- Hey, guys, it's Candace the Edgy Veg
and today I'm going to try
and veganize an icebox cake.
It's perfect for summer, if you have
like a 4th of July party,
or Memorial Day, or just a barbecue.
It's a super quick, easy dessert, no bake,
so you know it's perfect for me,
and all you have to do is
just throw it in the freezer.
So I could've decided to make
just the traditional icebox cake,
but that's not how we
do things around here.
So I decided to make a peanut
butter and Oreo icebox cake.
If you are following
me on Instagram at all,
you know how many Oreo,
Oreo-style cookies,
I eat alone and with friends.
So this is the perfect cake,
it's very dear to my heart,
and let's make it.
The first thing that
you are going to need is
some vegan-friendly cream cheese.
We are going to put that,
peanut butter, and some sugar
into a mixing bowl and
mix it until it's fluffy.
All right, starting with, oop, okay.
Well, it's going in there.
It's about one and a half
packages of Tofutti cream cheese.
Now we have some white sugar.
And peanut butter.
I've decided to use the
Just Peanuts peanut butter,
but you can use whatever
peanut butter you like.
I'm also using smooth, but, I mean,
I wouldn't use crunchy for this,
but whether there's added sugar
or not is really up to you.
There's a lot of sugar in this anyway,
so you don't really need
the addition of the sugar
in like a Kraft peanut
butter, for example.
All right, now let's mix it.
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Now I'm going to add powdered sugar.
I'm doing this in batches so it doesn't
just like fly everywhere, so
just a little bit at a time.
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And then just start slowly.
(mixer whirring)
Until it's incorporated.
All right, I noticed that
my powdered sugar was
a little bit chunky, so I just sifted it.
If your powdered sugar is chunky,
just sift it through
like a fine mesh sieve
or with one of those
powdered sugar things.
Yeah.
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Scrape down the sides as you need to.
And just mix until it's smooth.
Okay, traditionally, this uses Cool Whip,
but instead, we are going to use Coco Whip
because it's the same thing, just vegan.
You can buy this at
most health food stores.
I love this stuff.
I almost never use it, and
I didn't know how to use it,
I wasn't like a Cool Whip
eater when I grew up,
it's just not something
that my parents let me eat
because I wasn't allowed
to eat much sugar, really.
But it's super fun for
summertime desserts.
I'm excited that I get
to experiment with this.
So, I'm using two and a half tubs of this
and adding it straight to
the peanut butter mixture.
Look at it.
(laughing)
I'm a child.
All right, so we have
to slowly beat it in.
So I guess I'll do like
half a tub at a time.
All right, let's start mixing.
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It's almost like marshmallow fluff.
(mixer whirring)
(laughing)
They really need to
work on this packaging.
This is ridiculous.
It totally looks like marshmallow fluff.
Stop this for a sec, and okay, cool.
Just twirling it around.
Didn't want you in there anyway.
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I remember going to Virginia once
and I went to this like
Amish furniture store,
I think it was.
And they had this like peanut butter pie,
and this, it's kind of
what this reminds me of.
And I'm really excited
for it because it was
one of the best things I've ever eaten.
It was just like, Cool Whip
type thing and peanut butter,
on like a pie crust, and it was amazing.
It's kind of the
inspiration for this thing.
All right.
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And half of this other one.
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All right, that's about half, I think.
Eh, a little more.
It's always better to have
too much than too little.
No one wants an anemic-looking cake.
All right, the final push.
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We're going to make this
mixture even more awesome
by making it chocolatey.
So I'm just gonna scoop it out.
Oh my god, look at this.
Totally reminds me of marshmallow fluff.
Ooo.
I think that's, eh, maybe one more.
Okay.
Now let's add the cocoa powder.
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Ooo!
All right, now we are making
the bottom of this cake,
which is just cookies dipped in milk.
Now, you can use Oreos,
or if you're staying away from palm oil,
you can also use the off-brand Oreos.
I kind of alternate between the two,
depending on which one's
available at my grocery store.
The off-brand ones sell out very quickly.
So today, I'm using Oreos.
So you just dunk them into the milk
and then place them onto
your springform pan,
which I've lined with parchment paper.
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On top of the Oreos, we are now adding
a layer of the peanut butter mousse.
Spread that out, and then we are going to
top that with another layer of Oreos.
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Now we're adding a layer of the
chocolate peanut butter mousse.
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Get it right over to the edge.
So who's coming over to
help me eat this cake?
Because there's a lot of this.
All right, now we're adding
another layer of dunked Oreos.
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Okay, now that we have
our final layer of Oreos,
we're gonna add the rest of
the peanut butter mixture
and throw it into the,
I was about to say oven,
but it's no bake, into the fridge
for about two to three hours.
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I have a little bit of
the chocolate left over,
so I don't waste it, I'm just gonna
throw that on top as well.
Spread it out.
And if you get a little
bit of a marbling effect,
that's okay.
All right, now throw this into the freezer
for about two to three hours.
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So our cake is more or less solidified.
I'm going to decorate it with some
vegan-friendly chocolate sauce.
This is Accidentally Vegan.
And just some cut-up cookies.
Now, if you can find some dark
chocolate peanut butter cups
or some like vegan milk
chocolate peanut butter cups,
you can also throw
those on there, as well.
Springform pan.
And then carefully removing the parchment.
Ooo, I love when things work out!
Okay, now I'm just gonna
go crazy with this.
I'm gonna, is there anything, okay.
Have a rag nearby because
this could get messy.
But I'm just going to squeeze chocolate
across the whole thing.
You can do this with ganache
or whatever your favorite
chocolate sauce is.
You can do it as messy or as
neat as you want, as well.
I'm gonna go both ways, I think.
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and then a little bit in the center
because I'm going to take these Oreos
and kind of just shove
them into the chocolate.
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Ooo, aaah, delicious.
This is the prettiest cake
and it looks like it took so much effort,
but it really did not.
Take the crumbs and just go
around the edge, if you want.
I'm very happy with myself.
(laughing)
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All right, I cannot wait anymore,
I need this in my mouth
immediately, so let's cut into this.
I'm gonna try to get
the perfect little cut.
I think that's like right, right,
oh, I might need a
stronger knife for this.
Because I think I cut right
where an Oreo is, so hold on.
How many layers of Oreo am
I cutting through right now?
(knife thudding)
Oh, could you hear that?
Trying to get the perfect
Instagram cut coming through.
This is what they don't
show you on Instagram.
Oh no!
(laughing)
No, stay together!
Okay, okay, okay, okay, it's fine, god.
Yes.
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So this is the kind of cake
that you eat as a pile.
Oh my god, oh my god.
If you make nothing else this
summer, you have to make this.
Oh my god, it's so good.
Well, I'm going to go eat this.
With my hands, apparently.
This is better than the
tasty brownie I made.
Leave me a comment in the
comments section below,
letting, you, (mumbling), I'm overwhelmed.
It's so good, I'm overwhelmed.
All right, guys, that's how
you make an icebox cake.
It is to die for, I'm going
to eat it with my hands
and then with a fork,
because I'm an animal.
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Let me know in the comments section below
what summer recipes you want to see next.
And I will talk to you next time.
Bye!
Mmm, oh my god.
Oh, I also have a barbecue playlist
that I'll link in the
description box below.
Holy crap!
