Strawberry Icebox Cake

This strawberry icebox cake is the perfect no bake dessert with layers of strawberries, whipped cream, and graham crackers! Its a perfect summer dessert!

This strawberry icebox cake isn’t a traditional cake in any sense of the word. You don’t use flour, and you are not baking it, but it is a sweet layered dessert.  A friend brought a strawberry icebox cake to a potluck pool party and it was excellent.  I had no idea what it was made from when I first tasted it. If you didn’t read already, do you want to take a guess?

Graham Crackers! Yes, you read that right, this strawberry icebox cake has graham crackers for its base along with strawberries, I added bananas too, and delicious layers of whipped cream too.  That is it. Its super simple, only 6  ingredients to make three delicious layers all put together making a yummy strawberry icebox cake that only gets better with time.

This icebox cake is super simple to make, but it takes time. You need time to whip the whipping cream but watch this closely so your cream doesn’t turn to butter.  You want stiff peaks, this visual guide should help you get the perfect stiff peaks.  You need to take a little time to wash, hull, and slice your strawberries.

Then you’ll need to fit your graham crackers to your pan.  I used 3 1/2 sleeves and apparently my 9×13 pan was really more like a 9 1/2 by 14 pan.  I needed to break some graham crackers to add to the end of the layers to fit the whole pan. It won’t look pretty at first but once all the layers come together you won’t notice the broken graham cracker pieces.

So now you have done the prep work, it is time to layer – whipped cream, graham crackers, whipped cream, strawberries and bananas, graham crackers, whipped cream, berries and bananas, graham crackers and one more layer of whipped cream. Spread it all with that final layer of whipped cream and a pretty layer of strawberries for the top.

Now comes the hard part, waiting. You need to cover it with plastic wrap and let it sit in your refrigerator overnight before serving. The time spent together is what makes this strawberry icebox cake so divine, the more time the better it is – so don’t worry if you have leftovers for a 2nd day it is still good – but you probably won’t have leftovers.

I do have to say, this icebox cake is a little messy when slicing into it, but no one will notice when they take the first bite.

Have you ever made an icebox cake before? This was a first for me and I am definitely doing it again! I wonder how it would taste with peaches and blueberries?

 

Recipe first posted on Aug 26, 2014. Photos updated on June 15, 2018.