Ice Cream Cookie Sandwich: Häagen-Dazs Mint Leaves & Chocolate
Monday, April 23, 2012
Disclaimer: I was sent the Häagen-Dazs ice cream to review on my blog.
We’ve been living in our new house for nearly 2 months. In that time I feel like I have washed a zillion dishes. My skin and nails have suffered for it, the nail polish chipped within a couple of days. I felt bad about forcing Mr Ltt to “get his plumber on” and get the dishwasher sorted yesterday, because he was working on Saturday and he was grumbling about needing a break, but by giving him a small window of opportunity to get it done before the Formula One was on, he was motivated enough to finish it on time. This has changed my world; you’ll know exactly what I mean if you’ve had a dishwasher and then had it taken away.
This weekend has also seen a reformat of my laptop which has been on the cards for a while. It has got to the point where everything had got painfully slow, beyond the point of me tweaking stuff on it geek style. I think this has got to be one of the most painful re-installations of my life. I wasted a whole morning trying to find drivers for a mystery “Multimedia controller” which I swear I’d installed, but turned out to be the TV tuner card. It’s like redecorating your bedroom, you want to move all the furniture back in so you can enjoy it!
What better way to chill out than to do a bit of baking? I had this Häagen-Dazs Mint Leaves & Chocolate ice cream to review but as I haven’t posted a recipe for aaaages I wanted to do something that would combine the two. Thus the ice cream cookie sandwich was born. I used my Flavour Thesaurus to help me and decided upon almond as I didn’t want to overpower the flavours of the ice cream. The cookies are nice and soft so it’s easy to bite a bit without squidging ice cream all over yourself!
A quick description of the ice cream: vanilla with tiny little pieces of mint and lovely chunks of dark chocolate. I was really sceptical about mint ice cream. I honestly don’t think I’ve ever tried mint ice cream before – I think the faux green colour of traditional mint ice cream put me off. This of course is has that rich creamy consistency we all know and love with no green colour. The mint is not overpowering, it’s tangy and it’s so good nibbling the little bits of chocolate while the minty flavour hits. When we first tried it, we instantly thought of After Eight’s, but much MUCH nicer. It’s a good job we do like it, because there’s 6 tubs in our freezer. I’d love to give some away to you guys, but, yeah, kind of difficult!
You will need this stuff
Cream the butter and sugars
Add the egg…
Sift the flour, ground almond, salt & bicarb of sofa and add to the mix
Here’s your dough…
To get really evenly sized cookies, weigh each one out at 30g
Place on the baking tray and squash slightly. Decorate with flaked almond pieces in a flower shape.
Baking for 12-14 minutes then remove from the oven and leave to cool on a baking tray for 5 minutes. Then cool on a cooling rack…
Get your shiz together yo’
Scoop a bit of ice cream onto one of the cookies
Sandwich another cookie on top and hey presto!
{Makes 18 cookies / 9 cookie sandwiches}
Ingredients
- 100g light brown sugar
- 75g dark brown sugar
- 130g unsalted butter
- 180g plain flour
- 25g granulated sugar
- 20g ground almonds
- 1 large egg
- 1tsp bicarb soda
- Pinch of salt
- a large handful of flaked almonds
- One tub Häagen-Dazs Mint Leaves & Chocolate Ice Cream
Instructions
Oven Temperature: 150°C (fan oven) / 335°F/Gas Mark 3
- Cream butter and sugars together until fluffy, then mix in the egg.
- Sift the flour, ground almonds, salt and bicarb soda into a separate bowl.
- Mix flour mix into butter mix – it will form a nice thick dough.
- Prepare baking trays with greaseproof paper.
- Weight out 30g pieces of dough and roll into balls. Spread out evenly spaced on a baking tray (I put six on a tray) and flatten slightly with the palm of your hand.
- Decorate the tops of the cookie with flaked almond pieces in a flower shape.
- Bake for 12-14 minutes until edges start to darken slightly. Remove from the oven and leave to cool on tray for 5 minutes, then place on a cooling rack. Repeat with all the batches.
- Once cool, remove ice cream from the freezer and allow to warm slightly for about 10 minutes to make it easier. Take a scoop and place on a cookie, then sandwich another cookie on top.
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9 Responses to “Ice Cream Cookie Sandwich: Häagen-Dazs Mint Leaves & Chocolate”
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I totally adore this flavour – I have almost eaten my entire tub!
These look really good! Yum yum! And I love your photog composition too!!
I love the flavour thesaurus! Mint chocolate chip ice cream is my favourite & I love ice cream sandwiches, yum
Posh mint ice cream? I need some of that immediately, although I like the lurid green stuff too. The cookies look perfect too…
I really wish I could shift some of the tubs in the freezer! Needs some dry ice like the last lot arrived on!
This looks delicious! I love the mint and chocolate combination and ice cream cookie sandwiches are a match made in heaven
I love mint ice cream (even the dyed green stuff) so I bet I’ll like this much fancier version. Those cookies look so so tasty
I quite like After Eights so if this is nicer then I’d like to try it. I don’t like choc chip ice cream when the chips are hard. Lovely biscuits – they look like little flowers with slivered almonds pointing out like petals!
Lovely cookies! I really have to make ice cream sandwich cookies soon…
Cheers,
Rosa