Birthday Cake

So the boy is turning 13 on Saturday and has requested a Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream and Vanilla Cake birthday cake.   No problem, your wish is my command.  After all, I have only one child so if I piss him off there will be no one to protect me from the bad old age home.  Of course I am secretly cursing the boy under my breath because an ice cream cake of course requires that extra step of ice cream.

So today we have the ice cream part of the prep going on.  I took half a gallon of Mint Chocolate chip ice cream and got it all melty and soft and then pressed it into a cake cake pan and suck it in the freezer where it will sit until tomorrow when phase two of the cake begins.  Let me just suggest that if you are going to do this type of a cake that you let the ice cream get super soft because the longer it takes you to press the ice cream into the cake mold the colder your fingers get.  Nothing like self induced frostbite to bring you back to your senses.

Off to figure out how to make mint flavored buttercream frosting.