Chocolate Cookie Ice-Cream Sandwiches

Summer may be over, but with the warm weather we have had hear these past few weeks ice-cream sandwiches still were a welcome snack. We celebrated my granddaughter's birthday with an ice-cream cookie sandwich cake a few weeks ago...and it was a hit.


Chocolate Chocolate Cookies

• 1/2 cup  butter
• 3/4 cups sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/2 tsp vanilla
• 1 cup flour
• 1/4 cup cocoa
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1 cup chocolate chips (use white chocolate, dark chocolate or milk chocolate)

1. Cream butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla until light and fluffy.
2. Combine flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt; add to creamed mixture.
3. Stir in chocolate chips. 
4. Drop by tablespoon (or medium sized cookie scoop) on parchment lined pans. Flatten slightly.
5. Bake at 350º for 10 to 12 minutes.
6. Cool completely. 

Yield: 18 cookies (enough for 9 ice-cream sandwiches)

*I doubled the recipe to make 18 sandwiches.
 

How to make Ice-Cream Sandwiches:

• Spread vanilla ice-cream in a parchment lined baking sheet, smoothing with back of spoon or spatula.  
• Freeze for at least 1 1/2 hours.
• Use a biscuit cutter the approximate size of the cookies to cut rings of ice-cream.
• Sandwich the ice-cream ring between two cookies.
• Place in freezer until serving.  
• These can be prepared in advance and stored in ziplock bags for several weeks.

A great alternative to a birthday cake in the summertime!