| Level: | Easy |
| Total: | 1 hr |
| Prep: | 30 min |
| Inactive: | 30 min |
| Yield: | about 4 servings |
| Level: | Easy |
| Total: | 1 hr |
| Prep: | 30 min |
| Inactive: | 30 min |
| Yield: | about 4 servings |
Ingredients
- Yellow frosting
- 1 pint vanilla ice cream
- Cocoa Powder (recommended: Hershey’s)
- Whipped topping (recommended: Cool Whip)
- Yellow frosting (recommended: Betty Crocker)
- 1/4 cup chopped pistachios
Instructions
- For the “butter” frosting: Line the inside of a cover of a butter dish with plastic wrap. Fill the cover completely with yellow frosting and freeze until hard. Lift the “butter” out of the cover using the plastic wrap. Cut into squares.;
- For the potato ice cream: Have a sheet pan covered with plastic wrap. On 1/2 of the pan, place the pint of ice cream down on its side. Fold the plastic over the ice cream and make a seal.
- Using your hands, quickly form the ice cream into a potato shape. Then, create a wedge across the length of the potato. Tightly twist the ends of the plastic wrap and make knots at each end, like a mozzarella ball.
- Place the ice cream in the freezer until it hardens, about 20 to 30 minutes.
- Remove the ice cream from the freezer, unwrap and dust all over with cocoa powder. Fill the wedge with whipped topping and place a pat of “butter” frosting on top. Sprinkle with pistachios and serve immediately.
Reviews
Looks surprisingly realistic – looking potato. I would not recommend using lemon icing – just use vanilla with food coloring – since lemon/pistachio/chocolate does not blend well. Essentially, a creative way to service ice cream – though the effort needed to put forth this presentation may not outweigh the cuteness factor. Fun as a novelty dessert, though.
Very creative and delicious. I made this for my daughter’s 22nd birthday instead of cake. She loves potatoes in any form and thought this was great. I had one left over and gave it to our neighbors to enjoy. I used lemon frosting for the “butter” and it was a perfect addition. Plain cocoa powder was just right as it offset the sweetness a bit. Will definitely do this again.
I made these for April Fool’s Day, and my family loved them! Rather than plain cocoa powder, I used hot chocolate mix. And I used yellow Starburst candies for butter. It was a fun and yummy dessert.
What a hack, the Idaho State Fair does a way better job with this dessert then Sandra ever could. None of that gross frosting butter or chive pistachios nonsense.
Just take vanilla ice cream and quickly mold and roll it in cocoa powder or hot chocolate mix, cleave, add whip cream, and sprinkle with oreo pieces and nut topping, maybe some chocolate syrup. That’s it, with practice even a high school student can do it. It’s laughable if she thinks she is being original with this. If anyone is curious what the state fair version looks like, look no farther then Google. I must admit though, it’s not the dessert for everyone even if it’s not ridden with frosting butter.
Just take vanilla ice cream and quickly mold and roll it in cocoa powder or hot chocolate mix, cleave, add whip cream, and sprinkle with oreo pieces and nut topping, maybe some chocolate syrup. That’s it, with practice even a high school student can do it. It’s laughable if she thinks she is being original with this. If anyone is curious what the state fair version looks like, look no farther then Google. I must admit though, it’s not the dessert for everyone even if it’s not ridden with frosting butter.
To start off, refrozen ice cream taste horrible, and to make it even worse unsweetened cocoa powder tastes absolutely revolting. I would suggest to use chocolate ice cream instead of vanilla. It looks cute, but with the lemon frosting, ice cream, cocoa powder, whipped cream, and pistachios it tastes really bad.
I have actually made these.. several times..everyone LOVES them. I have never had anyone say the frozen icing was yucky. I also add shredded coconut tinted with orange food coloring for cheese and toffee bits for the bacon…always a hit…every time.
Cute idea, but canned FROZEN frosting…..YUCK.. re-frozen ice cream tastes like the freezer it came out of.Only worse..Waste of ingredients…Put it all in a bowl, and eat it…FRESH…
The was one of the cutest and most entertaining desserts I’ve ever served !!! Everybody loved it and my kids ask me to make it everytime one of their friends comes over because they love to see the expressions on their faces when I tell them we are having baked potatoes for dessert and then I bring this out. I followed the recipe exactly and even though it was a little difficult to get the cocoa powder on the sides without making a mess it was well worth it !! We cant wait for more cute ideas like this one.
It is good
to waste on this, ice cream melted and refrozen tastes awful and i never ever wondered what other use there was for my butter dish,as it was being used to cover the……butter. frozen canned frosting is more disgusting than regular canned frosting.