The Ice-Cream-Cake Comeback

By miss5elements

Layered with frozen yogurt, fresh-fruit sauce, and airy vanilla cake, this berry-packed wonder looks impressive but is actually a snap to construct. The hard part: allowing all the flavors time to meld - and not devouring a slice before it chills.

Ingredients

• LADY CAKE:
• 1 lady cake
• 2/3 c blackberry sauce
• 1 c whipped cream
• 2 pts huckleberry frozen yogurt (or blueberry frozen yogurt)
• Fresh blueberries, huckleberries, or blackberries for garnish
• Fresh mint leaves for garnish
• 1 c cake flour (not self-rising), cornstarch, or wheat pastry flour
• 1/4 t baking soda
• 1/2 t baking powder
• 3/4 t fine sea salt
• 6 T (3/4 stick) unsalted butter, softened
• 3/4 c sugar
• 2 lg eggs, room temperature
• 1 t vanilla extract
• 3/4 c sour cream or buttermilk
• BLACKBERRY SAUCE:
• 2 c fresh or frozen blackberries
• 1 c sugar
• WHIPPED CREAM
• 3 T sugar
• 1 t vanilla extract
• 1.5 c heavy cream

Details

Servings 1
Preparation time 90mins
Cooking time 570mins
Adapted from instyle.com

Preparation

Step 1

For lady cake:
1. Preheat oven to 325F. Butter the bottom of a 9" round cake pan, and line it w/a round of parchment. Butter the paper & dust it w/flour, then shake out excess.
2. Sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder, & salt. Set aside.
3. Using an electric mixer, beat butter & sugar on high speed until thick & pale, scraping down sides of bowl. Add eggs & vanilla; mix until incorporated.
4. Gently fold in 1/3 of flour mixture, then half of sour cream or buttermilk. Repeat, alternating, mix just until flour is incorporated.
5. Pour batter into pan. Bake for 40-50 min, until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out with a few moist crumbs. Cool in pan on rack for 10 min, then invert cake onto rack, remove parchment, and cool completely.

FOR BLACKBERRY SAUCE:
1. Combine berries & sugar in a 1qt saucepan. Bring to a boil over med heat, & stir to dissolve sugar; cool. Press mixture through a sieve to remove seeds (optional). Refrigerate
for at least 2 hrs.

FOR WHIPPED CREAM (prepare just before serving)
1. Using a hand mixer, beat sugar, vanilla, & cream in a lg chilled bowl until soft peaks form.

TO ASSEMBLE:
1. Cut cake in half horizontally
2. Fit bottom cake layer into a 9" spring form pan, spread 1/3c sauce on top, remaining sauce, & remaining frozen yogurt then evenly layer w/1 pt softened frozen yogurt.
3. Repeat w/top half of cake, remaining sauce, & remaining frozen yogurt. Ensure top layer is smooth & flat.
4. Freeze cake, covered, for at least 6 hrs.
5. Remove from freezer; frost w/whipped cream. Garnish w/berries & mint leaves.