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Straightforward Fruit-Swirl Ice Cream Sandwiches Recipe

Why It Works

  • Utilizing store-bought ice cream and jam lets you save on time with out sacrificing the standard of the ice cream sandwiches. 
  • The fast made-from-scratch cookie produces an ice cream sandwich that’s straightforward to slice and chew by means of, even when frozen.
  • Utilizing jams as flavorings lets you go together with whichever taste is your favourite, or combine them up!

If I might solely eat one form of sandwich, the ice cream sandwich could be a powerful contender. However as a substitute of getting misplaced in a recreation of Meals Offers With the Satan, I will simply say I actually, actually like an ice cream sandwich. However making ice cream sandwiches from scratch? That at all times appeared a bit too labor intensive—particularly at a time of 12 months once I’d quite be on the seashore than within the kitchen. My allergy to creating my very own ice cream sandwiches was cured when our take a look at kitchen colleague Julia Levy created this straightforward, customizable recipe for selfmade vanilla cookie–and–jam ice cream sandwiches.

Critical Eats / Robby Lozano


These straightforward ice cream sandwiches use a fast selfmade sugar cookie and name for store-bought ice cream and jam and require a mere quarter-hour of lively prep time. Sure, sure, they’ve to sit down within the freezer for just a few hours earlier than you possibly can slice and serve them, however you are able to do no matter you need throughout that point—head to the seashore, compensate for The Bear, take a bear-length nap in your air-conditioned residence…

Learn on for the important thing steps Julia took to make these ice cream sandwiches as straightforward as they’re scrumptious.

4 Suggestions for Straightforward and Scrumptious Ice Cream Sandwiches.

Retailer-bought is okay for the ice cream and jam. Not like some meals websites, we do not quote Ina Garten every day round right here, however within the case of the ice cream and jam for these cookies, store-bought actually is okay. By all means, if you wish to make selfmade ice cream and jam, completely do, however until you are actually obsessed with making these from scratch, we vote for store-bought for these two parts.

Critical Eats / Robby Lozano


The reality is that each ice cream and jam are store-bought merchandise that—so long as you purchase good high quality—are nearly as good as, if not generally higher, than what you may make at house. Additionally observe that if utilizing store-bought ice cream, you’ll want to purchase 1.5-quart or smaller containers. In our checks, we discovered that the ice cream in a 2-quart container took so lengthy to melt on the middle that the ice cream on the sides of the container was too mushy to work with when constructing the sandwiches. 

Do make the cookie from scratch. For this recipe, as with Stella Parks’ glorious chocolate and vanilla ice cream sandwiches, we opted for a from-scratch cookie. That enables us to formulate a cookie dough that bakes up mushy sufficient that it does not break your enamel if you chew into it when frozen. The important thing to that is utilizing oil as a substitute of butter, since butter-based cookies flip very onerous when frozen, whereas oil-based ones keep chewy regardless of the chilly.

The selfmade cookie is cooked in a single massive slab so it may be assembled as one large sandwich after which sliced into smaller sandwiches. We have given pointers for slicing, however be happy to go smaller or bigger together with your sammies. You may know what’s proper if you get house from the seashore.

Clear your knife between slices. For clear edges in your ice cream sandwiches, wipe the knife with a sizzling, moist kitchen towel between every lower.

Critical Eats / Robby Lozano


Customise your little coronary heart out. Whereas we caught to a easy vanilla and summer season fruit jam taste profile within the base recipe, you possibly can actually use any taste of ice cream or fruit jam you need. Attempt pairing ginger ice cream with marmalade, chocolate with cherry preserves, or doubling down on the strawberry by utilizing strawberry ice cream with strawberry jam.

Editor’s Notice

This recipe was developed by Julia Levy; the headnote was written by Megan O. Steintrager.

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