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Patriotic Icebox Cakes

June 17, 2020 by Debi 1 Comment

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These impressive looking no-bake individual Patriotic Icebox Cakes are so simple to make and so delicious, and perfect for an American summer holiday. And there are no artificial colors to make the red white & blue of the American flag.

Two Patriotic Icebox Cakes - layered chocolate cookies, whipped cream, jam, blue whipped cream topped with a raspberry on a blue plate with the title

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Fun for any occasion

Heck, these little individual cakes would be a fun way to support your favorite NFL team if they wore blue and red!

These are a fun project to make with the kids too!

top down view on one of the Patriotic Icebox Cakes - stacked cookies and whipped cream with jam and rasberries

Cookie Icebox Cakes

These types of Icebox cakes have been around for a long time.

My mom used to make them using Nilla Wafers, and they were coated in whipped cream and coconut, making them look like little snowballs. Guess what she called them. Yep, Snowballs!

My guess is that Nabisco probably made these up in the test kitchen many many years ago. And, cooks have been making them as an easy yet super impressive dessert ever since.

See, the general idea of these icebox cakes is that the cookies soak with some of the moisture from the whipped cream, making the cookies soft like cakes. Super easy. And who doesn’t love an individual dessert!

I’ve posted several icebox cakes on the blog:

Toasted Coconut Icebox Cake
Chocolate Raspberry Icebox Cakes

Patriotic Icebox Cakes on a white plate - cookies, whipped cream, jam, and a rasberry all stacked up

Blue Matcha Powder

For this pretty version of the icebox cake my husband had the wonderful idea of using blue matcha powder.

I do love that this blue isn’t a blue food coloring chemical.

So what makes it blue?

It’s made with a tablespoon of Blue Matcha powder. You can (affliate link) find it here on Amazon.

Blue matcha powder is ground up Butterfly Pea Flowers (Clitoria ternatea). They’re a pretty blue color and often used for tea.

Blue Matcha powder’s benefits:

It has lots going for it. Besides being creamy and nice in tea, it’s vegan, is 100% natural, has no caffeine, no lactose, and is naturally gluten-free.

You’ve seen me use the blue powder in these recipes:

No bake mermaid cheese cake

Galaxy Lemonade and Galaxy Lemonade Cocktails

For you visual people:

Patriotic Icebox Cakes process shots - stacking cookies and whipped cream with a finished cake in the background of each picture
Stacking the cookies and whipped cream

Patriotic Icebox Cakes process shots with jam and blue whipped cream added into the cookies
Topping the whipped cream with jam, more whipped cream, a cookie, then the blue whipped cream, and continue stacking.

Patriotic Icebox Cakes - a finished cake all stacked with cookies and whipped cream and topped with a raspberry
After stacking all the cookies, top with a dollop of whipped cream in your choice of blue or white, and top with a berry!

Kitchen items you may need for this recipe

Blue Matcha powder
Immersion blender with a whisk attachment
mixing bowls

two Patriotic Icebox Cakes - one if the front and one in the back on a blue plate. cookies stacked with whipped cream, jam, and berries
These impressive looking no-bake individual Patriotic Icebox Cakes are so simple to make and so delicious, and perfect for an American summer holiday. And there are no artificial colors to make the red white & blue of the American flag.

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Patriotic Icebox Cakes Recipe

Patriotic Icebox Cakes on a white plate - cookies, whipped cream, jam, and a rasberry all stacked up

Patriotic Icebox Cakes

Debi
These impressive looking no bake individual Patriotic Icebox Cakes are so simple to make and super delicious. They’re a perfect way to celebrate any American summer holiday.
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Prep Time 20 minutes mins
Cook Time 0 minutes mins
Total Time 20 minutes mins
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 2 cookie stacks
Calories 463 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 2/3 cup chilled heavy cream divided use
  • 1 teaspoon sugar divided use
  • ¼ teaspoon vanilla divided use
  • 1 tablespoon blue matcha powder
  • 10 chocolate wafers such as Nabisco Famous (5 wafers per stack)
  • 1 tablespoon seedless raspberry jam (about 1/2 tablespoon per cookie stack)

Instructions
 

  • Place half of the whipped cream in each of two deep mixing bowls (1/3 cup cream in each bowl). Add ½ teaspoon sugar and 1/8 teaspoon vanilla to each bowl. Add 1 tablespoon blue matcha powder to one of the bowls.
  • Whip the white cream with an electric mixer or an immersion blender with a whisk attachment until the cream just holds stiff peaks. Whisk the blue cream with the same whisk until it holds stiff peaks.
  • Spread about ½ tablespoon white whipped cream one of the chocolate wafers.
  • Top it with a second cookie, and another ½ tablespoon white whipped cream, about ½ tablespoon raspberry jam, and another ½ tablespoon white whipped cream.
  • Top the stack with a third cookie and ½ tablespoon blue whipped cream.
  • Top the stack with a fourth cookie and a ½ tablespoon white cream.
  • Top the stack with a fifth cookie, and spoon a dollop of whipped cream on top of the stack, place a fresh raspberry on top as a garnish.
  • Cover and chill at least 4 hours or overnight (cookies will soften).

Notes

Cakes can chill up to 1 day. I like to flip a deep bowl upside down and use that to cover the cookie stacks in the fridge while they sit.

Nutrition

Calories: 463kcalCarbohydrates: 33gProtein: 7gFat: 34gSaturated Fat: 20gPolyunsaturated Fat: 2gMonounsaturated Fat: 10gCholesterol: 109mgSodium: 240mgPotassium: 131mgFiber: 1gSugar: 16gVitamin A: 1545IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 63mgIron: 3mg

Nutritional information is based on third-party calculations, and should be considered estimates. Actual nutritional content will vary based on brands used, measuring methods, portion sizes, and more.

Keyword icebox cake, no bake, patriotic
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  1. Kathleen Pope

    August 23, 2020 at 7:34 pm

    5 stars
    We made this over the weekend for a pool gathering, they were delicious and perfect!

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