Spumoni Ice Cream Cake

5 from 1 vote

This spumoni ice cream cake is a tri-colored dessert made with layers of chocolate, pistachio and cherry ice cream on a base of cookies.

Prep Time1

Cook Time0

Freezing Time8

Total Time9

Course: Dessert, Snack

Cuisine: American

Servings: servings

Calories: 341kcal

Author: Rosemary Molloy

Ingredients

COOKIE BASE

1½ cups crumbs (cookie of choice eg. oreo, graham cracker, amaretti, digestive or lady fingers, we used lady fingers)
5 tablespoons butter melted

ICE CREAM FILLING

2 cups chocolate ice cream
2 cups cherry ice cream (or vanilla ice cream if you can't find cherry that's what we did)
2 cups pistachio ice cream

EXTRAS

¼ cup mini chocolate chips
¼ cup marachino cherries sliced (see note below)
¼ cup chopped pistachios
1 cup cream whole/heavy/whipping cream with at least 30% fat content
1 tablespoon powdered sugar

US Customary - Metric

Instructions

COOKIE BASE

Mix together the melted butter and cookie crumbs. Place the crumbs at the bottom of the 8 inch springform cake pan (or line it with plastic wrap), flatten with the bottom of a glass until firm, place in the refrigerator while the chocolate ice cream softens.

ICE CREAM FILLING

Remove the chocolate ice cream from the freezer and let sit at room temperature until soft, stir in the mini chocolate chips. Remove the base from the fridge and spread with the chocolate ice cream, cover with plastic and freeze.
While the cherry ice cream softens or vanilla, mix in the cherry slices and 2 tablespoons of cherry juice if using vanilla ice cream, remove the cake from the freezer, remove the plastic, spread with the cherry ice cream and freeze.
While the pistachio ice cream softens, stir in the pistachios, remove the plastic and spread on top of the cherry ice cream. Cover and freeze over night.
Before serving, whip the cream until soft peaks appear then add the sugar and beat until firm. Spread the whipped cream on the top of the uncovered cake, with the back of the spoon make waves like clouds. Sprinkle with extra chips or chopped pistachios. Enjoy!

Notes

If there are cherry bits in the cherry ice cream then you don't need to add the ¼ cup cherries. If you can't find cherry ice cream then you can use vanilla and add the ¼ cup sliced cherries and 2 tablespoons of cherry juice.

Freeze leftover spumoni ice cream cake in an airtight container at the back of the freezer for up to 2-3 months although I think it is best within a few days!

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