"Are you sure you do not want to get me a cake in the ice cream parlor?" I ask my twenty-five year old son on the phone. He whines like a three years old. "You try to talk to me every year, Mom. I want me some ice cream cake for my birthday. I want a mint chocolate chip ice cream cake. I told the guys in the band how great it is. C'mon Mom! "
He told all his friends. I thought he was over his birthday with friends when he was ten years old, butobviously not.
In today's world, it seems just wrong, a homemade ice cream cake to bake. There are beautifully decorated cakes in the freezer of the grocery store did not mention that in the local ice cream parlor. I realize that his ice cream birthday cake is about reliving his childhood (I have him ice cream cakes since he was two years old), and I recall baking and freezing a volcano ice cream cake that said his friends for years. He was soproud of that cake. (Not from his mother, from the cake.)
"How many friends are coming, Jake?" I ask him, knowing that he will tell me something, I do not know, Mom. Can you make enough for twenty?
It was easy, a cake for twenty little freckled faced boys with twenty pairs of dirt-riddled sneakers make in the house when he was a child. There was no problem with the twenty little hands that hide twenty small things, under the coffee table top instead of using aKleenex. Twenty little gift bags full of plastic spiders and Jolly Ranchers. And twenty gifts that made Jake so excited that he go to the bathroom every fifteen minutes. Ahhh, those were the days.
A cake for twenty nowadays means two cakes in the freezer. This includes my husband, all under the Lean Cuisines, frozen oat bread, pork chops, and a little gray and hairy, and trying to cram it into the extra fridge in the outhouse. (You know the extra fridge ... It iscalled the Extra Fridge because it costs an extra thirty dollars a month on your electricity bill, it can store two six-packs of grocery store brand diet soda, an empty bottle of mustard, and two half-bottles of ketchup).
We take everything to fit what out of the freezer, the HUMUNGOUS birthday cake for Jake. His birthday is in the evening, it is necessary for appetizers as well. I take ten pounds of Buffalo wings for the band, and another five for the ordinary people. My husband goesCostco and provides massive amounts of chips and soda. It also comes with five audio set home CDs of John Denver. "It's for Jake." I see by the naked lie. "Jake does not like John Denver." He smiles and takes the shrink wrap from the CD's. "He does not want it? Well, I think I need to listen to them, then. I hate waste." (Guess he forgot about the extra refrigerator.)
So the cake is ready, the appetizers are in force, the soda is cooling and there are piles and piles of chipsand salsa on the table. The family begins to arrive and mill around while John Denver plays in the background.
Then we hear the telltale backfire. We look out the window and watch as the primer-gray serial killer van pulls up. With a little banging and coaxing, opens the side door of the van and throws himself Jake. (The driver door has been since the Great Wal * Mart Parking Lot Incident of '06 worked.) Then the real show will begin, as the van der capacity mime of a clown car, member of the band afterBand member comes with some kind of instrument in the hand. The van just does not look big enough to hold them all. Yes, Jake is right. There are twenty of them, and they are all in the direction of the door. (Except the one who is no longer my maple and begins to "water." He has the drummer.)
Twenty pairs of dirty Converse sneakers, twenty or stiletto heel, colorful hairdos (or hair-don'ts ... depending on how you look at it, I think ...), and twenty extravagant outfits that I think theirSisters should wear. I have, because at this moment I see Jake and his friends flashing ten-year-olds again. It just happens that these ten year olds eat more lumps and much louder.
"Hey Mrs. M," shouts Jake lifelong friend, Sam. "Have your cake is awesome ice cream?"
"No, Sam, I have two."
"Right on," he said casually as he answers a short way past me, for the ranch dip and the Fritos.
By the end of night, the house has turned into a landfillfilled with dip-smeared paper plates, empty chip bags, and enough aluminum beverage can build a Toyota. There are also smashed chips in the carpet and hanging Mohawks on these future captains of industry. I also find it amusing to hear John Denver, the guys with Papa Jake's to see. Jake actually what my husband says, interested looks. I think they actually like John Denver.
The band is not so bad, they sing and play a punk-reggae-fusion version of Happy Birthday for Jake.And slowly as the party came to an end, Jake came to me and gave me a big hug. "Thanks Mom for making my cake. And thanks for letting the band come, too. You're a great mom."
It was all worth it until next year.
Ice Cream Cake Recipe
2 boxes of cake mix (any flavor)
2 to 3 container Cool Whip
1 liter of ice in a rectangular box (any flavor)
2 to 3 canned frosting (any flavor)
Remove the cakes sent to the field, using two 9 x 12 pans toBake the cakes. Let the cake cool. Drag one of the cakes on a baking sheet covered with foil. Open the ice box, completely out, so you cut a brick of ice cream and slices of brick into 6 even slices. At the top of the first cake, lay each piece of ice on the cake, side by side so that the entire top of the cake and pinch each slice into the next, so you have a solid layer of ice cream. Then take half of a can of frosting and spread it evenly over the ice.Do not try the frosting quickly because the ice begins to melt. Next, use one of your Cool Whips, and spread half the container on top of the frosting and spread evenly. Now take your second cake, and place it on the tip of the ice / frosting / Cool Whip layer. Cover in plastic wrap and put it in the freezer for an hour.
After freezing for one hour to complete the cake and frost the entire cake. After frosting the cake, put a whole nice thick layer of Cool Whip overthe glaze, as if the Cool Whip is the frosting. Then put back in the freezer for eight hours.
When you serve, pull cake from the freezer about 15 minutes before cutting.
This cake will serve 12-24 people, depending on the cut, as the pieces, or how great the band!
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