50+ Friends Club Cookbook -- Cakes and Frostings -- Banana Icebox Cake

50+ Friends Club Cookbook
Cakes and Frostings

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Banana Icebox Cake


From the Kitchen of:  Gina

Make sure the bananas are very ripe for best flavor.

  • 1. In large bowl, with mixer at medium speed, beat heavy cream, sugar, and vanilla until stiff peaks form. Spoon half the whipped cream into another bowl; cover and refrigerate.
  • 2. With rubber spatula, gently fold bananas into remaining whipped cream.
  • 3. On one side of each of 6 chocolate wafers, spread about 2 heaping teaspoons banana-whipped cream. Stack wafers on top of each other. Top stack with a plain wafer.
  • 4. Repeat stacking wafers on top of each other until all wafers are used, making 5 stacks of 7 wafers each.
  • 5. Turn each stack on its side; place stacks, one behind the other so that rounded edges overlap slightly to form a log on platter.
  • 6. Frost log with reserved whipped cream and decorate with chocolate pieces. Cover and refrigerate at least 5 hours or overnight to allow wafers to soften.

    Each serving: About 300 calories, 3 g protein, 26 g carbohydrate, 22 g total fat (12 g saturated), 65 mg cholesterol, 145 mg sodium.

    Serves: 10

    Work Time: 30 minutes

    Total Time: 30 minutes, plus 5 hours chilling time