Classic Icebox Cake

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Ingredients

  • 2 cups heavy cream
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 13 ounces Nabisco chocolate wafers (1 1/2 packages), or other thin cookie

Preparation

Step 1

Makes one 9-inch cake

With a whisk or a stand mixer fit with a whisk attachment, whip the cream and vanilla together to stiff peaks.

On a cake stand or large plate, arrange 7 wafer cookies in a circle (1 in the middle, six around the edges). Spread a layer of whipped cream on top, then another circle of cookies, then whipped cream, until you run out. Finish with a top layer of whipped cream.

Refrigerate the cake overnight (or for at least 8 hours.