Ant Hill Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

30 Oreo cookies
1 (13 ounce) bag peppermint patties
2 pints vanilla ice cream
20 vanilla wafers
8 chocolate-covered almonds
8 round chocolate-covered caramel candies
black decorating gel
candy corn (to garnish)

Preparation

Place Oreo's in food processor and process to coarse texture.
Add peppermint patties and process to coarse texture.
Coat a 10 inches spring form pan with cooking spray, add cookie mixture and press down gently to coat bottom and up 1/2 inches on the sides.
By spoonfuls, add ice cream.
Use back of a spoon to smooth ice cream evenly on the top.
Cover with foil and freeze overnight.
Place vanilla wafers in food processor and blend until smooth.
Place in a sealed bag until needed and store at room temperature.
Remove rim of spring form pan and place cake on serving platter.
On one side of cake, slowly pour vanilla wafer crumbs to form a mound, or \"anthill.\".
Arrange \"ants\" on cake using one chocolate covered almond for each body and one chocolate covered caramel for each head.
Pipe on eyes and legs with gel.
Garnish with candy corn.