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Last month I was determined to make an ice cream cake for a friend of mine. See, he hates most sweets, but in one conversation he told me how much he loved mint chocolate chip ice cream. Ding ding! Months later, I was prepping my first ice cream cake.

It's a task that feels Herculean, but is actually quite manageable -- if you've got the time, space, and planning squared away. If you don't, I assure you -- you'll quickly melt into a panic. For me, I just about did when that early February day, the one that should've been frigid and cold, spiked up to warm spring temperatures. Luckily, it all came together. But I wanted to make it easier on you. What follows are some basics and then a list of tips, because as much as you can find ice cream cakes on the Internet, very few deal with homemade cakes and homemade ice cream. So read on, good luck, and be sure to leave any tips or questions in the comments!

Since it's ice cream day, an ice cream cake seems like an appropriate way to celebrate. I used to make ice cream cakes all the time for family and friends, since their construction was one of the first cake-making techiniques I mastered. At the time I wasn't spending all of my time photographing food like I am now, so I don't have any pictures of those mint chocolate ice cream cakes or the strawberry cream ice cream cake to share here. Fortunately, Flickr has lots of ice cream cakes that are worth sharing. The additional benefits of the digital cakes is that they neither melt nor take up room in your freezer.

The cake above is a Stone Cold Creamery cake made for a birthday party. More cakes after the jump.