Comments on: icebox cake

By: mini

mini — Fri, 11 May 2012 02:36:10 +0000

I made my own wafers and then this cake for friends. Let me tell you, this cake is a showstopper. I see them about once a month, and I’ve heard about this cake every single time I’ve seen them…and that cake was 5 months ago!

By: hether

hether — Thu, 10 May 2012 16:54:07 +0000

I love your presentation on this! So pretty. We grew up with this in little individual stacks, then topped with coconut. We called them snowballs. My family now loves variations with the Swedish ginger wafer cookies and almond whip cream topped with nuts.

By: Sharyl

Sharyl — Tue, 08 May 2012 23:13:42 +0000

Believe it or not my mother used to make this cake for me over 50 years ago! It was our family favorite. She did not put sugar in the whipping cream as we found it definitely sweet enough. I think I will now make it for my grandchildren who will devour it in minutes. Thanks for the memories.

By: Mrs. L

Mrs. L — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:12:57 +0000

I love, love, LOVE icebox cake. My stepmom makes hers in a log shape, but I’m definitely going to try your more cake-like configuration. I think this would look beautiful in a trifle bowl, too.

By: Donna

Donna — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:48:49 +0000

Made this on Friday for my daughter’s 14th birthday yesterday. Not only did it look pretty much like yours, everyone loved it! I used two full boxes of cookies to make it tall, left the top with just the cream so I could write Happy Birthday.

No one had heard of an icebox cake, but our local Wegmans carries the cookies all the time! Thanks so much for the idea! She usually wants a flat cookie-cake, but this is her new favorite.

By: MamaDoc

MamaDoc — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 01:51:50 +0000

Just bought wafers today and cannot wait to try your version of this…It looks awesome… Bravo!

By: Danielle

Danielle — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:33:59 +0000

Hmm this reminds me of one of my favorite desserts: Pave de Limao. It’s basically this cake, but made with lightly sweet “tea biscuit cookies” or whatever you want to call them (digestives?) and a lime cream. YUM.
I highly recommend it…heavenly! And really easy to make. You just have to make sure to be careful with the lime, I gradually add some and taste as I go along (hello, 5 extra pounds!) so it doesn’t end up too mild OR super acidic.
Here’s the recipe: http://www.food.com/recipe/pav-de-lim-o-300439

By: Joanie

Joanie — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 04:16:09 +0000

My mom make this for me bridal shower 36 years ago. She even make the whipped cream pink. This will always be one of my favorites. I never thought of looking online for the cookies. Thanks for that tip.

By: Melissa Anderson

Melissa Anderson — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:01:54 +0000

Another marvelous use for those chocolate wafer cookies comes from the 2006 Southern Living Annual Recipes cookbook. Essentially its cream cheese frosting with finely chopped pecans, a little brown sugar and they say mini chocolate chips sandwiched between the wafers and left overnight. However its better if you finely grate chocolate instead of the mini chips. Either way, it is awesome!

By: Lisa

Lisa — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 05:02:27 +0000

Gorgeous presentation. We’ve been making ‘zebra cake’ with the Nabisco wafers for several years–kids usually request it for birthdays, and we do logs shaped into the first letter of the honoree’s name–but tonight tried your recipe for the homemade cookies and the round cake-like presentation. Previews are yummy–can’t wait to see how it comes out tomorrow.

We’ve also made icebox cake using Anna’s lemon wafer cookies with some lemon curd smeared on each cookie along with the whipped cream to amp up the lemon flavor. Very, very good.