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Eclair Cake

From the family recipe box

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Course
Sweets

Summary

A no-bake layered graham-cracker, pudding, and Cool Whip icebox cake with its own cooked chocolate frosting recipe carried on the back of the card — good for a make-ahead dessert with no oven step needed for the cake itself.

Ingredients

Cake: - 2 pkg. instant vanilla pudding - 3 1/2 cups milk - 1 (9 oz) Cool Whip - Graham crackers, whole

Frosting: - 2 Tbl. softened butter - 2 squares chocolate, melted - 3 tsp. vanilla - 3 Tbl. Karo corn syrup - 4 Tbl. milk - 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar

Method

Cake: 1. Beat pudding til firm. 2. Stir in Cool Whip. 3. Layer in a 13x9x2 pan (or approx.): whole graham crackers, then 1/2 of filling, crackers, filling, ending with crackers. 4. Card ends "(over)" — continue to the frosting on the back.

Frosting: 1. Mix softened butter with melted chocolate. 2. Add vanilla, Karo corn syrup, milk, and powdered sugar. 3. Mix well. 4. Spread frosting on cake and refrigerate.

Notes on the artifact

Handwritten on a printed "From the kitchen of..." fruit-illustration card template; the name line for the issuing cook is left blank. Two-sided: cake recipe on page 1, frosting recipe on page 2. No date or personal attribution is written anywhere on the card.

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