Comments on: icebox cake

By: Judy

Judy — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:52:02 +0000

Can I make this two days in advance?

By: dancing gal

dancing gal — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:00:14 +0000

*a precious memory, no “n”! :)

By: dancing gal

dancing gal — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:57:59 +0000

So, I finally did make this cake for V.’s engagement party. V. is one of my best friends, we’ve been friends since high school, which seems like forever (ok, 15 years IS forever :p) and he is currently living in London, while I’m living in Paris. So when he invited me to the engagement party in London, I knew I had to bring cake, but I needed a suiting-the-circumstances one. Icebox cake it was!
I baked my 88 chocolate wafers (1 1/2 batch of Deb’s recipe) in my super-mini oven in my tiny kitchen in Paris, I packed them up in airtight containers and off I went!
Once in London, I whipped up the cream and assembled the cake. I sorted the cookies by size, used the bigger ones for the bottom layers and the smaller ones for the top layers, trying to arrange them respecting the outline of the bottom layers (leaving small gaps, but once layered with whipped cream, no one noticed!).
The verdict? Everyone loved the cake, as I was slicing the pieces my friend whispered to my ear to keep them small-ish so that he and his fiancée would have leftovers for breakfast, and when the party was well over and I was back in Paris, I received an e-mail saying “E., come back, there’s no cake left!”. Priceless.

So I guess what I’m trying to say with that looooong comment is thank you. Because in a funny way you helped me create a (delicious) part of an precious memory.

By: Sophia

Sophia — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:01:45 +0000

If you can get to a Fairway Market (in the Greater NYC area including NJ and CT)and don’t feel like making your own wafer, Fairway has the Nabisco chocolate wafers in the cookie aisle. I hadn’t seen them since my middle school home ec exploratory class in the South. It works with Trader Joe’s cookie thins as well. You can make them in individual stacks and turn them into cupcakes. I did a ginger thin with almond whipped cream, a lemon thin with a strawberry whipped cream, and a chocolate chip cookie with chocolate whipped cream. I’m thinking neapolitan cake next time.

By: deb

deb — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 23:53:39 +0000

Beth Ann — None that I can think of.

By: Beth Ann

Beth Ann — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 04:00:01 +0000

Is there any reason why I couldn’t use a trifle bowl for this rather than make a free-standing cake?

By: Daniela

Daniela — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 03:06:07 +0000

I recently tried a recipe for miniature version of an icebox cake that made little individual cakes. I added a peanut butter twist using peanut butter flavoured whipped cream and a thin coat of peanut butter on 2 of the layers. I think it would be great to try this variation in the full sized cake. Michele’s link in comment 230 is a great start, but i would try to add a coat of peanut butter on the cookies in 1 or 2 of the layers – it really enhances the flavour. I’ll give it a try and let you know!

By: Katy

Katy — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 02:22:51 +0000

I’ve looked online for various icebox cake recipes, and all of them use a whipped cream icing. Is this absolutely required for the wafers to soften or can any kind of icing do?

By: emma

emma — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 18:23:24 +0000

oops! I forgot to say the topping has eggs in it.
so can you freeze that?

By: emma

emma — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 18:21:51 +0000

Can you freeze things made with egg whites in them ?
my icebox cake have eggs in the recipie.