Banana Cream Carousel Icebox Cake

Ingredients:

4 oz. cream cheese, at room temperature
1/3 cup sugar
2 cups heavy cream
1 teaspoon natural vanilla extract
5 massive very ripe bananas
4 cups animal crackers (4 2.a hundred twenty five-ounce boxes)

Directions:

put together a 9-inch spherical cake pan by using lining the lowest and facets with two overlapping portions of plastic wrap, maintaining the perimeters as easy as possible. Set apart.

integrate the cream cheese and sugar in a bowl and beat with an electric powered mixer on medium-excessive till clean, approximately 3 minutes; scrape down the sides of the bowl as needed. upload the cream and vanilla and retain to beat, starting on medium speed and increasing to medium-excessive, until stiff peaks shape, approximately 2 mins.

lightly spread a third of the whipped cream mixture on the lowest of the prepared cake pan. Slice four of the bananas into 1/8-inch rounds and arrange half of of the slices in an excellent layer over the cream. Reserve approximately five cookies for garnish, then upload a full layer of the cookies on pinnacle of the banana slices (every layer might be about 1 heaping cup of cookies), using any broken portions to fill inside the gaps. Repeat with another 1/3 of the cream, then a layer of the bananas and cookies. top with the last 0.33 cream. cowl the exposed top of the cake with plastic wrap and refrigerate 12 hours or in a single day to permit the cookies soften.

when geared up to serve, unwrap the plastic wrap and invert the cake onto a cake platter; take away pan and plastic wrap. Press the final 2 cups cookies all the manner around the bottom of the cake in single record. beautify the pinnacle of the cake with the aid of status the 5 reserved cookies in a hoop (like animals marching in a circle). Thinly slice the remaining banana and set up the overlapping slices in a hoop along the outer pinnacle fringe of the cake. reduce the cake into slices with a serrated knife.