Salted Caramel & Hot Fudge Ice Cream Cake (Super Easy) & Peanut Butter & Chocolate Version Too!

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Looking for a simple ice cream cake you can make at home? This hack version uses ice cream sandwiches to make a quick, easy and much more affordable version of the ice cream cake (I went to my local ice cream store recently and it was going to be $30 for a small ice cream cake recently). By using Ice Cream Sandwiches as your base, you can make a super easy and affordable version of an ice cream cake. My two favorite recipes are Salted Caramel and Hot Fudge or Peanut Butter Chocolate. If your making it as an easy home snack you can buy the lower cost ice cream sandwiches. If its a special occasion you might want to splurge on the thicker versions (like Fat Boy, etc) to make a heartier ice cream cake.

Ingredients

• Ice Cream Sandwiches (box of 26)
• 1 container of cool whip
• 1 jar of Salted Caramel
• 1 jar of Hot Fudge (not chocolate sauce, but the thick hot fudge, I like to use Mrs. Richardsons)
• Course Salt (just a dash when you are ready to serve)

Here is how to make this simple Ice Cream Cake: 

In addition to the Salted Caramel Ice Cream Cake you can use the same basic recipe to make a chocolate peanut  butter version. In this case you would omit the salt and caramel sauce from the recipe above and instead get a jar of peanut butter and one of chocolate sauce (like a Hershey sauce). You will still want the hot fudge sauce. You can also get peanuts to top it optionally (dry roasted peanuts work really nice for the sweet and salty effect.

Make the recipe the same way, but instead of adding caramel to the middle layer mix 1 cup of peanut butter with 1 cup of chocolate syrup and cover your first row of ice cream sandwiches with that mix. Next add the cool whip, more sandwiches and fudge topping as noted in recipe above. You can coarsely chop the peanuts and sprinkle over the top before freezing if you wish too. YUM!

Arrange a layer of the ice cream sandwiches on the bottom of an 8×8 baking dish

Top with a layer of the salted caramel sauce

Top with a layer of cool whip (cover all the ice cream sandwiches)

Add a second layer of ice cream sandwiches

Frost that final layer with the Hot fudge (you can cover just the top, or you could frost the sides too if you have room in your dish)

Cover with foil and freeze for a few hours

Cut a slice and drizzle with the salted caramel sauce and a sprinkle of the course salt just before serving

Note – you can make your own caramel sauce if you want and just add a sprinkle of salt to each layer too.

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