Chocolate Ice Cream Cake or Sandwich

The new chocolate cake used for the German Chocolate Cake is also ideal for an ice cream cake or sandwich: it is intensely chocolaty, velvety, and dense, yet light and tender. The best part, though, is that because it contains oil rather than butter, it stays soft when frozen.

The ice cream cake, as pictured, is meant to be eaten with a fork, but the slimmer ice cream sandwich is ideal to enjoy eating with your fingers.

For the ice cream sandwich wedges, my friend Letty Flat