These Chocolate Chunk Strawberry Ice Cream Sandwiches are easy to make, scrumptious to eat, and perfect for sweet celebrations!
Hi friends! I’m coming at you today to celebrate a highly momentous occasion! A Virtual Baby Shower for my friend Erin from The Speckled Palate!
Erin is due to have her second baby girl this September so I am happily channeling all things pink! Pink! Pink! Pink! And cookies.
I’ve been wanting to make homemade old-fashioned ice cream sandwiches for a while; and when I was invited to share in Erin’s celebration – I knew exactly what I wanted to make. These Chocolate Chunk Strawberry Ice Cream Sandwiches are adapted from a very special post I did about my own children many many many moons ago.
These cookies, which serve as our vessel, are. the. bomb! I’ve flavored them with not only silky mini chunks of dark chocolate, but I’ve added little bits of chopped dried strawberries which absolutely drive that strawberry flavor home!
And, because it’s a baby shower, I used a mini ice cream scoop to size the cookies – making this sweet treat —> tiny as a baby’s toes and ideal for nibbling down in a bite or two.
I picked up my favorite store-bought strawberry ice cream, though you could easily whip up my Strawberry Cheesecake No-Churn Ice Cream as an extra special treat!
And speaking of extra special treats… linked below my recipe you’ll find more gorgeous recipes from fellow bloggers who have contributed to this wonderful event!
Congratulations to Erin & her family!
Buon Appetito!
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Chocolate Chunk Strawberry Ice Cream Sandwiches
- Category: Dessert
Description
These Chocolate Chunk Strawberry Ice Cream Sandwiches are easy to make, scrumptious to eat, and perfect for sweet celebrations!
Ingredients
- 14 tbsp. unsalted butter, softened
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- ½ cup packed light brown sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1 ½ cups creamy peanut butter
- ¾ tsp. vanilla extract
- 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
- ¾ tsp. baking soda
- ¼ tsp. salt
- 1 cup coarsely chopped bittersweet or semisweet chocolate
- 1 cup chopped dried strawberries
- 1 gallon strawberry ice cream (store bought or homemade)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line two cookie sheets with parchment paper.
- Using an electric mixer, beat butter, sugar and brown sugar until light.
- Beat in eggs one at a time.
- Mix in peanut butter and vanilla.
- Stir in flour, baking soda and salt until just combined.
- Add the chocolate and dried strawberries and stir until mixed.
- Using a small ice cream scoop, drop dough 3 inches apart onto sheets.
- Bake on middle oven rack for approximately 15 minutes, until golden brown.
- Transfer cookies to wire racks and cool.
- Using the same small ice cream scoop, add ice cream to the center of two cookies, making a sandwich.
- Enjoy!
More treats!
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Savory Spin – Ginger Carrot Tartlets
The Emotional Baker – Mini Six-Inch Strawberry Cake
The Crumby Kitchen – Blackberry Peach Bourbon Smash
Pastry Chef Online – Butter Mints
Love and Flour – Blackberry Coffee Cake
Crumb Top Baking – Chocolate Zucchini Cupcakes with Coconut Whip
Feast & West – S’mores Rice Krispies Treats
A Joyfully Mad Kitchen – Moscato Cupcakes
I Dig Pinterest – Lemon Lime Cake
Ciao Chow Bambina – Chocolate Chunk Strawberry Ice Cream Sandwiches
This is a great dessert options for kids and parents!
It really is! Thanks, pal!
Annie! You are the sweetest, and I absolutely ADORE the touches of pink! How did you know that strawberry ice cream is my absolute FAVORITE? I could totally dive into one of these ice cream sandwiches about now, too. 😉
Thank you so much for participating in this surprise shower to welcome Baby Speckle—she and I feel so loved and supported! Now if there was a way for us to share all this food via the Internet so I could have a bite of everything, that would be amazing…
I loved being part of this special gathering for you and Baby Speckle! These are such sweet days for you and your family! Looking forward to the wonderful announcement!
These look so delicious! Love the flavor combination! That dripping ice cream is killing me!
Thank you, Kelly! 🙂
Perfectly delicious! This is a perfect treat to celebrate a baby or to say goodbye to summer!
They fit so many occasions! Thank you, Kathy!
Loving the addition of dried strawberries in these cookies! Wish to grab one right out of my screen!
I am a huge fan of dried strawberries! Love them on their own or in a cookie! Thanks, Neha!
I’d eat these cookies all on their own, but the ice cream makes them irresistible! Yum!
I won’t tell you how many cookies we ate! 😉 Thank you!
Love these Annie! I wish it was an in-person baby shower so I could enjoy one of these ice cream sandwiches for real! Instead, I’m just here drooling on my laptop! Hope you have a happy weekend!
Such a lovely bunch of recipes for Erin! I love them all! Thank you, friend! 🙂
I wish I could reach in and grab one of those Ice cream sandwichs…the looks great.
I do too! 🙂
I saw these on IG and I kept thinking about them, Annie! They look so amazing – nothing like a delicious ice cream and cookie sandwich. Perfect share for the upcoming holiday. Congrats to Erin!
They are hard to forget! 😉 Thank you, friend! 🙂
These are just the prettiest ice cream sandwich cookies, Annie! You can never go wrong with chocolate and strawberry! And what a lovely gesture for Erin!
I’m always in the mood for these flavors! I loved being part of this sweet event for Erin!
I love chocolate and strawberry together! These sound so yummy.
A perfect match! Thank you!
What a fun treat for a baby shower, Annie. But Oh my those cookies alone have me drooling! I love the flavor combination here too. Perfect for sharing on this long holiday weekend. Y’all have fun! xo
Oh yes – I could barely keep enough cookies (from my hubby ;)) to make the sandwiches! Thank you, my friend! xo
Great dish for a great celebration. I’m getting hungry just looking at it! (Love the peanut butter.)
Everything’s better with peanut butter! Thanks, Bill! 🙂
So fun and two of my faves – ice cream and cookies! And definitely something to celebrate with 🙂 The thing I like about sandwich cookies is I have two cookies, but really it’s one, right 😉 ?? Happy weekend, my friend! XOXO
Oh yes – definitely just one! And since they’re so tiny, it’s kind of like half of one! 😉 Happy weekend, friend! XOXO
So perfect! Such a great way to celebrate 🙂
Thanks, Jennifer! 🙂
YUM! Who can resist chocolate and strawberries? Or ice cream and cookies? These sound just delicious!
I know I can’t! Thanks, friend!