Dulce de Leche Icebox Cake Recipe (2024)

I would not use Oreos in this. Way too sweet. Famous chocolate wafers. Near the ice cream cones in the grocery store.

Search for “chocolinas” cookies on Amazon or your local latin store. They’re the Argentinian cookies used in the original dulce de leche icebox cake, chocotorta. Basic recipe is dip chocolinas in coffee and alternate layers of cookies filling (dulce de leche mixed with cream cheese).

Agreed! Oreos are too sweet to begin with. I had to brush my teeth after reading the recipe.

I would not use Oreos. Trader Joe’s has chocolate sandwich cookies (Joe Joe’s) that are better tasting and have few if any artificial ingredients. They also make a thin version and a vanilla cookie with real vanilla filling. I’m tempted to come up with a variation using them. But I’m going to wait until mid November to make this. By then, Trader Joe’s should have their seasonal peppermint Joe Joe’s in stock, with crushed candy canes in the filling. They are my favorite flavor.

Agree. Nabisco Famous wafers the best way to go.

Dulce de leche is a type of milk caramel sauce, not an ice cream, although there are ice cream flavors that incorporate it, just like you might have a caramel ice cream. You can buy cans of dulce de leche (they look similar to sweetened condensed milk and you can usually find them near that product in the bakery aisle of grocery stores) or it can easily be made at home.

Many years ago I was planning a Mexican themed dinner, courtesy of the Food Network's Too Hot Tamales and they had the same directions, which i followed, except I was enjoying some margaritas and passed out, I mean, I fell asleep. I was awoken by the sound of a shotgun going off in my apartment. Except it wasn't a shotgun, it was the dulce de leche....all over my kitchen. I did wipe some off with a finger and tasted it. It was the most delicious thing I will never make again.

Famous Chocolate Wafers are the best cookie to use with this classic. The cream in oreos is a weird texture and way too sweet.

I've made this with ginger cookies and whipped cream with vanilla.

Just made this, in the freezer now. Used famous chocolate wafer thins because Oreos would be too sweet for me. My initial thought is the whip mixture is way too salty, for me at least. Next time I would add half and go up from there.

In a pinch you can make dulce de leche from condensed milk. Follow this method, open the can and Voila! a creamy treat to eat right out of the can.Bring a large pan of water to a rolling boil.Remove the label from a can of sweetened, condensed milk and submerge completely in the boiling water (using a pair of tongs or a big spoon). High simmer for 3 hours, checking periodically to ensure that the can remains completely covered with water at all times.

If you can't find chocolinas, the next best option, in my mind, is oreos or Newman-Os untwisted and the filling removed.Use just the wafers, not the cookie filling; the filling is WAY too sweet!

I followed another reviewer’s advice and used Oreo thins. This was fun and easy to make, tasty and great for a cake on a hot day! I can imagine all different kinds of ways to mix it up-with more of a coffee flavor, or vanilla. Will definitely make this one again!

I shape my Ice Box Chocolate Wafer cake into a letter of the alphabet to celebrate a birthday! You don't use a loaf pan. Just put the wafers and filling together on a sheet pan or cake plate and cover with the cream then freeze. The kids love it!

I usually cut back on the sugar, but I made this per the recipe. I did not find it too sweet, there is not that much sugar in the cream, but I agree that I would increase the whipped cream amount. Some of the cookies did not absorb enough moisture to become cake like in texture . To fill the 9 by 5 loaf it took almost all of the Oreo package, so if you substitute with thinner cookies make sure the space they take up is comparable.

This is not too sweet with Oreos! I am eating a slice right now. There is sour cream in the whipped cream and this is eaten frozen. Please comment on recipes you’ve actually made.

I use a spring form pan in my purchase less and less and less plastic.

This sounds something like the Portuguese Bolo de Bolacha, which usually uses Maria cookies soaked in coffee and sometimes has butter cream or whipped cream between the layers. I agree that Oreos would be too sweet.

Where can I buy dulce de leche?

Easy dulce de leche: Punch two small holes in a can of sweetened, condensed milk (size based on how much you need). Set can in a bath of simmering water, remove after 40 minutes. Remove lid with can opener, and you have a can of perfect dulce de leche.

Being a diabetic I checked the carbohydrate count in homemade dulce de leche (ala sweetened connected milk). This might just be the last dessert I ever eat.

Okay guys, so I'm 80 and I fondly remember icebox cake. As I remember it, my mom used plain chocolate wafer cookies, quickly soaked in milk. The layers were: whipped cream (with vanilla I think: it was a long time ago); the softened chocolate wafers; banana slices; and then repeat layers until loaf pan was full. Our freezer was big enough to hold only an ice cube tray so the loaf pan was wrapped in waxed paper and chilled all day until supper. Yum!

Yummy recipe, but I did replace the Oreos with Hydrox, available through a monstrous on-line retailer. The original chocolate sandwich cookie which is significantly less sweet. The worked beautifully.

I’m 82 and this was my mother’s best dessert. She used chocolate cookies and whipped cream and let it get mushy in the fridge before serving. Delicious! This was long before we knew how all that cream would plug up our arteries.

My mother made this with just dark choc wafers and lightly sweetened whipped cream.filled cookies too, too sweet.

How about trying the recipe with the Oreos first before saying it’s not the way to go. Or just scroll past the recipe…I was glad to see an ice box cake recipe with sandwich cookies because we have a medical need to be gluten free in our house and gluten free companies have long made Oreo type cookies but we would have to make our own chocolate wafers which, while doable, makes ice box cake a lot less convenient. Looking forward to trying this.

This was perfect as is! Super fun and easy to make, I used HEB “Oreos” and served it for Father’s Day. Everyone loved, especially great in the summer heat! 10/10 would make again.

I used 9x5 loaf pan, and it was way too big! Ran out of Famous Wafers cookies and cream before getting to other side of pan. Oreos might be fat enough to get there. Had to use the wafer box inside the loaf pan to prop up the side of cake. Everyone loved it - not too sweet.

I’ve never made anything like this before, it was a success at my Christmas dinner.

Just wanted to mention that I found Nabisco's famous chocolate wafers at Jerry's Market in Edina, MN. It is the ONLY place in Minneapolis that carries them!