I love Ice Cream Cake and have always enjoyed it with a cake layer at the bottom. The ice cream shop near our house made their ice cream cakes that way and it makes sense, it has at the word cake in it.

 

With summer break only days away,  I wanted to start off our summer with a fun Ice Cream Treat like these ice cream cupcakes. This summer dessert is an easy way to feed a crowd too and you really only need about to prepare them 2 hours ahead of time to all for the ice cream to set.

Obviously, you can’t take them to a party unless the host has freezer space they will melt but what fun to take them out to a bunch of kids and adults who are already excited about the start of summer. 

 

 

 

                                            

 

How to Make Ice Cream Cupcakes

We love ice cream and if you looked in my freezer you would wonder if we ate anything but ice cream. While I was looking for ice cream at Walmart to make these ice cream cupcakes, I could not help but notice new clear packaging on the Blue Bunny® ice cream, it allows you to see the flavor swirls inside.

 

This new packaging caught my eye, and here I am with three flavors of Blue Bunny® to make these frozen treats. These ice cream cupcakes are versatile but we went with chocolate cake, Blue Bunny® Homemade Vanilla for our frosting, Blue Bunny® Mint Chocolate Chip and Blue Bunny® Cookies & Cream flavors.

 

 

After I got the ice cream I started thinking of how will I add some more flavor to these ice cream cupcakes. I could not resist heading to the ice cream topping aisle. Filled with Smucker’s ice cream toppings, like the Smucker’s Hot Fudge Spoonable Ice Cream Topping or Smucker’s Magic Shell Chocolate Fudge Flavored Topping.

I knew they are a  great inexpensive way to add some fun to your summer ice cream.

 

Since this was my first attempt at making Ice Cream Cupcakes,  I learned from Trial and Error. I made the first batch of cupcakes too big, you really only need about 1-2 tablespoons of cake batter in each cupcake wrapper.

If you fail as I did, just cut a bit off the top of the cupcake so you have room for the ice cream. Once the Ice cream refreezes no one will know. I added a thin layer of Smucker’s Hot Fudge Spoonable Ice Cream Topping on top of each cupcake.

 

 

 

 

Fill the rest of the cupcake liners with your favorite and slightly defrosted ice cream flavor. Pile as high as you desire. Place back into the freezer until the ice cream is solid again. 

 

 

 

 

 

I then experimented with two different “frostings”. Like the Ice Cream Cake I have made, I thought I would make vanilla ice cream frosting. Simply add a few scoops of   Blue Bunny® Homemade Vanilla in a mixer and beat until it looks like frosting. 

 

 

 

 

 

Add the fluffy ice cream to a piping bag with a large tip and top the layer of ice cream with the vanilla ice cream. 

 

 

 

The ice cream melted a little too quickly so I went with plan B. 

 

 

 

 

I added larger scoops of the ice cream to the cupcakes and placed them back in the freezer for an hour or so. 

 

 

 

Top off your cupcakes with a nice layer of Smucker’s Magic Shell Chocolate Fudge Flavored Topping and then add some fun sprinkles before it hardens. Serve immediately. 

 

 

 

Now we are talking, here are some fun looking ice cream cupcakes. 

 

 

Close up shot of these fun schools out ice cream dessert.