My 4-year-old son, Brooklyn, is all about icy-poles, regardless of how cold it is.
This Winter, he requested that I help him make ice cream sandwiches -- it's currently about 10 degrees outside! So, of course, I helped him make them!
Oreo Style Ice Cream Sandwiches
Makes approx. 12
Ingredients:
- 1 tin of Sweetened Condensed Milk
- 600ml of Thickened Cream
- 1tsp of Vanilla Bean paste [you can use Vanilla essence]
- 1 packet of Chocolate Ripple biscuits
Add the cream and vanilla to a bowl and whip with a stand mixer until you have firm peaks -- you don't want it to be 'broken', otherwise you've gone too far and you're on your way to churning butter!
Once you have firm peaks, pour in the sweetened condensed milk, folding it into the cream with a spatula so you don't beat out the air you just whisked in.
Line a slice tray with cling-wrap and pour your mixture into the tray. Pop into the freezer until set like ice cream.
Once set, remove the tray from the freezer. Pulling up at the corners of the cling-wrap, you should be able to easily remove the sheet of 'ice cream' from the tray. Lay on a flat surface.
Using a round cookie-cutter, approximately the same size as the Chocolate Ripple biscuits, cut rounds out of your frozen mixture, placing a chocolate ripple biscuit on the bottom of the cookie-cutter so you can press the 'ice cream' onto it gently with the back of a teaspoon, before placing another biscuit on top.
Continue the process until you have finished the entire packet of biscuits - we usually have a biscuit left over at the end.
Place all the sandwiches back onto your slice tray and freeze for approximately 15 minutes before removing from the tray and storing in a freezer safe container in your freezer.
..don't ask me how long these can be stored for.. ours only ever stay in there for a couple of days, but I'd imagine you'd have about 3 months in them if they're stored properly!
Leave a comment below with a photo if you make these!
I always have a bit extra left over, so rather than buying two packets of biscuits, I load up a few small glass jars with two ice cream 'rounds' each and then the kids get to have their own little single serve ice cream -- and there's still enough space in the top of the jar to add ice cream toppings!
You can also use the chocolate Digestive biscuits, in place of Ripple biscuits, which are really yummy too!
