I love ice cream. Maybe I love ice cream a little too much. In the Type A Housewife household, we have a little something called the ice cream card. Whenever I have a particularly rough work day, I say to my husband, "I'm using my ice cream card tonight!" And then we get ice cream. Because really, doesn't ice cream make everything better? Doesn't it? It does.
Unfortunately, now that I'm trying to eat better, the ice cream card had to be retired. If I want ice cream, it's gonna be a reasonable portion. Enter: Chocolate Peppermint Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches. Oh yes, they sound terribly decadent, but the chewy chocolate chocolate chip cookies weigh in at a mere 80 calories each. And the ice cream is the low-fat, low-calorie kind. The crushed candy canes? Well, that's just a little dusting of peppermint-y goodness! Just a little bit! So compared to a brownie sundae or ginormous waffle cone, these ice cream sandwiches are pretty guilt-free. You don't even need to use your ice cream card on them.
Ingredients
- 1 c. all-purpose flour
- ⅓ c. unsweetened cocoa
- ½ tsp. baking powder
- ¼ tsp. baking soda
- ¼ tsp. salt
- 1 c. sugar
- ⅓ c. butter softened
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1 large egg
- ¼ c. mini chocolate chips
- cooking spray
- 2 c. slow-churned peppermint or vanilla ice cream
- ½ c. broken candy cane pieces about 6 candy canes
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Combine flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a small bowl and whisk until combined and any lumps are broken up. In a large bowl, beat butter and sugar together using a mixer on high speed. Add vanilla and egg and beat until combined. Set mixer to low speed and slowly add flour mixture. Beat until just combined and fold in chocolate chips.
- Drop tablespoons of batter two inches apart onto a baking sheet coated with cooking spray. Bake for 12 minutes or until set. (Don't overbake or the cookies won't be chewy!) Cook on baking sheets for 5 minutes, then finish cooling on wire racks.
- Put broken candy cane pieces on plate or in shallow dish. Spoon approximately 2 tablespoons of ice cream onto one cookie and press another cookie onto the top. Roll edges of sandwich in candy cane pieces. Freeze immediately.
These sound amazing! This just goes to show you can enjoy ice cream year round!
OMG, I would never let the fact that it's winter keep me away from ice cream. 🙂 And living down here, it doesn't really feel like winter anyway!
Forget the ice cream, I want cookies where eating 5 of them is not 100 calories but only a few hundred 🙂 Oh...did I really admit that I'll eat 5 cookies in one sitting? LOL
The low-cal cookies are always either teeny-tiny or they taste awful! I've just started making my own and I freeze them right away, so I'm not tempted.
It's almost midnight and I just happen to be eating ice cream while I'm reading this! Those look divine! Though I would need my ice cream card because I could probably eat about three. I've fallen off the slightly healthier wagon this week, but back on tomorrow...mostly.
Ha! I could eat three too. They are really good. 🙂 I'm back on the healthy wagon, but with the holidays coming up, I'm sure I'll be derailed soon enough. Er, I guess wagons don't have rails. But you know what I mean!
Yumm, I would love these!!
Peppermint ice cream is my very favorite. Our Braum's store has it seasonally and I get my fill every year! With your recipe I can have it all year! Thanks for sharing.
I really wish more places would have peppermint ice cream year-round! They always have mint chocolate chip, but that's just not the same--it's not minty enough. In a pinch, stirring crushed starlight mints into vanilla ice cream is a pretty good substitute.
Peppermint ice cream is my favorite (second is bubble gum)! And smashed between chocolate cookies, I'm drooling!!
I love bubble gum ice cream too! My husband thinks I'm crazy--"The gum is hard! How is that enjoyable? And then you have to spit it out!" Still love it, though. 🙂
Yum! I'll bet you could try making trhese with stevia and REALLY cut more calories out. I haven't baked with it yet... have you?
Actually, I received stevia to review here. I've been experimenting with it in different ways & I'm planning on posting a recipe on Monday. 🙂
Oh my goodness those look so yummy!!!
Wow these look soooo good... Mmmm. Hunter doesn't like peppermint though. More for me then!
I never liked peppermint when I was a kid either. I think it's one of those flavors that you grow into?
WOWZA. These look incredible!!
These look great!
Wow, this combination is killer! They will vanish in my house within minutes LOL.