4-Ingredient Nescafe Cake (No-Bake!)
This addictive icebox cake, known as "Nescafe cake" across the middle east layers tea biscuits dipped in coffee with a sweet whipped cream filling, with a final dusting of cocoa powder. Perfect for a simple, make-ahead treat!
Ingredients
- 500 ml heavy whipping cream (2 cups), 35% fat or higher
- 150 ml sweetened condensed milk, half a 300ml can
- 400 g Maria cookies, 2 packets, each pack is 200g (See Notes)
- 8 oz coffee or espresso, 235 ml
- 3 tablespoons cocoa powder, to dust
Instructions
- To start, combine the whipping cream and the sweetened condensed milk in the bowl of a stand mixer. With the whisk attachment, whip the cream on medium-high speed until soft peaks form, for roughly 3-5 minutes.
- Meanwhile, brew the coffee and pour into a wide bowl or dish to cool down slightly.
- Dip the cookies into the coffee and line them up on the bottom of an 8 by 12 casserole dish. See step-by-step photos for how to lay them out. Spread 1/3 of the cream mixture over top. Repeat the layering process two more times, ending with the last 1/3 of the cream mixture. You will have 3 layers of cookies and 3 layers of the cream. Cover tightly with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 7 hours or overnight.
- Before serving, dust generously with cocoa powder, then cut into pieces and serve chilled.
Notes
- I love the flavour of Maria cookies, so that's what I use, but any tea biscuit will work. In fact, rectangular tea biscuits will work even better since they line up nicely in a rectangular dish. But if you have circular cookies, see my step-by-step photos in the blog post to see how I split the cookies up to cover the bottom evenly.
- You can brew filter coffee or espresso, just make sure it is strong enough to taste the coffee flavour.
- You can sweeten the whipped cream with powdered sugar if you don't have sweetened condensed milk. Start with 3 tablespoons of sugar and taste and adjust to your liking.
Serving: 1piece, Calories: 328kcal, Carbohydrates: 35g, Protein: 5g, Fat: 20g, Saturated Fat: 11g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g, Monounsaturated Fat: 5g, Cholesterol: 51mg, Sodium: 200mg, Potassium: 171mg, Fiber: 2g, Sugar: 16g, Vitamin A: 647IU, Vitamin C: 1mg, Calcium: 91mg, Iron: 2mg
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