Welcome back. The time
now is 846 in the morning
and our holiday spreads are
probably full of sweet treats.
But if you are tired of the cookies
and the truffles, we've got
another idea for you this morning.
No baking required. Here's
this week's Brittany bites.
Merry Christmas everyone.
I'm going to make a holiday treat
for you today. That's so easy.
You don't have to bake it or anything.
It just requires some assembly.
And don't worry,
in case you can't whip it up together today,
I'm going to make it adaptable
for other holidays in the future,
even New Year's maybe.
So let's get started on this
ice box wreath cake. To do that,
we're going to get some whipped cream going.
You know I love my whipped cream.
Homemade, not from the store.
And in this case,
you probably really want to do it.
This way you'll see why as we go along.
So I'm just gonna start with
two cups of heavy cream,
but two cups of heavy cream in here,
and then two this.
I'm just going to add some powdered sugar,
1/4 cup of it, and also some vanilla.
Let's go with the vanilla.
So for these two cups,
we're going to do a teaspoon of cup,
so 2 teaspoons.
And then I already have measured
out 1/4 cup of powdered sugar.
I'm going to pop in there.
Then you just let it do its thing.
I'm going to.
Let it all whip together.
I'm gonna start out slowly so it
doesn't splatter everywhere.
Then I'm gonna get it up to high until stop.
Stiff peaks form soft,
stiff peaks.
You know what I'm talking about
when it looks like whipped cream.
OK, we've got our stiff peaks on
our whipped cream here. There we go.
And now we'll move on to our next step,
and that's just assembling the wreath.
So we're going to start by making
a little ring here on the plate.
And to help us do that,
you don't need this.
But if you have a pastry bag,
it's sometimes nice to be able to use that.
So I'm going to put just a little
bit in here because we just need a
little bit of that to get started.
Now we're just going to make a ring of
this whipped cream because that's going
to be our guide for making our wreath
and where we need to put the cookies.
Be careful when you do this.
It's just a guide.
But you want to kind of make a
perfect circle as best you can.
It doesn't have to be perfect though.
You just want a little guide of where
to put your cookies and then to get
them sort of to stick up on the plate.
OK, that is good.
I'm going to put the rest back in
here because we are going to use it
to sandwich our cookies together.
Now, Speaking of the cookies,
you can really use any kind
of cookie you want,
but usually if you're making an ice box cake,
you're going to use those
chocolate wafer cookies.
You probably have seen them before.
I got to tell you,
I looked everywhere in the store and.
To find them.
So I'm just gonna use these
thin sandwich cookies.
So what we're gonna do is open these up
and then get started making our wreath.
Just to get it started,
we're going to take 2 cookies,
just a little thin layer to
stick them together like this.
And then we're going to stick them
onto our wreath. Get the idea?
See, here you go.
So this does take a minute.
Again, assembly required.
So what I'm going to do is,
again,
just put a little layer between each
cookie and make that whole ring.
OK, here is the reef. Looks pretty good,
right? I just didn't quite fit in
two cookies, but that's alright.
You can use those later or just eat them.
So what we're going to do from here is
put a little layer of whipped cream
all over this to sort of ice it.
So let me get this all spread out.
You just want to make sure you cover
all sides and try to make it pretty.
But let me get this going and then I'll
talk about our final steps and then we get
to the fun part where we get to decorate.
OK, it's all covered.
Make sure you get the inside and the outside.
This is going to be sort of
the base layer in the end,
because what we're going to do again,
this is an ice box cake,
so it really needs to go
in the fridge overnight.
That's what softens up the
cookies to be more cake like.
And then we're going to come back
and do another layer of icing on
top and then get it decorated.
Thankfully, I already got things started.
I put one in last night so
that we could buy them.
Magic of television,
have one ready to go so let me switch
them out and then we'll come back
and get started on the final product.
Here we have the ice box cake out
of the fridge and ready to go.
This is the one that sat in there
overnight so the cookies could get all soft.
I took it out and I did one
more layer of the whipped cream.
I basically have to the recipe I
did before to really put all of the
icing in between the cookies and cover it.
So I just did 1 cup of heavy whipping
cream and I did 2 tablespoons of
powdered sugar and then a teaspoon of
vanilla and then I spread it on top.
And now we have our cake ready to decorate.
So here comes the fun part.
I basically just went to the store
and I looked for red and green items.
On top of that,
I decided I'm gonna put some mini
little sandwich cookies on top because
that sort of gives a nod to what
you're eating, what's inside, you know?
I like to do that.
So I'm just gonna put some of these on top.
I also got these cute little red,
white, and green balls.
How cute are they? Right.
They'll be nice and decorative.
And then these were actually in
the Gingerbread house decorations.
I got these,
and they had tons of different little ones.
They're little.
Snowflakes, so,
and then of course sprinkles.
So I'm gonna do all of this kind
of just go with the flow and see
how it all comes together and then
I'll show you the finished product.
OK, I think I have it mostly decorated.
How cute is it looking?
I love how it's coming together.
I love all the red, white and green and
I want to give it just one final touch.
Just a dusting of powdered sugar almost
to make it look like it's snow covered.
I think that looks so fun.
This is our ice box wreath cake.
Again. If you want to switch up the
decorations for another holiday,
absolutely do so.
Keep the base the same and you're good to go.
I hope you give it a try.
Cheers.
Excuse me while I salivate over here.
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