Pina Colada Ice Cream Cake with Boozy Caramelized Pineapple for #tbtfood

Say hello to the Pina Colada Ice Cream Cake. Super simple to make, fun to decorate when you let loose your inner Sandra Lee, and very delicious. Semi-homemade with angel food cake and store-bought ice cream, the star of the show is the boozy pineapples. Don’t miss my round up of all my ice cream recipes. I had every intention of bringing you a pineapple upside down no-bake cheesecake today. Sadly, the dude didn’t set up for me, so I have turned it into fruit dip. It’s delicious, but really not what I was going for. Worry not for two reasons. One: I shall try again to make this cake another time. Two: I have a Plan B for you. It’s a semi-homemade extravaganza! Wait. Who is that coming to my door? I think…I think…it’s Aunt Sandy! What? Semi-homemade is your Bailiwick? And you’re taking over the blog today? Y’all, she is tall and blonde and a little bit tip…sy. I better let her have her way. I’m going to go have a cocktail while Aunt Sandy walks you through my retro-fabulous Pina Colada Ice Cream Cake. People!! So this couldn’t be easier! So first, you want to take your favorite tropical ice cream. I (really Sandy? You?) chose a fabulous pineapple coconut ice cream, but you could use plain coconut or even pineapple sherbert or sorbet. It’s super important to choose a flavor that will complement the pineapple. You want 2 pints. Just plop all of it into a bowl and mash it for awhile with your potato masher until it’s just like frosting. Isn’t this fun?!?! And then, all you have to do is take a beautiful soft, fluffy angel food cake. And what you want to do is just cut this into thirds. Use a serrated knife and just saw that little guy into three flat doughnuts of cake. Don’t you just love angel food cake?! Oh, I love it! Spread a third of your ice cream frosting on the first angel food doughnut. I like to use an icing spatula for this. It’s just like decorating a cake! Then just stack it up! Another layer of cake, another of frosting, the last piece of cake and then frost it with the rest of the ice cream. You know, this could use some corn nuts… No, Sandy. No. Anyway… Then just pop this into the oven…Oh! Ha-ha-ha-ha! I meant pop this into the freezer to let it firm up. It’s super important to let it harden up so you can slice it later. It’s also super important that you put it in the freezer and not the oven. Double check, just to make sure! While that guy is in the freezer, not the oven, you can make your pineapple sauce. Oh, this is so fabulous. You are going to love it! Now, what I like to do is rinse off a whole pineapple and then use a serrated knife to cut off the crown and the stem end. Just set him right on a cutting board so he’s standing up and then slice off the skin, slicing from top to bottom all the way around, just as if you were going to supreme an orange. Core the pineapple. Now, what I like to do is take the tube from an old paper towel roll and have it bronzed. Then, you can just press it right down through the center of the pineapple to get rid of the core! Isn’t that a great tip? Don’t you just love it?!?! Once the pineapple is cored, you can cut it up into chunks and put them in a pot along with brown sugar, a pinch of salt–just a pinch!!–a little coconut oil and a splash of rum. Cook it down until the sauce thickens, and that’s your homemade part of this semi-homemade powerhouse of a dessert! Okay, come with me! I have a gorgeous tablescape for you! Oh my gosh, you’re going to love it! I just took some aluminum cans. I just found them on the side of the road. So easy! I took my cans and I had them anodized in different awesome festive colors. Then, I simply took my tin snips and cut them into, well, I guess you could call it tinsel! And then I sort of sprayed all of them out so it looks like a fountain. I attached some little doodads I found at the craft store–sooo easy, and now just watch what I’m going to do! That hole in the middle of the cake is for more than just filling with a can of apple pie filling! In this case, I’ll just gently place my tin fountain right in the center. Right in that hole! How festive! Another pop of color with these pretty little napkins that I cut from upholstery material I found in an abandoned sorority house, and then we finish it off with gemstones!

Didn’t I tell you you would love it?! You love it, right? Yes, Aunt Sandy. Yes we do. Why don’t you go sit for a spell and have another cocktail while I share my recipe for the pineapple sauce, okay? While I had a little bit of fun at Aunt  Sandy’s expense, it was all in good fun. I unashamedly Sandra Lee a pizza at least a couple of times a month. I also really want you to make this dessert. Yes, the cake and ice cream part is good–I inhaled a whole piece after I took the pictures–but the pineapples are fantastic. They’re perfect with this ice cream cake, but they’d also be splendid as a cheesecake topping or over vanilla ice cream or even spooned on top of some yogurt. I hope you enjoyed today’s #tbtfood extravaganza. I promise I won’t forget the no-bake cheesecake! Thanks for taking the time to read today. Have a great day. Check out my on-going series, some of which (okay, all of which) just got started.

• Ice Cream Tuesdays
• Throwback Thursdays
• Fundamental Fridays

Some Other Great Ice Cream Cakes from Around the Hinternets

• Citrus Ice Cream Cake from J J Begonia
• S’Mores Ice Cream Cake from Domestic Dreamboat
• Moose Tracks Ice Cream Cake from Dad Can Cook
• Hot Fudge Ice Cream Cake from Alice and the Mock Turtle (another Semi-Homemade Extravaganza)
• Checkerboard Ice Cream Cake from Eugenie Kitchen