I had a brainwave during a heatwave. And of course it was a brain wave about food. “What about if I made some ice cream sandwiches shaped like ice cream?” I asked Mr NQN. He’s used to strange questions but the idea of having ice cream during this hot day appealed to him and he said “Sure” straight away. I then had a brainwave a few minutes later or as Mr NQN called it, a brainfart. I told him how I wanted to have my own Cable TV show. Just me and a friend, two chairs, a white sheet as a backdrop and a phone for people to call in. He was amused by this idea and reminded me of why he calls me Kramer (harebrained ideas, clumsiness and we tend to enter a room in the same way). I told my friends Nic and Kathy and both were enthusiastic and Kathy said that she’d Skype in from the US.
Back to the less embarrassing idea. The Ice Cream Cookie sandwich. I picked up a canister of 100 cutters from Aldi for the princely sum of $4.95 a few weeks ago. Apparently at $9.95 I thought that was too expensive but at $4.95 it was a bargain. This is also the logic that allows me to buy designer shoes that I wear only once mind you although I never claimed that said logic was flawless and that’s probably why no-one has ever sought a patent on my logic. In this canister was an ice cream cookie cutter with indents. I adore cookie cutters with indents. They allow people like me without imagination or drawing ability to be able to decorate the cookies with the indented guides.
For the cookie itself, I used my fail proof easy cut out cookie recipe. This dough is easy to use and can be rolled and re rolled until every last scrap is used. It also smells incredibly good coming out of the oven. I made another batch of strawberry mascarpone ice cream and apart from colouring some fondant the whole lot was done within a few hours. I fed these to some rather happy children (and I did know them, I don’t approach random children with ice cream treats) and they were very appreciative of them. So were the adults I might add. Perhaps I’ll try pitching them my cable tv idea next…
So tell me Dear Reader, if you had a TV show, what would it be about? A comedy? A drama?
Ice Cream Cookie Sandwiches
An Original Recipe by Not Quite Nigella
- 85 g/3ozs butter, softened
- 140g/5ozs white caster superfine sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 180-210g/6ozs-7ozs all-purpose flour (I sometimes find this a little too sticky to roll out so the extra flour helps)
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- A ice cream shaped cookie cutter
To decorate
- coloured fondant in a few different colours (I mixed a pale pink, yellow, pale orange, a “bubblegum” blue and purple and red for cherries)
- 2 tablespoons jam
- Coloured icing in a tube
Ice cream filling
- Ice cream in your favourite flavour
Prepare ice cream first
1. Have a large metal tray prepared with cling wrap or foil at the bottom. Slice ice cream into 2cms slices and then cut out imprint with ice cream shaped cutter. Cover with cling wrap and freeze until very hard. I find it easiest to use homemade ice cream such as this Strawberry Mascarpone as commercial and less expensive ice creams melt very fast as they have a lot of air incorporated into them.
Make biscuits
2. In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in egg and vanilla. Stir in the flour and cinnamon. Cover, and chill dough for at least one hour (or overnight).
3. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Roll out dough on floured surface 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick. Cut into shapes with any cookie cutter. Place cookies 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheets. Bake for 5 to 8 minutes in preheated oven. Cool.
Make fondant shapes
4. Spread half of the cookies with strawberry jam. Roll out coloured fondant between two sheets of cling wrap and cut out ice cream shapes in fondant and slice in half so that the cone and ice cream are separated and place different colours on each cookie on top of jam as shown. Roll small balls of red fondant and place in centre as a “cherry” and pipe a line across cone.
5. Cut pieces of parchment or wax paper to wrap the ice cream sandwiches in freezer. Place plain biscuit halves on a tray. Take prepared ice cream slices out of freezer and then place on plain biscuit halves. Place iced biscuit on top and wrap in parchment and freeze until you want to eat it (which may be straight away!). Not just for kids, trust me on that.
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Oooohh, they look so cute! Delicious!
Cheers,
Rosa
Four layers Lorraine! I’ll bet those kids were beyond thrilled!
Very cute ice cream sandwiches!
And I’m with you, I think my friends and I are a hoot. Sometimes I think there should be a camera to watch us sit around and be hilarious. Having people call in is a good idea, too.
They are so pretty!
Love the colour of those ice cream sandwiches, so cute! And oh so yummy too I bet!
If I had a TV show, it’d be a dramedy, mockumentary style.
Only one word comes to mind… cute… oh wait, make that two words – very cute! Love the idea.
those are absolutely adorable!!!!!! how do you come up with all these things!
adorable, fun, and tasty–in other words, these are full of win. meanwhile, i just envisioned you flinging yourself into a room a la kramer and laughed out loud.
No way – I paid $9.95 for those 100 cutters – still a bargain – although there are two mystery ones that I can’t identify. My 20 month old loves playing with them and licking the ice cream one pretending its the real thing so it look like I’m going to have to make these for her now!
100 cutters for $5! That’s like…free. And it’s perfect for your warmer weather.
They look amazing – they must have taken you forever!!! oooooh and I think the cooking show is a fabulous idea
Brilliant Lorraine – love them!
wow they tick both the cute box and the yummy box!!!
It would have to be a cooking show for me.
Great idea Lorraine – these are so cute!
oh my GOD so cute! I NEED that Aldi cookie cutter set!!! How awesome is Aldi?
Awww Lorraine! These are brilliant! So cute! I love them! I love ice cream sandwiches… there’s just something so perfect about them
Hehe your cable tv show – would people be able to call in for any reason? Or would it be specific topics? You should do it, and do the Kramer entrance at the beginning of the show! Lol.
These are just adorable!!!!
They’re so cute! Filling them with homemade icecream would make them a real treat.
Oh my, those are pretty beyond words! And now that you’ve got your show idea out in the open, well you do know that it will happen now, don’t you?
I’ll be watching! xxx
Thanks for the tip, I’m going to Aldi today to find some cutters.
The cutest ice cream sandwiches EVER!! Almost too cute to eat!
they are the cutest icecream sandwiches i’ve ever seen Lorraine!
They are ADORABLE!!
tooooo cute! love them and now want to track down my local aldi
These are adorable!!! I wish I has little kiddies to serve them to!
Love those ice-cream sandwiches. I always thought my TV show would be some sort of hilarious reality TV-type show of my kids and I cooking in the kitchen. Fun, fights and all!
They are sooo adorable
Please post some to me too 
I’m also in Sydney.
these are such eye candies!
u’re really such a genius @ baking dear. n ur creativity… its just unbeatable! ur food pics always always make my mouth water. i love to just look @ ur pretty pictures of food and go “awww….”
today, i secretly wish i had a freezer filled with tubs of ur homemade strawberry mascarpone icecream and plates and plates of those ice-cream sandwiches u made! IF ONLY i’m in sydney!!!!!
did u watch Julie and Julia? my TV show might feature me trying to cook/bake sum1 else’s recipes and the mess-ups i encounter in the kitchen. there was this 1 time when i added salt instead of sugar, and i happily took a huge bite in2 my ‘i-thot-it-was-sweet-but-it’s-actually-super duper-salty’ choc chip muffin. haha. my housemaid @ that time couldnt believe that i couldnt differentiate salt n sugar.
if i were to try ur recipes, it’d be nervous the whole time. cos they really demand some skills! and i m definitely lacking in them
Very cute! And I love the way you say “and they only took two hours to make….”. Ha ha….spoken like a true food crazy person (which I can totally relate to)!
Food. Not very original. But a show about food.
About people of any age being able to fend for themselves and show them you can. I think some people lack that sort of direction. And end up eatting microwave meals forever lol.
I’ll have to try that cookie recipe!
wowww – those look so cool! no wonder the kiddies liked them! I dont know if I would want a whole tv show to myself, but Ive always wanted to do the amazing race. I think I would rule – except for the running part!
How cute! I love ice cream. Ice cream sandwiches are even better! If I had a TV show, it would be either about cooking or fashion. Hey, maybe both!
Such an inventive cook! These are adorable, the children were extremely lucky!
What fun! I bet you would host a kids party and they’d want to stay home with you! come to think of it, big people would think that too.
What a fabulous idea! They look great. I’m going to have to go to Aldi today to look for these cutters – I hope they are still there!
I am so delighted I have found your blog, oh what a wonderful breath of fresh air, soooo different to the normal food blogs and such gorgeous ideas. I love your sense of humour and am now an avid follower, thank you for that. I have a guesthouse in the Hunter Valley and am always needing inspiration and have now found a very very fresh food blog.
Thank you Carol.
Those look awesome! I want one.
Re: TV show. A few years ago, one of my friends who studied film at uni borrowed a fancy video camera, and one night after dinner, we filmed the pilot episode of our hit TV show, The Pantsless Chef. We made apple crumble, and it was fun!
These are absolutely adorable! I bet they were wonderful on a sweltering hot day. I’ve never worked with fondant, and to be honest am sort of intimidated by it! Can you make it from scratch, or is it better to just buy it?
Geez you’re a clever lady, I love these! I also now have a sudden urge to buy many many cookie cutters. What a bargain!
Awwww, so cute! And I have that same purple polka-dotted ribbon, somewhere…
When I first quit my job last year I toyed with the idea of doing a public access horror host show, buuuut I’m lazy.
These are the most adorable ice cream sandwiches I’ve ever seen! Great idea Lorraine
It’s cold outside, and I HAVE a cold. But these ice cream sandwiches STILL look irresistible. Way cute!
Those are adorable, I love the colorful ice cream cone decorations on top!
Perfect for our 40 degree heatwaves! How long did it take the kids to finish them off? I’d probably polish them off in no time!
Oh my oh my…i so want that cookie cutter. These are the cutest cookies ever! what adorably sweet colours. And ice cream in between! oh HEAVEN help me.
SO cute! Love them. Your post totally inspired me to make my own ice cream sandwiches. Not as yummy as yours though. I had homemade chocolate chip cookies and just scooped some Coffee ice cream we had some in the fridge. Yummy!
These are fantastic, perfect for a child’s birthday party!
Pure genious Lorraine. Absolutely gorgeous work! And I’d watch your show
You must have read my mind – I had icecream and biscuits last night! A different combo though – vanilla bean icecream with spiced biscuits. Needless to say, a bit more basic than your beautiful creation!
hey i got that barrel of cutters from aldi made some pumpkin cookies 4 halloween xxx
Oh! This ice cream cookies are so cute…
NQN (Lorraine you blow me away again! Those ice cream cones are adorable. (100 cutters for $4.95?) WOW! You’ve got me excited about collecting cookie cutters too. Last week I found gorgeous snowflake cutters in various sizes. Can’t wait to try when I get back to Maui. Aloha, beautiful lady.
~ Marilyn
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AWWwww!! Those are DARLING! I wish I had one for a Christmas ornament! Tee hee!
Oh Lorraine these look just adorable! So so pretty! I wish I could find such a cutter canister too!
Oh, those look too cute to eat!
As for a television show, I think I’d best be off with a gripping :CSI-style thriller. :p
These are adorable! You are a genius
Cute!
Those ice cream shape cutters are cool! I want one! Hehe.
Were the icecream sandwiches hard to eat? I always get paranoid with such things like these and say cannoli where it is hard on the outside and soft on the inside. Ends up in a lot of squishing and mess – and I am not the tidiest eater at the best of times!!
As for TV show….heh I think it would have to be about the silly things I say and how clumsy and absent minded I am. So a comedy possibly. But I could not play myself as I would forget my lines! Lol!
When I read Ice Cream Cookie Sandwiches, I thought ho hum ….boring but then I saw the photos and I’m like WOW , they look fantastic!!! Now, I want to make some, I’m off to my local Aldi tomorrow to try and get a barrel of cookie cutters like yours as mine are all rusty.
Loving the colours of the icing, great job Lorraine !
These are so cute! Love the idea.
these are awesome I have the Aldi cookie cutters (I paid $9.95)
Even without the fondant they would impress my kids
you are so creative, talented, a genius i tell you! these are absolutely gorgeous!!
if i had a tv show, it would no doubt be about food!
They are so pretty and cute! Now I gotta search around in ALDI for cute cutters like this! I never knew they had such things.. Awesome!
These are absolutely gorgeous!! I love them, so sweet and perfect for summer
Gorgeous idea, absolutely love it!!!
Lorraine – that is the cutest thing I have seen in a LONG time! Wow!!! That’s what I call ueber cute!
How cute. Brainfart. People say that at work all the time. Ok back to the ice cream. I think I will save this for my nephews 3rd birthday. What a great idea.
Lorraine, I think that your food creations, like these cute ice cream cones, are very imaginative!
Aw I love these so much! I bet they would impress adults equally as much as kids!
I have a horrible compulsion to always watch highly dramatic television shows about things I am terrified of, so if I had a show it would probably be some sort of variety hour filled with shark attacks, plane crashes, and serial killers. Probably a bridge collapse or two in there as well. Sort of like 20 to 1 but with me instead of Bert and more disasters (debatable).
I too bought the Aldi cutters!! I also paid $9.95 and thought that to be a bargain! Great idea for the cutters though…very creative!
LOVE the cookies! And 100 cookie cutters (with indents) all for under 5 bucks? Wowee that’s worth flying to Australia for! Gorgeous ice cream sandwiches! My tv show would be travel and food, of course!
Those are amazing!
Enjoy!
Wow, it’s not enough to just sandwich ice cream between cookies. The cookies also look like ice creams!
Nice work with this one
So awesome, thanks for sharing!!! *____*
Are those adorable or what???
These are adorable! I love the colors and wish I could sample one right now.
Oh, these are SO SO adorable!!! I love them!!
You are so creative, Lorraine! These are absolutely adorable…a perfect party treat!
Love those ice cream cone cookie cutters! The sandwiches are so cute. Unfortunately, it is too cold for us to make anything quite like this but I’ll keep this recipe in mind for our summer.
oh, they look so pretty:-) I love ice-cream biscuits but dun know where to get them..hmmm..do u know of any places selling them in sydney??? ur’s look deliciously appealing!
These are adorable and very creative! Darling you are definitely not without imagination and would make an excellent cable TV host! xoxo Mum
Our Aldi was all sold out of the cutters
I’ll have to keep my eye out for more like it, I’ll consider it my mission!
These ice cream cookie sandwiches are absolutely adorable!
OH MY GOSH. THIS IS SO CLEVER.
soooooo cute!
genius. heh.
Re: Kramer.
There is an episode of Seinfeld, where Kramer finds the set of one of his favourite old talk shows in a skip bin. So he drags it all home and does his apartment up as the talk show set, then proceeds to have his own talk show!
So that brings the Kramer reference to a nice full circle!
Such adorable cookies! When I read the title of your post, I sure wasn’t expecting this!!!
P.S – I’d totally watch your show!
I think all of the NQN readers have bombarded Aldi for their cookie cutters. The two stores I’ve been to have sold out! Anyone seen any in Melbourne?
Awww what cute cookies. I can totally see you having your own TV show
You’re truly an original. Just like these creations. Can’t think of what else to say, cos I am just blown away by them! Too pretty!
Oh wow they are wonderful! So decorative. They would go down a storm at Childrens birthday parties though I wouldn’t say no to one either!
Sooo cute! What great cookie cutters! Another job well done!
Oh my goodness Lorraine! I love these more than you can imagine. They’re beyond cute.
Those are so cute! almost to cute to eat! And absolutely perfect for summer dinners! great post once again,,thanks so much!
Wow, thats an awesome Idea, going to go and try that out, hope audi have some of those cutters left!
Lorraine, I love these. I can not get over how beautiful they are. I can’t remember seeing anything so adorable. So happy now!
This is the best ever! I love them. They are too cute to eat. So yummiliciously awesome.
Those are so,so,so cute!
what a gorgeous idea and perfect performance
those cookies and soooo cute!
wtg, i love your creativity and perfect making
Inbal
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