Ant Hill Cake
By: Administrator
Updated: June 22, 2010
30 Oreo cookies
13 oz. bag small
peppermint chocolate patties
2 pt. vanilla ice cream
20 vanilla wafers
8-10 chocolate covered almonds
8-10 round chocolate covered caramels
1
tube black gel icing
Candy corn for garnish
Base:
Place Oreo's in
food processor and process to coarse texture. Add peppermint patties and process
to coarse texture. Coat a 10 in. springform pan with cooking spray, add cookie
mixture and press down gently to coat bottom and up 1/2 in. on the sides. By
spoonfuls, add ice cream. Use back of a spoon to smooth ice cream evenly on the
top. Cover with foil and freeze overnight.
Anthill:
Place vanilla
wafers in food processor and blend until smooth. Place in a sealed bag until
needed and store at room temperature.
Assemble:
Remove rim of
springform pan and place cake on serving platter. On one side of cake, slowly
pour vanilla wafer crumbs to form a mound, or "anthill."
Arrange "ants"
on cake using one chocolate covered almond for each body and one chocolate
covered caramel for each head. Pipe on eyes and legs with gel.
Garnish
with candy corn.
