Ice Cream Sandwiches
For my birthday this year, I got not one but TWO sets of ice cream molds, from two very different (but very loved) friends. Amazing! One had a cowboy theme and the other was pastel colored farm animals. I truly hit the jackpot this year.
I had never thought about buying ice cream molds before but the minute I got them, I knew I had to try them out. I chose speed over everything this time around and baked up a pan of brownies (from a mix, no less!) and took out some Breyers Natural Vanilla ice cream. Then I created my sticky-sweet assembly line of love. ( Yeah, you like how complicated I made that last sentence?)
First, I thought to myself, “Maybe it is time to get a good, sturdy, 9×13 baking pan that isn’t a one trick pony, although its one trick DOES make me spasm with joy whenever I bite into an extra-edgy brownie.” Because it made cutting out brownie slices a bit difficult:
As an engineer, though, I persevered:
Cut, cut, and now ice cream time!!!
What time? Vanilla bean ice cream time! Heya! Heya!
Okay, please forgive me for my sugar-induced high, and for peanut butter jelly time being SUCH a catchy song.
Top with another brownie and now it’s time to squish:
And squish … and squish some more. And woah, will you take a look at that:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3230/2798264751_d2c0a4fa33.jpg?v=0
Here is my opinion on ice cream sandwich molds. They do their work well. But then the insides squish out if you bite into them. Maybe I should have put in less ice cream. But ice cream = WIN. So I put them onto a plate and into the freezer to firm up, where they promptly froze out of shape. Then I put them in the freezer to firm up, STILL IN THE MOLDS. These did just fine. But then I can only make 6 ice cream sandwiches at a time. So I can only have me and five other friends over to partake in ice cream sandwich-ness. Is this a life I want to lead? Is it so bad to want your ice cream and eat it too? Did this last paragraph make any sense? Only you can decide!
I didn’t know you got another set! You should have told me and we could have picked something else out together. However, I’m glad you were able to use them
And yes, the last paragraph made plenty of sense to me.
Thanks for sharing