Description
These homemade ice cream sandwiches with dulce de leche are so easy and delicious! And they are fun to dress up for every occasion! Add your favorite sprinkles for garnish or use toasted coconuts or chopped almonds.
Ingredients
A gallon of French vanilla ice cream (you’ll need about 3 cups of ice cream for 12 ice cream sandwiches)
1 can dulce de leche (you’ll need about a half cup)
24 Maria crackers
1 cup of sprinkles, almonds, or shredded coconut for garnish
Instructions
Prep the garnish:
You want to have a bowl of these ready before you start since the ice cream melts so fast. So, toast and chop the almonds. Or, toast the coconut and crush them a bit to make smaller pieces. If you’re using sprinkles, just pour these into a small bowl.
Make sure you have a container already set up to store the ice cream sandwiches. The first time I made these, I had to scramble to find something while my babies were melting!
Prep the crackers:
Take the ice cream out so it starts to soften. You can’t press it down if it’s too hard.
Spread about one teaspoon of dulce de leche on each Maria cracker, on the “bottom” side. You want the pretty embossed side to show in your finished ice cream sandwich.
Assemble the ice cream sandwich:
Once all the cookies are prepped, add one scoop to half the crackers and then place a second cracker on top and gently press down. Then roll the ice cream sandwiches in the sprinkles or other garnish. If you find that they are melting too fast. Place in the freezer to set and then roll in the sprinkles after the ice cream has set.
Notes
A gallon of ice cream and a can of dulce de leche will yield way more than 12 ice cream sandwiches, so feel free to make more. Just make sure you increase the amount of Maria crackers and sprinkles you buy to accommodate a larger quantity.
You’ll find the assembly to be a bit of a messy process and the ice cream sandwiches may not look perfectly even. This is the beauty of the sprinkles. They cover a multitude of mistakes! Once you garnish, they’ll look pretty, and any imperfections will be unnoticeable.
I used a medium ice cream scoop that holds just a little less than a quarter cup of ice cream. If you use a bigger scoop the ratio of ice cream to cookie will be off (unless that’s how you like it).
You can mix and match the garnish and make different ones to please your crowd.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 sandwich
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