Vintage Recipes - Peppermint Wafer Dessert

This vintage recipe is from the 1948 Better Homes & Gardens Cook Book. Sounds like a good one dessert for the winter season.

Peppermint Wafer Dessert

1/2 pound peppermint stick candy
1/2 cup light cream
1/2 tablespoon (1/2 envelope) unflavored gelatine
2 tablespoons cold water
1-1/2 cups heavy cream
19 (10 oz can) chocolate wafers

• Crush candy; add light cream and heat in double boiler until candy dissolves.
• Add gelatine softened in cold water.
• Chill until partially set
• Fold in Whipped cream.
• Break chocolate wafers in half and stand around outside of 9 inch square cake pan.
• Place layer of wafers on bottom of pan
• Spread with 1/2 of gelatine mixture
• Place another layer of chocolate wafers on top
• Spread reamaining gelatine mixture
• Top with wafers.
• Chill 12 hours

Cut in squares to serve 9.

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