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Famous Chocolate Fridge Roll, junior |
Nabisco® Famous Chocolate Wafers
Whipping cream Vanilla flavoring Sugar
Whip the cream until it peaks, just stiff enough to handle and spread. It will thicken in the fridge. For best whipping, remember to keep the utensils cold and add the sugar and vanilla near the end. People who use artificial vanilla go to hell when they die. Spread a tablespoonful of whipped cream on a wafer, stack on another wafer, repeat. When the stack is an inch or two high, turn it on its side. The last of the whipped cream is spread on the outside of the roll, so take this into account when deciding when to stop adding wafers. Refrigerate the result for four to six hours before serving. The wafers absorb moisture from the whipped cream, which thickens and softens the cookies and stiffens the cream. The box says to cut the roll on a diagonal, to get the visual effect of vertical cookies...but I've never gotten that to work, nor did my mother, and frankly it doesn't look like the one on the picture on the box is cut on the diagonal, either. They also say to sprinkle chocolate curls over the top, which is some kind of wussy decorative cooking thing. Ha! |
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Tastes a little like Oreos dipped in milk, if Oreos were the physical manifestation of the divine joy which binds the universe together, dipped in milk. This thing is severely tasty. Famous wafers are thinner and quite a bit less sweet than the cookie portion of an Oreo, but are the same sort of cookie. My mother used to make these, but I seldom did. A refrigerator roll is such a giant, calorie-stuff dessert commitment. And then I made my breakthrough contribution to refrigerator roll technology, when it dawned on me...you don't have to use a whole box of wafers! Well, why not? Fridge rolls don't have to be any particular size. There's no law. Nabisco ain't the boss of me. It's the work of moments to whip cream. You whip a little, you spread a little, et voilà! This thing isn't a huge hairy unpleasant ordeal at all — why, it practically makes itself!
Oh, god, am I going to be fat.
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