ICE CREAM COOKIE SANDWICHES

A marriage of two true loves... chocolate chip cookie and vanilla ice cream. Love at first sight, or is it first bite? And perfect timing with the warm weather on the rise. These treats are fun to make and just as fun to eat. Here, I have the simple no fail cookie recipe with a scoop of vanilla or chocolate ice cream, or change it up and add your favorite flavor ice cream. Any way you create them they are a cool way to summer.

Put your flip flops on and kick back...

This is what you will need-

1 C. Soft Butter

½ C. Sugar

½ C. Brown Sugar

2 Tsp. Vanilla

1 Large Egg

2 ¼ C. Flour

2 C. Chocolate Chips

Dark Chocolate Melting Chips

Sprinkles

Chocolate Chip Cookie Sandwich

Heat oven to 350 degrees F.

Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.

Add soft butter to the stand mixer with the flat paddle attachment.

Combine sugar, then brown sugar. Blend well.

Add vanilla and mix.

Combine egg and mix.

Add flour to mix a little at a time, until all the flour has been stirred in.

Stir in by hand the chocolate chips. I used 1 cup milk chocolate and 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate. You can add any flavor chip you like.

Spoon a small amount of dough onto a tablespoon, roll into a ball slightly larger than a golf ball and place onto the parchment. Make the balls as consistent in size as possible so as to end up with uniform size cookies. 

With the palm of your hand flatten each ball to about 2 1/2" in diameter.

Bake 12-14 minutes or until the edges start to turn slightly brown. Do not over bake.

Let cool.

Soften ice cream. I used two flavors- vanilla and chocolate. 

Make one cookie sandwich at a time. Working quickly, scoop the ice cream and place on the flat side of one cookie.

Place a second cookie, flat side down onto the ice cream and press slightly. You might have to run your finger around the ice cream to form an edge.

Wrap in plastic and place in freezer. Leave in freezer 3-4 hours or overnight.

Melt dark chocolate in microwave.

Dip part of each cookie sandwich into the chocolate. 

Re-wrap in plastic and place back into freezer.

Mint Chip Cookie Sandwich

Follow recipe and directions for chocolate chip cookie sandwich above. Add 1 cup of melted chocolate chips and 1/2 cup of cocoa powder to the dough. Bake, cool and fill with mint chip ice cream.

Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream is my favorite!

Add sprinkles, if you like...

Summer is here, my favorite season, time to celebrate...