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


23 comments:

  1. It looks fantastic. Hate to think what high expectations Miss PF will have when she becomes 11!!

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  2. That is the kind of cake that looks like I could make it. Beautiful. Smiles...Renee

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  3. That is fabulous! And now I want ice-cream, and it's only six o'clock in the morning!
    x

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  4. so cute!! & i love the previous post too.
    x

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  5. Yum yum yum! My mouth is literally watering right now.

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  6. we must be insinc cause i was just thinking about doing this with my easter lamb mold

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  7. Wow - fantastic! It is absolutely amazing, well done!
    Liz @ Shortbread & Ginger

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  8. What an excellent idea and what a creative Mummy!

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  9. Oh my goodness. Great job. That cake has to be every little girl's dream.

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  10. What a totally brilliant idea!! It looks amazing and delicious. I must keep an eye out for one of those moulded cake thingamees next time I'm at the shops. I really want to try this! Have a fab week hon.
    Leah

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  11. Well now wonder she had faith in you, Ava! You do fabulous work! I would have loved to have had an icecream cake like that as a child. How stupendous! I am keeping this idea in my "someday" file. Looks so fun :-)

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  12. So pleased it worked for you and it looks amazing!

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  13. Adorable! What a fun idea..looks so yummy as well.

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  14. WOW! An Ice cream Castle!!! Wonderful! I haven't heard of such a thing before.
    I"m sure little Miss was very excited. How brave of you to attempt it and it turned out so well!!!

    Hugs, Maki

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  15. Great idea, always love an ice cream cake!

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  16. Fantastic! I dare not show Kade this cake, he might want one too! He is celebrating his 10th birthday next weekend. This year he want a Skylanders cake..hmm, better get the thinking cap on.

    p.s love the union jack cushion!

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  17. Ava this cake is fantastic just as I imagined it would be. Wonder if I can con one of ours to have a castle cake :)
    x

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  18. This is amazing, it looks a)so cute and b) so delicious! Wow <3
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  19. Oh Ava....This looks so WICKEDLY TASTY....I might have to try one....For Mr SVJ....hahahaha....!!

    Have a WONDERFUL week....!!!!!

    Cheers,
    Tamarah :o)

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  20. Ice cream, chocolate and candy sprinkles, love! love! Love!

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