It’s Ice Cream Social time over at Kitchen Bouquet hosted by Suzy. Since ice cream ranks up there as one of my favorite sweets, I will definitely be checking out these recipes and suggest that you do as well.
I’ve had this recipe for Snickers Ice Cream Cake in my files for years, but I must confess that I don’t often make it. Why? Well, it was originally titled 1,000-calorie Snickers Ice Cream Cake:) With only the two of us at home these days, I can’t afford to have this on hand so I save it for parties and other special occasions.
Frank and Ethel Mars began making and selling candy in their home before founding their famous candy company. The Snickers bar was introduced in 1930 and continues today as the world’s most popular candy bar. The candy was named after a favorite horse that belonged to the Mars family. (I always found that funny.) More than fifteen million bars of Snickers are made EVERY day and there are probably hundreds of ways that they have been incorporated into dessert recipes. We love our Snickers!
Snickers Ice Cream Cake
2 ounces unsweetened chocolate
1/4 pound unsalted butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg, beaten
1/2 cup flour
dash salt
1/2 – 3/4 cup pecans, lightly toasted
1 quart vanilla ice cream
8 ounces Snickers candy bars
Caramel Sauce (recipe follows)
Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a 9-inch square cake pan. Melt chocolate and butter in the top of a double boiler. (This can also be done in a microwave but be careful not to try to melt this too quickly or too high or the chocolate will seize.) When melted, remove from heat. Stir in sugar. Stir in egg, beating well. Add flour then stir in salt and pecans. Spread over the bottom of the prepared pan. Bake about 25 minutes, or until the top of the brownie cake is just firm. The cake will get firmer after cooling. Remove from the oven and cool thoroughly.
Soften the ice cream just until it can be spread over brownies. Cut candy bars into thin slices and arrange over the ice cream, pressing them in slightly. Cover and freeze at least two hours. Longer is probably better.
To serve, cut into bars or squares and top with a little caramel sauce. If you are brave, you can garnish with a dollop of whipped cream and a sprig of mint.
The cake should be stored in the freezer without the sauce.
Caramel Sauce:
1 1/4 cups sugar
1/4 pound butter
1 cup whipping cream
1 1/4 cups sugar
1/4 pound butter
1 cup whipping cream
Place sugar in a heavy skillet. Over low heat, brown the sugar but do not burn. Shake frequently but do not stir. After 15 minutes, the sugar will start to brown and after 30-40 minutes, it will turn to a brown syrup. Stir in the butter at this point. When the butter is melted, it will be separated on top of the caramelized sugar.
Stir in whipping cream and heat over low heat, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon. The sauce is very thin when hot but thickens as it cools. It can be reheated in the top of a double boiler or slowly in the microwave. It will keep up to one week in the refrigerator.
For some seriously good homemade ice cream recipes, you should visit Lindsay’s Menu. Her most recent ice cream post was for roasted banana ice cream. I haven’t tried it yet, but I heard that it was fantastic. You might also like one of these:
She has more! (Ice Cream photos courtesy of Lindsay’s Menu.)
With Snickers in it, it has to be good 🙂 What a wonderful way to splurge!
Snickers is my absolute favorite candy bar. This sounds good, but I can feel the calories.
My mom used to make snickers ice cream. Love anything with snickers in it!
Christi
You had me with the Snickers! Oh, YUM! Delicious goodness! And then the other treats were equally delicious. I found chocolate gelato at Publix the other day, and it is great, too. But I want some chocolate sorbet! Light and yummy! Loved dropping by your house for the ice cream social…
XO,
Sheila 🙂
YUMMY!! I am officially sitting here DROOLING! That sounds SO good!
Thank you for sharing!
{{HUGS}}
Robin :o)
Whoaa, now that is one rich and delicious sounding ice cream cake! I love snickers, pecans, caramel, brownies and whipped cream so can imagine I would adore this cake. Thanks for the link for Lindsay’s Menus. I will definitely go check out the recipes Banana Blueberry has me curious! Thanks so much for joining in at the social. The good part is we can enjoy all this ice cream (on the internet) and not have to eat the calories!
This sounds so good. I love Snickers. I do an ice cream made with Milky Way bars.
TFS
Yummmm – I’ve already copied this to my file. Love Snickers but I understand due to the calories why you don;t make it often. This would be one to make and take to an outing so you aren’t staring at it in the house!!!
All of the homemade ice cream looks so good – maybe it’s a good thing I don’t have an ice cream maker!
Snickers! My all time favorite. This cake sounds like a great party dish. You are right, it is way too much for two! 5,000 calorie minimum! I would need to make it, taste it, take it and leave it!
Sounds fantastic! I’ll try to play along w/ y’all on a crockpot wednesday…good idea!
My favorite Dairy Queen Blizzard is the Snickers Blizzard. I think I may just have to try this, even if it’s 1,000 calories. Yum.
Yum the cake and ice creams looks delicious, how fun!
This really does sound sinfully good. I loved the background information and will make this some night when we have a gazillion people in the house. Like you – there are just 2 people in the house and sweets can be dangerous :-).
This does sound good – great to meet you at the social 😉
Why do they have to tell you the calorie count?? It sounds delicious…when I was pregnant with Lilly I CRAVED Snickers Ice Cream bars for a little while.
A SNICKERS CAKE…..AWESOME…I BETTER RUN FOR THE HILLS AND HIDE…MAYBE NEXT TIME I WILL HIDE…A GIRL DOES HAVE TO GET THE RECIPE AND THEN TASTE IT BEFORE SHE SERVES IT…….OH WELL, WHEN I TURN TO WALK OFF AND MY BUTT JIGGLES…I’LL TELL THEM I AM JUST WAVING TO THEM…LOL
i AM LOOKING FORWARD TO MORE DELICIOUS RECIPES FROM YOU……
STOP BY AND VISIT WITH ME SOME TIME
ANGEL HUGS
debbie
Snickers is my hubby’s fave chocolate. I bet he’d love this!!
sounds like an awesome cake! Can’t ever go wrong with a snickers! Definitely worth the calories for sure!
This sounds super tasty! I can imagine it with other flavors of ice cream in it too!!!
I’ve tried Paula’s peach ice cream & I tell you what! It’s got a wonderful flavor (and almost a butter-pecan hint, too!) It’s a must-try if your an ice cream fan!
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I was googling ice cream cake with snickers and this is what came up. I’m really excited to make this tonight..right now the brownie stuff is cooling. Thanks for sharing this recipe :]
I found your link from the link party. I enjoyed your history on the Snicker bar! We like Snickers! 🙂 I just posted a recipe for Snickers Ice Cream Pie and had linked it up when I spied your link and had to come check out Snickers Ice Cream Cake!