Munchie Monday: Quick and Easy Homemade Ice Cream Sandwiches!

Departing dinner this time was going to be really easy for us to help with.  We always make the desserts as it pleases everyone to have homemade desserts.  This time we decided on homemade ice cream sandwiches.

Remember those Gooey Butter Cookies I put in the freezer?  Well, we used those for some of the cookies.  Sister J made her famous chocolate chip cookies.  We got vanilla ice cream to go with the chocolate chip cookies and Tillamook Mudslide ice cream for the butter cookies.  (I had never heard of Tillamook Mudslide ice cream before our Spanish tutor mentioned it to me. He said it was fantastic.  He was right!)

Nope!  Not a Tillamook ice cream salesman, just a happy customer....

So on the Friday before the Tuesday departing dinner we went to the Mission Home and set up ice-cream-sandwich-making shop on the pingpong table in their garage which was right next to the freezer.  We put one cookie down bottom-side up,  put on a scoop of slightly softened ice cream and flattened it out somewhat with a dinner knife, then placed another cookie right-side up on top. We wrapped some of them in deli paper and some we left unwrapped, then put them into the freezer.  We think people will really like them.

There was one chocolate chip cookie and one butter cookie left.  Sister J insisted that I take them both so I made an ice cream sandwich when I got home and put it in the freezer.  The next day I gave half of it to Dear One.  It was really good.

Ice cream sandwich frozen and ready to split with Dear One.

Messy ice cream sandwich ready to wrap and freeze.

The ice cream was lop-sided when it froze.  It still tasted good.

You don't have to use homemade cookies.  Any cookies will do.  Just soften the ice cream a little bit then put it between two cookies.  Yummy life indeed.