I tried Ina Garten's chocolate cake that she said 'makes grown men weep,' and the easy dessert takes almost no time to make

Anneta KonstantinidesSep 11, 2021, 17:48 IST

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Ina Garten once said that her mocha chocolate icebox cake is so good it "makes grown men weep."
Garten's recipe includes cheese, coffee, Kahlua, and Tate's Bake Shop chocolate-chip cookies.
The delicious cake has 10 layers and looks super impressive, despite taking almost no time to make.

I've made more than a dozen Ina Garten recipes since the pandemic began.

Me with Ina Garten's lemon pasta. Anneta Konstantinides/Insider

Garten once said that her mocha chocolate icebox cake "makes grown men weep."

Garten called the mocha chocolate icebox cake one of her go-to recipes. Nathan Congleton/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversa/Getty Images

Garten's mocha chocolate icebox cake includes cheese, coffee, and cookies.

The cake also includes Kahlua, cocoa powder, and semisweet chocolate. Anneta Konstantinides/Insider

To start, I added almost all of my ingredients into the bowl of an electric mixer.

Garten's recipe only has a few steps. Anneta Konstantinides/Insider

Then, it was time to get mixing.

I started the electric mixer on low speed. Anneta Konstantinides/Insider

I slowly raised the speed until the mocha whipped cream formed stiff peaks on the whisk attachment.

It only took a few minutes to make the mocha filling. Anneta Konstantinides/Insider

Five minutes hadn't even gone by and I was already building my cake.

I started by adding a layer of chocolate-chip cookies to the bottom of the pan. Anneta Konstantinides/Insider

Then, I added the first layer of filling.

I spread a fifth of my mocha whipped cream over the cookies for the second layer. Anneta Konstantinides/Insider

I placed another layer of cookies on top.

I broke off pieces of cookies to fill in the layer. Anneta Konstantinides/Insider

I smoothed the top of the cake with a spatula and covered it with plastic wrap.

I covered the cake with plastic wrap before putting it in the fridge. Anneta Konstantinides/Insider

The next day, I carefully removed my cake from its pan and added the final decoration.

I decorated my cake with chocolate shavings. Anneta Konstantinides/Insider

After decorating, I stepped back to admire the first cake I'd made in years.

Garten's recipe was super simple, but the cake still looked impressive. Anneta Konstantinides/Insider

The cake looked even more impressive when I cut the slices.

You can see all 10 layers in every slice. Anneta Konstantinides/Insider

It was time to dig in! And Garten's mocha chocolate icebox cake tasted absolutely delicious.

I loved Garten's mocha chocolate icebox cake. Anneta Konstantinides/Insider

What I loved most about Garten's cake was that it actually tasted better the longer it sat in the fridge.

I would definitely make Garten's mocha chocolate icebox cake again. Anneta Konstantinides/Insider

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