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\"Ellen<\/a>
Ellen Silverman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Late in the evening, I often find myself wandering into the kitchen like some sort of hungry bear or raccoon or a snuffling truffle pig, looking for a sweet to eat: not fruit, but something more powerfully dessert-like in effect. That’s when I devise odd, curiously delicious and satisfying concoctions that are the products of serious constraints: a pantry and fridge with a hodge-podge of offerings due to my aversion to buying a bona fide dessert, coupled with my refusal to bake or spend much time cooking, or get dressed and go out to buy ice cream.<\/p>\n

The occasional sweets I do keep in the house, like amaretti cookies, are invariably too austere and chaste to be truly satisfying – my attempt at NOT keeping anything really fattening around. Amaretti are perfectly honorable Italian cookies made from egg whites, sugar and bitter almonds, but my wild hunger one night craved extremes of cream puff and gateau. I think what possessed me to stack amaretti with cr\u00e8me fraiche into a miniature leaning tower, was a faint, sudden memory of the classic ice box cake <\/a>of my childhood: thin “bought” Famous chocolate wafers layered with whipped cream, left to soften for a couple of hours into a cake.<\/p>\n

I ate one cr\u00e8me fraiche-smeared amaretti to tide me over while I waited for the other six to meld into an alternately chewy -crunchy- creamy confection that quelled my hunger perfectly: my personal seven-layer cake for one.<\/p>\n

Recipe: Seven Layer Ameretti Cake for One<\/strong><\/p>\n

This amaretti cake is really just a variation on a theme of ice-box cakes. You can improvise endlessly with other not-too-dense cookies and cr\u00e8me fraiche or whipped cream. (These little cakes would actually be just great for a dinner party; just scale up the ingredients for the number of guests)<\/p>\n

Makes one very narrow, very rich cake that serves one<\/p>\n

About 2 1\/2 tablespoons cr\u00e8me fraiche
\n7 amaretti cookies
\nCocoa powder (optional)<\/p>\n

Put a \u00bc teaspoon dab of cr\u00e8me fraiche on a little plate and place and amaretti cookie on top. Spread about a teaspoon of cr\u00e8me fraiche on the domed top of the cookie and place on the dab of cr\u00e8me.\u00a0 Spread another teaspoon of cr\u00e8me fraiche on the domed top of a second cookie and balance on top of the first. Repeat with the remaining cookies and cr\u00e8me fraiche, eating one or two if you like. Place in the fridge and let meld for as long as you can stand, preferably at least an hour.\u00a0 If you want to get fancy, strain cocoa powder over the top.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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