M&M Ice Cream Sandwiches
Make your own M&M ice cream sandwiches for summer! Two bakery-style M&M cookies with a scoop of vanilla ice cream sandwiched in between. Delicious and so fun!
Servings: 14 sandwiches
Calories: 475kcal
Ingredients
- ½ cup butter room temperature
- ½ cup shortening*
- 1 ½ cups sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 2 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons cream of tartar
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 16 oz. M&M candies
- vanilla ice cream
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- In a medium bowl, cream butter, shortening, and sugar with an electric hand mixer or stand mixer. Beat in eggs.
- In a separate bowl whisk flour, cream of tartar, baking soda, and salt together.
- Combine flour mixture with wet ingredients.
- Scoop cookies, using a medium cookie scoop, and place them on baking sheets lined with parchment paper. Completely cover each cookie dough ball with M&Ms. No need to cover the bottom of each dough ball, just the top and sides. You can do this by hand or press the cookie dough ball into a bowl of M&M candies.
- Bake for 14 minutes. Let cookies stand on baking sheet for 5 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack.
- Allow cookies to cool completely. To make an ice cream sandwich add a scoop of vanilla ice cream onto one cookie and press a second cookie on top. Press.
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Notes
- I like using a 50/50 combination of butter and shortening in my sugar cookie recipes because I think it gives them the best texture, but you can use all butter if you’d like.
- You can make 14 ice cream sandwiches and store them in the freezer to enjoy whenever you'd like, but I think these taste best made and eaten fresh. I store the cookies in an airtight container or freezer and add a scoop of ice cream when I'm ready to eat one.
Nutrition
Calories: 475kcal
