How to Carve an Ice Cream Cake
Ice cream cakes are a popular choice for many birthday parties as well as other special events. These festive cakes incorporate both the cake and ice cream into one. Although they are not hard to carve, you must be sure to work fast so that your ice cream cake does not melt.
- Remove the ice cream cake that you plan to carve from the box and place safely onto the counter or other flat surface where you plan to cut the cake.
- Place candles on the cake if you plan to use it as a birthday cake, and sing happy birthday to the guest of honor before carving the cake.
- Turn on the hot water in your kitchen and allow it to run for about a minute so that the water is thoroughly hot.
- Place a large cutting knife into the hot water to heat up the blade.
- Place the knife into the ice cream cake and make a long horizontal cut through the entire width of the cake.
- Replace the knife into the hot water to warm it up again; you should do this for every cut so that the knife easily glides through the frozen ice cream that is inside of your cake.
- Make smaller cuts vertically in the desired size. The typical ice cream cake should be cut into pieces that are approximately four inches by four inches. You can make them bigger or smaller depending on your preferences as well as the desires of the people with whom you are serving your ice cream cake to.
- Serve the cake quickly, and then replace the rest of your ice cream cake into your freezer right away so that the cake does not begin to melt.