Chocolate-Peppermint Ice Cream Cake

Ingredients

• ½ cup whipping cream
• 1 ½ 9-ounce packages chocolate wafer cookies
• 8 ounces bittersweet (not unsweetened) or semisweet chocolate
• 8 tablespoons unsalted butter
• Red-and-white-striped hard peppermint candies
• 2 teaspoons peppermint extract
• 1 ¼ cups red-and-white-striped hard peppermint candies
• + 3 more ingredients
• • 7 cups premium vanilla ice cream
  • 6 ounces bittersweet (not unsweetened) or semisweet chocolate
  • ¼ cup light corn syrup

Melt butter with chocolate in heavy small saucepan over low heat. Finely grind cookies in processor. Add warm chocolate mixture; blend just until crumbs are moistened. Reserve 1 cup crumb mixture in small bowl. Press remaining crumb mixture onto sides, then bottom of 9-inch-diameter springform pa...

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