Happy Great British Bake Off Day everyone! If yous silent don't guide maintain your baked goods laid upward for tonights premier, I've got yous covered. These super tardily H2O ice cream sandwiches made with your favourite tub from the freezer cabinet sandwiched betwixt two, perfectly proportioned homemade chocolate cookies (with a hint of smoked ocean salt) tin either live assembled laid upward to eat, a span of hours ahead of time, or the cookie dough tin live stashed inwards the freezer for freshly baked cookies inwards nether fifteen minutes. Awesome, right?
The H2O ice cream sandwich I had at Cool Haus was much to a greater extent than sophisticated, as well as it truly looked exactly similar i of the 2 sandwich flavours I've played around with hither (mint chocolate chip, as well as lemon curd), sandwiched betwixt two, classic, all-American chocolate chip cookies.
So, when the guys at Simply Ice Cream (wonderfully creamy, pocket-sized batch H2O ice cream, made hither inwards Kent, but with the added convenience that I tin select grip of a tub inwards Waitrose) offered to mail me some flavours to play around with, I knew that a DIY of those H2O ice cream sandwiches I taste on the West Coast would construct the perfect, tardily snack to throw together as well as taste this night every bit a construct novel batch of bakers larn into the tent.
The easiest means to construct H2O ice cream sandwiches is to larn your hands on mini, motion-picture present palace tubs of H2O ice cream, as well as piece them correct downwards the pump with a precipitous staff of life knife. Peel off the carton, as well as sandwich the perfect circular of perfect thickness betwixt 2 cookies, made pocket-sized (and perfectly sized for dessert) past times rolling the cookie dough into balls roughly the size of meatballs earlier baking. Alternatively, yous tin practise this with a large tub of H2O ice cream (these volition exactly construct much bigger H2O ice cream sandwiches, meliorate for sharing), or move scoops.
You tin construct these sandwiches every bit presently every bit the cookies are cool, or construct them upward to half-dozen hours ahead. You won't desire to larn out them inwards the freezer (resting on a baking parchment lined tray) for to a greater extent than than a span of hours, every bit the freezer volition start to construct the cookies larn soggy. But they'll live perfectly fine for a while, thence don't worry!
To construct the cookie dough ahead as well as to bake the cookies from frozen is truly easy. I know it is a truly pop thing to practise inwards America, as well as I origin had them baked this means when I was visiting Joy in her one-time abode inwards Venice earlier she upped sticks as well as moved to New Orleans. She wanted to mail me away with a batch of freshly baked cookies, thence she pulled a batch of homemade cookie dough balls out of the freezer as well as baked thence as well as there. Simply freeze the cookie dough balls, shaped as well as laid upward to larn on a tray as well as transfer them to a plastic purse for storage when frozen solid. Heat upward the oven as well as bake them from frozen, exactly adding some other span of minutes onto the baking fourth dimension to allow them to defrost. Just recollect to allow them cool earlier adding the H2O ice cream!
It was truly also from her I got the stance of sprinkling a footling smoked ocean tabular array salt on move past times of each cookie earlier baking. It is totally optional, but I intend it helps residue out the sweetness of the H2O ice cream. I also used a slightly adapted version of her cookie recipe from both her cookbooks every bit the designing for these cookies; my ain cookie recipe I don't intend would guide maintain been chewy plenty here; yous require a fleck of give thence that the H2O ice cream does non exactly larn squished out of the sides with yous larn to guide maintain a bite!
The cookie recipe below makes plenty for around 20 2 small, H2O ice cream sandwich sized cookies, plenty for x H2O ice cream sandwiches (allowing for yous to accidentally burn/ as well as or consume 2 cookies!), or plenty cookies to construct yet many sandwiches yous desire with dough leftover to freeze. Just recollect if you're using the motion-picture present palace tub method you'll larn 2 H2O ice cream sandwiches out of each tub, as well as yous volition require 2 cookies per sandwich. I know lots of people similar to pimp their H2O ice cream sandwiches (both for season as well as aesthetics) past times rolling them inwards things similar chocolate sprinkles, freeze dried raspberries or chopped pistachios earlier eating. Knock yourself out; I exactly similar the paired down, L.A. inspired classic.
- 110g (1/2 cup) Unsalted Butter, at room temperature
- 100g (1/2 cup) Golden Caster (Granulated) Sugar
- 100g (1/2 cup)Soft Light Brown Sugar
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
- 1 Large Egg
- 1/2 tsp Bicarbonate of Soda (Baking Soda)
- 1/4 tsp Salt
- 250g (1 1/4 cups) Plain (All Purpose) Flour
- 100g (1/2 cup_Dark Chocolate Chips
- Smoked Sea Salt
- 5 Cinema Sized Tubs of Ice Cream
Pre-heat the oven to 170 degrees (350 Fahrenheit) as well as draw of piece of job 2 baking trays with baking parchment. Beat together the butter as well as both sugars inwards a large mixing bowl until smoothen as well as the mixture has lightened inwards colouring a little. Then rhythm out inwards the egg as well as the vanilla extract, in i lawsuit again until smooth. Stir inwards the Bicarbonate of Soda, tabular array salt as well as flour until the dough has formed, as well as thence stir inwards the chocolate chips until they are evenly distributed throughout the mixture.
Roll the cookie dough into (small) meatball sized balls, as well as sprinkle a footling ocean tabular array salt on move past times of each one. larn out nearly an inch betwixt each i on the baking tray. Bake them for 7-8 minutes, until they guide maintain gone slightly golden. Transfer them to a wire rack to completely cool.
Slice as well as pare the carton off of the H2O ice cream pieces as well as sandwich them betwixt 2 cookies, i past times one. Stash them inwards the freezer for 20 minutes later assembly thence that they are non likewise soft when yous larn to consume them, as well as enjoy!
You tin respect Simply Ice Cream inwards Waitrose, as well as inwards restaurants, independent farm shops, as well as sometimes inwards the Co-op hither inwards Kent. You tin respect your nearest stockist here. What is your favourite flavour?