Chocolate Coated Ice Cream Castle

It's  birthday time at the Picket Fence house. In a fit of "whimsy", Miss Picket Fence declared she wanted a castle cake. In a fit of "Not really thinking about the consequences and nodding Uh Huh", I agreed. This resulted in me purchasing the red silicone mold she passed me with twinkling eyes....  Note to self...10 year old girls have blind faith.





















This red silicone mold stimulated much discussion with my loyal and patient friends. Advice was put forward, worried nods and comforting words were exchanged  and multiple referrals to web pages occurred  (Thank heavens for cooking savvy web friendship !!)

A plan took shape.

Melted milk chocolate .

Painted onto the mold interior and set in the freezer for 5 minutes.

 Softened ice-cream packed into the chocolate covered mold and layered with drizzled choc fudge sauce.

Frozen for 24 hours ( Cover the edge with the exposed ice cream with cling wrap to prevent bloom on the chocolate)

Peel off the mold just prior to serving. Stand there and declare how clever you are, to all that will listen :)  

I made some bunting out of scrap paper and little self adhesive letters.

 Rolled gluten free ice-cream cones in melted chocolate.

Then sprinkles

Assembled, the cake looked like this. Sorry about the poorly photo-shopped  name on the bunting but Miss Picket Fence prefers to be known as Miss PF :) Also....apologies for the wax dripped cup cakes holding the candles. The candle spikes wouldn't go in the chocolate !

Anyway...there you have it . A chocolate coated ice cream castle ...easy to make and enjoy. Let me know if you have a go at this. I'd love to hear. We loved it. Happy Birthday Miss Picket Fence 10. You make me build castles, and for this , I adore you xx