Mason’s Ice-Cream Party

This year we decided to have Mason’s birthday party early, as his birthday is in January which is in the middle of the summer school holidays here.  So all of his friends go away, and he doesn’t have anyone to come to his party.  We had his party the day after school finished for the year, which worked out really well as all of his friends came.  He didn’t want a birthday cake this year, and as he loves ice-cream I decided on an ice-cream dessert table.  

I brought the ice-cream tubs a few months ago on sale, and then found some digital paper that was similar to make the bunting on the table.

A few hours before the party I pre-rolled the ice-cream, put on a baking sheet and then put in the freezer.  Next time I would do this the night before as they were still quite soft.  This made it a lot easier when you had a line of hungry boys lined up waiting on ice-cream.

The chocolate sundae cupcakes were chocolate cupcakes covered in buttercream, drizzled in chocolate sauce and topped with a glace cherry. Even though cherries are in season here they are very expensive.

The ice-cream cake pops were really easy to make, and looked great on the table.  When I asked some of the boys what flavour ice-cream they wanted they pointed to the cake pops, as they thought they were real ice-cream in cones.  

Ice-Cream Cake Pops

I made extra cupcakes when I made my chocolate sundae cupcakes, and put the extras in a food processor and made into fine crumbs.  You can also use cake scraps as well.

I then added a couple of Tbsp of the leftover buttercream, and pulsed until it was all combined. You should then be able to form into balls, if not add more buttercream until you can form balls.  

You will need your ice-cream cone now to check the size of the cake ball.  I used twice the amount of cake ball that I would normally use if I was putting them on a stick.  Roll your cake ball and check that it fits inside the ice-cream cone.  Place on a greaseproof lined tray.  When you have rolled all of your cake balls put them in the fridge to harden up - about 20/30 minutes.

Now they have hardened melt your chocolate (melts or candy melts), and with a spoon drizzle just inside the cone where the cake ball will sit.  Then place one of the cake balls in the cone.  Continue until you have all of the cake balls in the cones.  Put them back in the fridge for 15 mins for the chocolate to harden.

When the cake balls have set in the cones re-melt the chocolate again, and dip each cake ball into the melted chocolate.  Then spoon sprinkles over top and leave to set.