Step two Turn ice cream out into a large bowl; gently mix cherries into ice-cream, Pour ice-cream into cake tin, Pour chocolate sauce into ice cream and swirl it through using a spatula. Do not over mix. Work quickly and get tin back into freezer as soon as you can. Note: you will lose about 25% of volume of ice-cream, because it has been softened. This is normal. Freeze overnight.

Turn ice-cream cake out and decorate it as your fancy takes you.

Variations: You can be as adventurous, colorful or as crazy as you want. Remember that a cake for a 3 year old will be very different from a cake for a 23 year old.

Try these other ingredients for variety Choc chips, Candy Nuts Candied fruit Candied edible flowers Cake – crumbled Flavorings like sauces, toppings, syrups, etc Booze (for adults only please) – best results are obtained using spirits or liqueurs but don’t use too much. Literally your choices are limited by your imagination.

For best results, you really should share this cake.

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Kids, who don’t have a regular diet of sweet things, really don’t develop a sweet tooth. This I have also seen many times. We never had sweet biscuits in house when our kids were young. Now at 20 and 18, they just don’t eat sweet biscuits, well except for a very occasional chocolate biscuit. They used to feel insulted as small children when they went out and all that was offered to children was cordial and biscuits. I couldn’t count number of times they came to me when we were out and said “Mum, but there’s nothing to eat".

I know kids who don’t like chocolate, as it has never been a part of their diet, or won’t drink frizzy drinks, as they just haven’t had them offered to them at home.

It is important thing to give your child choices, but you can decide what those choices are. Offer them good wholesome food.

Have lots of fresh fruit available. Dried fruits are also very popular with kids. Vegetable sticks are great, give them something to dip them in, like peanut butter and it makes them more interesting. Freshly popped popcorn is always fun and popular. There are many snacks available that are healthy and tasty that your kids will enjoy.

Take time to enjoy your eating time with your family. Teach your children pleasures of good food and fun you can share together in preparation for a meal. Make it an experience.