Ice Cream Cookie Sandwiches
An Original Recipe by Not Quite Nigella
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85 g/3ozs butter, softened
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140g/5ozs white caster superfine sugar
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1 egg
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1 teaspoon vanilla
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180-210g/6ozs-7ozs all-purpose flour (I sometimes find this a little too sticky to roll out so the extra flour helps)
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1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
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A ice cream shaped cookie cutter
To decorate
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coloured fondant in a few different colours (I mixed a pale pink, yellow, pale orange, a "bubblegum" blue and purple and red for cherries)
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2 tablespoons jam
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Coloured icing in a tube
Ice cream filling
- Ice cream in your favourite flavour
Prepare ice cream first
Step 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
Step 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).
Step 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
Step 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.
Step 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.