Chocolate Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches

I'm spending the holiday break in Australia's scorching hot summer, and on a lazy day ice cream sandwiches never fail to hit the spot.  I used a chocolate sugar cookie recipe and just some plain-jane Woolworth's brand vanilla ice cream.  The cookies alone are delicious; they're only made better with the ice cream and a hot summer's sun.

For the Chocolate Sugar Cookies:

1 1/4 cups flour
1/2 cocoa powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 1/2 cups sugar
1/2 cup plus 2 tbls unsalted butter at room temperature
1 large egg
small chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 375 F (about 190 C)

Whisk all dry ingredients (flour, cocoa powder, soda, baking powder, salt and sugar) in a medium sized bowl.  Add butter and either continue to whisk or use an electric mixer whichever you prefer until butter is incorporated.  Then add egg and do the same.  Lastly, sprinkle in the chocolate chips...as many as you'd like!

Don't be put off if the dough isn't exactly doughy, I used a whisk for the entire process and it came out quite crumbly.

Use hands to form dough into the desired size cookie, flatten it slightly and place on a baking sheet.

Bake for 7-9 minutes, but watch them because they can burn easily, as I learned in my first batch :)

Rotate halfway through for even baking.

After cookies are cooled find two of the same size and start making the ice cream sandwiches.  Use a butter knife and put the ice cream on nice and thick, then top with the second cookie.

Wrap the sandwiches in cling wrap to keep them together then stick them straight in the freezer for a few hours up to a day.  The more frozen they are the easier they are to eat.

Another idea, if you want to try and avoid the terribly epic moment when you go to bite into your luscious ice cream sandwich and all the ice cream squishes out the sides, as it tends to do, you can try baking a very small, coin sized, cookie to place in the middle of the sandwich, putting the ice cream around it...I didn't do this, but some one told me I should try it...he knows nothing about baking or ice-cream-sandwich-making, but he did fail miserably at eating his cookie sandwich so thinks it is worth a shot.

I hope you enjoy the ice cream sandwiches! :)  They are surprisingly easy to make and pretty lip-smackin' delicious!