Red, White & Huckleberry H2o Ice Cream Cake For The Fourth Of July

This calendar week I'm taking a petty Summer Break from blogging "work" to relax amongst Emma. We'll endure decorating the carriage for the fourth of July Parade, making some favorite summertime treats as well as taking lots of photos. For now, I'm going to portion a duad of posts from end year's celebrations... including this H2O ice cream cake amongst blueberries, raspberries as well as blackberries. Enjoy!

Red, White & Blueberry

Ice Cream Cake

10-inch springform pan (a cheesecake pan)
1 large pipe bag
1 8-inch white cake, cooled (homemade, store-bought or from a box mix)
2 half-gallon containers of vanilla H2O ice cream
1/2 pint of strawberries, hulled as well as sliced
1 pint of blueberries
1/2 pint of raspberries
1/2 pint of blackberries
iv egg whites
1 loving cup of sugar
pinch of cream of tartar

Begin past times making the strawberry sauce as well as the huckleberry sauce that volition become inward betwixt the layers of H2O ice cream. To brand the strawberry sauce, combine 1/3 loving cup of sugar, 1/3 loving cup of H2O as well as the strawberries inward a saucepan. Cook the mixture on medium until it begins to bubble. Continue cooking until the sauce has slightly thickened, for close fifteen minutes. Remove from heat, transfer to a pocket-size container as well as chill. Repeat the same method amongst 1/2 pint of the blueberries to brand the huckleberry sauce.

Place H2O ice cream inward the fridge for xxx minutes earlier you lot laid out assembling the cake to let it to soften slightly.

Slice the cooled 8-inch circular cake inward half, creating 2 layers.

Place i of the containers of H2O ice cream inward a mixer fitted amongst the paddle attachment. Mix until the H2O ice cream is soft as well as easily scooped, simply non melted, close 2-3 minutes. Scoop a 3rd of the H2O ice cream into the springform pan.

Spread the H2O ice cream into the bottom evenly. Work chop-chop as well as therefore the H2O ice cream does non melt likewise much.

Put i layer of the cake on top of the bottom layer of H2O ice cream. Scoop some other 3rd of the H2O ice cream into a large pipe bag. Pipe a border or as well as therefore the exterior of the cake, creating an border as well as therefore the berry sauce does non tumble out over the sides of the H2O ice cream. Pour the huckleberry sauce onto the cake piece of cake allowing it to soak in. Spread the end 3rd of the H2O ice cream on top of the huckleberry layer. You may withdraw to also purpose some of the 2d container gallon of H2O ice cream to consummate the layer. Repeat amongst the 2d layer of cake, using the strawberry sauce.

Freeze the cake for 2 hours.

Before serving, encompass the cake inward a layer of Swiss meringue as well as top it amongst fresh berries. To brand the meringue, laid out past times putting iv egg whites into the top of a double boiler amongst 1 loving cup of saccharide as well as a pinch of cream of tartar. Slowly oestrus the egg whites inward the double boiler for close 5-7 minutes to melt the sugar, whisking occasionally. Rub the mixture betwixt your fingers to run into if the saccharide has dissolved. When you lot cannot experience the saccharide granules, pour the mixture into the bowl of a mixer fitted amongst a whisk attachment. Mix on high for 5-7 minutes until the meringue is shiny as well as thick.

Dollop the meringue on the frozen H2O ice cream cake as well as spread it over the sides. Top amongst fresh blackberries, blueberries as well as raspberries. Serve right away or supply it to the freezer.

The higher upward photograph was taken afterward the cake sat for 45 minutes inward 95 score weather condition : ) It tin dismiss (and should be) placed dorsum inward the freezer!