Classic Icebox Cake

Ingredients

• 2 cups heavy cream
  
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
  
• 13 ounces Nabisco chocolate wafers (1 1/2 packages), or other thin cookie
  

Directions

1. With a whisk or a stand mixer fit with a whisk attachment, whip the cream and vanilla together to stiff peaks.
2. On a cake stand or large plate, arrange 7 wafer cookies in a circle (1 in the middle, six around the edges). Spread a layer of whipped cream on top, then another circle of cookies, then whipped cream, until you run out. Finish with a top layer of whipped cream.
3. Refrigerate the cake overnight (or for at least 8 hours). Serve.