Grandma Elaines Ice Box Cake Food

GRANDMA ADELINE'S 1940'S WAR CAKE

Steps:

• Boil raisins in water for 10 minutes. Add lard. Let melt. Sift dry ingredients together and add to raisins/lard in pan. Add egg. Pour into greased loaf pans. Bake for 45 min to 1 hour at 350 degrees.

GRANDMA LU'S CASSATA CAKE

Steps:

• Mix ricotta, 1 pint of whipped heavy cream, sugar, and vanilla in a bowl till smooth. Add one roughly chopped chocolate bar. Fold in.
• Spray a large bowl with nonstick cooking spray (like Pam). Slice sponge cake into half-inch pieces. Line the bowl with one layer of cake. Follow with a layer of filling, making sure to come up to top of bowl. Continue alternating layers of cake and filling till you have reached the top of bowl. Finish with a layer of cake. Seal with plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight.
• Remove plastic wrap. Place a pretty cake dish on top of bowl. Invert the cake and remove bowl. Frost with remaining pint of whipped heavy cream. Decorate with 2nd chocolate bar curls and drained maraschino cherries.

LEMON ICE BOX CAKE

Steps:

• Beat the cream cheese in a large bowl with an electric mixer until soft. Add the cream, sugar, lemon zest and vanilla and beat until it just holds stiff peaks.
• Spread the bottom of a 9-by-13-inch baking dish with 1/2 cup of the whipped cream. Arrange half of the cookies on top of the cream, fitting in as many as possible without overlapping. Spoon half of the remaining cream mixture on top and smooth evenly with an offset spatula. In spoonfuls spaced every 2 inches, dollop half of the lemon curd onto the cream and then use a butter knife to swirl the curd into the cream. Top with another layer of cookies, followed by the remaining cream. Dollop with the remaining lemon curd and swirl into the cream. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate until the cookies have softened, at least 3 hours and up to 1 day.
• Garnish each serving with lemon zest when ready to eat.

COFFEE ICE BOX CAKE

Steps:

• This recipe is more a "strategy" than a real recipe. The idea is to quickly soak the cake or lady fingers in coffee and set a layer in a 8-inch square glass baking pan. Cover with a layer of whipped cream flavored to taste, layer soaked cake, then whipped cream; do two layers at least
• Refrigerate, covered overnight.
• VARIATIONS: If you like this idea with fruit, then soak cake in diluted liqueur, then sandwich cream and fruit in between.

GRANDMA'S ICE BOX CAKE

Steps:

• Prepare the pudding as directed on box. Mix in the Cool Whip.
• Layer your cake pan with graham crackers, then pudding mix. Continue till you run out of pudding mix. Top with crushed graham crackers.
• Refrigerate and serve.