Last updated on July 12, 2024
Ice Cream Cake recipe book 🍨🍰
We are Italians and we created a cookbook with 15 ice cream cake recipes inspired by our traditional desserts, with different techniques and original flavors.
To those who prepare a delicious cake
for themselves and the people they love
Original ice cream cake recipes with ice cream maker
Inspired by our traditional desserts, we have created 15 ice cream cake recipes with different techniques and original flavors. Everything you want to know to make a perfect ice cream cake at home, in our original ice cream cake cookbook, available in e-book or paperback format.
Ice cream cake cookbook
Our Italian ice cream recipes have become homemade quite popular.
But even better than ice cream is ice cream combined with cake. A frozen dessert which we prepare on special occasions.
That's why we were inspired by traditional Italian desserts to create 15 original, well-crafted ice cream cakes. We illustrate the recipes step by step and explain the preparation in detail.
Because we actually made the ice cream cakes, remade them when they didn't satisfy us, and ate them with great pleasure!
With unique ice cream flavors: pineapple & ricotta, pistachio biscuit, boiled apples & cinnamon, carrot cake, limoncello, orange & white chocolate, amaretti, hazelnuts & coffee, Bacio with dark chocolate and hazelnut, Amarena with cherries and meringues.
We use different techniques so that you learn to make different types of ice cream cakes: with a no-bake base, with sponge cake or shortcrust pastry, with chocolate or meringues. We combine base and ice cream in different ways and decorate with different types of icing.
To make ice cream cakes at home you need a bit of manual dexterity: that's why we've collected all our tips in this booklet.
With our tips you can always make a delicious ice cream cake quickly and easily.
Learning Italian 🇮🇹
The Italian words of this page:
| 🔊 Gelato | Ice cream |
| 🔊 Torta | Cake |
| 🔊 Torta gelato | Ice cream cake |
| 🔊 Ricettario | Cookbook |
Yogurt & raspberry cheesecake
A classic no bake cheesecake base with homemade yogurt ice cream and a layer of raspberry coulis.
Chocolate & vanilla tronchetto
In Italian we call rectangular cakes 🔊 tronchetto, which means small tree trunk. We alternate layers of dark chocolate with white vanilla ice cream.
This ice cream cake is very similar to the Viennetta, which is very famous in Italy
Coffee & hazelnut ice cream tronchetto
If you chop the hazelnuts you will first get flour, but if you continue for a few minutes you will get a delicious hazelnut cream: we use it as an ingredient in our gelato.
Classic tiramisù ice cream cake
With coffee, ladyfingers and homemade mascarpone ice cream.
Pineapple & ricotta tiramisù
A recipe with a delicate taste, without egg. With our original recipe for pineapple ricotta ice cream, very creamy and tasty.
Amarena & meringues ice cream cake
One of the most famous ice cream flavors in Italy: 🔊 Amarena is milk ice cream flavored with cherries. We spread it on a base of meringues.
Bacio chocolate & hazelnut tronchetto
With dark chocolate 70%, cocoa powder and hazelnuts. 🔊 Baci («kisses») are chocolates that lovers traditionally exchange in Italy, and it is also a very popular gelato flavor in ice cream parlors.
Greek yogurt & pan di Spagna
In this recipe we make an ice cream cake that is taller than the cake pan, with layers of sponge cake (🔊 Pan di Spagna in Italian), yogurt ice cream and raspberry coulis. Perfect for a birthday.
Apple & cinnamon ice cream cake
Shortcrust pastry cake, 🔊 crostatain Italian, is also delicious frozen with ice cream. We bake the dough without contents and fill it with homemade apple-cinnamon cookie ice cream.
Carrots ice cream cake
We make Pan di Spagna with carrots and cut them in half. We use the bottom part as the base of the cake, and the top part as an ingredient for the ice cream.
Amaretti ice cream cake
We make Pan di Spagna with carrots and cut it in half. We use the bottom part as the base of the cake, and the top part as an ingredient for the ice cream.
Orange ice cream
Some say that milk and orange juice is a strange combination. We use the (edible) peel with which we flavor sponge cakes, ice cream and icing.
Limoncello ice cream cake
A shortcrust pastry tart flavored with edible lemon peel and filled with limoncello ice cream from our gelato recipe book.
Chocolate cookies ice cream cake
A chocolate shortcrust pastry base of which we use a small part for the ice cream. Then we add chocolate flakes to make stracciatella 👌
Pistachio cookies ice cream cake
An ice cream cake inspired by Sicilian pistachio desserts. A base of pistachio cake, pistachio biscuit ice cream and icing with white chocolate and pistachios.
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We regularly update our pages with new ice Italian cream recipes: tasty and healthy gelato flavors that you can make at home.
Ciao, I'm Gianni.
I am the author of this page
I am Italian from Trentino. I studied philosophy in Padua and worked for many years between Milan and Amsterdam in the field of media and culture.
Since 2021 I write on All Italian to practice foreign languages; meanwhile I share with you the customs and traditions of my country, and the recipes that I prepare at home.