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I needed a last minute patriotic dessert for the 4th, so I landed on ice cream sandwiches! I had some vanilla ice cream and the super basic ingredients for a buttery cutout cookie recipe. Add some red and blue color and you got some festive American ice cream sandwiches.
I didn’t need a full cookie batch so I halved a cutout recipe I use for Christmas cookies. Then I split the dough in half and added the food coloring to each. The ice cream is just store bought vanilla, you can make your own if you are feeling fancy! Or maybe try a different flavor, whatever your favorite is.
I liked the idea of this dessert because you can make it ahead of time so you have time to worry about other party preparations the day before. Plus who doesn’t want ice cream on a hot summer day!
Red, White & Blue Ice Cream Sandwiches
Ingredients
- ½ cup butter softened
- 1 ½ cup all purpose flour
- 1 tsp cornstarch
- ½ tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp salt
- ¼ cup sugar
- ¼ cup brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 egg yolk
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- Blue and red food coloring
- Sprinkles
Instructions
- Cream butter and sugars until light and fluffy.
- Add in egg, yolks, and vanilla, mix to combine.
- In another bowl stir together flour, cornstarch, baking powder, and salt.
- Incorporate the dry ingredients to the wet, mix until crumbly dough forms.
- Separate dough equally into two bowls, add blue coloring to one bowl and red to the other.
- Knead dough until dough is evenly colored, you may want to use food safe gloves to prevent dying hands.
- Wrap each dough in plastic wrap and chill in the refrigerator for 3 hours or overnight.
- Preheat the oven to 375°F.
- Prepare 2 cookie pans by lining with parchment.
- Roll out dough on a floured surface and cut out dough using a 2” circle cutter. Roll out to a little more than ⅛”. Reshape scraps into another ball and roll out one more time.
- Bake cookies for 7 – 8 mins. Cool on a wire rack.
- When cookies are totally cool, add one scoop of ice cream to a cookie and top with another color cookie. Wrap in plastic and immediately store in the freezer in a large airtight container. After making each sandwich, place in the freezer to avoid ice cream melting. Seal container when finished.
- If rolling in sprinkles, let cookies freeze at least an hour before decorating. Then place it back in a wrapper and put it in the freezer.