Ice Cream Sandwiches

Step aside store bought ice cream sandwiches!

Once you taste one of these you'll know what I mean.

These little white packages tied up with ribbon have become one of our favorite things.

Cookie ingredients:

• 1/2 cup soft butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 cup milk
• 2 cups flour
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 cup cocoa
• 2 litre box ice cream, your flavor choice, I used Mocha Chocolate Ripple

Method:

1. Mix together butter, sugar, egg, vanilla and salt until smooth..
2. Add dry ingredients alternately with milk and mix well.
3. With a buttered paper grease two small cookie sheets, and then sprinkle with some cocoa. This helps the cake fall right out of the pan after baking.
4. Divide cookie batter between the two pans.
5. Bake at 400º for 7 minutes. Do not over bake.
6. Immediately flip pans onto cooling racks and allow cookies to cool.
7. Using an electric or very sharp serrated knife, slice brick of ice cream into 3/4" slices.
8. Lay ice cream slices on cake covering one layer.
9. Flip the remaining layer over on top of ice cream making a large sandwich.
10. Place whole cake in freezer until frozen.
11. Cut parchment papers to the sizes you will need to wrap each sandwich individually.
12. Working quickly cut the large cake sandwich into serving sizes.
13. Wrap individually in parchment paper. Ribbon is optional.
14. Place wrapped sandwiches in a storage container or freezer bag and keep in freezer.

This is an easy way to serve dessert as there are no dishes to clean up....just some sticky paper to throw out. I served these at a last minute birthday supper, and they were a hit.
I thought the ladies might enjoy raspberry cheese cake ripple ice cream sandwiched between two little chocolate cookies and then rolled in ribbon coconut. For the cookies I used the same batter and made small drop cookies. I softened the ice cream a little and then used an ice cream scoop to top one cookie and then pressed the other cookie on top. Before freezing I rolled them in coconut, placed them in pretty paper baking cups, wrapped them in saran and tied them with ribbon. Pretty and delicious!