Carvel "Crunchies"

By didoc

Ingredients

• 4 qts of your favorite ice cream 2 flavors
• one box oreo cones or one container oreo crumbs
• one container magic shell chocolate
• one container cool whip
• one 9 inch spring form pan with wax paper or one wax bottom
• cake bottom

Details

Servings 1
Adapted from chowhound.chow.com

Preparation

Step 1

Makers Series

At the suggestion of Jfood, I'm putting the secret of Carvel Crunchies on the home cooking board. The crunchies are simply made out of the flying saucer cookies (granted they shipped them already broken up bags labled "crunchies" but they were the same thing) mixed with chocolate bonnet (the dip that gets hard). A easy, and just as tasty, home mix for this is oreo crumbs and magic shell (I also use the Oreo ice cream cones smashed up if I can't find the cookie crumbs). Mix them together until it's pretty moist (not soaking wet, but getting there). That's it. That's the secret.



Crush cones and mix with about 1/2 container of well shaken Magic Shell, should be wet, but not soaking wet. Feel free to taste.

Let 2 containers of one flavor melt a little bit. I throw mine in the kitchen aid so it has a consistent consistency (almost like soft serve)


Take out springform pan and spread ice cream over the bottom half (if you have ice cream left over, feel free to eat it)



Add "crunchies" and press down on them. KEEP CRUNCHIES AT LEAST 1 CENTIMETER FROM THE EDGES. There needs to be some ice cream to ice cream contact.

Freeze overnight.

Let 2 containers of the other flavor soften up a little bit (like the above).

Take the springform pan out and plop ice cream down on top of the bottom layer (you don't want to put it all in one space as you'll need to spread it out to cover it all evenly - if you plop it all down in the center, it tends to pull the cruchies up here & there).

Smooth out the top as best as possible with a long spatula (or bread knife).

Freeze overnight.

Take out of the freezer and dip the whole springform pan in hot water very quickly (as much as you can dip without it coming over the top.) This should melt the sides just enough to release the cake from the pan.

Freeze for a few hours.

Decorate with cool whip - I usually do the top & sides, freeze, then do the piping, freeze, then any writing.

Like any Carvel cake, it does take a while (20-30 min) to defrost (to cut through)


I make a similar ice cream cake. I use 2 half gallons of contrasting simple flavors (like vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, coffee, nothing with a lot of stuff in it).

I soften the ice cream, and put half of one flavor in the springform pan, spread and then sprinkle with some crushed oreos (vanilla filling and all), then spread half of the other flavor and sprinkle with crushed Heath bars or Skors bars, alternate flavors again, for a total of four layers. Freeze.