Patriotic Star Ice Cream Sandwiches - 4th of July Ice Cream Sandwich Recipe

ice cream

🥗Healthier: frozen yogurt

💰Cheaper: sorbet

Frozen yogurt offers a lighter option with similar texture.

cookies

🥗Healthier: oatmeal cookies

💰Cheaper: store-bought cookies

Oatmeal cookies provide a healthier base with fiber.

Combine wet ingredients for sugar cookies and split into two bowls.

Color one bowl with Royal Blue gel food coloring and the other with five drops of super red food coloring.

Add half of the dry ingredients to each bowl and mix until it forms a dough.

Refrigerate the dough in a plastic baggie according to your recipe's instructions.

Sprinkle countertop with flour and roll out the chilled dough to about 3/16 of an inch thick.

Use a 3 and 1/2 inch star cookie cutter to cut out star cookies and place them on a lined cookie sheet.

Dust off excess flour from the cookies before baking.

Bake cookies according to your recipe's instructions and let them cool on a wire rack.

Chill a plate in the freezer for about an hour for the ice cream preparation.

Use a cookie cutter to mold vanilla ice cream on the chilled plate, leveling it off with a spoon.

Carefully unmold the ice cream using the back of a spoon and place it back into the freezer immediately.

Assemble the ice cream sandwich by placing one cookie on top of the ice cream star and pressing down gently.

Remove wax paper and place another cookie of the opposite color on top, gently squeezing together.

Use an offset spatula to clean up the edges of the ice cream if desired.

Coat the edges of the ice cream with red white and blue sprinkles and shake off excess.

Wrap the completed ice cream sandwiches in wax paper and freeze for a few hours to firm up.

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