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A Maybelline Family Holiday Favorite from the 1950's. Try This Rich, Decedent, Dark-Chocolate Extravaganza.

By Sharriewilliams
Taken directly from my Great Auntie Frances A. Williams, personal cookbook, this Chocolate Icebox Desert, takes you back to a time when the word diet wasn't a household word. 

This is actually quite funny.  Watch as I almost ruin my Great Auntie Frances recipe on Television and keep going.


3 – 8 oz packages of Bakers German sweet chocolate


3 eggs


1 pint whipping cream


1 ¼ Tbsp. Vanilla


3 Tbsp. Powdered sugar


2 boxes of Social Tea Biscuits


Melt chocolate in double boiler.


Separate eggs, beat yolks with sugar,


Beat egg whites and add-


Add vanilla.


Add ½ pint whipped cream, (save ½ pint for topping.)


Line loaf pan with cookies.


Add layer of chocolate mixture.


Continue layering cookies and chocolate mixture, ending


with chocolate.


Store in refrigerator and slice and serve with whipped 


cream.

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