Spring is finally here and the school holidays are upon us again, which means we are on the downhill run to Summer ***cue happy dance*** So, what better time to get in the kitchen to whip up something yummy that reminds you of Summer; you could totally whip these goodies up with the kids; or even set them up to make them for you. 😉 In fact, they would make the perfect school holiday activity ***hint, hint***
So… Double Chocolate Ice Cream Sandwiches, anyone?!?
These Double Chocolate Ice Cream Sandwiches are every bit decadent as they sound. Creamy vanilla ice cream, topped with roasted strawberries, sandwiched between two warm, soft and chewy double chocolate chip cookies; I mean seriously – yum!
Now, I don’t know about you, but.. I feel there is a certain way to “eat” an ice cream sandwich. To me the cookies need to warm, soft and slightly chewy; the ice cream needs to be slightly melty (if that’s even a word) and as for the roasted strawberries – they are just the perfect summery addition, they also help to cut through the richness.
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- 225 grams unsalted butter
- 3/4 cup Chelsea White Sugar
- 3/4 cup Chelsea Brown Sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
- 2 cups plain flour
- 1 tablespoon espresso powder (optional)
- 2/3 cup Dutch cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups chocolate drops or chunks (I used a mix of both dark and white)
- 2 punnets strawberries
- 1/8 - 1/4 cup Chelsea White Sugar (approx)
- Good quality vanilla ice cream
- Preheat oven to 175 degrees Celsius and line a cookie sheet with grease proof paper
- Cream butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time beating after each addition before adding vanilla
- In a separate bowl; flour, espresso powder, cocoa, baking soda and salt. Mix in a third of flour mixture at a time to sugar mixture. Fold in chocolate chunks
- Drop heaped dessertspoonfuls onto baking tray (taking time to make them roughly the same size and shape). Press gently to flatten slightly
- Bake for 10 - to 12 minutes, remove from oven and cool
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius and line baking dish with grease proof paper
- Wash and dry strawberries, remove stalks and cut in half (quarters if they are extra large), spreading in a single layer
- Sprinkle with sugar, and toss to coat gently
- Bake for 18 - 20 minutes, strawberries will darken in colour and starting bursting with delicious syrup
- Cool before transferring to a jar (don't forget all the syrup) and keeping in the fridge ready for those ice cream sandwiches
- Place a scoop of creamy vanilla ice cream on one of your double chocolate chip cookies. Top with some of the roasted strawberries and another cookie. Eat straight away!!!!!
- Disclaimer: these Double Chocolate Ice Cream Sandwiches are incredibly bad for you but in an incredibly good way. They are all sort of deliciousness in one bite and are incredibly messy to eat - but well worth it (at least my household seems to think so!)
These Double Chocolate Ice Cream Sandwiches are going to fast become a family favorite. In fact everyone will be lining up to eat them straight out of the oven. And if not, you can always make them ahead of time, pop them in a airtight container until you need / want them. Just ensure you pop them in the microwave a couple at a time for 10 – 20 seconds to make them all warm, soft and chewy, they are seriously the best eaten this way!
Personally, I think baking is the perfect school holiday activity – I mean who doesn’t like eating deliciously baked goods fresh from the oven and / or licking the bowl. And thanks to Chelsea Sugar they have a range of sugars and syrups for every occasion. Why not check out their website for inspiration and recipes?!?
What do you reckon? Do you think these Double Chocolate Ice Cream Sandwiches are something you would give a go? If you do, I’d love to see them, share your creations using #chelseasugar!
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**Thanks to Chelsea Sugar for teaming up with me on this post and bringing you lots of sweet baking inspiration these School Holidays**
Oh my!!! These look dangerous Lydia! YUMMY!! Might have to make them with Miss B…she loves to bake and she loves ice cream – win win!
Oh and we would use Chelsea White sugar 🙂
Yummy yummy Chelsea any sugar great.white brown and raw if needed.
Yum! These look so delish! One of my fav Chelsea products is their brown sugar, which I use a lot!
Wow they look fab! My kids have been cupcake decorating in our house. So the Chelsea product I’d most use is icing sugar. Thanks!!
How can I choose just one Chelsea Sugar product?! I use their soft brown sugar, raw sugar, caster sugar and icing sugar regularly! But I think for a holiday treat I will probably go for their delicious golden syrup, drizzled over stacks of fresh warm pancakes. Noms 🙂
I use Chelsea white sugar, brown sugar, & icing sugar 🙂
Wow they look amazing!
I love all the chelsea products but their brown sugar is my fav especially when making what I call doffins which is anaughty but yummy cross between a donut and a muffin with jam in the middle and the brown sugar lends a delish moreish taste
Yum! Gimme, gimme 🙂
Brown sugar is a fav in our house. It probably is used everyday
Ohhhhh these look amazing…….. I feel like they would give me mega brownie points if I made these in our house!
We use Chelsea white sugar most often in our baking closely followed by their brown sugar 🙂
Brown sugar is a big favourite in my house
I use white sugar in my baking, but I love brown sugar on my porridge. Time to fill the tins up again, with some fresh baking…:)
We love to use Chelsea brown sugar and icing sugar when we make yummy gingerbread men, we love to make spicy chewy gingerbread biscuits and make them in all shapes and decorate wildly!!
We baked and decorated gingerbread! so we used a lot of icing sugar to make all the different colours.
Wow these look amazing I will have to make them!!! We use alot of white Chelsea sugar and also cornflour in our house
Brown sugar on porridge and in biscuits.
Our fav would have to be Chelsea Icing Sugar as the kids just love decorating cookies and cupcakes as a holiday activity
We love Chelsea Brown Sugar! It makes out chocolate sauce for pudding so smooth mmmmm…..
Yummy I haven’t seen an ice cream sandwich for years
Both the white & brown surgar- always a must in my baking 😊
I think I would use the icing sugar the most. My kids love icing cup cakes!
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Wow, have to try these
Icing sugar
I will have to have a try of these, they look so yummy
Chelsea White Sugar is a biggie in our holiday baking. Double Choc Icecream Sandwiches above look Real Good!! Have to try baking them.
I love Chelsea Golden Syrup for my ginger crunch, Mmmm.
I would use the white sugar in the baking
Chelsea Brown sugar it makes the most delicious melt in the mouth fudge. ❤️️
Hi, where would I buy espresso powder please and I love Chelsea’s brown sugar, never buy another brand.
Hi Catherine, The tea and coffee aisle at your local supermarket should have plenty of options xx
Oh yummy!!!!! We will definitely be giving these a go!!!! But I wanna try mine with fresh raspberries too – I do love strawberries but nothing screams summer to me like delicious raspberries! ! Mmmmm and a chelsea prize pack wouldn’t go a miss – we get through plenty of baking in our household 😉
Oh yum! I love to bake with golden syrup, it has such a distinctive flavour 🙂
Definitely Chelsea Icing Sugar in our house cannot beat a good chocolate icing on banana cake
Soft brown sugar- perfect for chocolate chip cookies
My favourite is icing sugar and golden syrup.
OMG these look delicious NOM!! I would use Chelsea white sugar followed by brown sugar 🙂
Have used Chelsea icing sugar, white sugar and brown sugar so far these holidays, lol. These ice cream sammys look delish.
Sunday dessert sorted! Can’t wait to try these
Well, after seeing this post, I’m QUITE sure I’ll be using some of Chelsea’s White and Brown sugar these holidays! I don’t have kids yet myself :(, but I’m still a kid at heart, so that counts right!? And I’m sure making these would totally sweeten my Mama’s night, so a Chelsea Prize Pack would be an absolute treat! 🙂 <3
Chelsea white and brown sugar please. Prefer sift brown but white more versatile. Prefer artificial sweetener so less on the hips but still just as yum on the lips lol
Ooooh roasting strawberries I never thought of that!
Oh My I think I may have to bake these next week. They look so good.
Chelsea brown sugar is one of my faves! 😍 However we use a mixture of white, raw and brown when baking. This recipe sounds delish!
I use Chelsea castor sugar, as its finer and great to make cupcakes fluffy
We always use chelseas brown sugar in our carrot muffins kids love them
I use a lot of raw sugar as well as the soft brown sugar 🙂
I use chelsea raw sugar for lattes an flatwhites…taste so good