Recipe: No Bake Oreo Ice Cream Cake

Summer is here and that means it’s ICE CREAM SEASON! (In my house, that’s year round, honestly, haha!) Skip buying a $30 ice cream cake for family gatherings and parties and make this super simple and inexpensive No Bake Oreo Ice Cream Cake instead!

Ingredients:

• 1 pkg of Jello Chocolate Instant Pudding (dry powder mix)
• 1/2 cup  hot fudge ice cream topping (warmed up)
• 1 tub or 8 oz Cool Whip Whipped Topping, thawed
• 16 Oreo Cookies, chopped (about 2 cups)
• 12 ice cream sandwiches (chocolate, vanilla, mint, etc.)
• Also: Foil, whisk, baking spatula

Note: Brand name is irrelevant for the recipe. You can use any equivalent brand or store brand and will have the same delicious result.

Directions:

1. In a medium bow, whisk the warmed fudge topping with 1 cup of  whipped cream until well blended.
2. Add the dry pudding mix, stir for a full 2 minutes. Add 1 cup of chopped cookies and stir until the cookies are fully mixed throughout the “frosting”.
3. On a 24″ piece of foil, place 4 ice cream sandwiches side by side. Cover with half of the mixture. Add 4 more sandwiches, then add the rest of mixture.
4. Add the last 4 ice cream sandwiches, frost with the rest of the plain whipped cream. With the remainder of cookie pieces, cover top and side of the cake, and press into the whipped cream. If you’d like to decorate, stick full Oreos into the top of the square cake shape..
5. Wrap the cake very loosely with foil and freeze for 4 hours before serving.

Instead of Oreos, you could use other goodies such as Andes mints, raspberries, bananas, strawberries, chocolate chips, crushed butterfingers or M&Ms, and you can use real whipped cream.