Birthday Cake

Princess Fiona told me a few months ago that she wanted an ice cream cake for her birthday. I am not sure if she remembers that. I asked her what kind of cake she wanted. Very emphatically, " chocolate cake with chocolate frosting. Oh and cookie dough ice cream". I found the neatest recipe on Breyer's.com. You know, the ice cream, home of my favorite flavor, mint chocolate chip, not to be confused with the green stuff, this is more of an inside out peppermint patty. It was the Chilling Graveyard Cake.

1 box devil's food cake
1 container of your favorite ice cream (shockingly, they recommend Breyer's)
2 cans chocolate frosting
Graveyard decorations.
I made the cake, using the directions on the box. I had one good 8-inch pan and so I put half in it, baked it and then repeated it. I sprayed the bottom of the pan, lined it with wax paper and sprayed again. I have a hard time getting chocolate cakes out of the pan and this worked like a charm. I wrapped the cakes in saran wrap and put them in the freezer. Then I lined it with more saran wrap and set out the ice cream to let it soften. Then I scooped out the ice cream and spread it in the bottom of the pan to be an inch thick. When that was hard again, I could easily pull it out of the pan, unwrap everything and put the first cake on the plate, put the slab of ice cream on top and then put the second cake on top. And it was pretty easy. I like my way better because the initial recipe said you should spread the ice cream on top of the cake and then place the cake on top. I wasn't sure if I could make it look nice that way or not get frustrated while doing it.

The next day, I made up some Hershey's chocolate frosting. I don't like the chocolate stuff out of the can.

PERFECTLY CHOCOLATE" CHOCOLATE FROSTING
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter or margarine
2/3 cup HERSHEY'S Cocoa
3 cups powdered sugar
1/3 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Melt butter. Stir in cocoa. Alternately add powdered sugar and milk, beating to spreading consistency. Add small amount additional milk, if needed. Stir in vanilla. About 2 cups frosting

I only have Hershey's dark cocoa, so I used that.
It wasn't too hard to frost the cake. I had more than enough since I didn't need to put any between the layers. I frosted once and then put it back into the freezer. Then I frosted again and everything was nicely covered up.
I waited until the birthday to decorate the top. I crushed these cookies, instead of buying Oreos. I did scrape the frosting out so I could make sure the dirt was really dark.
I figured I could kill two birds with one stone, not only have the dirt topping but also the grave stones. I didn't decorate them, but I didn't think the girls would care. I did buy gummi worms. Moe took the leftover frosting and made a skeleton with it.
Check that out! I was pretty proud of myself. This was a pretty easy recipe to follow and even make my own changes to. Not to mention, an ice cream cake! Since Moe used to work for Dairy Queen, next time I make one, I am going to have to add a layer of their fudge cookie crunch stuff.