A Little Snackeral: Homemade Ice Cream Cookie Sandwiches

I never really got America's love of the ice cream cookie sandwich. As a kid, I somtimes got one of those standard ones at the grocery store--you know, rectangular chocolate cookies in waxed paper. Pretty good as a kid on a hot summer day, slurping it up as the ice cream melts and begins to resemble fluff. They serve their purpose well, satisfying my occasional spontaneous sugar-craving-meets-nostalgia sort of needs, but they're nothing I'd ever plan to eat.

So, I never thought that much about ice cream cookie sandwiches. Until last week, when I made some chocolate chip cookies and happened to also buy brilliant Alden's Organic Chocolate Chocolate Chip ice cream (some of the best ice cream, if you can get it).

Chocolate-Chocolate-Chocolate Ice Cream Sandwich
Chocolate chip cookies, chocolate ice cream with chocolate chips. I can barely type this out without drooling a little over my chin and blouse. Insanely good. Who knew?


2 homemade chocolate chip cookies (I use the recipe from the back of the chocolate chip bag)
1 small scoop of slightly soft Alden's Organic Chocolate Chocolate Chip ice cream

Meaner, Greener, Leaner!
* Alden's is reasonably priced organic ice cream. Love it! Fewer pesticides or unnecessary antibiotics.
* When I made the standard chocolate chip cookie recipe, I used organic eggs (to avoid the unnecessary antibiotics and such), organic all-purpose flour, a little bit of organic spelt flour, and organic sucanat sugar (unrefined brown sugar). All good ways to decrease the pesticide use on farms, in our soil, and in our bodies.
* Funny thing. Normally, I like a bowl of ice cream for dessert. Or, alternately, a few cookies. But both my husband and I found that an ice cream cookie sandwich made with a little bit of ice cream and two small cookies was insanely tasty and insanely satisfying. So, it seems like a crazy splurge, yet we ended up with a smaller dessert portion than normal ... all in all, less cholesterol and fewer fats than if we'd had ice cream or cookies separately! Who'da'thunk'it!

One more picture just cause we finished all the cookies, so these pictures are all I have left ...