The Post Where I Admit I Left An Ice Cream Cake in the Car for 5 Hours

On another website of mine I did a product review for the delicious new signature cake from Coldstone Creamery aptly called Tall, Dark & Delicious. I purchased one for my husband for Father's Day last weekend after seeing an ad for them in the newspaper and then being lured in by a $3 coupon.

It was... fabulous. I make awesome cakes myself but sometimes it's nice to simply eat a cake you haven't had to make yourself, and of course my husband prefers to buy a dessert for my birthday rather than attempt one himself. I'm honestly not sure if he's ever baked a cake in his life! Ha.

However the real reason I'm writing is to tell the story behind the cake. The story that made the kids and I laugh out loud when we finally cut into the cake last Sunday and saw that it truly was... ok.

As busy as my schedule is, I try to multi-task and condense errands when and where I can. On Friday morning I had to take my 13 year old to the orthodontist in a nearby suburb and realized there was a Coldstone Creamery just about 1 mile away from her Orthodontist office. The plan was to go to the appointment, stop by the restaurant where my son works to pick up something 'to go' for lunch, swing by to get the cake and then return to our home, about 20 minutes away, drop off my daughter, put the cake in the freezer and then drive to the office and work the rest of the afternoon.

Ortho. Check.
Lunch to go. Check.
Ice Cream Cake. Check.
Drive home. Check.

But... I had on white pants and didn't want to spill anything on them by trying to eat in the car so when we arrived home I decided to check the mail and go inside to quickly eat my sandwich, go through the mail and then rush to work.

And I did.

My daughters orthodontist was running late and after a 45 minute wait we finally got in, but it made all my other errands later than planned. Lunch was ate, mail gone through, email quickly checked, but being about 1 1/2 hours later than I told the office, I was in a hurry to get there.

It was a hot day - almost 80 degrees. We later had a downpour come through around 3:00. When I got out to my SUV at 4:15 pm I realized... the cake was still in the back seat!!!

I picked up the cake at 12:00 noon and it had been in the back seat all this time... when the temperatures outside hovered around 80. I quickly put the plastic cake container on the front seat, aimed the air conditioning vents onto it and turned it down to 60 degree's (the lowest it goes) and blasted air on it for the 30 minute drive home.

From 12:00 noon until 5:00 pm the ice cream cake was in the truck.


The kids knew the story and we all held our breath as I cut into it on Sunday. "OH MY GOSH!" was the exclamation when we saw that the chocolate frosting coating, the frozen cake and the plastic cake container (albeit thin and flimsy) had sealed it well enough to keep it cold long enough to withstand being in a hot vehicle for 5 hours.

Unbelievable. Thumbs up to Coldstone Creamery.... and their magic cakes!