Black and White Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches.
I’m feeling super duper old school.
Just look. But.
If we really want to discuss old school things, then we should probably talk about how yesterday I searched and searched unsuccessfully for the hope floats soundtrack on itunes – a soundtrack which I straight up BLASTED (along with Waiting to Exhale) during the summer that sat between my ninth and tenth grade years because I was a ridiculously hopeless romantic and was just all omg these songs are amazing even though I hated country music at the time. It must have been a premonition.
And this really only came second to the previous summers that consisted solely of either Beaches or Steel Magnolias or even Jerry Maguire.
Whatever.
I never found the soundtrack online and I can’t ever get the original songs to come up, but don’t worry! I’m sure the actual CD is stuffed somewhere in a plastic bin downstairs in our basement with Eddie’s 600 other CDs (that might have been an issue when we got married…) and framed wrestler photos (they’ve all managed to make their way to the garage… where he still HANGS SOME UP).
But cookies! And ice cream! These were actually part of our memorial day weekend (along with burgers… and hot dogs… and donuts galore. It was a healthfest!). New favorite things? Quite possibly.
Want to know something? This is like eating cake and ice cream. Not cookies and ice cream. Without the cake. But still kind of with the cake. Because black and white cookies are basically cake, and then you stuff ice cream in between and it’s all OMG head explosion. Delicious.
What to know something else? Black and white cookies were the cookies I made the night before I started my blog so many moons ago. It was totally unrelated to starting a blog, but I remember icing them and thinking… maybe I should embarrass myself and start a blog. That I did. (both things.)
I make black and white cookies at least once or twice a year and use the go-to recipe below because we just start CRAVING them. But if you’ve made them or simply just tasted one before, you know that you have to be… in a certain mood. A cakey cookie mood. You can’t be in a chewy cookie mood or else you will be depressingly disappointed.
Please don’t judge me on my ability to (not be able to) draw a straight line with icing.
Or maybe you can. I possibly would. It’s cool though. It still tastes the same.
So that’s that and I made some cop out regular cookies but shoved iced cream in between, particularly more chocolate and vanilla ice cream. You can roll them in sprinkles too but I wasn’t quick enough with the camera to get that beauty on film. I’m just… in love.
Black and White Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches
Ingredients
- 2/3 cup buttermilk
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 2/3 cup about (11 tablespoons) unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 pint vanilla bean ice cream
- 1 pink dark chocolate ice cream
icing
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons light corn syrup
- 2 teaspoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 to 4 tablespoons water, plus more for chocolate frosting
- 1.3 cup unsweetened dutch process/dark cocoa powder
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Stir together buttermilk and vanilla then set aside.
- Add the butter and sugar the bowl of your electric mixer and beat on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add the eggs and beat for another 2 to 3 minutes until combined, scraping down the sides if needed. In a small bowl, combine the flour, baking soda and salt. With the mixer on low speed, add half of the dry ingredients to the bowl. Pour in the vanilla buttermilk. Once combined, add the remaining dry ingredients.
- Use a tablespoon measure to scoop out 2 tablespoons of batter and place them about 2 inches apart on a baking sheet. I took the back of a spoon and spread the batter out a bit until it formed a circle. Bake the cookies for 12 to 13 minutes, or until they are slightly golden around the edges. I let the cookies cool for a few minutes on the sheet them removed them with a spatula and placed them on a cooling rack to cool completely. Once the cookies are completely cool, I take a butter knife or spoon and gently scrape off all the remaining crumbs on the flat side of the cookie.
icing
- Add the powdered sugar to a large bowl. Add in the corn syrup, lemon juice, vanilla extract and 1 tablespoon water, whisking and stirring until all the sugar lumps dissolve and a white glaze forms. If the glaze is still a bit thick, add an additional tablespoon of water. You want the icing spreadable but not liquidy.
- Transfer half of the icing to another bowl and whisk in the cocoa powder. Add the remaining 2 tablespoons of water and stir and whisk until a dark chocolate glaze forms – the same consistency of the white one. To frost the cookies, I like to start with the white glaze and use a spoon, drizzling a line down the center. I then use the back of the spoon to frost the remaining cookie. I frost all the white halves first, then do the black. I then let the cookies set for an hour or two so the glaze sets. You can pop them in the fridge or freezer before adding ice cream and the glaze will hold up a bit more.
- I suggest serving these as an ice cream sandwich “bar” – by having people scoop their own ice cream in between the cookies and pressing them together. You can make a few ahead of time and store them in the freezer for quick grabbing, but one size of the black and white frosting will get a little gooey and stick to the tray or plate they are set on.
Notes
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61 Comments on “Black and White Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches.”
These need to be in my life!
Black and White are my favorite cookies. This is brilliant!
1, I am glad that I am not the only human who can’t make a straight chocolate line. WHY IS IT SO HARD.
2. I live in FL. It’s really hot. These are cold. So, I need them. End of story. Pinned!
These cookies had me at hello. Also, if I serenade you with Hope Floats (which I 100% have on CD), can I raid the entire cookie stash?
Ahh I loved all those movies! In fact, I may watch Hope Floats this weekend. And these ice cream sandwiches…. I have no words. They are beautiful (crooked lines and all!)
Hope Floats..I still had my CD and threw it into my Mac and it uploaded into iTunes. And then all was good in the world…
Hope Floats is one of my all-time favorite movies! Harry Connick Jr. OMG, he was yummy. So cookies are my favorite dessert and yet I have never had a black + white cookie. These look to die for!
Perfection indeed! i was just talking about making black & white cookies! these take them up a few notches!
And no worries about the lines, I would eat them right up!
marry me
I love black and white! These look scrumptious indeed! (No judgement zone.) Notice my raspberry brownies have chocolate on the white. I’m hopeless!
Totally into everything ice cream right now. :)
Have a wonderful weekend!
I LOVE these pictures! There’s something ethereal about them. Beauty! Also, these cookies are making my mouth water. OMG. I’ve been on a major ice cream/gelato/sorbet kick lately, and these might have to make an appearance in my life soon!
These look FAB! And I love Hope Floats. That movie gets me every time. Waterworks.
Don’t forget about this gem…the Can’t Hardly Wait soundtrack!
These are gorgeous. You can’t go wrong with ice cream between two cookies.
So my discussion on my blog this entire week (birthday week!) has been all things cakes cookies ice cream. And cake and ice cream and cookies and ice cream. And hello to Black and Whites because as Jerry Seinfeld says, they unite the world. My dessert last night was epic. You must look at my blog to see what I had for my birthday dessert. Gigantic sundae loaded with warm cookies and brownies piled around ice cream. It served 6 but we were only two people. This morning I decided that rather than diving into the mix, I should have assembled cookie sandwiches.
Black and White Cookies were my FAVE as a kid! Never thought to make them into ice cream sandwiches though :)
I’ve never had black and white cookies but they look amazing!
Hello Summer! these look fantastic. One of my favorite quote came from Hope Floats. “Beginnings are scary, endings are usually sad, but its what we do with the middle that counts”… or something like that
Sweetheart,
Use Spotify. They have EVERYTHING. Blast a little backstreet boys to bring you back =)
and ps, your blog—the bomb diggity
These look insanely good, especially on a hot weekend like we are having here. Love ’em!
I can’t believe other people love the movie Hope Floats. It was filmed in my hometown and made me a Sandra Bullock fan for LIFE.
PS – my family has a .00001 second cameo during the parade scene. It’s sad how epic I still think that is.
Mmm yes please. I don’t know why I never make my own ice cream sandwiches, but I think I need to start like yesterday, and these are an ideal candidate.
Ah, black and white cookies always remind me of living in NYC and Seinfeld. :)
I’m in the summer between 9th and 10th grade right now, though I’d much rather have an unlimited supply of these than an unlimited supply of music… food blogger problems!
you need to download spotify! you can get the entire hope floats soundtrack (& so much more…) there :)
I just re-listened to the Velvet Rope album by Janet Jackson on Spotify. That CD got more play then a high school cheerleader during my high school days. Ah-maz-ing. Thanks for the reminder!
We are kindred spirits, I watch Hope Floats every freaking time it comes on tv!!
I can’t get enough of Harry Connick Jr, :)
Looks perfect! PERFECT. I need one now!
What I wouldn’t give to leave the shackles and confines of this place (work) to get my hands on one of these.
I adore black and white cookies and you added ice cream, so yeah. I need these.
I want to put this in my mouth. They look so perfect! And I would listen to bon jovi whilst at it.
yep. that’s definitely perfection… thanks for sharing :D looks super yummy
Oh my gosh yum!! Thos cookies look amazing and I’m sure I would demolish them even before making the ice cream sandwiches whoops!
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These are perfection! Black & Whites are my dads favorite so I’m thinking these are a must make for Father’s Day! :)
Hummmm those cookies look amazing. I’m so hungry now
Hummmm those cookies look amazing. I’m so hungry now
Hope floats cd and my Ally Mc Beal Christmas CD ( the one with Robert Downey jr. Singing) are two of very few that survived the download to iTunes and were then purged. Love love them….
Look to the cookie! I make black and white cookie ice cream sandwiches with my homemade Manischewitz wine ice cream. Not sorry!
Why not put the cookies glazed sides together, against the ice cream? Same great taste and a bit less messy. Of course, not as pretty, but hey. I can sacrifice that once in a while.
Headed to a dinner tonight with some Seinfeld-lovin’ people and totally making these! Also, can I just say, I was so baffeled as to what pink dark chocolate ice cream was (ingredient list)… then i realized… “oh… pint” haha. Thought I was being introduced to some pink chocolate in true How Sweet Eats form!
And now I’m craving these too!
I know you like Trader Joe’s, so here’s an article you might enjoy. I discovered it through you when I went to Washington, we don’t have them in Canada! Burlington just opened !
http://www.buzzfeed.com/samstryker/trader-joes-is-the-bomb-dot-com
Wow these look incredible! I have always wanted to try black and white cookies!
I LOVE this idea! Black and white cookies are so fabulous on their own, why not make them the star of an ice cream sandwich?
WoooW realy thanks for this recipe I love it
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I am drooooooling. Those look absolutely amazing. Pinned for sure!!
I want one! yummy!!!