a cost of commercial ice cream cakes.

Once you make this Oreo Cookie ice cream cake, you'll be asked to make it again and again. You may never be able to bring another dish to a potluck again!

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

Stick of melted butter
Package of oreo or store brand cream filled sandwich cookies
Half gallon of cookies and cream ice cream
Jar of hot fudge sauce
8 ounce container of Cool Whip or whipped topping, thawed

Step 1

Combine crushed cookies with melted butter. Pour cookie/butter mixture into 9x13 inch deep dish freezer safe pan. Press to form a thick crust. Freeze until firm, at least one hour.
Step 2

Spread softened ice cream over crust. Freeze until firm, at least one hour.
Step 3

Warm hot fudge until consistency is spreadable. Spread over frozen ice cream layer. Freeze until firm, at least one hour.
Step 4

Spread thawed whipped topping over firm hot fudge layer. Freeze until firm, at least one hour. Store cake in the frezer until ready to serve.
Step 5

To serve - remove from freezer about 10 minutes before serving to allow cake to soften a bit. Cut into 16 large or 20 medium size servings with a sharp knife.

Tips & Warnings

The flavor variations on this cake are endless.
Crust - You can cut some of the fat and calories by reducing the butter to 1/2 stick. This impacts the texture and richness of the crust's flavor a bit, but you may not even notice it.
Crust variety - Choose any kind of crunchy cookie. For sandwich creams, do not remove the filling. That's the best part!
Ice cream variety - use any flavor you like. If your brand of ice cream no longer comes packaged in a half gallon container, the 1.75 quart size will do just fine.
Hot fudge can be replaced with any jar of ice cream topping: caramel, butterscotch, strawberry, etc.
Try vanilla sandwich cream cookies, strawberry ice cream, and strawberry ice cream topping for a strawberry version.
Chocolate sandwich creams filled with mint, mint chocolate chip ice cream, hot fudge.
The cake is very thick and difficult to cut. Use a shark knife and cut on a steady surface. Dipping the knife into a bowl of hot water and then drying with a towel in between slices helps to make cutting easier.