Pumpkin Ice Cream Sandwiches

Pumpkin Ice Cream Sandwiches, with vanilla ice cream and chocolate chips, or butter pecan and English toffee bits, are the best dessert I’ve had in a long time.

And that’s saying something, since I am not a huge dessert person. I only make something sweet a couple times a month, and usually only for the website, or a special occasion. My 14 year old daughter, Sophie, on the other hand, loves to bake. She got the baking gene from my mom, who in turn got it from her grandmother. Sophie is the birthday cake baker for all of her friends as well.

I came home last weekend from doing some errands to a kitchen sink full of dishes, and racks of Pumpkin Cookies with Brown Butter Icing.

She went onto the Internet and found Martha Stewart’s recipe for these soft, puffy cookies, and they are pretty darn good. There is no need to tweak the recipe at all. The cookies were various sizes, some rather big, and some regular cookie size. When I saw the big cookies, I couldn’t help but think that they looked just like the top of an ice cream sandwich.

Remember those chocolate ice cream sandwiches you had as a kid? These pumpkin cookies have the same soft texture. I always keep a 1/2 gallon of French vanilla ice cream on hand for “emergencies“, just like this! We thought butter pecan ice cream would be a tasty filling, as well.

Roll the pumpkin ice cream sandwiches in toffee bits, chocolate chips, or nuts for a decadent fall treat.

My husband, who’d rather have a bag of salt and vinegar potato chips, was nearly speechless after eating one of these pumpkin ice cream sandwiches. He decided that he needed multiple samples to decide which flavor combination he preferred.

To assemble the pumpkin ice cream sandwiches, slightly soften ice cream, then scoop it onto the bottom of one cookie. Top with second cookie, smoothing the sides of the ice cream, so that the cookies are even. For the butter pecan ice cream version, I purchased a pint container of ice cream. Then, I just sliced through the carton horizontally, leaving discs of ice cream, which perfectly fit the cookies.

I hope you enjoy these pumpkin ice cream sandwiches.

Pumpkin Ice Cream Sandwiches

Cynthia

Soft pumpkin cookies from Martha Stewart are the perfect sandwich for your favorite ice cream. Or if you prefer, just eat the cookies with the brown butter icing. The recipe made about 3 dozen regular sized cookies or about 18 ice cream sandwich sized cookies, depending on how big you make them.

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 30 minutes mins

Total Time 40 minutes mins

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Ingredients

  

• 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 1/4 teaspoons coarse salt
• 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1 1/4 teaspoons ground ginger
• 3/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 3/4 cup 1 1/2 sticks unsalted butter, softened
• 2 1/4 cups packed light-brown sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 1 1/2 cups canned solid-pack pumpkin 14 ounces
• 3/4 cup evaporated milk
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• For the icing:
• 4 cups confectioners' sugar sifted
• 10 tablespoons 1 1/4 sticks unsalted butter
• 1/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon evaporated milk
• 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract

Instructions

 

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg in a medium bowl; set aside.
• Put butter and brown sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Mix on medium speed until pale and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Mix in eggs. Reduce speed to low. Add pumpkin, evaporated milk, and vanilla; mix until well blended, about 2 minutes. Add flour mixture; mix until combined.
• Transfer 1 1/2 cups batter to a pastry bag fitted with a 1/2-inch plain tip (such as Ateco #806). Pipe 1 1/2-inch rounds onto parchment-lined baking sheets, spacing 1 inch apart.
• Bake cookies, rotating sheets halfway through, until tops spring back, about 12 minutes. Cool on sheets on wire racks 5 minutes. Transfer cookies to wire racks; let cool completely.
• Scoop slightly softened ice cream in between two cookies. Wrap each sandwich in plastic wrap and freeze about 45 minutes. Roll sides in nuts, mini chocolate chips or English toffee bits. Keep frozen until ready to eat.
• (For cookies with icing) Make icing:
• Put confectioners' sugar in a large bowl; set aside. Melt butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Cook, swirling pan occasionally, until golden brown, about 3 minutes. Immediately add butter to confectioners' sugar, scraping any browned bits from sides and bottom of pan. Add evaporated milk and vanilla; stir until smooth. Spread about 1 teaspoon icing onto each cookie. If icing stiffens, stir in more evaporated milk, a little at a time.
• Cookies can be stored in single layers in airtight containers at room temperature up to 3 days.

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