Chocolate Strawberry Ice Cream Sandwiches

Total Time: 2 hrs 12 mins Preparation Time: 2 hrs Cook Time: 12 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 100 g butter, chopped
• 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
• 1/4 cup powdered sugar icing
• 1 egg
• 1/2 cup almond meal
• 3/4 cup flour
• 1/4 cup cocoa powder
• 1 liter strawberry ice cream

Recipe

• 1 beat the butter, essence, icing sugar and egg in a small bowl with an electric mixer until mixture is light and fluffy.
• 2 mix together the almond meal, flour and cocoa powder and stir into the butter mixture until well combined and a soft dough has formed.
• 3 wrap dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour.
• 4 roll out dough between 2 pieces of baking paper until 3mm thick.
• 5 place paper and dough on a tray and freeze for 10 minutes.
• 6 cut shapes in dough with a cookie cutter.
• 7 you can use any shape you like, as long as you can sandwich some ice-cream between it.
• 8 try heart shapes for a romantic occasion, rounds, stars or whatever!
• 9 you need 12 cookies to make 6 sandwiches.
• 10 place shapes onto a greased oven tray and bake at 180 degree c for about 12 minutes.
• 11 remove from oven and leave cookies on tray for 5 minutes to firm up then transfer them carefully to a wire rack to cool completely.
• 12 to serve, sandwich the cookies together with scoops of strawberry ice-cream (or another flavour if you prefer).
• 13 decorate with a dusting of extra cocoa powder and some fresh strawberries.