I'm making a dairy queen ice cream cake (recipe here on cc) and have no idea how to decorate it. Do you have to use whipped cream icing? Or can you use bc icing? I've seen several decorated with drizzled chocolate and some with sprinkles...but what else can you do on ice-cream?
I am already making a themed cake for the party, this is just a second cake that does not have to look all that fancy...but I don't want it to look plain either.
Any advice or ideas?
Thanks!
I worked at DQ about 10 years ago and back then we used buttercream granted it came in a 5 gallon bucket it was buttercream, most of the decorations were piping gel that we outlined from a projector.
I like mine with oreos on top mmmm.... the good old days at DQ I'm surprised I didn't gain a hundred pounds lol 
I worked at an ice cream shop filling in while their cake decorator was on medical leave. We iced the cakes with an icing similar to cool whip... whipped cream like stuff. You had to do it really fast and stick it back in the freezer to firm up before decorating. For decorations we frequently used buttercream for borders, flowers, writing, etc. My favorite, though, had whipped cream border with chocolate and marshmallow sauce drizzled all around. I think it would be cute to finish that off with crushed oreos and cherries.
Good luck!
I have an ice cream shop and we use an almost white vanilla ice cream to frost all our cakes and we use buttercream to decorate with just like a regular cake. We just have to work a little faster so it doesn't melt. I put all sorts of designs on our cakes.....flowers, balloons, streamers, clowns, etc. I've even made a wedding cake out of ice cream. We also use the hardening choc. like D.Q. does on their dipped cones but we use it to add drizzle down the sides of the cakes. Most of the time we have to frost and decorate the cakes in stages so it doesn't melt. I've never made one at home.
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