Cassata Ice Cream Cake Video Recipe - Nitha Kitchen (2024)

One of my longtime wish came true today! Yes, publishing this CASSATA CAKE CASSATA BALL recipe in the blog was one of my long time wish which came true finally 🙂 While making my first CASSATA ICE CREAM post, I didn’t know that it would reach these many

audience. I edited the video recipe to make it faster and in case if you missed to watch that, do check it HERE. Well, there were some good comments and some request for an easy way to make it without carving the ice cream layers. By keeping the followers requests in mind, I came up with this easy cassata ice cream ball. In both methods you need little patience ie wait time for each layer to set to add the next one.

Cassata Ball Recipe In Short

All the Ingredients used here are egg free and I used hand mixer/electric beater to make no churn ice cream layers. This Cassata Ball has 5 layers of Ice Cream and 1 layer Orange Flavored Eggless Cake. You can make the same with egg based custard ice cream, click the below links to get the right recipe.

• Eggless Vanilla Ice Cream | Custard Vanilla Ice Cream (layer all over the ball)
• Coffee Ice Cream (recipe follows)
• Eggless Strawberry Ice Cream | Strawberry Custard Ice Cream
• Orange Ice Cream Eggless
• Eggless Tutti Frutti Ice Cream (adapted from chocolate chip ice cream, link soon)
• and Eggless Orange Cake | Orange Creamsicle Cake

For more Ice Cream Recipes do check below link

Cassata Ball Tips

• Add little gooey and not firm ice cream layer at any point, otherwise the layers won’t even properly.
• Use homemade or store bought several flavors of ice cream.
• You can make cassata ball (the easy one) like shown in this recipe or shape the cassata ice cream.
• If any ice cream layer in the arranged bowl is gooey do firm up in the freezer as required before adding the next layer over it.
• You can use chocolate cake layer (base) instead of vanilla and enjoy it.
• Before and after adding each layer do measure the height to make even layers of ice cream ball, for example if the bowl is 3″ height do split each layer to 1/2″ height and make sure you added so.
• Also after adding a layer do level it properly otherwise the layers look uneven.
• These are the few important things to note before start making.

Coffee Ice Cream Recipe

I made Egg Free Vanilla Ice Cream using 1.5 Cups of heavy cream, 1 part used as Vanilla Ice Cream to cover the entire Cassata Ball and the rest modified as Coffee Ice Cream and Tutti Frutti Ice Cream for this recipe. So either alter the vanilla ice cream or do make coffee ice cream from scratch. Both the process follows.

Ingredients

Heavy Cream – 1/4 Cup OR
Whipped Cream – 1/2 Cup (Or Vanilla Ice Cream)
Brewed Coffee – 1 Tbsp
Melted/Tempered Chocolate – 2 Tbsp OR
Cocoa Powder – 1 Tbsp
Icing Sugar – As Needed

Preparation

• Whip the heavy cream in chilled bowl until the cream leaves tracks (Pic 1) or medium peaks attained.
• Otherwise thaw Vanilla Ice Cream (pic 2) or any leftover whipped cream.
• Add cocoa powder or melted chocolate (Pic 2), brewed coffee (Pic 3) and optional icing sugar.
• Continue whipping the cream for a while, after adding liquid ingredients it may not reach stiff peaks.

• So once its thick (Pic 4) , stop whipping and refrigerate till use.
• If you add cocoa powder it does, also do mix cocoa with brewed coffee, clear lumps if any and then add.
• Whip for less than a minute, wipe the sides and chill till you use.

Cassata Ball Ingredients

Yields 3 inch height 7.25 inch ball from round 1.5quart Pyrex bowl

Vanilla Ice Cream – 1.25 Cup thin outer layer all over the ball

Coffee Chocolate Ice Cream – 1/2 Cup (recipe above)

Eggless Strawberry Ice Cream – 3/4 Cup

Vanilla Tutti Frutti Ice Cream – 1.25 Cup (recipe adapted from Chocolate Chip Ice Cream, link later)

Eggless Orange Ice Cream -1.5 Cup

Whip 1.5 Cups of whipping cream or heavy cream with vanilla flavor & icing sugar which gives 3 cups of ice cream and use it to make 3 layers for this recipe

How to Prepare the Bowl

• Line the bowl you use to make cassata ball with aluminum foil (Pic 1).
• Use heavy duty foil or make two layers, also hang excess on sides to pull it up once its done.
• Choose a bowl which fits and leaves gap between main bowl (Pic 2) and them like shown in Pic 3 to add the first vanilla ice cream layer.
• Also make sure height wise it reaches the main bowl (Pic 5 & 6).
• Wrap the outer side of inner bowl with aluminum foil (Pic 3 & 4) and tuck excess foil on the inner side of the bowl (Pic 5 & 6 ).

• Now add the first layer of ice cream refer details below.
• Picture 6 shows how the prepared bowls look like.

Video Tutorial

Cassata Ball Preparation

• Prepare the vanilla ice cream to use in the first layer, thaw and keep it ready, (Pic 1 & 2, make sure its of pouring consistency).
• Take the prepared big bowl and add 1.25 Cup of ice cream to it ie first thin layer which covers all over the cassata ball (Pic 2), you can add up to 1.5 cups.
• Now press the wrapped inner bowl gently all the way through like shown in Pic 3, so that ice cream reaches the top of the bowl (refer step wise Pic 6 above).
• Freeze it for 4-6hrs or until its firm.
• Now gently pull out the inner bowl or aluminum foil wrapped on inner bowl (either way works, refer video tutorial).
• Pic 4 :- after removing the inner bowl , gently pulling out the aluminum foil.

• You can see some gaps like shown in Pic 5, do fill it with vanilla ice cream or leave it as it is.
• I filled the holes and looks neat in Pic 6.
• Before adding the next layer measure the height (pic 6), so you know how much to fill the next layer.
• If the bowl is 3 inch of height for 6 layers including cake each has to be 1/2 inch height.
• Now add 1/2 cup of prepared coffee ice cream (refer Pic 4 in sub heading Coffee Ice Cream).
• Level the added ice cream & then measure the height to make sure you added 1/2″ of cream (pic 7).

See Also

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• Wrap and freeze the ice cream bowl for 4hrs, since the quantity of coffee ice cream is little it firms up very quickly within 2hours.
• Now add the third layer ie 3/4 Cup of Strawberry Ice Cream (pic 8), I didn’t level this layer properly so you may notice uneven strawberry layer in pictures..
• Before and after adding each layer, don’t forget to measure the height.
• Also check if the previous layer is set (Pic 9), if not do freeze for a while and continue.
• Now add 1.25 Cup of 4th Tutti Frutti layer, for that just add those fruit mix in vanilla ice cream (Pic 10), mix randomly before adding.
• Level the ice cream (pic 11), and allow to firm for 4-6hours or overnight.
• Add 1.5 Cup of last Orange Ice Cream, once Strawberry layer is firm.
• Once done (pic 12), wrap & let the ice cream sets in the freezer for 4-6 hours or until firm.
• Look at the below picture the first layer comes on top.

Cake Layer

• While the last layer is setting in the freezer do bake and get ready with the cake base.
• You can use pre baked and frozen cake layer as well.
• I baked fresh Egg free Orange Sponge Cake (Pic 1), also measured the height of cake batter ie 1/4Inch.
• If not do trim the baked cake to 1/2″ height.

• The glass bowl is 7.25 inches wide on the top, so baked 9″ cake has to to trimmed to fit in to it.
• For that I took my siever which is 7.5″ wide, trimmed the sides like shown in Pic 2 & 3.
• Now place the cake over the firm orange ice cream layer.
• Press it gently so that it fits inside the outer first vanilla layer (Pic 4), if needed carve the sides of cake to fit in (refer video).
• Wrap the bowl (Pic 5) and freeze again for the cake to firm up.

How to Handle Cassata Ball

• Once all the layers are set, using aluminum foil do pull the cake out of the glass bowl (pic 6, above).
• Gently turn the ice cream ball upside down (Pic 1, below).
• Place it on a cake board, and immediately remove the foil (pic 2), when its cold foil comes out easily.
• Add chopped cashew nuts (Pic 3) or any other nuts and dried fruits of your choice over it.

• That’s it, the long waited Ice Cream ball is all set to slice (Pic 4).
• Make sure its cold enough to slice and do accordingly (Pic 5).
• What’s next dig in, Pic 6 🙂 and thanks for reading till this step.

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