Make your own ice cream sandwich
Ice cream sandwiches are versatile, refreshing desserts that are perfect for a summer evening treat or an afternoon pick-me-up. Making your own ice cream sandwich means that you have a host of flavor, ingredient, and texture choices to take it from a basic snack to a gourmet dessert.
Outside Portion
Frozen ice cream sandwiches often come sandwiched between cake-like, thin cookies, but this is not the only possibility. As long as you prepare it thinly enough, almost any dessert can complement the structure of an ice cream sandwich. Cake mix baked in muffin tins, then sliced, sweet biscuits, favorite cookies, mini waffles, thinly poured brownies and halved Rice Krispy Treats are just a few options.
Mix-ins
Mix in whatever candy sounds best.
If the flavor of ice cream is too basic for your ice cream sandwich, add mix-ins to make it a perfect companion to the cookies or brownies you have chosen. Mix brownie chunks, nuts, caramel, fudge, mini peanut butter cups, M&M's or diced candy bars into the ice cream to add texture to the sandwich. To keep the mixing process from ruining the shape of your ice cream, soften the ice cream enough to get it out of the carton, mix in your extra ingredients and push it back into the carton to re-solidify.
Ice Cream Base
Whether you use ice cream or frozen yogurt for the middle portion of your ice cream sandwich, you'll have to mold it to fit the sandwich cleanly. To turn a gallon of ice cream into ice cream sandwich material, cut the sides of the carton away from the frozen ice cream. Cut even, 1/2-inch-thick pieces of ice cream to fit your outer layers away in the carton and freeze the separated pieces. Press cookies and ice cream together, and cut around the cookies to "trim" the edges.
Coating
Coat ice cream sandwiches with chocolate and mini candies
Dip half of your ice cream sandwich in a sweet, delectable chocolate coating before sprinkling with rainbow sprinkles or mini chocolate chips. To make the coating, heat chocolate chips, white chocolate chips or chocolate bars in the microwave for 40 seconds then at 10-20 second intervals until the chocolate is melted after stirring. Add peanut butter, caramel or a flavor extract if desired before dipping the finished ice cream sandwich halfway in and sprinkling sprinkles or chips on top. Transfer to the freezer for five minutes until the chocolate solidifies.
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