RECIPE FOR SARAH HOOVER’S EIGHT-LAYER ICEBOX CAKE Sarah makes homemade chocolate wafers using a recipe courtesy of Smitten Kitchen. (Find it here.) You can also use Nabisco Famous Chocolate Wafers, which work just as well. INGREDIENTS 3 cups of heavy cream 3 tablespoons of sugar 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract DIRECTIONS To make the cream, beat together heavy cream, sugar and vanilla extract until soft peaks form. The trick is to under whip the cream. It has to be a little wet or else the cake gets too dense. From there, on a cake stand, arrange the wafers side by side and spread cream on top. Stack the wafers and cream until you’ve made several layers. Cover the cake with plastic wrap and stick it in the fridge for several hours or overnight to cool.
Posted on: Sun, 04 Aug 2013 01:46:28 +0000