"Birthday Cake" Ice Cream @ Homemade Pie and Ice Cream

The girlfriend and i stopped into Homemade P&I Kitchen in St.Matthews last night after dinner to get some dessert and saw that they have a new flavor of ice cream (new to me anyway) called Birthday Cake. This consists of yellow cake with white icing and sprinkles mixed into vanilla ice cream to make one glorious mass of nostalgic goodness.

I've found that there are basically two types of people in the world...those that keep their cake and ice cream completely separate when they eat them, and those that like to mix them to together. I have, and imagine will always be firmly entrenched in the "mixing" camp. Ever since I was a kid i've loved to combine cake and ice cream into something...that i think is better than the sum of it's parts. Though I would probably NOT smash up a beautiful cake like those made by some of the folks on this forum...at least not in front of the chef as some who dont understand might be offended. I suppose there is a time and a place for everything. Question of the day. Are you a cake and ice cream mixer or do you prefer to keep them separate?

Anyway...I couldnt resist the ice cream and couldnt help but get a pint to take home...and it's darn good!

I mix them from time to time. I've had store bought "Birthday Cake" ice creams that I never cared for. They didn't actually have cake in them though, just batter flavored ice cream. I might try it if I ever have enough money on hand to actually afford the ice cream from that place.

I love cake and I love ice cream, but strangely enough, put them beside one another on a plate, and I find the whole thing disgusting. I guess it's a sweetness overload, but I highly prefer each on its own. Both cake and ice cream are indulgent enough on their own. Why slop them together in one gluttonous mess?

Yuck- I'd say a big "no" to mixing the two together, though they are fine served together on the same plate. Only exceptions to this are 1) Cheesecake Ice cream - preferably Graeters- which I love and 2) kid's Ice Cream Cakes ( also preferably Graeters) with layers of ice cream, fudge and cake. Not sure why the later is okay when mixing them is not, but I will eat a slice at my kid's parties.

Deb

I'm a non-mixer, too.

Actually, I can't stand the idea of ice cream on any dessert... I love ice cream, but I love it all by its lonesome self. I also love pies and cakes but somehow that melty ice cream breaking down that luscious crumbly crust or that moist tender spongy cake just ruins it all for me.

At a dinner party recently, the dessert consisted of poached pears topped with vanilla frozen yogurt. When I asked the hostess for the pear, plain, she assured me that it was frozen yogurt and not ice cream so I needn't worry about the calories. Since I wasn't worried about the calories but rather the defamation of the beautiful pear with yogurt, it was quite an awkward moment for us both. The pear WAS delicious though!

I have always loved Ice Cream Cakes; don't know if it counts in this poll. Aside from that, I do like to mix Ice cream and cake sometimes; if a cake is too dry.

I like both of them as a desert but don't even like them served at the same meal to say nothing about mixed together. In my opinion ice cream is its own dessert and doesn't need to be served with anything else. Everything else I like for dessert is fine by itself without adding ice cream.

Personally, I like anything with ice cream . . . cake, steak, grean beans, whatever.

for dessert, I go for white ice creams (vanilla, cocoanut, butter pecan, etc.) with chocolate cakes, and brown ice creams (dark chocolate, fudge ripple, coffee chip, etc) with white cakes. Banana cakes go well with chocolate peanut-butter ice cream. I could go on.

I marked keep them apart...because I don't mix them up when I eat it at a party. But I would totally eat it as an ice crem from the HPICK. I've had an Edys Slow Churned version of it and it was very good and I bet their's is 10 times better!