You know... the kind inside of a carvel cake? My husband LOVES it and I want to try to make some for him. I make crunchy things for cheesecake with graham crackers and butter, but I don't think even chocolate graham crackers would give the right crunchy flavor. I was thinking about those wafers in the ice cream aisle, wdyt? tia!

As Bugs Bunny would say, Ickity-ackity-ook:

http://www.baking911.com/asksarahbb/index.php?showtopic=298

then go here, as directed in above link:

http://www.kraftfoods.com/main.aspx?s=recipe&m=recipe/knet_recipe_display&u1=keyword&u2=NABISCO%20FAMOUS%20Chocolate%20Wafers&u3=**14*28&wf=9&recipe_id=55255

Thank you so much!

This is more like it.

Take crunchy chocolate cookies.

Crumble, crunch them up, a little chunky, not completely powdered.

Mix together with some "Magic Shell" hardening type of chocolate ice cream topping.

Layer into ice cream.

This would work best for frozen items.

I worked at a baskin robbins in NJ and people would ask for that carvel cookie crunch all the time for cakes. This is what we figured out to be very similar. The chocolate coats, but then hardens when it contacts the ice cream sealing the cookies from the moisture of the ice cream.

Try it!

What do you mean by chocolate crunchy cookies? Something that is just all chocolate? Do you think an oreo kind of thing (I'll take care of the cream in the middle ) would work? That sounds really good!

I know this defeats the purpose of making it but, I know Carvel used to sell the chocolate crunch. By request, they didn't have it displayed. It's my husbands favorite part of the cake, so I bought extra.

We don't have a carvel here, just the ice cream cakes in our grocers freezer. I haven't had one in over a year so I remember it crunches but the taste isn't right there. Thank you for all your help!