Oreo Ice Cream Cake (The Eighties are Stalking Me)
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Back in the eighties my parents had a dessert similar to this at a restaurant and Mama loved it so much she sat there studying it for a bit in order to be able to come home and recreate it for us. It became a fast favorite and has only gotten better with time.
Speaking of the eighties, they stalked me the other day when I was walking through the mall. I honestly thought it wasn’t possible to out eighties the eighties, but I guess it took 2010 to do it. Neon is back? Skinny jeans and wildly colored makeup? Fashion has run full circle yet again but I’m still waiting to see if the hair returns.
~sighs longingly~
I was really good at eighties hair. Really. I used to tease my wings out and then spray them with aqua net while I stood with my head tilted over in front of an oscillating fan in my bedroom until they dried. It’s a wonder I didn’t fly away with how big those things were. I’ve destroyed most of the photographic evidence but did manage to find this one from my high school graduation and decided to offer it up as a public service message. Look at these two hairstyles and see if you can guess which one is me.
I think my high school class is personally responsible for at least ten percent of the ozone’s deterioration.
The thing that baffles me is that our kids have seen these photos and yet they still want to revisit this era of fashion um…uniqueness. While I’m not a big fan of the resurgence of eighties style, I will tell you that this flashback recipe from our family in that decade is still as big a hit today as it was back then and it is still a favorite of my brothers. Mama usually makes it on Halloween and calls it “dirt cake” but it is good year round. Be sure to check at the bottom of this post for another Halloween tradition we had growing up that is inexpensive, easy, and fun.
This recipe can make a 9×13 inch pan full but if that is a bit much for your family, why not make 2 8×8 pans and give one to someone as a gift? So many of us get wrapped up and busy that we forget what a kind and loving gesture a gift of food can be.
You’ll need: Cookies and Cream Ice Cream, Caramel Topping, and Oreo’s or a generic version.
You can also use vanilla ice cream and crush some Oreos up in it like we used to have to do before they invented the cookies and cream kind. Feel free to use any caramel topping, whatever kind cranks yer tractor.
Ain’t nobody gonna judge here on Southern Plate because that’s not how we work.
Put your cookies in a big old ziplock bag
Crush the cookies however way strikes your fancy.
This is another one of those golden opportunities that cooking yields to work out any anger issues.
Thats how come Grannys are so sweet. If you think they never got mad at you, just think back to how tender the meat was that they served 🙂
If you are making a 9×13, put half your cookies in the bottom of it.
If you are making two 8×8’s, put 1/4 of your cookies in the bottom of each pan.
Soften your ice cream a bit and divide it among your pans.
Spread that around a bit.
Pour your caramel sauce over the ice cream in each pan.
Spread that around some, too.
Sprinkle the rest of your cookie crumbs over the top.
TADA!
Now cover it with foil, wrap it really well, and place in the freezer for a few hours.
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This is the meal Mama always made on Halloween when we were kids. Jack-o-burgers, ghost fingers (french fries), and blood (ketchup). To make the Jack-O-Burger, just use regular old slice cheese and cut a few triangles out for eyes and then the mouth you like. If you are making them for folks who don’t like a lot of cheese, just use the cut out pieces to make a face on their burger (this is what Mama always did for me).
Have a wonderful weekend!
Gratefully,
Christy
“We should believe that when you treat people as they are,
they will remain as they are, but when you treat them as they could be,
they become what they should be.”
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What was your favorite eighties fashion fad?
I LOVE the 80’s! My daughter had 80’s Day at school the other day & I had so much fun dressing her and fixing her hair….she couldn’t believe I wanted her to go to school with poofy bangs but I told her the 80’s were all about big hair. My husband told her she looked like me when when we first met! She thought she looked ridiculous!
Have to laugh at you Christy saying that the neon and skinny jeans are back . I graduated in 1964 and my Jr. and Sr. year wore the stitched down pleated skirts and sweaters my mom wore 20 years before when she graduated from high school. I was right in style too.
Love the recipe. sounds a lot like one my daughter makes. Makes me want to run right out and buy everything but will refrain till the week end shopping trip only because I have the top of my retirement party cake sitting here to eat over the next few days.
Just wondering…is it possible for a confirmed chocoholic to have too many chocolate recipes!??? Pu-LLEEEZE, tell me NO!! ~sigh~
Dear Grandmereb Lovestobake,
I choose to bake from scratch sometimes because I don’t have mix avail. In my oven now baking:
EASY HONEYBEAR BROWNIES 350 degrees for ~25 min.
1/3 cup butter or margarine
¾ cup sugar
½ cup honey or ¼ cup light corn syrup
2 t. vanilla
2 eggs
½ cup all-purpose flour
1/3 cup Hershey’s cocoa
½ t. salt
1 cup chopped nuts (optional)
Cream butter or margarine and sugar in small bowl; blend in honey or corn syrup and vanilla. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Combine flour, cocoa and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture. Stir in nuts. Pour into a greased 9/9/1-1/2 pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 25 – 30 min, or until brownies begin to pull away from edge of pan. Cool. Frost with your favorite choco frosting (is desired). Makes 16 brownies
Another version of BROWNIES from scratch:
Melt one stick margarine in 350 degree oven. Add to margarine:
1 cup self-rising flour
1 cup sugar
2 whole eggs
1 t. vanilla
1 T. cocoa. Baker in greased pan for ~ 25 min.
Tiose sound great and my kind of baking as mixes have gotten pretty pricey. I love economical recipes which is I guess the polite way to say cheap. Thanks for sharing these and I will give them a try.
Sorry to be posting again but noted the first brownie recipe has no leavening agent . Is that OK? Should I use self rising flour in that recipe too?
Dear elaineraye, No, don’t use self-rising flour. (I used ‘Kroger enriched wheat flour, bleached all-purpose’, for more fiber. ) BTW, I’ve been accused of being cheap, too! The brownies that I was making as I wrote, turned out yummy, and chewy. I gave my neighbor, Debbie Blackwell (also on facebook), 2 brownies, and ate the rest before they cooled. Recipe said “Makes 16–more like 9 brownies ! ” That’s why I’ve gained 5 lbs.! They’re easy to make with staples on hand, when one has a hankering for something sweet in a hurry !
Aqua net, ah yes I do believe that I went through my fare share (at least a can a week if not more, at least it was cheap) Big hair that was the fad, I am so glad that the 80’s are over with.
The ice cream cake looks delish. I have been craving something sweet and easy.
It was cheap and had great HOLD…great for those of us with natural curly hair and humid weather to contend with most of the time!
LOL Sherian, I just made my version of Dirt cake for my youngest son’s 33 birthday–yes 33 and he still wanted this dessert! I used chocolate pudding instead of vanilla and added his favorite caramel topping in between the layers. I gave it to him in a cool little “guy” tool holder (lined it with plastic wrap) and had gummy worms peeking through the top. He LOVED it!
I wore my 80’s hair almost into the 2000’s. My daughter was born in 88. Looking back at her pics, she said, “Mama, why did you always pouf my hair?” Lol. I love your blog and am waiting for the day when I get your cookbook. It will probably be on my Christmas wish list. Wish I could afford to get all my friends and family one, too.