Ice Box Cake

This is a simple, but delicious desert that will please anyone. The recipe below is unique to my grandmother and have yet to find it prepared this way anywhere else

Ingredients:

• 2 lbs of yellow Pound cake
• 1 lb icing sugar
• 1/2 lb butter
• 1egg
• 1 large can of fruit cocktail
• 1 tbsp. vanilla
• 1 tbsp. lime juice
• 2 tins of Nestle carnation cream
• Cherries for garnish

Method:

• Cream butter, sugar and egg
• Drain the can of fruit and add it to the mixture
• Add vanilla and lime
• Slice the pound cake in to 1/2 inch slices and line the bottom and sides of a 8 x 12 inch dish
• Pour a layer of mixture on top of the cake, then cover with another layer of cake
• Repeat again, and end with the cake layer on top (so, three layers of cake and two layers of mixture in total)
• Whip the carnation cream and spread it on top of the cake. Decorate with a few cherries on top and enjoy