Ever see a professionally made product, and think "I bet I could make that cheaper"?
Sure you have -- It's brilliant, it's thrifty, but it's trash.
This week's Family Episode brought a lot of topics to to our attention that many of youse have never made a homemade ice cream sandwich.
There's tons ways to do so, so we'll give ya a classy options and a trashy ones, so you have options.
First step is to pick an ice cream and pull it out of the freezer to thaw. We'll want it nice and softened so it's easy to work with.
Whatever flavor is in your freezer is great, but avoid any ice cream with an inch of freezer burn on top.
Vanilla, mint chip, cinnamon - it's dealer's choice - but remember this is the basis of your sandwich, the flavor that is carrying us through the forest.
Homemade, from the store's bakery section, or a pantry classic brand, pick your cookies, and pick good ones.
While the ice cream is the main flavor, the cookie is the main character, the lead singer of the band. Credit deserved or not, it's the cookie everyone remembers about your sandwich.
We recommend a chewy cookie, but don't use anything TOO soft.
(Those sugar cookies with an inch of frosting from every grocery bakery section? They don't work great. They taste spectacular, tho...)
Recommended Homemade: chocolate chip, peanut butter, red velvet
Recommended Store Bought: Oreos, Chips Ahoy (regular), or Milano Cookies
Buy the refrigerator section cookie dough and bake it fresh.
Take a 1/4 cup measuring cup, and use it to scoop your ice cream out of the container.
Then take that scoop, either work it with your hands, or carefully with a spoon into little hockey-puck shapes - and placing the ice cream on the underside of your cookie.
Try to fill the entire base of your cookie with more ice cream! Why not? Then top off your sandwich with the underside of your second cookie.
Wanna jazz up your sammy a bit more? Roll the edges in sprinkles, nuts, or mini chocolate chips.
Eating now? Go ahead and dig in!
Want some for later? Wrap each sammy in plastic wrap and place in the freezer for 4 - 8 hours, until the ice cream is firm again.
Storing a few sammys? Line up sandwiches on their sides inside of a loaf pan to keep shape, then wrap with plastic to keep fresh before placing in the freezer.
What other ways do youse make your ice cream sammys?
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