Chocolate-Chocolate Chip Cookie and Strawberry Gelato Sandwiches
Decadent chocolate cookies studded with chocolate chips, sandwiched together with fresh strawberry gelato for an elevated ice cream sandwich experience. These homemade treats combine the richness of double chocolate cookies with the refreshing taste of strawberry gelato.
Ingredients
- •2¼ cups all purpose flour
- •½ cup natural unsweetened cocoa powder
- •1 teaspoon baking soda
- •½ teaspoon salt
- •1 cup unsalted butter
- •1 cup dark brown sugar
- •½ cup sugar
- •2 whole large eggs
- •1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- •½ teaspoon almond extract
- •2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
- •4 cups Fresh Strawberry Gelato
- •slightly softened
Cooking Instructions
- 1.
Preheat oven to 375°F. Line 2 large rimmed baking sheets with parchment. Sift first 4 ingredients into bowl. Using electric mixer, beat butter in large bowl until fluffy. Beat in both sugars, then eggs, 1 at a time. Beat in extracts, then flour mixture. Fold in chocolate chips. Drop batter by heaping tablespoonfuls onto prepared sheets, spacing mounds 2 to 3 inches apart. Using moist fingertips, flatten mounds to 3/4-inch thickness.
15 min
- 2.
Bake cookies 5 minutes. Reverse sheets. Bake until cookies are puffed and dry-looking but soft to touch, about 5 minutes. Cool completely. Freeze on sheets 15 minutes.
25 min
- 3.
Spoon 1/3 cup gelato onto flat side of 1 cookie. Top with second cookie, flat side down; press together. Wrap and freeze. Repeat with remaining gelato and cookies. DO AHEAD: Keep frozen up to 2 days.
20 min
