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Ice Cream Sandwich

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Prep: 0 min Cook: 0 min Difficulty: medium

Categories: Lunch, Dessert, Baked

Tags: medium difficulty, recipes for dessert, recipes for frozen desserts, recipes using all-purpose flour, recipes using baking soda, recipes using butter, recipes using cocoa powder, recipes using egg, recipes using ice cream, recipes using superfine sugar, recipes without servings

Source: Wikibooks contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook%3AIce_Cream_Sandwich)

Adapted: Imported and reformatted by HowManyCookies from the cited Wikibooks revision.

Source revision: https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook%3AIce%20Cream%20Sandwich&oldid=4587450

License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) · Wikibooks contributors

Ingredients

  • 80 g (2.8 oz / ⅔ stick) unsalted butter
  • 125 g (4.4 oz / ⅝ cup) superfine sugar
  • 1 standard egg
  • 180 g (6.3 oz / 1¼ cups) plain flour, plus extra for dusting
  • 20 g (0.71 oz / 1 heaped tablespoon) cocoa powder
  • 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
  • 1 pinch of salt
  • 500 ml (1.1 pint / 2 cups) ice cream

Directions

  1. Mix the flour, cocoa, bicarbonate of soda, and salt in a bowl.
  2. Beat the butter and sugar in a mixing bowl until soft and fluffy.
  3. Beat in the egg.
  4. Fold the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients, and bring together until a dough forms.
  5. Knead the dough for 2 minutes on a floured surface until smooth.
  6. Shape the dough into a flat disc.
  7. Cover with cling film and chill for 30 minutes.
  8. Preheat the oven to 190 °C (374 °F).
  9. Cover 2 baking trays with baking paper.
  10. Roll out the dough to 5 mm (0.20 in) thick.
  11. Cut out into 24 circles, and arrange on the baking trays.
  12. Bake for 10–12 minutes until well-cooked.
  13. Place the biscuits on a wire rack and leave to cool.
  14. Scoop 1 scoop of ice cream on a biscuit.
  15. Sandwich together with another biscuit.
  16. Repeat steps 15–16, using remaining biscuits and ice cream.
  17. Enjoy!

Notes

If the dough is too wet, mix in 1 tablespoon of plain flour.

Ice cream sandwiches can be frozen for up to 3 months.

This recipe uses chocolate biscuits. For vanilla biscuits, replace cocoa powder with extra 20 g (0.71 oz / 1 heaped tablespoon) plain flour and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract. Add vanilla when beating butter and sugar.