I know peppermint recipes are everywhere right now, but I had to share this easy peppermint ice cream cake. It’s perfect on a cold day with a cup of hot chocolate.
Of course I kept it simple by softening vanilla ice cream and folding in crushed Hershey’s Candy Cane Kisses for the peppermint flavor. And to keep things balanced I layered the peppermint with some chocolate ice cream and a crushed Oreo crust.
Aside from the ease of making this, I needed some holiday cheer and peppermint does it to me every time. This year for reasons I won’t share, the holiday seems to be flying by while I thumb through my iPhone looking for Christmas music to help me get in the spirit. Since that hardly worked, I decided easy dessert making would move it along.
I know it’s awful. I’m awful, but it’s the truth. I’m so busy, I can’t seem to see pass my computer screen.
Thankfully ice cream cake and watching Elf with my little guy did it. Yay, to holiday cheer!

Peppermint Ice Cream Cake
Ingredients
- 24 Oreo cookies, crushed
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
- 12 Hershey’s Candy Cane Kisses, crushed (set as
- 2 cups chocolate ice cream, softened
- 11/2 cups vanilla ice cream, softened
Instructions
- Place Oreos in a food processor or blender and pulse until cookies are finely crumbed. Alternately, place Oreos in a plastic bag and crush with a rolling pin. Combine crushed Oreos with melted butter and then firmly press crumbs into place to create a crust. Bake crust at 350 degrees F for 7-10 minutes. Set aside to cool completely.
- Place Hershey’s Candy Cane Kisses in a food processor and pulse until crushed. Portion out 1 tablespoon and set aside for garnishing. Fold remaining crushed candy cane Kisses into the vanilla ice cream; set aside.
- Spread softened chocolate ice cream on top of crust. Then layer and spread peppermint and vanilla ice cream mixture on top of chocolate layer.
- Optional: Garnish cake with remaining 1 tablespoon of crushed candy cane Kisses. Pipe whip cream around perimeter of cake.
Notes
A few notes:
- I used a springform pan, but an 8 inch pie pan will work just as well.
- The ice cream cake can be made 5 days in advance and kept covered in the freezer.
Great looking cake and I love the silver bowls and props to go with it – and that cake stand…so pretty!
A dessert my family will love. I love using the Hershey peppermint kisses instead of candy canes. Much smoother taste.
I adore a cold frozen dessert for Christmas! maybe it’s because in Texas, it never truly get *that* cold. Love this 🙂
I don’t mind eating ice cream when it’s cold out, but I don’t crave it as often. This looks spectacular!
Yay! More peppermint! And Elf is a surefire way to offer some holiday cheer. Listening to Dave Barnes’s Christmas album helps too! Give it a try!
Elf is always a clear winner and some snuggle time surely helps too 🙂 This is perfect.
This looks wonderful!
Beautiful cake, I can’t decide what photo I like best – they’re all stunners!
So easy and looks SO pretty…LOVE it! 🙂
Mmmm looks tasty! I was left inspired to bake something equally christmassy so I baked peppermint brownies, tasted delish xx
The layers of ice cream! The pewter plates! You’re killin me here.
I’m down with peppermint everywhere! This looks awesome!
I love the simplicity of this cake Naomi! And still so so so decadent and elegant looking. I envy all of your pretty silverware and silver bowls. 🙂
Love the way you’ve styled these photos – the utter yumminess of the ice-cream cake helps too!
This is a gorgeous cake! All my favorite flavors too. I love the last picture the “aftermath”. I think it’s great you have been adding those pics into your posts now!
That crust looks SO good 🙂 I could just dive right in.
so loving the pink and grey combo with a touch of black. beautiful!
oh, and the aftermath pics are exactly how it would look in my house! this cake would be amazing on the table for christmas dessert. so stunning!
Such a pretty ice cream cake!
Perfection all the way around.
Ice cream and some quality downtime sounds like just the thing. Here’s to a fresh new year.
your colors, the props and my goodness the cake! gorgeous.