Chocolate Wafer Icebox Cake

Ohhhhh man………that looks so utterly delicious! And just what I need this time of the month 😉
What is the texture of the cookies like once it sits overnight? Is it mushy or spongy?

Cyndi- It’s so tough to explain! It’s definitely not spongy. It’s just super creamy. As if you flavored whipped cream with chocolate cookies! They melt together and form something incredible!

Wow, it looks stunning, Tracy! I can’t believe how simple it seems to be put together – the results are amazing!

Oh, I LOVE this recipe too. MMMM! Your photos are making me hungry!

thanks ladies! strawberries make everything look more prettie!

fanny- they are like a very thin unsandwiched oreo cookie.

lana- your photos do the same for me!

amanda- The cookies do get soggy…but it makes it taste like a very soft light cake. Like how a ladyfinger is saturated in a tiramisu. I served this like 6 hours after making. I wonder what it would be like if I did it sooner. I am envisioning whipping some peanut butter in with the whipped cream! MM! soo hungry now. I think you should try it! I’ve wanted to for so long and I am really glad I took the plunge!

I hope you love it Jen! Thanks for looking through my blog! I am still hunting for that perfect bag….Will it ever end??

I finally found the wafers! They are by the fancy cookies (I wasn’t looking there) and are in a tray (I was looking for a box).

We are going to a BBQ today so I deiced to whip up a cake. Turns out if your kitchen is hot the cake will fall apart as you stack the layers. Mine ended up being a big huge mess. Not pretty, but I’m sure it’s tasty.

I chilled the cream before I started the beating and I put the bowl and whisk in the freezer for a half hour. I think it was just a hot day and not good for an ice box cake. I think in the future I’ll make it in layers.

In the end it was more of a pile rather than a cake, but so good.

my grandmother, Ethel Lee, is a true Southern lady. She is one of the most wonderful people I’ve ever known but she is not a cook. She once told me that when she first married my grandfather, the only thing she knew how to make was “Zebra Pie” which is exactly the Chocolate Wafer Icebox Cake you’ve described except (being slightly less creative in her presentation), the wafers are sandwiched with whipped cream and simply stacked side by side into a cylander (or double-cylander if we were lucky) and coated in a layer of cream. She said that any time company was over, she would whip up a Zebra Pie. She has shown every member of her family how to make Zebra Pie and it is such a comforting recipe that i was thrilled to see it posted here. thanks!

My family makes Zebra Cake (as we’ve always called it) for every birthday and any other occasion we can think of! Great to find it online. Here are our family secrets:

— Always make it the night before you want to serve it. It needs ample time in the fridge for the cookies to soften up and absorb the richness of the whipped cream.

— Make sure the whip cream to cookie ratio is just right, otherwise it’s too dry. You want about 2:1 whip cream: cookie.

— You can make the cake into cylinders if you stack the cookies on their thin end and make cylinders. Then we shape the cylinders into numbers, animals, etc. Save enough whip cream to slather the whole thing afterwards.

— Cut slices on the diagonal to get the zebra striping. HAVE FUN!

omg this looks amazing.
great pictures too. makes it all the yummier :]

I’m making the ‘old fashioned Zebra Cake’ tomorrow. A log shaped cake. Should be good.