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. Ice cream was not invented in the West until the 17th Century, but 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. Ice cream cake recipes dating to the 1870s have also been found.

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

[edit] See also

• Bombe Alaska, a cake with an ice-cream core