Chocolate-Espresso Ice Box Cake

Chocolate-Espresso Ice Box Cake was pinched from <a href="http://www.alexandracooks.com/2016/09/04/chocolate-espresso-ice-box-cake/" target="_blank">www.alexandracooks.com.</a>

"Source: Barefoot Contessa How Easy is That?The Original recipe calls for Tate's Bakeshop chocolate chip cookies, which I'm sure are delicious, but if you can't find them, Famous Chocolate Wafers work like a charm. Original recipe also calls for 5 layers of cookies — probably because the Tate's choc chip cookies are big, so you need fewer per layer. I ran out of steam—so lazy!—after making 3 layers of cookies, but do as you wish. Four layers of wafers probably would have been fine, but I think 5 would have been too many. I don't think you can mess this kind of thing up. Also, original recipe called for coffee liqueur, which I'm sure would be delicious, but I didn't have any, so I used brewed espresso instead, which I made with my Nespresso Pixie, which, by the way, I love. Such a luxury, but really great. If you don't want to use booze and don't have a Nespresso, you could use instant espresso with ¼ cup boiling water or strong coffee. If you want to use both coffee liqueur and espresso, you can use ¼ cup liqueur and 1 teaspoon instant espresso powder. This meyer lemon variation looks fantastic, too...."

INGREDIENTS
2 cups cold heavy cream
12 ounces Italian mascarpone cheese
1/2 cup sugar
2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 cup espresso, cooled, or 1/4 cup coffee liqueur, such as Kahlua, see notes above
2 9-oz boxes Famous Chocolate Wafers, see notes above, I used 1.5 boxes
semisweet chocolate, for garnish
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