What Comes First the Ice Cream or the Cookie

In this case the ice cream was first "Breyers Chocolate Crackle" which was just vanilla ice cream with thin pieces of chocolate - not even as good as chocolate chip ice cream. It was somewhat uninspiring so I made a thin brownie that I dressed up with a layer of melted chocolate, peanut butter chips and peanut butter. It got mixed reviews from "hell-a-good" and "not blog worthy"

10/3
There are a few reasons that there are usually homemade ice cream sandwiches in the freezer at our house. I like to have a treat to offer the many teens that come over to visit our son who is seventeen. The ice cream sandwiches are a good solution because they keep better then cookies or cake, are not devastatingly tempting to the adults and seem to be irresistible to teenagers. The current version is made from an oatmeal lace cookie coated with chocolate and filled with our current favorite Dreyers Peanut Butter Cup ice cream. They are very tasty.
I thought that the recipe was good enough that I will share it here - it is from cooks.com

MILK CHOCOLATE FLORENTINE LACE COOKIES

COOKIES:
2/3 c. butter
2 c. quick oats, uncooked
1 c. sugar
2/3 c. flour
1/4 c. corn syrup
1/4 c. milk
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1/4 tsp. salt

FILLING:
1 (11 1/2 oz.) pkg. (2 c.) milk chocolate morsels

Cookies: Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Melt butter in saucepan. Remove from heat; stir in oats, sugar, flour, corn syrup, milk, vanilla extract, and salt; mix well. Drop by level teaspoonfuls, 3 inches apart onto foil-lined cookie sheets. Spread thin with rubber spatula. Bake 5 to 7 minutes. Let cool. Peel foil away from cookies.
Filling: Melt over hot (not boiling) chocolate morsels; stir until smooth. Spread chocolate on the flat side of each half of the cookies. Top with remaining cookies.

9/25 Sandwiches

This week I made two different sandwiches -

#1 A homemade pineapple coconut milk ice cream in a crisp oatmeal coconut bar

#2 Breyers Snickers ice cream inside an almond lace cookie with a thin coating of chocolate.

I keep making lace cookies hoping that they will be a nice thin crisp cookie to hold the ice cream and then they are full of holes and don’t keep the ice cream off your hands so I have to coat them with chocolate which nobody seems to mind. Now after my third attempt at using lace cookies I am finally acknowledging that maybe they are really supposed to be full of holes.

9/25

Ice Cream Sandwich first post 9/19/09

The ice cream sandwich this week was complicated - actually too complicated for my taste but it was requested by a very special person so I was happy to acquiesce to her desires for a very specific design and she did love it.

The cookie was a ‘Magic in the Middle’ - a chocolate cookie with a peanut butter filling - the recipe is from King Arthur Flour - www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/magic-in-the-middles-recipe

The Ice cream filling was Dreyers Peanut Butter Cup

The sandwich was dipped half in chocolate and half in melted peanut butter chips.

Although the peanut butter chips are soft at room temperature when I melted them they were not liquid enough to really get a nice smooth thin coating so if I ever use then again I need to work on the chemistry or physics. If anyone reads this blog and can give me some advice it would be appreciated.