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This Funfetti Birthday Cake Icebox Cake is full of awesome birthday cake flavor! It has layers of golden birthday cake Oreos, cake batter pudding and cake batter whipped cream. It’s definitely a new favorite of mine!
Funfetti Birthday Cake Icebox Cake
So we found out late last week that the hubs’ citizenship has been approved! Yay! Now we are just waiting to find out when his ceremony date, which I like to call his graduation, will be. Then we can celebrate!
We did little celebrating for another reason this weekend. We went to Charlotte to celebrate the birthday of one of the hubs’ college friends. They lived together for about 3 years in college and played college tennis together. Another one of their old teammates was there as well. It was a lot of fun and great to see everyone.
What’s funny is that since the hubs and I have been together since high school, most of our friends have known both of us for the same length of time. There was a lot of reminiscing and all kinds of stories being told, and not only have I heard them all so many times, but for many of them I was actually there. It’s kind of fun that we have that history together.
Of course that also means I had to live through plenty of gross boy-ness. Boys in college, at least these boys, were not the cleanest ever. I literally never walked around barefoot in any of their apartments. Ever. Have you ever felt sticky carpet? You don’t want to. Those are the moments you wish you weren’t there for.
Have you ever seen the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding? You know how the dad always says to put windex on everything to fix it? Well, they took it a little too literal once and mopped their carpet with windex. No joke.
I’m convinced that if the hubs still lived with other guys, it wouldn’t be much different now. Thank goodness he has me. Not only do I clean, I also make a lot of dessert. He gets a pretty good deal. 😉
And this particular dessert was a winner. Once of my taste testers described it as “banana pudding that got dressed up and had a party.” A pretty hilarious description, but I actually find it kind of accurate. It’s hard to describe what an icebox cake is like in terms of texture, but comparing it to banana pudding totally works.
The Oreos take the place of the nilla wafers. The cake batter flavored pudding takes the place of the banana pudding. And then there’s whipped cream. And I know some people aren’t big fans of bananas (crazy!), so you don’t have to deal with them in this. It really is a party in a pan.
The party is in every layer too. You could use regular golden or chocolate oreos, but I absolutely recommend using the birthday cake flavored Oreos. They are life changing. And they add more cake batter flavor, so yea. Win.
For the pudding layers, I used vanilla pudding that I added dry cake mix to. I used Funfetti cake mix, obviously. But you could use regular vanilla cake mix as well. The cake mix is also used in the whipped cream. Like I said, a party in every layer. 🙂
I really do love icebox cakes. I love that they’re no bake and the flavor can easily be changed up. I’ve made several of them (mint oreo icebox cake, strawberry and blueberry cheesecake icebox cake, banana split icebox cake, chocolate icebox cake) and they’re always a hit. You definitely should try this Funfetti Birthday Cake version. It rocks!
This Funfetti Birthday Cake Icebox Cake is full of awesome birthday cake flavor! It has layers of golden birthday cake Oreos, cake batter pudding and cake batter whipped cream. It’s definitely a new favorite of mine!
Ingredients
2/3 cup dry Funfetti cake mix
two 3.4 oz packages instant vanilla pudding
4 tbsp sprinkles
4 1/2 cups milk, divided
2 packages of birthday cake Oreos
sprinkles, for topping
CAKE BATTER WHIPPED CREAM
1 2/3 cups heavy whipping cream
3/4 cup cake mix
1 tsp vanilla
Instructions
1. Pour two packages of dry pudding mix into a large bowl. Add 2/3 cup of dry cake mix and sprinkles and combine.
2. Add 4 cups of milk and whisk for about 2 minutes, until pudding begins to thicken. Set aside.
3. To make whipped cream, add heavy whipping cream to a large mixer bowl and whip on high speed until it starts to thicken.
4. Add 3/4 cup dry cake mix and vanilla extract and continue to whip until thick. Set aside.
5. Pour remaining 1/2 cup milk into a small bowl.
6. Dip Oreos in milk quickly and then place into the bottom of a 9×13 pan, making a single layer.
7. Spread half of the pudding on top of the Oreos.
8. Spread half of the cake batter whipped cream on top of the pudding.
9. Dip remaining Oreos in milk quickly and place on top of the whipped cream, in a single layer.
10. Top Oreos with remaining pudding.
11. Top with remaining cake batter whipped cream and sprinkles
12. Refrigerate for at least 4 hours or overnight, so that cookies soften.
Turn cake out onto a platter, remove plastic wrap and cover with remaining whipped cream. Place in freezer for 30 minutes or until solid. Slice while frozen and serve at room temperature. Store leftovers wrapped in the freezer or refrigerator.
Yes, Funfetti is vanilla cake with sprinkles, but it's so much more. Funfetti cake is a festive confetti cake filled with nostalgia. It was invented in 1989 by Pillsbury. Funfetti is a vanilla-flavored white cake stuffed with colorful candy bits that, when baked, look like confetti or colorful dots.
“Icebox cakes first made an appearance in the kitchens of American housewives in the 1920s when the National Biscuit Company—now known as Nabisco—first put their famous chocolate wafers in the market and included a recipe for an icebox cake on the packaging,” says Jessie Sheehan, author of Icebox Cakes: Recipes for the ...
Yes, go ahead and freeze that cake. The reason and science behind this are simple: freezing a warm cake traps heat and steam within the cake layers, which helps it retain moisture, resulting in a mouth-watering, soft texture. There are two ways you can pop warm cake in the freezer for extra moist results.
If you don't finish the cake in one sitting, wrap it up and place it back in the freezer. Seal your cake in an airtight container to prevent it from getting frost bitten. If your ice cream cake is frozen and sealed tight, it will keep for several months as long as it's well hidden.
For everyone else, our team of editors unanimously voted that Duncan Hines Joyfetti Confetti Cake Mix is the best. The texture is light and fluffy, it has a delicate and delicious real butter flavor, and it smells like what I imagine Candy Land would smell like on a sunny day.
Funfetti cake is more than your average vanilla cake! Not only is it loaded with sprinkles, but its texture is much richer than regular cake. It's buttery, moist, and extra sweet. Funfetti cake is also typically made with whole eggs rather than egg whites to give it that dense and rich texture.
This is why there are just about a million names for the same flavor. "Rainbow sprinkle" and "birthday cake" are often used as stand-ins for that Funfetti name. Baking giants like Betty Crocker even opted for names like Rainbow Chip (via the New York Times and Betty Crocker).
If you've ever wondered about what exactly birthday cake flavor is, you're not alone. The short answer is vanilla and sugar; a longer answer involves Proustian memory, white cake, butter, and rainbow sprinkles. It's important to note that there is no industry standard birthday cake flavor.
An icebox cake (also known as a chocolate ripple cake or log in Australia) is a dairy-based dessert made with cream, fruits, nuts, and wafers and set in the refrigerator.
Although we now call them refrigerators, 100 years ago, kitchen chill chests were kept cool with large blocks of ice. Hence, the name “icebox.” Instead of using an oven, icebox cakes are made by layering whipped cream and cookies together, and then refrigerating the cake for several hours in the icebox.
Icebox cake is a no-bake dessert made by layering ingredients such as wafer cookies, cream, condensed milk, and fruit that set in the refrigerator. It's less of a recipe and more of a technique, because it's infinitely customizable as long as you stick to a cream-and-cookie base.
The goals is to allow the cake to rise in temperature enough to slice and eat without melting the ice cream. Remove your cake from the freezer 10 to 20 minutes before serving. Keep a close eye on your cake. Keep it out of direct sunlight and away from other warm areas in your kitchen.
Believe it or not, you can freeze a fully frosted and decorated cake. Step 1: Freeze the whole cake on a baking sheet. To start, place your finished, fully decorated cake on a baking sheet, and then carefully put the baking sheet in the freezer.
Editor: Carolyn, the short answer is yes! Many cakes freeze very well even after being decorated. In fact, the icing can even help preserve and insulate the cake — it will stay moister after being frosted. Many baking companies ship fully-frosted cakes after freezing.
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