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Cadbury Creme Egg No Churn Easter Ice Cream Cake

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A 3 layer ice cream cake with an Oreo cookie base.

Cadbury Creme Egg No Churn Ice Cream Layer Cake

When I was a little girl growing up in rural East Coast Canada (a tiny village on Cape Breton Island, to be slightly more specific) we lived a 45-minute drive away from the nearest supermarket.

This meant that we did our big shopping trip once a month. It was an all day event. Our mother would take my younger brother and me through the mall stopping off at the craft section in Walmart, the pet store, and my favourite – the bookstore. Oh how I loved browsing through those books and, if I had saved up enough pennies, I’d buy myself a hardback Nancy Drew Mystery novel. Remember them, with their bright yellow covers?

Before all of this, we’d stop off at the local Dairy Queen restaurant for our lunch. If my mother taught me anything it was that you never do a supermarket shop when you’re hungry and even worse is bringing along your small children if they are hungry. Want to hear children nagging for everything in sight? Go ahead and take hungry kids into a supermarket.

Cadbury Creme Egg No Churn Ice Cream Layer Cake

At Dairy Queen we’d have a burger with fries for our lunch. Back then you were given, with your children’s meal, a small plastic grey Dairy Queen token you could exchange (then or at a later date) for a small ice cream sundae.

The exhilaration of walking up to the counter yourself as a small child and asking the server for your favourite flavour of ice cream and your chosen topping was something I remember with great fondness.

I also remember the giant freezers filled with ice cream cakes.

Those ice cream cakes were made with layers of flavoured ice cream and there was always a black crumbled biscuit layer which added texture to the cake. The tops of the cakes were decorated with piped icing, as a regular cake was, and oh my goodness gracious me they tasted fantastic.

Cadbury Creme Egg No Churn Ice Cream Layer Cake

I know this because I got to try one. Once.

Once.

Dairy Queen ice cream cakes were, in my financially constrained childhood, reserved with families with money. We had very little money, so we never had an ice cream cake. My best friend did once, and I got to taste hers.

The memory of that sweet cold ice cream cake with its crunchy black biscuit layer lingers with me in my adult years, 3000 miles away from the nearest Dairy Queen, and I’ve been longing to make one at home.

Inspiration struck recently, and so I created this – the one and only Cadbury Creme Egg recipe you will ever find on my blog – for your viewing (and tasting!) pleasure.

I bring you the Cadbury Creme Egg Ice Cream Cake! A google search yields zero results for such a creation, so I think I might be on to something new!

Cadbury Creme Egg No Churn Ice Cream Layer Cake

My recipe starts with a traditional Oreo cookie cheesecake crust – smashed up Oreo cookies mixed with melted butter and pressed into a cake tin. I used a silicone cake tin eight inches in diameter and three inches deep so the frozen cake would be the right shape and could be removed easily.

A quick and easy no churn condensed milk ice cream is divided into three and flavoured with chocolate, orange food colouring and Madagascar bourbon vanilla bean paste (my new favourite baking ingredient).

These layers, meant to resemble the layers of a Cadbury creme egg, are topped with a melted milk chocolate drizzle and some halved mini Cadbury creme eggs, and one regular sized egg.

It’s rather fantastic, wouldn’t you agree? Wait until you taste it…!

You’re welcome. x

Cadbury Creme Egg No Churn Ice Cream Layer Cake

Cadbury Creme Egg Ice Cream Cake

A delicious three tiered no churn ice cream cake with an Oreo cookie base decorated with Cadbury creme eggs.
3.67 from 3 votes
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Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Total Time: 6 hours 20 minutes
Servings: 12 servings
Calories: 513kcal

Ingredients

For the Oreo Cookie Base

For the No Churn Ice Cream Layers

For the Chocolate Decorations

Instructions

  • To prepare the Oreo cookie base place the cookies into a plastic bag and bash them with a rolling pin until they are fine crumbs. Alternatively, process in a food processor or blender until they reach the right consistency.
  • Stir in the melted butter until well combined and press into the base of an 8 inch round silicone cake tin with a depth of 3 inches. Place in the refrigerator to set while you get on with the ice cream.
  • Weigh the bowl you're going to make your ice cream in.
  • To prepare the no churn ice cream, whip the double cream with a whisk until it becomes soft and pillowy and begins to hold its shape.
  • Pour in the sweetened condensed milk and stir until combined.
  • Weigh the bowl again, subtract the weight of the bowl and this is the weight of how much ice cream mixture you have. Divide this mixture into three separate bowls. Place two of them in the fridge.
  • Sift the cocoa powder into the first bowl and whisk until thick and well combined. Spoon this mixture over the Oreo cookie base and level with the back of a spoon. Pop into the freezer for 20 minutes.
  • Meanwhile, cut one of your mini Cadbury creme eggs in half so you can see the shade of orange the 'yolk' is. Add enough orange food colouring, a few drops at a time, whisking after each addition, until you reach the desired shade.
  • Spoon this orange coloured ice cream over the chocolate ice cream, smooth with the back of a spoon and pop back into the freezer for 20 minutes.
  • Add the vanilla to the remaining bowl of ice cream mixture, stir well and spoon over the orange ice cream layer. Leave for several hours to chill entirely, preferably overnight.
  • Just before you want to serve your ice cream cake, melt the milk chocolate in a heatproof bowl suspended over a pan of barely simmering water.
  • Turn the silicone cake pan with your ice cream cake in it upside down and carefully roll down the edges of the cake tin to release the ice cream cake. Transfer right side up to a cake stand.
  • Drizzle the melted milk chocolate around the outside top edge, allowing a little bit to drip down the sides.
  • Drizzle some of the remaining milk chocolate in the centre of the ice cream cake so that there is enough melted chocolate there to hold a large Cadbury creme egg upright in the centre.
  • Cut the remaining mini Cadbury creme eggs into half and arrange around the outside top edge of the ice cream cake, and place the large Cadbury creme egg in the centre.
  • You can store the ice cream cake in the freezer until needed, without the Cadbury creme egg decorations (these freeze so that they are rock solid!). You can simply cut one slice at a time, leaving it to defrost 5-10 minutes to reach a softer consistency, or allow the whole cake to stand at room temperature for about 20 - 30 minutes before serving (if you can wait that long!)

Nutrition

Calories: 513kcal | Carbohydrates: 47g | Protein: 6g | Fat: 34g | Saturated Fat: 20g | Cholesterol: 91mg | Sodium: 177mg | Potassium: 256mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 37g | Vitamin A: 19.2% | Vitamin C: 1.4% | Calcium: 14% | Iron: 14.6%
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  10. Another name for this would be death by chocolate – Cadbury’s creme eggs are my all-time favourite !

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  24. Oh wow, these cake looks so, so tasty. I think I might have to try this out, many thanks for sharing the recipe. xx

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  25. Hi Elizabeth,
    When I saw the image of this cake it literally made my jaw drop! It’s so gorgeous, well done 🙂

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  29. I don’t like cRemember eggs, but I think you’re onto a winner with this cake! Fingers crossed you get endorsed for this brilliant idea! Xxx

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  30. I cannot stand Oreo cookies (long story, you don’t want to know) but I wouldn’t touch them with a bargepole. However this cake looks AMAZING. I would just keep posting pictures of it everywhere! Certainly pinterest perfect!

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  32. It’s great to read a little about your childhood and experiences. The cake looks fab and hearing about the shopping and ice cream parlour reminds me of my youth too! Thanks for sharing and congrats on this amazing looking dessert! Be proud! It is awesome!

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  33. Oh good lord! This looks amazing, I can feel my diet slipping out the window haha, I want chocolate. Seriously though this is a wonderful recipe, your stuff is amazing x
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  41. As someone who loves chocolate and ice cream…wouldn’t be making this just because I hate creme eggs and ice cream and I have a love/hate relationship.

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  44. I loved reading this post! I grew up close to a DQ but our family of 6 had to limit these types of treats. When my oldest brother played high school football, we’d drive to watch him and my parents would treat us to burgers and such. Good times. So different from my children’s childhood! Ice cream cakes?! I didn’t get those in my childhood either. My dad made ice cream for my birthday when I was in third grade. That was the highlight of the “party.” Ice cream. Also much different from the birthday parties of my daughters! I am so happy you are now able to enjoy ice cream cake!
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  46. You brought back a lot of memories for me as I was reading this post! I too went to DQ as a child, loved their ice cream cakes. My Nanny also love the cadbury creme eggs. She would have LOVED this cake!

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  47. Saw this on your Instagram feed and was really impressed! I love ice-cream cake and like you, it brings me back to my childhood. Im almost tempted to try this, although a bit worried because I’m no baking goddess like you obviously are! It just looks so pretty and I can imagine how delicious it also must be. Will save this post for future reference 😉 x
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  53. Oh my God! This looks incredible! I want it so badly! How did you make it so perfectly?

    I love Dairy Queen. My hubby and I fell in love with it on a holiday in Florida. It was right next door to our hotel and we ended up stopping there every evening on the way home (unless it was late). They need to open one in the UK. ASAP!

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  58. You’re dripping chocolate is absolutely perfect around this cake! So pretty and festive for Easter! And anything with Cadbury’s I just can’t get enough of!

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  74. I have been sharing this on a few social media sites all day and every time I see those images I just think ‘wow’. It looks absolutely stunning and sounds delicious. I don’t know if I’ll ever get the time to try it (and it will never look as good as yours!) but am bookmarking to try when I get the time!

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  79. What a stunning beauty you have here, Elizabeth!! Though I’m more of a Cadbury Caramel kind of girl, I’d eat this one in a heartbeat! Gorgeous shots, by the way!

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  93. This is just incredible! Wow! Perfect for Easter – or Mondays 😉 I love how you’ve done the chocolate icing on top. Decoration is just perfect. Were the eggs hard to half? I love creme eggs, they’re my favourite thing about Spring/Easter.

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  97. OH MY GOODNESS! I think I just went to heaven. This is absolutely incredible. The most delicious looking, beautifully, amazingly, divine cake I have ever seen in my life. I want to eat it now and I will definitely be making this! x
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  110. Oh my goodness. I really, really need to make this! It sounds and looks amazing. I’m not the greatest at baking but I think I could do this. I’m going to pin this image and then make it with my children closer to Easter, thank you so much for sharing! xx
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  111. Oh wow Elizabeth, this looks epic! I used to read about Dairy Queens in my teen American novels and I love that you explain what it was like. I was also a huge Nancy Drew fan. So impressed by this cake – we have an ice cream business and customers who would no doubt fight over this although we are yet to start making ice cream cakes. Sharing this everywhere!

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  112. Oh I do agree, most definitely fantastic. I think you’re onto a real winner there. You were and still are one up on me, I’ve never tried an ice-cream cake. And now the only one I ever want to try is yours. How very clever of you to get the creme egg effect and to so artfully drizzle that chocolate down the sides. Thanks for linking to one of my recipes and thanks also for sharing this fantabulous creation with #WeShouldCocoa.
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  113. Your DQ (and Walmart) trips bring back memories. I don’t think we ever ate a meal there, but I do remember the thrill of the first spoon of a hot fudge sundae. With salted peanuts. However, I remember eating ice cream cakes at birthday parties, and that will I or won’t I get brain freeze moment on the first chilly bite. You’ve brought back some nice memories. And this looks really delightful, Elizabeth. Your styling and photography just gets better and better.
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  116. I love your ice cream cake Elizabeth and it wonderful to ee-create something you’ve only ever tasted once from your childhood. Those tastes never leave you and I too have had fun re-creating memories like this! Thank you for linking to my Brownies:-)
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  118. Oh my goodness! This looks out of this world. I have a little boy that would love this so will need to try it out. I bet it won’t look anywhere near as outstanding as your one though. Thanks for sharing 🙂

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  126. I am not a creme egg fan at all, but your ice cream cake looks so delicious I would try it… and I’m pretty sure I would love it, too! #RecipeoftheWeek

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  127. Um yea, this looks incredible (to say the least)! Cadbury eggs were my favorite growing up and no you just had to go put it on an oreo cake! Thanks a lot 🙂

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