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My husband Jack and I started A Family Feast because of our love of food. We are enthusiastic about sharing great recipes that we’ve made ourselves so that you – our wonderful readers – can enjoy them too!
So every once in a while, we try a new recipe – like this one for Nutella Crunch Ice Cream Cake – that is so delicious and gets us so excited that we rearrange our calendar to share it here as soon as possible!
Three simple ingredients make up this Nutella crunch ice cream cake – Nutella, Rice Krispies cereal, and vanilla ice cream – all combined together into one fantastic, and super easy-to-make dessert! First Rice Krispies are coated with melted Nutella and then cooled before stirring into softened vanilla ice cream. The mixture is packed into a springform pan to form a cake, topped with some more of the coated cereal mixture, and then frozen until ready to serve. (Scroll below to see our video, showing you how easy it is to make this ice cream cake!)
Sounds so simple (it is) – and the results are so, so, so very, very good! The chocolate-hazelnut Nutella and the creamy vanilla ice cream are perfect together, and the crispy, rice cereal lends the perfect light texture to this cake.
This Nutella crunch ice cream cake is a great dessert for feeding a crowd when you want something really delicious without having to go through too much of a fuss to prepare it.
Our Nutella crunch ice cream cake was inspired by this recipe – which we originally spotted on Pinterest. The original version, using melted chocolate and peanut butter instead of the Nutella in our recipe, was cited as an award-winning recipe from the Utica Old-Fashioned Ice Cream Festival, and I can totally understand why! In fact, if you are near Utica, Ohio – the 2013 festival is this coming weekend!
We hope you enjoy this recipe as much as we did! (P.S. Check out our other version of his fantastic dessert using Biscoff!)
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Nutella Crunch Ice Cream Cake
Ingredients
- 2 cups Nutella
- 6 cups Rice Krispies cereal
- 1 gallon vanilla ice cream
Instructions
- Place a 9 or 10 inch springform pan, as well as a very large mixing bowl in the freezer to chill.
- In a large saucepan over low heat, combine the Nutella and Rice Krispies cereal. Mix well until the Rice Krispies are completely coated with the Nutella. Remove from heat.
- Line a sheet pan or cookie sheet with parchment or wax paper. Pour the Nutella-Rice Krispies mixture onto the lined sheet pan and spread evenly. Then place in the freezer to chill.
- While the coated cereal mixture is cooling, remove the ice cream from the freezer and place in the refrigerator to soften.
- After about 30-45 minutes (you want the Nutella coated cereal to be cooled and firm but not frozen at this point) – using a fork and knife – cut the coated cereal into bite sized pieces. Place back into the freezer, if necessary, until the ice cream is softened.
- Once your ice cream is softened (it should be just softened enough to stir in the coated cereal but not so melted that it is runny), remove the Nutella-cereal pieces, the large mixing bowl and the springform pan from the freezer.
- Reserve 2 cups of the Nutella-cereal mixture.
- Quickly combine the ice cream and remaining coated cereal in the chilled mixing bowl, then pour the mixture into the chilled springform pan, packing it firmly so that there are no air pockets. Top the cake with the reserved Nutella-cereal mixture.
- Cover with plastic wrap and place the springform pan back into the freezer for at least 4-6 hours or overnight until completely frozen.
- Remove the cake from the freezer about 30-45 minutes before serving and place in the refrigerator to soften a bit.
- When ready to serve, place the cake on a platter or cake stand and remove the sides of the springform pan. Cut and serve immediately.
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This recipe is so easy and so delicious! It’s my husbands birthday cake request every year for the last 3 years. Thanks for sharing!
You’re very welcome Erin! So glad you enjoy the cake as much as we do!
Hi Martha. I’m interested in making this dessert, but before I do… do you really use a whole gallon of vanilla ice cream. That just seems like a lot of ice cream to put in that pan. I tried watching the video for clarity, and I’m still not sure. TIA!
Hi Kristin – Yes! A gallon of ice cream with the Nutella-coasted Rice Krispies fills a 9 to 10-inch springform right to the top. It makes a large cake for a crowd! Hope you enjoy it!
My son and grandchildren really liked the Nutella Crunch Ice Cream Cake. My adult son said, “That’s a keeper” after he ate his first serving. My eight year old granddaughter wanted to know from where I had bought it. She seemed surprised that I had made it. I will definitely make this again. Thank you for sharing this recipe.
🙂 So glad the cake was a hit Sarah! Thank you for writing to us today!
deliciously amazing awesome so sweet and cool literally cool
Thanks Anna – so glad you enjoyed the cake!
Hi there I’ve made this before and it was awesome. I’m keen to make it for my son’s party next weekend, do you know if I can make it a week in advance and leave it in the freezer? Will it stay crunchy? Thanks so much
Hi Bianca – The cereal will probably soften a little bit but as long as you are keeping it frozen, I think you should still have some of the crunchy texture. (We’ve kept leftovers in the freezer ourselves for several days and it’s still delicious!) Hope that helps!
i want a piece of each one of them.ive got to try the.
Hope you enjoy the recipes Brenda! 🙂
Hi, I just made this cake for my daughters birthday and everyone absolutely loved it!!! And all wanted seconds! Thank you so much 🤗
You’re very welcome Stephanie! This is one of our favorites – so glad you enjoyed it too!
Commen: looks absolutely delicious!
Question: do you think I could cut all the ingredients in half and use a pie plate?
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Yes – You can certainly cut the recipe in half. It will more than fill a deep dish pie plate.
it was soooo good (and so easy to make), I added instant coffee powder when mixing the nutella-rice-krispie mix into the ice cream so it was kind of like a nutella latte crunch ice cream cake mmmm
This looks AMAZING!