Cooling Christmas Delight: Homemade Peppermint | Struggle Meals

heavy cream

🥗Healthier: Greek yogurt

💰Cheaper: milk + cornstarch

Greek yogurt reduces calories while maintaining creaminess

granulated sugar

🥗Healthier: honey

💰Cheaper: brown sugar

Honey is a natural sweetener, while brown sugar adds a deeper flavor.

Crush ice cream cones in a bag until broken up.

Pour melted butter over the crushed ice cream cones and mix to combine.

Press the mixture into a pan to form a crust using a measuring cup.

Heat heavy cream until hot.

Chop chocolate into small pieces for quicker melting.

Pour hot cream over chopped chocolate and let it sit to melt.

Mix the chocolate and cream together until smooth to create chocolate ganache.

Spread the chocolate ganache evenly over the ice cream cone crust.

Place the ganache in the freezer to harden.

Let peppermint ice cream soften at room temperature for 30 minutes.

Scoop softened peppermint ice cream onto the hardened ganache layer and spread it evenly.

Put the layered cake back in the freezer to set.

Make whipped cream using a variable speed hand blender and add sugar while whipping.

Spread whipped cream on top of the peppermint ice cream layer.

Crush candy canes using the bottom of a wine bottle and sprinkle them on top of the whipped cream.

Freeze the entire cake until hardened.

Slice and serve the cake.

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