Summer Celebration Ice Cream Cake Recipe

Ingredients

• 1 cup sugar
• 3 tablespoons butter, melted
• 3 tablespoons orange yogurt
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon grated orange peel
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/3 cup baking cocoa
• 1 cup (6 ounces) semisweet chocolate chips
  X Featured sponsor Bake Some Love with Nestlé^® Nothing says “I love you” like fresh baked Nestlé® Toll House® chocolate chip cookies. Who would you bake some love for?
  
  Visit tollhouse.com to be inspired by real baking stories, recipes, tips and more!
• 1-3/4 quarts vanilla ice cream, softened
• 4 to 6 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped
• 1 tablespoon shortening
• Mixed fresh berries

Directions

• Line an 8-in. square baking dish with foil and grease the foil; set aside. In a large bowl, combine the sugar, butter, yogurt, egg, orange peel and vanilla until blended. Combine flour and cocoa; stir into sugar mixture. Add chocolate chips.
• Spread into prepared dish. Bake at 325° for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out with moist crumbs. Cool on a wire rack.
• Spread ice cream over cake. Cover and freeze for 3 hours or until firm.
• Remove from the freezer 10 minutes before serving. In a microwave-safe bowl, melt chocolate and shortening; stir until smooth. Using foil, lift dessert out of dish; gently peel off foil. Cut into squares. Garnish with berries and drizzle with chocolate. Yield: 9 servings.

Summer Celebration Ice Cream Cake published in Taste of Home August/September 2007, p33