Birthday Love in a Cake!

In honor of this blog being my roommate's idea, I have decided to make the first recipe that I post the one for her birthday cake.  It was an Oreo Ice Cream Cake and was absolutely delicious.  Keep in mind I am living in Spain so sometimes I substitute a lot of things for what I can find here... or I just make it from scratch.  So here's the recipe and a picture of her gifts!

Ingredients

½ gallon of vanilla or chocolate ice cream
One package of Oreos
¼ cup of melted butter
One container of cool whip

Directions

Place the entire package of Oreos in a gallon size plastic bag. Crush Oreos with a rolling pin.
Mix all of the Oreos except 1 cup with the melted butter. Spread across the bottom of a ten inch spring form pan.
Add the ice cream to the pan and spread evenly with a spatula. It is best to soften the ice cream by placing it in the refrigerator for about an hour so it is easier to work with.
Cover the pan with foil and place in the freezer for three to four hours.
Just before serving, remove it from the freezer. Remove the sides of the spring form pan. Cover the top and sides of the cake with the cool whip and the remaining crushed Oreos.
Slice the cake and serve it immediately or put it back in the freezer until ready to serve.

I will start by saying it is very hard to find cool whip here so I just substituted this with whipped cream (like Reddi-Wip) and I also used vanilla ice cream (plain not the french vanilla kind).  Also I have seen it where you melt baking chocolate and drizzle it over the whipped cream and then top with remaining Oreos.  So it's more or less whatever suits your fancy.  Also I don't have a spring form pan here so I just used a class baking dish and only put the cool whip on top.  The roomie approved and loved the cake so it's making it's debut here.  Enjoy!!