Peanut butter & choc chip cookie ice cream sandwiches

You can skip over this bit. They're called PEANUT BUTTER and CHOC CHIP cookie ICE CREAM sandwiches. If the knowledge that those three vital, life saving, smile inducing ingredients are involved isn't enough for you to want to make these, what could I possibly say that would convince you?

The recipe for the cookies is from Bill Granger, but I doubled the amount of peanut butter, and can't say for certain how many choc chips I used as I just kept throwing them in until it looked about right. You are aiming to make a soft dough really, so if that means adding a wee bit more peanut butter then, you've just got to suck it up and do it (not literally suck it up, but hey whatever floats your boat).

Peanut butter choc-chip cookies
2/3 cup brown sugar
2 tblsp butter
1/3 cup peanut butter (I used double this)
1 1/3 cup plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
100g choc chips
milk

- preheat oven on 180C
- mix together the brown sugar, butter and peanut butter
- stir through the flour, baking powder and choc chips
- add enough milk to pull it all together (hmmm in retrospect maybe I skipped this and instead used more peanut butter)
- use an icecream scoop and place scoopfuls on a baking tray lined with baking paper*
- press down with a fork, bake 10-12 minutes

 

*instead of this method, we rolled out the dough and cut out 12 cookies with a round cookie cutter. Before serving, we melted the ice cream a bit and flattened it, then wrapped in cling film and refroze. To make the sandwiches we then cut discs of ice cream using the same cookie cutter, made the sandwiches then froze them for a little bit longer. You could just as easily bake your cookies (no need for a cookie cutter), then once cool, squash a scoop of ice cream between them - just as delicious!

 

Enjoy!