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Homemade Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Sandwiches

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One of my favorite treats in the summertime when I was younger, was ice cream sandwiches. Particularly the kind with vanilla ice cream smashed between two chocolate chip cookies.

I decided to make chocolate chip cookies just about a week ago, and the recipe made a bit more than we needed laying around the house, so I figured I would try my hand at making my own ice cream sandwiches.

Making your own ice cream sandwiches could seriously not get any easier. I was a little freaked out by getting the ice cream to look all nice without making a complete mess, but I figured out my own little way.

I’ve seen people soften the ice cream, put it in a rectangle baking dish, refreeze, then cut with a cookie cutter which I’m sure is a great method and all but…I think my way is better. Then again my way always feels better! My mess-free method (what’s up alliteration) is where you take a muffin tin, lay a piece of saran wrap across and stick it down in the crevices, fill muffin tins with ice cream, freeze, pop ice cream out of muffin tins, stick a cookie on each end of ice cream, EAT your face off! Of course you can get fancy and dip them in chocolate (drooool!) or roll in chocolate chips and other goodies. This is hardly even a recipe, pretty much just a method :)

Homemade Ice Cream Sandwiches

Cookies, I used this chocolate chip cookie recipe from Kitchen Misfit

Ice Cream (any flavor will do, of course, but I used good ‘ol vanilla)

  1. Be sure cookies are baked and cooled before assembling. Soften ice cream
  2. Line muffin tin with saran wrap, scoop ice cream into muffin tins. Be sure ice cream gets into crevices and smooth the top. Lay a sheet of saran wrap on top of muffin tin when done before putting muffin tin in the freezer. Freeze ice cream until firm.
  3. After about 2-3 hours, take ice cream out of freezer and unwrap ice cream from muffin tins. Sandwich ice cream between two cookies, wrap in plastic wrap and keep in freezer until ready to eat. Enjoy! :)

Random Fact of the Day: When painting the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo used both hands to paint.

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