Ice Box Cake
Ice Box cakes have been around since, well since there have been ice boxes. A few of my very old cook books have recipes for them. The Nabisco "Famous" chocolate wafers have been around since the 1920's and I'm not sure when this recipe was first invented but it has certainly been my favorite for years. There are certain must's for this recipe, you need to use NABISCO "Famous" chocolate wafers and "real" homemade whipped cream, and it needs to be made well in advance.
The first time my wife tried to make it for my "birthday" cake she tried to make it with the whipped cream in a can, thinking it would be OK and save time. It wasn't and it didn't.
NABISCO Famous Chocolate Wafers
The recipe on the box says you can make it 4 hours before serving, but it is really best if left to sit in the refrigerator overnight so that the cream can be absorbed by the wafers and they swell and soften
Directions
- Whip the cream stiff with the sugar and vanilla.
- Spread the cream on one side of a wafer and lay on a plate and continue building a small tower of wafers.
- tower of wafers Once you have a small tower place them on their side on a serving plate and then continue to build the log add one wafer at a time to the end of the log.
- place wafers on side to form a log Once all the wafers are added take the remaining whipped cream and frost the entire log.
- Place into the refrigerator for at least 4 hours, best left overnight.
- Can be frozen .
- use rest of the whipped cream to totally cover the log When serving cut on a 45º angle so that a number of wafers appear in each serving.
- cut on 45 degree angle Celebrate Bastille Day by taking 1/3 of the whipped cream and put in blue food coloring and another 1/3 with red and make the log blue, white and red -Vive La France.