Ice Cream Sandwiches Cake
This fun red, white and blue Ice Cream Sandwiches Cake is super easy and really fun for your Memorial Day or 4th of July Celebrations! Just 5 simple ingredients and you have a show-stopping dessert!
Summer is almost here and you know what that means – warm weather, cookouts, 4th of July, picnics, potlucks and YES! Ice Cream! It really doesn’t matter what age you are, I have never met a person that didn’t love ice cream, especially when they are fun ice cream sandwiches, bars, and treats.
I know your life is busy. I know your to-do list is never ending. I get it. I’m right there with you!
Which is why it’s a goal of mine to create show-stopping desserts that are super easy and use simple ingredients.
This Ice Cream Sandwiches Cake is just that! I added blue and red icing in between the layers of Ice Cream Sandwiches, which is perfect for the patriotic holidays coming up – Memorial Day and 4th of July. But honestly, you could add any color you want. Maybe have 1 cake with pink layers, and 1 cake with blue layers for a gender reveal party. How fun!
What color you put into the layers won’t matter, it will be delicious. I promise you! Let’s get started…
All you need to make this incredible Ice Cream Sandwiches Cake are 5 ingredients – Klondike Ice Cream Sandwiches, whipped topping, marshmallow fluff, pudding, and coloring. Sprinkles are optional, but of course, highly recommended.
First, you will need to line a cookie sheet with a sheet of aluminum foil. Lay 4 Klondike Ice Cream Sandwiches on the bottom, fitting them together as closely as possible.
Then frost the top with the red layer of frosting which is a combination of marshmallow fluff, pudding, whipping topping and paste coloring. Be sure to use No Taste Red Coloring, regular red is really bitter.
Then add another layer of Klondike Ice Cream Sandwiches, the blue layer of frosting and another layer of ice cream sandwiches.
Now, stick the cake into the freezer for about 20 minutes to firm it up. I checked it at about 5 minutes to make sure the layers were not slipping. If your ice cream is still nice and firm, you can begin adding the whipped topping and skip this step.
Pull the cake from the freezer and immediately frost with whipped topping. Cover the sides first and then the top.
I added a thin layer – kind of like a crumb coat – first, then went back over it again.
After all the sides and top are frosted, back into the freezer it goes for at least 4 hours, or overnight.
Before serving, add sprinkles if you like – of course, who doesn’t like sprinkles. I used festive red, white and blue mini stars and nonpareils.
I can just hear the sound of the Ice Cream Truck coming down the street, that all too familiar jingle still rings in my head. How about you?
In the photo are – Magnum Double Raspberry Bars, Frozen themed Mini Popsicles (how cute are those?!), the Ice Cream Sandwiches Cake and Good Humor Strawberry Shortcake Ice Cream Bars.
The Strawberry Shortcake Bars bring back lots of memories. During my pregnancy with my middle son, those are what I craved.
Ice Cream Sandwiches Cake
This fun red, white and blue ice cream sandwiches cake is super easy and really fun for your 4th of July Celebrations! Just 4 simple ingredients and you have a show-stopping dessert!
Ingredients
- 2 boxes Klondike Ice Cream Sandwiches
- 1 container (7 oz) marshmallow creme fluff
- 2 containers (8 oz each) whipped topping, thawed
- 1 small box instant vanilla pudding - use dry
- Red and Blue Paste Food Coloring - or other colors
- Sprinkles, optional
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl, combine marshmallow fluff and pudding - mixture will be thick
- Note - to easily remove marshmallow from the jar, place in microwave for 10-20 seconds
- Fold in 1 container of whipped topping and mix until smooth
- Divide mixture into 2 bowls and add coloring
- Line a cookie sheet with foil
- Place 4 ice cream sandwiches
- Frost with the first color of marshmallow mixture
- Top with 4 more ice cream sandwiches, gently press into frosting
- Frost with the second color of marshmallow mixture
- Top with 4 more ice cream sandwiches
- Place cake in the freezer for about 20 minutes
- Frost with whipped topping
- Place back into the freezer and freeze at least 4 hours - up to overnight
- Remove from freezer and add sprinkles right before serving
- Store leftovers in the freezer
original recipe from Kraft Food and Family Magazine
Celebrate 4th of July on Hoosier Homemade!
Thanks for sharing! Does it keep long?
Hi Vanessa, the ice cream cake should keep at least a couple days in the freezer. Sometimes the filling between the sandwiches can soak into the crust of the sandwiches a bit if kept too long.
-Liz
This looks so good! It would be a fun one to make with kids too!
Thanks Suzanne! Yes the kids would love it!
-Liz
wow!!! so pretty cake.. Hope i can grab it from screen and eat it. It is really mouth watering.
Thanks so much!
Why did my Fluff & Pudding get so hard that the Topping won’t FOLD in?
Well….My 2 colors sat in bowls for sometime and finally softened to the point I could mix it up. YAY!! So in went the color and NO chunks of Taffy Pudding YAY!! All in All my Son Loved his Birthday cake…Thank for your Lesson in Patience & Perseverance.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Make sure that everything is at room temperature!
Can you just use food coloring?
Do you mean for the red and blue? If so, it is food coloring. Sorry, not totally understanding which part you are asking about.
Yes . I was asking just food coloring not paste. I really want to make this and all I have is regular food coloring. Also what does the pudding/marshmallow taste like? Could you just use cool whip?
The paste food coloring works best because it does not add any “liquid” to the mixture, and paste coloring is more vibrant colors, however you could use regular food coloring, just keeping in mind it won’t be the same coloring.
Yes you can use just cool whip, but the marshmallow and pudding give it a thicker consistency and flavor, and it was best to “hold” the ice cream sandwiches together. Again, it will look and taste different, but you could certainly use just cool whip.
~Liz
Looks yummy and festive! Do you prepare the pudding before adding to the marshmallow fluff or just add the pudding mix to the fluff?
Hi Eileen, the pudding mix is used dry.
Happy Baking!
~Liz
Looks so festive and yummy, I can’t wait to make this cake! I have a question about the pudding. Do I prepare the pudding first or just add the pudding powder to the marshmallow fluff?