Ice Cream Sandwich Cookies

Tender vanilla cookies sandwiched around creamy ice cream make for a simple and fun way to enjoy your favorite ice cream brands. Grab your ice cream flavor of choice and whip these up today!

This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Cool Foods available at Publix. The opinions and text are mine.

Ice Cream Sandwich Cookies

Don’t you just love biting into an ice cream sandwich? So soft and melt-in-your-mouth delicious. These homemade ice cream sandwich cookies are loaded with vanilla flavor and they’re honestly some of the softest shortbread cookies I’ve ever had.

I’m totally wishing summer would hurry along. We’ve been having spurts of warmer weather lately and along with that comes some pretty bad storms. We sat huddled in our closet for an hour last Saturday while tornados demolished houses in our city.

Thankfully my neighborhood was untouched! But, if this is what we’ve got to look forward to over the next few months, I’ll be stress eating all the junk food…

Good thing Publix has great deals on all my favorite frozen and dairy snacks. I’ve already stocked up on Ben & Jerry’s ice cream cups. Between March 3 – 16, you can get 10 Ben & Jerry’s Cups for $10, as well as other savings on frozen & dairy foods at Publix.

The refrigerated aisle provides easy-to-make and eat treats that offer the comfort of products we as consumers already love. And with new ways to use dairy products and the ability to use what you need and save the rest for later, the creative possibilities are endless.

With all the ice cream I purchased, I thought it would be fun to make cookies for ice cream sandwiches. There’s nothing too fancy about them and I’m sure you have the ingredients on hand already.

• Powdered sugar
• Butter
• Vanilla
• Salt
• Flour

All very standard ingredients here. You could also mix in mini chocolate chips or sprinkles depending on the flavor of ice cream you choose to put inside.

The printable recipe card with full ingredient amounts and instructions can be found at the bottom of this post.

As you can tell from the ingredients, the cookies are nothing more than your standard shortbread cookie. The only difference is they are super soft.

Soft cookies are a must for ice cream sandwiches. Biting into a rock hard ice cream sandwich doesn’t sound very fun at all. My teeth ache just thinking about it.

Today’s Ice Cream Sandwich Cookies stay incredibly soft and slightly chewy even after they’re frozen.

The most important thing to remember is to slightly underbake the cookies. This is the best way to achieve a soft cookie that just melds around the ice cream.

I kept the cookies simple with just vanilla extract for flavoring. My goal was to highlight the ice cream flavors more than the cookie. If you want to get fancy with your cookie flavor feel free to add different extracts, chocolate chips, toffee bits, or sprinkles.

Use this recipe as a base for all your ice cream sandwich desires.

I rolled the dough to 1/4-inch thick and used a 2 and 1/2-inch round cookie cutter. This yielded me about 28 cookies which equal 14 ice cream sandwiches. I’ll be eating one every evening for dessert!

Since I purchased the little cups of ice cream, I simply cut the packing off and sliced the small portion into two discs. I found this to be so much easier than softening ice cream, pressing it into a pan, freezing it, then cutting rounds with a cookie cutter.

To have enough ice cream for all the cookies, you’ll need seven of the little 4-ounce containers of ice cream. They’re the perfect width for the cookies so all you need to do is slice them in half to get two equal sized rounds. Sandwich each round in between two cookies and enter ice cream sandwich nirvana.

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