I'll be making this again, but with my changes. DON'T DO IT! It comes out to fine of a crumb and when cut, the crumbs fall everywhere and your cake doesn't stay intact. ![]() One thing I did differently this time was I used my food processor to crush the oreo's. ![]() It's like cool whip, but better! You can color it and decorate with it too. Not exactly like DQ's frosting, but it was much better than the coolwhip/ice cream frosting in the recipe. Thanks! UPDATE: Made this for a friend this past weekend and used Rich's Bettercream for the icing (Happy Birthday Emma Cake in the photos). I’ll definitely be making this again, but with the desperately needed changes as noted above to make it more like a DQ cake. Overall, a good cake that got lots of good reviews from our party guests, but I definitely would not call this a DQ knock-off cake. Next time I would use 2 packages of Oreo's and 2 jars of fudge topping. While it is good with Oreos, it isn’t the same and #3 it definitely needed more Oreos and chocolate fudge topping even tho I used an 18 oz. #2, the Oreos in the center do not taste anything like the “crunch� that is in the DQ cake. When I asked if it had ice cream in it, she said no. What they use for the frosting is a non-dairy whipped icing. After this cake I was in our local DQ a and made some inquiries. The boarder, writing and image on the bowling cake cake were made from buttercream icing and when you got a bit of that and the ice cream, it tasted more like the DQ cake. I was very disappointed and should have gone with my first instinct to change the frosting to something that I knew would resemble the DQ cake more, not only in taste but in appearance. (not the cake, just the frosting - look at the bowling cake in the pictures). By time I got to the 2nd half of the cake to ice it, the 1st half was melting. It was too soft and runny to work with and spread on the cake. This cake was very very easy, but I didn't think it tasted like the DQ cakes at all. We wouldn't use gel that often for writing since it looks horrible when frozen. I think heavy whipping cream was used for that. ![]() I would scrape the top smooth and then freeze in the pan, later I would let it sit out 5-15 min to soften, for pan removal then scrape the sides for the line pattern. Place a thin layer on top of chocolate then finish with vanilla. Then put chocolate ice cream at the bottom to about half way up. That is so you only see vanilla ice cream from the outside. Then put a ring of vanilla all the way to the top (around the rim). I would freeze the pans first(there was no top or bottom on pans). I worked in a dq for 4 years, I made a huge amount of cakes in that time. I didn't try your recipe but I know a lot about dq cakes.
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