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chocolate banana gelato ice cream sandwiches

chocolate banana ice cream sandwiches

I decided I was going to make an ice cream sandwich you couldn’t buy at the store. Ryan wanted a chocolate banana combo. So I went to the store to buy the banana ice cream.

It turns out, plain banana ice cream isn’t exactly a popular flavor. I could only find banana ice creams with mixed-in candies. The only plain-ish banana ice cream was a chocolate banana gelato.  This is where I become jealous of everyone who owns an ice cream maker.

ice cream sandwich gelato

Here’s the deal. If you make ice cream sandwiches with gelato, your job will be much harder. It melts instantly and it isn’t as dense are regular ice cream. But it can be done. I think my sandwiches would have much more shape if I used regular ice cream.

I also bought a pint of chocolate peanut butter gelato. But that pint made a beeline straight to my belly, so no sandwiches there.

Yields: 9 sandwiches (appx. 2 x 3 inches each)
Prep: 30 minutes (+ time it takes for your ice cream to harden)
Baking:  15 minutes

-1 pint of ice cream, softened
-1 1/3 cup flour
-1/2 cup cocoa powder
-1/2 cup + 2 Tbsp Butter
-1/2 cup sugar
-2 egg yolks
-1 tbsp. vanilla extract

other things:
-parchment paper
-cookie cutters
-lots of space in your freezer
-rolling pin

1. Line a 9×13 in cake pan with parchment paper.

2. Take your softened ice cream (or gelato) and spread it evenly throughout pan, so it’s about an inch thick. Don’t worry about trying to spread it the length of the pan, you just want it nice and even and an inch thick. Using gelato didn’t work too well. It was too mushy. It also melted too fast. If your ice cream is starting to melt, be patient and put it back in the freezer for a bit.

ice cream sandwich gelato

3. Place this in the freezer to re-harden.

4. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.

5. In a small bowl, sift the flour and cocoa powder together. I don’t have a sifter (I know!), so I always use a wisk.

cocoa and flour

cocoa and flour together

6. In a large bowl, beat the sugar and butter together until soft and fluffy. I used an electric hand mixer for the next couple of steps.
butter and sugar

butter and sugar

7. Then beat in the two egg yolks.

egg yolks

8. Add in the cocoa and flour mixture and continue to mix. It’s going to look very crumbly.

cookie crumbles

9. Don’t forget to add the vanilla.

10. At some point, I had to switch to a wooden spoon to combine all of the ingredients. Once everything is combined, pat it down into a ball (or a blob, in my case) and transfer it to your rolling area.

cookie crumble blob

11. Prep your rolling pin with flour and roll out the cookie mixture until it is about 1/4 inch thick.

flat cookie dough

12. Use your cookie cutters to cut the dough into a square shape.

cookie cutter

13. Place on a parchment paper lined baking sheet and bake for 15 minutes.

baked cookies

14. Let those cookies cool. Now go grab your ice cream. At this point, the gelato was as firm as it was going to get. It might take a little longer if you’re using ice cream. Use the same cookie cutter to cut out your ice cream. Then place the square ice cream on top of the cookie. Since the gelato was lacked shape, we just did something like this:

15. Cut the shape of the gelato with a knife, which didn’t really work, so we just sort of scooped it up instead.
melted gelato

15. Place a blob of gelato on top of a cooled cookie.

16. Squish it with another cookie and use your fingers to lick up the stuff that falls out on the side.
ice cream sandwich

17. Put it back in the freezer for a bit, to let it firm up. Then eat!
ice cream sandwich

After a few hours in the freezer, the gelato firmed up. These were absolutely tasty. The cookie tastes like a mix between an Oreo and a shortbread.