Oatmeal Creme Pie Ice Cream Cake

I first had cinnamon ice cream when I was waitressing my senior year of high school. I had never actually had it before then, but it was true love at first bite. It probably doesn’t hurt that it was buried under churros and caramel sauce either.

So when I found myself staring down a carton of heavy whipping cream about to go bad, I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it. Cinnamon Ice Cream: custard style — so it’s extra creamy.

However, while it was churning away in our ice cream maker, I had a genius idea to make it into an ice cream cake with the box of oatmeal creme pies I had stashed away in the back of the pantry. Cinnamon ice cream and oatmeal creme pies are seriously a match made in dessert heaven.

Jorge and the babies gobbled this ice cream cake up so fast that I barely got a slice myself! …that just means I have to make it again soon. ;-)

If you aren’t up for making your own ice cream, you can also buy a carton of ice cream and let it soften on the counter. Then just follow the steps for layering the ice cream and oatmeal creme pies. If you do that — it turns this recipe into a two ingredient cake!

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Yield: 1 Cake

Oatmeal Creme Pie Ice Cream Cake

This easy cake is made with homemade ice cream and is loaded with classic Oatmeal Creme Pies.

Prep Time20 minutes minutes

Cook Time2 hours hours

Total Time2 hours hours 20 minutes minutes

Ingredients

• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1 ½ cups half & half
• 4 large egg yolks
• 1 cup heavy whipping cream
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 1 ½ teaspoons cinnamon
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 14 Oatmeal Creme Pies
• whipped cream, optional

Instructions 

• In a large saucepan over medium heat, stir together the sugar and half-and-half.
• When the mixture begins to simmer, remove 1/2 cup of liquid and place in a bowl. Quickly whisk in the egg yolks and then pour the egg mixture back into the saucepan, whisking constantly. Stir in the heavy cream.
• Continue cooking over medium-low heat, stirring constantly, until the mixture is thick enough to coat the back of a metal spoon. Remove from heat, and whisk in vanilla and cinnamon. Set aside to cool.
• Pour cooled mixture into an ice cream maker and churn until it’s soft serve texture. 
• Line a 9×13 loaf pan with wax paper. Place a layer of the oatmeal creme pies in the bottom of the wax paper lined loaf pan. I did one whole cookie on one side a half a cookie on the other – so each layer had 4.5 cookies.
• Spread about one third of the ice cream over the cookies. Repeat sequence twice more until you’ve built 3 layers of each.
• Gently press a layer of wax paper over ice cream cake to seal. Cover with plastic wrap and place in freezer until firm, about 2 hours.
• Optional: When ready to serve, top with layer of whipped cream, and crumbled oatmeal creme pies.

© Jessica - The Novice Chef

Cuisine: American

Category: Desserts

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