The perfect ice cream sandwich is: Soft. Hard crunchy cookies need not apply. Sweet and salty. Keyword: and. Not or. Like the yin and yang of ice cream sandwiches, one balances out the other. Streamlined. Meaning, you shouldn’t have to have a mouth the size of Steven Tyler’s to eat it. And, finally… Sprinkled. Because everything is better with sprinkles.
I’ll tell you, folks, this sandwich has it all. Tessa Arias, author of Cookies & Cream: Hundreds of Ways to Make the Perfect Ice Cream Sandwich, did not make it easy on me. I spent weeks endlessly flipping through the book. Not for a lack of recipes but for sheer indecision on just which recipe (or mix and match combination) I was going to make. The entire book is filled with perfect ice cream sandwich after perfect ice cream sandwich, and this malted chocolate beauty is no different. The cookies are soft and salty. The ice cream creamy and sweet. She rolls hers in whoppers, but in conjunction with the last of my criterion for sandwich-ability above, sprinkles were definitely in order. Granted, I probably made them a wee bit too big (think the diameter of a halved grapefruit). I say that like it’s a bad thing. It’s totally not. I used the technique outlined here to make my sandwiches, the result being more uniform ice cream rounds than simply scooping and smushing. But you can certainly do that too. Be sure to click through for the recipe and a chance to win a copy of this mouth-watering book!
What better accompaniment to the perfect ice cream sandwich than a giveaway? Author Tessa Arias has so kindly offered up a copy of her book to one lucky L&OO reader! Cooling temperatures be darned, with this book in hand you’re going to want to eat ice cream sandwiches all winter long. Total Time: 36 hours
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Congrats to Bianca, comment #204, who was selected as the winner of this fabulous book! The fine print: No purchase necessary. Giveaway open to US residents only. Void where prohibited. Winner will have 48 hours to respond otherwise an alternate winner will be chosen. Bonus entry requirements will be verified if selected as the winner, otherwise an alternate winner will be chosen. All opinions written are purely my own.
