DIY Ice Cream Sandwiches Can Be a Revelation
These might be better than the childhood classic
I started making ice cream about eight years ago after friends brought me to a brewpub in Brooklyn where the menu consisted of cheese, meat, and ice cream sandwiches. The beer was OK and the meat and cheese were forgettable, but the ice cream sandwiches were a revelation.
Unlike the sandwiches of my youth — vanilla ice cream between a cakey chocolate substance that stuck to the wrapper and my fingers — the brewpub sandwiches were constructed from actual cookies.
The beer was OK and the meat and cheese were forgettable, but the ice cream sandwiches were a revelation.
The day we visited, the offerings included chocolate chip cookie sandwiches, oatmeal cookie sandwiches, and brownies sliced horizontally to make sandwiches. I don’t remember the ice cream flavors, only that I decided immediately that I had to make my own sandwiches. The cookie part would be easy, but the effect would be ruined without homemade ice cream. I bought an ice cream maker attachment for my Kitchen Aid and began experimenting.
I started with oatmeal cookies filled with cinnamon ice cream that I flavored by steeping cinnamon sticks in the custard. I…
