… therefore, I shall eat

To be honest, I was on the first line of my post about a soup recipe, but I got sidetracked by this beautiful gif set of making an ice cream sandwich from Tumblr. I knew I should post this first.

This is how a treat should be! Simple and easy to do. Even a kid can do this.

Caution: It’s strongly suggested not to read this if you’re on a diet.

Here’s how to make an ice cream sandwich

• If there are children in your house, ask them for help. This has got nothing to do with the rest of the list, but I’m including it because it’s more fun.

• Choose your combination of ice cream and cookies. Mine is mint ice cream and chocolate chip cookies (just add peppermint extract to the vanilla). If you’re a bit lost, can’t choose among all the goody combinations, check out 16 ice cream sandwich recipes in Huffington Post.

If you don’t want to bother making your own batch of homemade ice cream, you can always run to the store for your favourite tub brand. Also, have various garnishes at hand: rainbow sprinkles, peanut butter cups, granola, etc.

• Here’s what different from others’ way of making an ice cream sandwiches. Some people use frozen cookies and softened ice cream, wrapping the sandwich in a wax paper before freezing. However, like in The Kitchn, I think it’s best to use hot cookies and cold ice cream. In fact, the colder the ice cream, the better. If you end up licking the ice cream then that’s no longer a sandwich.

Besides, the two have almost the same firmness, which is what turns them into a whole sandwich. It’s kinda like getting the whole, rather than the sum of its parts.

• Take your cookies fresh out in the oven. Get a piece, lay with long strips of ice cream, slap with another cookie. Eat.
• Oh I forgot. Roll the sandwich into the garnish first! Okay, there, go ahead and bite into it.

*Thank goodness gifs work in WordPress. I’ve tried them in Blogger before and the images don’t move at all. The images are credited to food-for-food.tumblr.com. You should check out that mini-blog, it has good photos for all sorts of food.

*I was Googling other recipes for ice cream sandwiches, but this Android app kept popping in the results page. Hmpt.

So there. Nomnomnom. What are your fave combinations in an ice cream sandwich?