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.

Mustafa's Kebabs, Berlin

The most sensational vegetarian kebabs I have ever had in my life.  I kid you not.

So anyway, one evening we caught up with some friends from Perth when we were in Berlin and had a few drinks.  A good time was had by all.  I had previously been given the recommendation of going to Mustafa's by someone at our hostel in Budapest, and conveniently it was just around the corner from us.  It is one of the best recommendations I have ever gotten, I cannot thank that person enough, and now I just want to share it with you all!

It was so lovely to see some familiar faces from Perth! 

The first time Chewy and I tried to make it to Mustafa's at 10pm, the line looked like this.  It was insane! We decided not to go that night because we didn't want to wait for the roughly 100 people in front of us in the line, but firmly set our sights on going the next night.  Anyway, the picture below shows the line that first night we tried to go.  Ridiculous right?!

If this is the line you face when you visit Mustafa's, do not be put off.  Go back later! The second time we went was after we'd caught up with our friends from Perth, and we went at 2am.  Thinking it would be shut, we walked around the corner to this.  A line of a mere 20 people, win!

You can order a vegetarian kebab or a vegetarian durum, and both are cheap as chips.  The vegetarian kebab will set you back a mere €2.50, and the durum €3.10.

"Krass lecker döner" means "wicked tasty doner".  Too true.  

And now check out these babies...

Mustafa's vegetarian kebabs are one of the best things I have ever eaten.  They fill them with fried sweet potato, pumpkin, zucchini/courgette, and other veggies, then add on tomatoes, cucumber, onions, feta cheese (optional) and sauce.  They can easily be made vegan for those of you wondering.

You should go too.  The stand can be found on the Mehringdamm in Kreuzberg, Berlin.  And Mustafa, you are amazing.