Festive ice cream cake

METHOD

How to make it

1. 01

   STEP 1

   Done

   Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Cover the bottom of a springform tin with a sheet of baking paper and grease into the edges. Mine had a diameter of 24cm.

2. 02

   STEP 2

   Done

   Melt the pure chocolate and butter au bain-marie or in the microwave. Then let cool. Chop the white chocolate into pieces, put on a plate and put in the freezer.

3. 03

   STEP 3

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   Beat the eggs with the bark sugar and vanilla extract well foamy with the (hand) mixer. This will take about 4 minutes. Fold the cooled chocolate mixture with a rubber spatula. Don't stir too hard, because you want to keep the lightness.

4. 04

   STEP 4

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   Strain the flour, cocoa powder, salt and baking powder above and add the white chocolate pieces from the freezer. Fold all this with the spatula.

5. 05

   STEP 5

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   Make the batter in the spring form and bake for about 15 minutes in the oven. The heart may still be a little soft when you press it, but not liquid. Then let cool completely.

6. 06

   STEP 6

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   While the brownie is cooling, you melt the chocolate fudge au bain-marie. Let cool.

7. 07

   STEP 7

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   Remove the buckets of ice from the freezer and let them become soft to make it scoopable. Scoop the coffee ice cream in a bowl, stir and then scoop over the brownie bottom. Repeat this for vanilla ice cream. 'Drizzle' then the liquid chocolate fudge over the cake with a spoon that moves you casually back and forth.

8. 08

   STEP 8

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   Cover the springform tin and put it in the freezer to stiffen. Ideal for this, because you can make it a few days earlier! Oh, and another important tip from me: Put it flat (and not half oblique, as you put it in your overcrowded freezer), otherwise you'll have a slanted ice cream cake

9. 09

   STEP 9

   Done

   Remove the ice cream cake from the freezer, cut it with a sharp knife that you held under the hot tap in thin tips and serve immediately.

10. 10

    STEP 10

    Done

    Well, that was a party with this ice cream cake!

11. 11

    STEP 11

    Done

    Recipe & photography: Francesca