We have done just about everything in our home to try and keep cool these days. I’ve bought more fans and the children have played in diapers and undies only. But we are still sweaty. And today we were sweaty and sticky sweet. Because we made ice cream sandwiches to try and keep the heat at bay. Of course the part where we baked the cookies in the oven wasn’t the most genius moment in the process. But licking those cold treats after lunch had us forgetting that step pretty quickly.
Ice cream sandwiches are, yet another, American guloseima. But if you want to make them healthy, put sorbert or frozen yogurt in the middle and do a whole wheat style cookie–or even go the lo-cal ice cream route. Or, better yet, do what we do: use the fatty stuff and split the cookie amongst the family. (The shapes I bought are quite large.)
But one needn’t travel to the USA to buy the kit. After making them today, I realized a simple cookie cutter would do the trick. Here’s how:
Flatten your favorite cookie dough on a cooking sheet or pie pan (about one centimeter in thickness)
Bake and let cool for a few minutes only
Cut your shape and let the cookie continue to cool completely
Cut your shape into the ice cream
Sandwich them together!
A great project to cool off the whole family! Mmmm…
