Deliciously Naughty Ice Cream Cake

So my grandma makes a mean ice cream cake, and in true grandma fashion, it is about as unhealthy as can be.  Full of ice cream, cream, meringue, chocolate and raspberry sauce, I'm about to share the recipe for this beauty with you. 

Oh yes!

This recipe is incredibly simple, and all you'll need is:

A decent sized tub of vanilla ice cream

4 cups of whipped cream, and whip it well

100g of chocolate sprinkles or shavings

Approximately 200g of meringue

50g sugar

50g almond meal

2 - 3 tablespoons of cherry or raspberry liqueur

Aprroxmiately 300ml raspberry sauce 

A decent amount of ice cream magic/magic shell chocolate sauce

At this stage I have to point out that quantities do not need to be exact.  My grandma, being a grandma, doubles the amount of chocolate and sugar in this easily.  It is completely up to you how you want to tweak it, this is just the basic recipe which we use. Now the next bit is the really challenging part - mix all your ingredients (except for the rasberry sauce) together and pop it in a springform cake tin (grease that up a bit beforehand to make your life easier later) and voila!

Crush up the meringue before you mix it all together.  I just mashed them up in their little bags.

 

Found this guy in the kitchen, ready to whip some cream!

This is the mixture of meringue, chocolate, almond meal and sugar, with the ice cream just going in.

This is what the mixture should look like once you've mixed everything together well.

Now for the last part - drizzle the entire cake with raspberry sauce.  It doesn't really matter how you do this, so don't worry about being careful.

Once you've done all this, pop it in the freezer overnight, or at least for quite a few hours.

For the finishing touch, just add some of that chocolate sauce that freezes when it goes on ice cream in any pattern you wish.  And then it's done done done and you're ready to tuck in! 

Best enjoyed outside in the sunshine and with friends and family!  Oh who are we kidding, also enjoyed inside and with anyone you trust not to eat too much of it.

Palaces & Dessert in Berlin

I had the day to myself in Berlin as Chewy had gone to do some sightseeing elsewhere with his parents, and decided to go shopping, the results of which you'll see in later blog posts.  So as not to be completely uncultural, I decided to visit the Charlottenburg Palace.  It was absolutely beautiful, and unfortunately I can't even share photos with you as you aren't allowed to take any inside.  So the 2 photos I took from the outside will have to do! 

 

 

After shopping and sightseeing I was famished.  Continuing on the general theme of 'treating myself' (with all the money I don't have), I went to the foodcourt in the KaDeWe for a very late lunch at 4pm.  I had a selection of salads which was very tasty, and now let me tell you about the bread roll.  It was fresh out of the oven and steaming hot, and they have these ultra delicious, cute, little butter numbers with olives, and garlic and herbs in them.  I can't recommend these enough!

 

Needless to say, after all that savoury there needed to be some sweet.  I'll let the pictures do the talking.

 

 

No photos of me today, and the quality of the food photos isn't great as I'm still relying on an iphone camera.  But I thought I'd share my lovely little day with you all anyway!