Ice-Cream-Cone Cake

Ingredients

• 2 cups coarsely crushed 2-inch chocolate wafers (28 small cookies)
• 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
• 6 sticks (1 ½ pound) unsalted butter, softened
• 3 ½ ounces fine-quality bittersweet chocolate (no more than 60% cacao if marked), chopped
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• ¾ cup sugar
• 9 large egg yolks
• + 10 more ingredients
• • 1 ½ cups whole milk
  • 7 flat-bottomed wafer cones
  • 1 ½ cups whole milk
  • 1 ½ teaspoons pure vanilla extract
  • 4 large eggs at room temperature 30 minutes
  • 1 ¾ cups sugar
  • 3 sticks (¾ pound) unsalted butter, softened
  • 1 ½ teaspoons salt
  • 1 tablespoon baking powder
  • 3 cups all-purpose flour

1. Make cake and cones: Preheat oven to 350°F with racks in upper and lower thirds. Butter pans. Line bottoms with parchment, then butter and lightly flour pans. 2. Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt into a bowl. 3. Beat butter with sugar using an electric mixer (paddle attachment fo...

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