Description
Chocolate Chip Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches bring pure summer happiness right to your plate. Creamy vanilla ice cream nestled between two homemade chocolate chip cookies creates the ultimate cool treat your friends will absolutely adore.
Ingredients
Scale
Main Ingredients:
- 1 pint ice cream
- 1 batch chocolate chip cookie dough
Optional Garnish:
- Chocolate chips or sprinkles (as needed)
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350°F and prepare a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Mix the chocolate chip cookie dough according to your preferred recipe, ensuring all ingredients are well combined.
- Scoop 2-tablespoon portions of cookie dough onto the prepared baking sheet, spacing them 2 inches apart.
- Bake the cookies for 10-12 minutes until golden brown around the edges and slightly soft in the center.
- Remove cookies from the oven and let them cool completely on a wire rack for 30 minutes.
- Select your favorite ice cream flavor and remove it from the freezer to soften slightly for 3-5 minutes.
- Place a ¼ cup scoop of softened ice cream onto the flat side of one cooled cookie.
- Gently press a second cookie on top of the ice cream, applying light pressure to create a sandwich.
- Roll the exposed ice cream edges in mini chocolate chips or colorful sprinkles for extra crunch.
- Wrap each ice cream sandwich individually in plastic wrap.
- Freeze the wrapped sandwiches for at least 1 hour to allow them to firm up completely.
- Remove from the freezer 2-3 minutes before serving to slightly soften for easier eating.
Notes
- Bake cookies slightly underdone to ensure they stay soft when frozen and won’t become rock-hard after chilling.
- Select premium quality ice cream that freezes firmly but remains creamy, like vanilla bean or chocolate.
- Use room temperature cookies when assembling sandwiches so the ice cream doesn’t melt too quickly during assembly.
- Wrap each sandwich individually in plastic wrap to prevent freezer burn and keep the cookies from absorbing other flavors.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 12 minutes
- Category: Cookies
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 8
- Calories: 300 kcal
- Sugar: 24 g
- Sodium: 150 mg
- Fat: 15 g
- Saturated Fat: 8 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 5 g
- Trans Fat: 0.5 g
- Carbohydrates: 35 g
- Fiber: 2 g
- Protein: 4 g
- Cholesterol: 40 mg