Five Delicious Anytime Icebox Cakes
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An icebox cake is made by layering crisp cookies or crackers with whipped cream and refrigerating the assembled dessert for several hours—preferably overnight. As it rests, moisture from the cream slowly softens the cookies, transforming them into tender, cake-like layers.
What began as a stack of store-bought ingredients emerges from the refrigerator cool, creamy and scrumptious.
Icebox cakes feel light and refreshing. They are also ideal for entertaining. Most require little more than easy assembly and can be prepared well in advance.
Five Variations to Try Now
Here are five icebox cake recipes that will delight your family and friends.
Classic Icebox Cake — Serious Eats –– The essential chocolate-cookie-and-whipped-cream version and the best place to begin.
Chocolate-Raspberry Icebox Cake — Food & Wine –– Chocolate and fresh raspberries turn the familiar formula into an especially handsome summer dessert.
Bourbon-Peach Icebox Cake — Food & Wine –– Butter-pecan cookies, peach preserves, fresh peaches and bourbon-spiked cream capture the flavors of late summer.
Peaches-and-Cream Icebox Cake — Serious Eats –– Ripe peaches, vanilla wafers and whipped mascarpone make this an effortless seasonal showpiece.
Easy Berry Icebox Cake — Sally’s Baking Addiction –– Graham crackers, homemade whipped cream and mixed berries create a simple, crowd-friendly cake in about 15 minutes of active preparation.
The Betty Ford Connection
First Lady Betty Ford had a recipe called “Chocolate Icebox Dessert.” It layered sliced angel-food cake with a chocolate mixture of whipped cream, eggs and melted chocolate, then chilled everything overnight.
In practical terms, it was an icebox cake, although the recipe called it a “dessert.”
The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library confirms that White House correspondence files contained Mrs. Ford’s dessert recipes, and the icebox-dessert recipe has been reproduced from presidential-archive material.
Find Betty' Ford's icebox cake recipe here.
Dessert Plates Selected by Jasper & James
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Show off your cool creations with these handsome dessert plate sets.
Spode Blue Italian Dessert Plates, Set of Four — timeless blue-and-white porcelain.
Lenox Butterfly Meadow Dessert Plates, Set of Six — colorful botanical designs particularly suited to summer desserts.
Iittala Taika Plates, Set of Four — whimsical Scandinavian porcelain with a more contemporary look.
Villeroy & Boch NewWave Plates, Set of Four — sculptural white porcelain for a modern presentation.
Portmeirion Botanic Garden Meadow Plates, Set of Six — assorted English-garden florals.
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