![]() You know, I’ve been making this cake since I was a kid (in the 80’s) – a friend’s mom made it for her birthday party, and my mom begged her for the recipe. What does it look like after its sat? January 28, 2007 Soooo not cool deb!įortunately this guy is a very regular customer of mine and i will oblige him and make it. i can totally do without sweets… and now this? It’s like i have to race to the shop now and make this just so i can have a slice. ![]() Yeh, so this morning, i wake up, see this and caught myself drooling.DUDE im impervious when it comes to cakes and stuff like that now. and this schmuck wants cookies and wip cream? OY (in my snarky inner voice i was like, go buy some oreos pal and call it a day) omg, look at all the options I have here. who would want a “cake” made from cookies and wip cream when they could have a beautifull 4 layer chocolate cake thats sitting in the case!! I was somewhat insulted by his request. I called Mom and she then when on a 30 min journey into her childhood and explained why these cakes were so popular “back in the day”. I had a customer ask me yesterday if i made an “ice box cake”. ![]() Update: Want to make your own chocolate wafers for this cake? Now you can! But there’s no reason for you to be that kind of crazy I’ve got more than enough for all of us. If you can get past this one thing: THREE CUPS of heavy cream! Mon dieu! This, plus two packages of cookies, a few tablespoons of sugar and possibly, a heart doctor, is all you will need (though I suggest buying a third package, as many of these humble, unlovable wafers, wedged into a bottom shelf in your grocer’s cookie section will inevitably arrive broken), though in the future I may toy with whipped cream flavorings from mint extract to raspberry liquor. You simply cannot lose when you make this cake. Though Luisa and I (whose significant other is also a Billly’s icebox cake fanatic) had schemed a few weeks ago to make one completely from scratch in the near future, icebox cake’s temptation wore me down sooner. I wanted to make something for my chocoholic coworker’s last day of work, but not actually have to burn the midnight oil or worse, skip the gym, to do so. Of course, none of this holds any interest to my husband, who in suffering the ultimate act of cruelty on Thursday night, had to witness me throw together the cake (in about 30 minutes, to boot), pack it away and then serve it to other people. One thing I will hand to the bakeries that have trendified this dessert - and sell it for $3.50 per slice - is that two years ago, I’d have been hard-pressed to find these cookies in any store (seriously, I still can’t even find the product on Nabisco’s website) and now, not only do they hold some shelf-space at my local Gristedes, I can order them from Amazon. The chocolate ones, lighter, thinner and more crisp than an unfilled Oreo but with a noticeably similar taste, and would have likely faded into obscurity when the non-chocolate varieties did had some ingenious 1930s housewives not figured out that if you stack them, separated with a layer of sweetened whipped cream, they soften overnight and become a glorious chocolate cake, with layers as thin and wisp-like as ribbons. The National Biscuit Company - later shortened to Nabisco and whose original factory now houses Chelsea Market, OXO products and the Food Network - introduced their Famous Chocolate Wafers in 1924, along with a ginger and a sugar variety. Like the 1-2-3-4 cake recipe (1 cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 3 cups flour and 4 eggs) as well as the back-of-the-box shortcut buttercream frosting that they bakeries combined to form a “cupcake trend,” they have neither invented the icebox cake nor made it any better than the American home cooks that first concocted these simple desserts - they’ve just got better marketing. It is also, I am so sorry to say, a bit of a sham. Alex’s favorite cake looks comes from either Billy’s or Magnolia bakery, looks to him like “opened Oreos” and is called an icebox cake. My husband will tell you that his favorite dessert my chocolate caramel cheesecake, the orange-chocolate bundt cake, Mom’s chocolate chip sour cream coffee cake or the bourbon-pumpkin cheesecake but don’t believe him - he lies.
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