Ice cream cake

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Ice cream cake is either ice cream in the shape of a cake or ice cream and cake layered together to make a single form. The idea of ice cream cake came from desserts composed of cream and cookies or cake called trifles which first turned up in the Renaissance. In the seventeenth century ice cream was invented in the western world, though there is evidence that both Ancient Roman and Ancient China had desserts made of chopped ice or snow.

Victorians made desserts called bombes, which consisted of ice cream and fruit in fancy molds. Sometimes these desserts were lined with cake or biscuits. There have also been ice cream cake recipes found from the 1870s.

Today, ice cream cakes are made in many ice cream stores and in many different varieties, including tin roof pie.