Our family's go to ice box cake is made with
Famous chocolate wafer cookies & homemade whip cream.
Ah the ice box cake... made with those thin, processed
Famous Chocolate wafer cookies and whipped cream... remember that from your childhood?
FOR THE CRUST 1 1/3 cups chocolate wafer crumbs (from about 26 cookies such as Nabisco
Famous Chocolate Wafers or Oreos with cream scraped off) 5 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted 1/4 cup sugar
I remember looking for
these famous chocolate wafers about a year ago and my grocery store was constantly out of stock (are they that famous?).
The hardest part was that a number of the local super markets have removed Nabisco's
Famous Chocolate Wafers from their shelves, since they haven't been selling.
I recently dusted off my mom's 1970s recipe for creme de menthe bars and it called for those Nabisco
Famous Chocolate Wafers and I literally went to Albertson's, Ralph's, and Vons on a grocery store scavenger hunt for those things but finally found them:) Now I know where I can go so I can make your icebox cake!
Sorry, but the true 3 ingredient chocolate icebox cake has been on the bottom of
the Famous Chocolate Wafers box since I was a kid - and I'm past retirement age now.
I usually don't rate a recipe if I haven't followed it exactly, but I thought I would mention that one could eliminate the lavender blossoms, substitute
Famous Chocolate Wafers for the choco graham crackers (if hard to find) and have a wonderful and easy, and fairly quick special dessert.
20 chocolate wafer cookies (such as Nabisco's
Famous Chocolate Wafers), coarsely crushed and divided
Not exact matches
Coincidentally, while looking for commercial
chocolate wafers to encase this buttercream (remember «
Famous» brand?)
I have also made a
chocolate version with those
famous brand choclate
wafer cookies!
Ingredients 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter 1 1/2 cups
chocolate wafer cookies crumbs (recommended: Nabisco
Famous Wafers) 11 ounces milk
chocolate, finely chopped 2/3 cup heavy cream 1/3 cup malted powder (recommended: Carnation Malted Milk)