When my friend Carol was entertaining her husband’s French relatives last year she knew exactly what dessert she would make for these sophisticated guests: a praline mocha ice cream cake I had served to her years before. The cake offers a masterful blending of everybody-loves-ice cream with the we’re all grown up coffee flavor and it is always a crowd pleaser. Carol asked me, the worst recipe keeper, for a copy of the recipe she had lost. So began a frenzied search well into the wee hours of the morning for my copy. You will want to add this cake to your summer entertaining repertoire. It’s a chill-in-the-freezer easy peasy recipe that emerges as a sophiticated java-ice cream layered cake. The best part? It can be made ONE MONTH AHEAD of time! That is NOT a typo! This post is for you Carol! Continue reading