Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Sandwich

Ingredients

• Makes 36 cookies

Chocolate Chip Cookies

• 2 cups all purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 cup butter, at room temperature
• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1 Tablespoon pure vanilla extract
• 2 eggs
• 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
• Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Sandwich
• Homemade chocolate chip cookies
• Vanilla ice cream
• Mini-chocolate chips

Directions

Cookies

1. Sift together the flour, baking soda and salt and set aside.
2. In a mixing bowl, use an electric mixer on medium speed to cream together the melted butter, brown sugar and white sugar until well blended.
3. Beat in the vanilla, and eggs one at a time until light and creamy.
4. Mix in the dry ingredients until just blended.
5. Stir in the chocolate chips by hand using a wooden spoon.
6. Put the dough in the freezer for at least 30 minutes.
7. Preheat the oven to 325°F.
8. Line 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper or grease the sheets.
9. Drop a spoonful of cookie dough onto the prepared cookie sheets.
10. Cookies should be about 3 inches apart.
11. Place into the preheated oven and bake for 15 to 17 or until the edges are lightly toasted.
12. Remove from the oven and let sit in the pan for 5 minutes then move the cookies onto the wire cooling racks and let cool completely before making into an ice cream sandwich.
13. Assembling the Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Sandwich
14. The amount of ice cream you soften will depend on how many you plan to make. You want to have about 1/2 cup of ice cream between each sandwich.
15. Soften the ice cream on the counter for 10 minutes prior to making sandwiches.
16. Place a scoop of ice cream on the backside of 1 cookie.
17. Sandwich with another cookie and carefully press together until ice cream reaches the edge of the cookies.
18. Roll edges in mini-chocolate chips.
19. Place onto a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.
20. Place into the freezer for at least 30 minutes before eating.
21. If you use up all the cookies, once they are frozen as ice cream sandwiches, transfer to an airtight container and keep frozen until you eat them.