Peanut Butter and Chocolate Ice Cream Sandwiches

By Melissa Clark

Peanut Butter and Chocolate Ice Cream Sandwiches
Linda Xiao for The New York Times
Total Time
10 minutes
Rating
4(101)
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For a modern grown-up version of the chocolate-chip cookie ice cream sandwich, I scooped ice cream into sliced baguettes, then drizzled it with sea-salt-strewn chocolate nut spread.

The result is sweet, savory, sophisticated and laughably easy, just like grasshopper pie — even if its color isn’t quite as dramatic.

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Ingredients

Yield:8 to 10 ice cream sandwiches
  • 1long baguette
  • Peanut butter
  • Chocolate nut spread, like Nutella
  • About 1 pint vanilla, chocolate or other ice cream, softened for 10 minutes
  • 2ripe bananas (optional)
  • Flaky sea salt
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Preparation

  1. Step 1

    Slice the baguette in half lengthwise without cutting all the way through. Then cut into 3-inch-long pieces.

  2. Step 2

    Spread the insides of the baguette pieces with a thin layer of peanut butter on one cut side and a thin layer of chocolate spread on the other cut side. Spoon some ice cream in the center and top with banana slices if using; sprinkle with a few flakes of sea salt before closing into sandwiches.

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Hannah211

Forget the baguette; use a preheated flour tortilla for a melty, gooey, need-a-spoon experience. Strawberries excellent in this.

Gerry

I laughed in delight when I saw this recipe. In the late fifties I was "incarcerated" in a convent boarding school in the north of England. We occasionally scored Walls chocolate covered ice cream bars for a treat. My little group of bad girls loved eating them between slices of buttered (probably margarine) sliced soft white bread. A gourmet take on this sandwich was to add potato chips! Thank you for the memory and I am most definitely going to make one of these for myself.

PMNYC

I would use pound cake instead of baguette.

name

Sounds horrible

Michael D.

No

sheila

Everyone complained how hard they were to eat, and then sopped up the mess with the bread. No leftovers!

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