cookies & cream icebox cake
~ cookies & cream icebox cake ~
My friend Clare introduced me to Nabisco Famous chocolate wafers a while back. I had never cooked with them. She told me about this easy, yummy, icebox cake with three ingredients, and I thought this would be a fun recipe to try with my daughter Gracie, as she is becoming more and more interested in learning the ways of the kitchen and has been trying a few recipes on her own. She makes my recipe for frozen cappuccinos better than I do! What do your kids like to cook?
The cake you see above was made by following the recipe on the box of “Famous” Chocolate Wafers and grating dark chocolate over the slices before serving. The wafers magically turn into cake as they chill in the refrigerator between layers of vanilla whipped cream. I was surprised at how delicious this turned out, and I’d like to try adding a little mint extract to the cream instead of vanilla the next time I make it. This is wonderful with tea or French press coffee.
Here’s the recipe:
Ingredients:
1 tsp. vanilla or mint extract
2 cups whipping cream, whipped + 1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 pkg. (9 oz.) FAMOUS Chocolate Wafers
Preparation:
ADD sugar and vanilla or mint extract to whipping cream, beat until soft peaks form
SPREAD 1-1/2 tsp. of the whipped cream mixture onto each wafer. Stack wafers together, then stand on edge on serving platter to make a log.
Frost with the remaining whipped cream mixture.
REFRIGERATE at least 4 hours or overnight. Cut dessert diagonally into 14 slices to serve.
Store leftover dessert in refrigerator.
Enjoy!
~Melissa
Oh, my gosh. This is ridiculous. I could probably live on this!!
Heaven.
hee hee! enjoy Carrie! 🙂 xo
Wow! From now on you should never tell people how easy the recipe is and just let them be blown-away impressed. 🙂
Hi Rebecca! well….maybe…but isn’t it fun to pass this on to my best peeps from time to time? you can keep the secret. I won’t tell. hee hee 😉 xo
Okay…I am making this now! I saw it on the back of the wafers at publix the other day but didn’t buy them. I’m going back to buy them now! It looks wonderful! <3 and hugs sweets!
xoxo honey bunches! enjoy 🙂
Have made this numerous times! My mother-in-law showed me years ago.
A family favorite! The kids love it <3
it’s such a fun recipe! xo
Melissa, I love you!!!! I will be making this and I’ll probably try your mint extract idea, Then it’ll be just like having mint chocolate chip ice cream!!! Oh yes I will!
Hi Joan! Love you back sweet lady! I’m so pleased you like the recipe. yummy, impressive and easy peasy! 🙂 enjoy!
I will be trying that version too! Sounds great! Why have I not thought of it before?? Lol
enjoy Caryl 🙂
This looks amazing! I followed the recipe on the box once and it looked nothing like yours! Yours looks so beautiful! Will have to try it out again sometime! Thanks Melissa!
thanks so much Donika! I hope you enjoy the recipe 🙂 thanks for stopping by!
My pleasure! Love your blog! 🙂
aw! thanks so much. what a lovely compliment 🙂 xo
That looks really good… and easy!
It’s surprisingly good! and easy enough for my daughter to make! xoxo
Love this. Yours looks pretty. Is there a trick to how to lay this horizontally after you’re done stacking te cookies? When I try to switch the cake to horizontal, i screw it up. Doesn’t look like you had that problem from your picture. How did you keep it so straight?!
I just stack them in straignt, upright rows 🙂 I don’t really have a trick or anything. LOL. thanks so much for visiting and for the sweet compliment.
You don’t make it as a tower and then flip it…you make it horizontal from the start 🙂
Right! exactly Caryl 🙂
just make individual towers and frost all around .. easier to serve and make!! Taste just as good!!
Great tip! Thanks Vickie!
We used to call this The Famous Wafer Cake when I was growing up. I’m glad you’re sharing it. May it live on for another 3 generations.
Yes Gail! It’s such a fun, simple recipe 🙂 thanks for visiting!
I am 66 years old and have been eating this since childhood!! Always a favorite .. my kids requested “cookie cake” while growing up!! It was my Dad’s favorite and I have two original TINS that the cookies came in. …probably a lot less breakage in the old days of tins!!
Thanks for visiting Vickie! Seems like there are a lot of people who like this easy little cake…and lots of memories surrounding it 🙂
This is my husband’s fav! He is not real big on sweets, this hits the mark! When I make it I have to use at least 2 boxes of wafers and it fills my turkey serving platter! The kids call it the “Cloud Cake” and they request it more than any other dessert I make!
Hello Lisa! I love all the nostalgia and memories that surround this little cake recipe! thanks for sharing yours! xoxo
I love your site and have trued many of your recipes! thanks for sharing with all of us and for making sure the recipes work! I have shared your site with my girls and the ladies in my family! You ROCK!!
Hello Lisa! Thanks so much for visiting and for the sweet compliments! So happy you like my recipes. XO 😉 enjoy!
This is one of my favorite desserts and so easy to make. We have always called it Zebra. I have had it made with ginger cookies and once my daughter couldn’t find the Chocolate cookies and used chocolate chip and she said it was great! Thanks for posting this and reminding me I need to make it. Soon. 🙂
Hi Liz! Love the idea of using ginger! (and maybe a little lemon zest in the whipped cream?) thanks for the inspiration, and for stopping by! xo 🙂
My Mom use to make this every year for my b’day, till unfortunately she quit being able to locate the Nabisco Chocolate Cookie Wafers. Can anyone tell me where to find them? Thanks!
Cheryl
I have found them at Amazon.com and WalMart. Google them and try putting in your zip code with the inquiry. Good Luck. 😀
Thanks, Lisa! 🙂