Introducing the summer of HOMEMADE ice cream sandwiches + Strawberry Graham ice cream sammie
Recently my son has been into cooking shows, particularly the Spring baking championship on the Food Network! 🙂 SOOOOOO! One day he asked if we could do some competition of our own…..we chatted a bit and came up with the idea of a cooking CHALLENGE for our summer! And guess what we landed on?!?! A wholllllle summer of homemade ice cream sandwiches! YUP! Ya heard me. Zeke came up with a HUGE list of flavor combinations that he wants to try (and let’s be honest, he is five, so some of these flavors need some “tweaking”…..like the Mango Coconut peanut butter ice cream with a chocolate chip, caramel cookie). But we are SO SO SO SO SO SO excited to embark on this journey and share ALLLL of our homemade ice cream sandwich recipes as we go! 🙂
These are our “Rules” that Zeke and I established:
1. Choose a new flavor combo every week
2. Have the MOST FUN POSSIBLE while making the ice cream sandwiches
3. Share our process with pics and recipes and everything NO MATTER the outcome (because, duh this is about the process rather than perfect, Instagram worthy photos)! 🙂
**oh, and I plan to use hashtag #ohyayicecreamsammie in social media so that you can follow along! 🙂
SOOOOOO! I have to be honest and say we’ve already learned SO much this first week! We chose a fresh strawberry ice cream and paired it with a (SUPPPPER yummy) graham cracker cookie for our first attempt! 🙂 We have our ice cream “base” recipe down pat….and now it’s just about adjusting and adding and changing things up to make it the best and yummiest ice cream to include in a homemade sandwich recipe! 🙂
Now, let’s just say that if we made this recipe again, I would FOR SURE “roll” chopped up fresh strawberries around the outside of the ice cream sandwich to give it one more “umph” of strawberry flavor! But mannnnn oh man, this is one gooooood recipe! 🙂
Be sure to grab the recipe below AND follow along this summer with our WHOOOOOOLLLLE summer of homemade ice cream sandwiches! 🙂 I really REALLY can’t wait to see how this all turns out! 🙂
A fresh Strawberry ice cream recipe with a SUPPPPPER yummy graham cracker cookie that is perfect for EVERY summer get-together! 🙂
- 2 cups cream
- 1 cup milk
- 2/3 cup sugar
- splash of vanilla
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 1 container of strawberries
- 6 egg yolks
- 1/2 cup 1 stick butter, room temperature
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1 egg
- 1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs
- 3/4 cup all purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
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In a small pot, simmer cream, milk, sugar, and salt until the sugar and salt dissolves (approx 3-5 min)
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In a separate bowl, whisk together the 6 egg yolks until combined
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When the mixture on the stove is ready, add about 1/3 of this hot mixture to the whisked egg yolks whisking constantly as to not curdle the yolks. Then whisk the yolk mixture back into pot with cream. Return the pot to the stove until the mixture reaches about 170 degrees on the stove (or thick enough to coat the back of a spoon)
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Strain the hot mixture through a fine strainer into a bowl
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Puree or blend 8-10 strawberries, then stir this into the hot mixture.
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Cool mixture in the fridge for about 4 hours, or until cool. Then churn in your ice cream maker according to the machine’s instructions.
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Dice up the remaining strawberries and add to ice cream in the last minutes of churning!
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Put back into freezer and freeze until desired hardness
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Preheat oven to 350 degres.
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In the bowl of a stand mixer, cream together the butter and sugar until creamy.
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Beat in the vanilla and egg until well combined.
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In a medium bowl, combine the graham cracker crumbs, flour, baking soda, and salt. Gradually add to the butter mixture until just combined.
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Using a medium cookie scoop, drop balls of dough onto a parchment lined baking sheet. Bake for 7 minutes. Cookies will look slightly underdone, but should set up nicely as they cool.
The graham cracker cookie recipe (minus the chocolate chips) is from the AMAZING buns in my oven blog! 🙂
https://www.bunsinmyoven.com/graham-cracker-cookies/
This looks so good! I’m sure that they’re the perfect summer treat!
This is such a neat and clever challenge! I love ice cream, and this ice cream sandwich sounds delicious!
Oh, Goodness!! This looks delicious! My kids would be all about it! I think we will have to try it! Thanks so much for sharing! 🙂
This looks soo delicious!
So yummy! I love strawberry ice cream, so I would probably love this. Perfect for summer!
Looks awfully yummy! You’ll be having lots of fun this summer for sure, and eating some interesting and unique treats 🙂
Delicious and fresh ice cream, right on time for summer!
looks delicious, you will definitely have a great summer
This looks so delicious! I’m definitely putting it on the must make list for this summer!
OH MY GOSH! This looks DELISH. WE have a family reunion coming up and I will for sure recommend this be on our list of things to be eating.
These look so fun and yummy to make! Adding to my summer bucket list!