Easter Dessert Recipe for Ice Cream Cake

Easy Easter Dessert with Mini Eggs

This ice cream cake with mini easter eggs is very easy to make no bake Easter dessert recipe. It does not require lots of work, but you need to plan in advance so you have time to freeze and firm up the ice cream layers.

This recipe makes a very large 10 inch ice cream cake that will serve 10-12 people. As its no bake to make a small version just half the amount of the ingredients and place in a 6 to 8 inch springform pan instead.

Ice Cream Easter Dessert Ingredients

• 36 Regular Oreo Cookies – Large Family pack
• 5 tbsp melted butter
• 2 Litre/quart chocolate ice cream
• 2 Litre/quart vanilla ice cream
• Large bag Candy Coated Easter Eggs
• 2 cups of your favorite chocolate icing
• 3 inch chocolate Easter bunny

Easter Dessert with Mini Eggs Directions

36 regular Oreo cookies and 5 tbsp of melted butter is all you need to make this very easy Oreo Cookie Crust. You get the easily recognizable flavour of Oreo cookies with just enough butter to hold the cookie crumbs together. It makes for an easy to make chocolate crust with loads of flavour that will hold together well when you serve the ice cream cake Easter dessert.

First Layer Oreo Cookie Crust

Take a large 10 inch springform pan line with plastic wrap and then butter the inside. This helps make the crust release when serving. Prepare the pan and set aside.

To make the oreo crumbs. Add 36 regular oreo cookies to a food processor, process in small pulses until you have fine crumbs. If you do not have a food processor add the oreos to a ziploc bag and using a rolling pin crush and mash the oreo cookies until the crumbs are ground fine.

Transfer the crushed Oreo cookies to a mixing bowl and add the melted butter. Stir until well combined. The crust will feel rather sticky and the butter makes it form small crumb clumps.

Place the Oreo mixture into your lined and greased springform pan and press into an even layer over the bottom and sides of the dish. I like to do this with a measuring cup to form a small crust up the side of my pan.

Place the cookie crust into the freezer for ten minutes while you clean the food processor and start the chocolate ice cream layer.

Chocolate Ice Cream Layer

It’s important to let the chocolate ice cream soften for about 20-30 minutes first.

Once the ice cream has started to soften transfer the chocolate ice cream to a bowl and mix until its soft like soft serve. Doing this allows you to flattened the ice cream smooth, and makes for more distinct layers. I mixed my ice cream with a hand mixer, but a potato masher or large wooden spoon will work as well.

Pour the chocolate ice cream on top of the oreo crust. Smooth the top with a knife like you would for icing.

Mini Egg Center

I used Hershey Eggies chocolate candied covered eggs, but you can use any brand of mini candy eggs you prefer. Place two cups of mini eggs into a ziploc bag. Crush them into large chunks by giving them gentle wacks with the back of a wooden spoon until every egg is cracked at least once.

I considered leaving the mini eggs whole as they would look pretty. However they would be frozen when your serving the Easter cake which may be hard on the teeth, and will certainly make the cake more difficult to cut into slices.

Once the mini eggs are smashed place them on top of the chocolate ice cream layer. Make sure there are mini egg bits all around the outside edge. Once the chocolate ice cream layer is coated with mini eggs, cover with plastic wrap and place in the freezer for at least 4 hours.

Once your chocolate ice cream layer is frozen solid, make the vanilla mini Easter egg layer.

Vanilla Ice Cream Layer

We repeat the same process as the chocolate ice cream. Let the ice cream soften for 20-30 minutes, vanilla tends to take longer to melt because it has a lower sugar content.

Take 1 cup of mini eggs, crush them in a ziploc bag. Once the ice cream is soft ,add both the ice cream and the Easter eggs to a bowl. Mix together and pour over the chocolate coating. Return to the freezer until solid, 4 hours at least. I left mine overnight and decorated the morning I was going to serve the Easter dessert.

Easter Dessert Decorating with Mini Eggs

You will need 2-3 cups of chocolate icing and a icing bag fit with a swirl tip to decorate the ice cream cake for Easter. I will post and link the chocolate recipe I used once its written. You can use any dark chocolate icing you like, or purchase predone chocolate icing. Make sure you have the icing and decorations handy before removing the frozen ice cream cake.

Transferring the Easter Ice Cream Cake

Once the ice cream cake is frozen solid its very easy to transfer. Begin my carefully opening the springform pan, then the bottom and holding the frozen solid cake in your hand (through the plastic wrap) transfer it to a platter.

Begin by making swirls around the outside of the ice cream cake top. As you can see in the next image, the swirls don’t need to be anywhere near perfect as each one is topped with a pretty colourful mini egg.

You want to do the decorating quickly as the ice cream will melt if you take too long.

Once you have the outside edge decorated with the swirls place a small mountain of chocolate icing just behind the center of the cake. These will serve to hold up the central small chocolate Easter bunny.

Freezing the Ice Cream Easter Dessert

To freeze your ice cream cake Easter dessert wrap it tightly in plastic wrap. It will keep like this for a day.

To store the unfinished portion wrap in plastic wrap and then seal in an airtight container to prevent freezer burn. If its sealed very well it can keep up to 4 months.

Serving the Ice Cream Cake Recipe for Easter

To serve the ice cream cake. Remove from the freezer and then take off the plastic wrap. To slice your Easter dessert let it sit for about ten minutes before cutting. If you have a hard time slicing your cake run the knife under hot water first.

This is a large ice cream cake, if you slice between each swirl of the cake it will serve 24 people. I cut my slices between every second swirl as my cake was served alone with coffee instead of after a meal.

On Pinterest I have an Easter recipes board for all sorts of different Easter recipe ideas, including homemade chocolate Easter eggs and hot cross buns to name a couple choices.

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