How To Make a Basic Ice Cream Bombe Cakes?
Ingredients
Ice cream (your favorite flavor)Cake2 oz of dark chocolate
Easy Steps on How to Prepare It?
Buy a reasonably sized cakeGet a small bowl. The diameter of your bowl shouldn’t be more than the cake you boughtPlace it on the cake to measure the circumference that fits the bowlPress the bowl down to cut the cakeTake your cake knife and cut the cake to make a flat top and keep it aside. Lay 3 cling wraps inside the bowl. Make sure it covers every part of the bowl. Fill your favorite ice cream in the bowl and level the topPlace your cake upside down on the bowl of ice cream, wrap it, and put it in the freezer for 3hrs. Make sure it’s hardened before you remove it from the fridge. Remove it from the fridge and quickly deep inside hot water for 5-10 secondsRemove your ice cream bombe cake from the hot water and gently unwrap the bombe cake. Microwave 2 oz. of dark chocolate till it melts and pours it on your bombe cakes to garnish it.
Thus, if you don’t have the luxury of time, this recipe is for you because it’s fast and easy to follow. However, it can only serve one person (depending on the size of the cake and ice cream). Therefore if you want to serve multiple people, you have to bake your cake and prepare your ice cream.
How To Prepare the Cake with Your Ice Cream?
Ingredients and Measurement
20-22 qt container of ice cream (use any flavor of your choice)Buttermilk 1 cupVegetable oil ½ cupAll-purpose flour 3 cupsVallina extra 1 tspBaking soda 2 tspSalt ¾ tspGranulated sugar 1½ cupUnsalted butter ½ cupEgg 4
For garnishing
Unsalted butter ¾ cupDark chocolate 12 oz. Maple syrup ¼ cup
How to prepare?
Step 1: Stir your ice cream in a bowl with a hand mixer to smoothen it
Step 2: Lay cling wraps inside a bowl that has the same circumference as your round baking pan for cake. The cling wraps must cover the bowl properly
Step 3: Pour your smoothen ice cream into the bowl, level the top, cover the bowl with the wrap and put it in the freezer to freeze for 5hr to 7hrs
Step 4: While your ice cream is in the freezer, start baking your cake.
How to bake the cake?
Steps
Pour the following wet ingredients into a cup, mix, and keep it aside. Call this mixture ‘buttermilk mixture’. These are the ingredients:ButtermilkVegetable oilVallina extractPour the following dry ingredient into a sifter; sieve, and keep it aside. Call this mixture ‘flour mixture’. The ingredients are as follows:All-purpose flourBaking sodaSaltUse your hand mixer or palate with a bowl to mix the following ingredients. Make sure it’s well mixed. Thus, call this mixture ‘butter mixture’:Granulated sugarUnsalted butter (room temperature)EggsNow, add a little of your flour mixture to your butter mixture and stir. Then, add a little of your butter mixture and stir. Repeat this step until you’re done adding the former mixtures. Make sure it is well mixed. Pour your mixture into a round baking pan for cake, level the top, and bake at 180 degrees celsius for 45-50 mins. When your cake is done, use your cake knife to cut the top of the cake to give it a flat surface
Step 5: Get your ice cream from the freezer, unwrap it and place your flat surface cake upside down on the top of the bowl of ice cream, and wrap it. Then put in the freezer again for 4-6 hrs
Step 6: After Step 5 is done, take out your ice cream bombe cake, put it in a bigger bowl of hot water for 1-2 seconds, unwrap the top, turn it upside down, and carefully remove the bowl with the wrapper. Your cake should have a spherical shape on top. Then put in the freezer again for 1-2hrs.
Step 7: While your ice cream bombe cake is in the freezer, prepare your garnishing for the cake
How to prepare to garnish?
Steps
Microwave the following ingredients till it melts, at a 1-minute intervalUnsalted butterDark chocolateMaple syrupAllow cooling at room temperature
Step 8: Take out your ice cream bombe cake, pour your garnishing on top and enjoy the dessert
This ice cream bombe cakes recipe is suitable as a dessert for Christmas, Easter, or birthday celebrations.
How do I preserve this dessert?
You can put it in the fridge
What’s another name for bombe?
Another name for bombe is Bombe dessert in English or Bombe Glacee in French
