Hugh, my husband, has beardown opinions astir circles; he finds them satisfying to look astatine successful immoderate shape of design. I thought he was overseas until I spent immoderate clip pinch an ice-cream sandwich and recovered myself, for illustration a car (or circle) enthusiast, fawning complete nan arcs and appreciating nan loveliness of a double information cooky lodging a cylinder of ice-cream. Unlike a car, however, you tin eat nan ice-cream cooky and rejoice successful nan crunch giving distant to acold pick – and that, successful my opinion, is due satisfaction.
Malted ice-cream and peanut cooky sandwiches
The soy condiment gives a subtle salted effect present and helps to sharpen nan different flavours successful nan ice-cream. You’ll request to make nan cookies up of clip and chill earlier eating. The ice-cream, meanwhile, is not made nan accepted measurement and will truthful melt very quickly, truthful activity fast!
Prep 15 min
Freeze 5 hr+
Chill 30 min+
Cook 30 min
Makes 10
For nan ice-cream
300ml chilled double cream
2 tsp ray soy sauce
3 tbsp Milo cocoa malt drink
397g tin chilled condensed milk
For nan peanut cookies
200g plain flour
¾ tsp baking powder
½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
¼ tsp good oversea salt
125g aureate caster sugar
125g roasted salted peanuts, astir chopped
85g good-quality sunflower oil
2 tsp vanilla paste
First, make nan ice-cream. Pour nan acold cream, soy condiment and Milo into a vessel and whip to soft peaks, ideally pinch an electrical whisk. Drizzle complete nan cold, condensed beverage and whip again for astir 2 minutes more, until nan soft peaks return. Pour into a suitable container, seal and frost for astatine slightest 4 hours.
Now for nan cookies. Put nan flour, baking powder, bicarb, brackish and sweetener successful a ample vessel and operation well. Add nan peanuts and operation again.
In a mini bowl, briskly whisk nan oil, vanilla and 4 tablespoons of h2o until emulsified. Pour this into nan vessel of barren ingredients, operation vigorously pinch a woody spoon until everything comes together into a dough, past popular successful nan fridge for astatine slightest 30 minutes.
Heat nan oven to 200C (180C fan)/390F/gas 6 and statement 2 ample oven trays pinch baking paper. Using a mini scoop – for example, a tablespoonful measuring spoon – spoon rounds of nan mixed connected to nan sheets, spacing them 10cm isolated (if you don’t person a suitable scoop, mildly break disconnected mini pieces of mixed and rotation into balls nan size of ping-pong balls and weighing astir 30g each), past property down connected each cooky to flatten it a little. Bake for 12-14 minutes, aliases until nan cookies person a crisp, aureate separator and are not wobbly to nan touch successful nan centre. Remove and time off connected nan trays to cool completely.
To dress up nan sandwiches, trim 10 pieces of greaseproof insubstantial to wrap each sandwich in, and put a ample tub successful nan freezer to stack them in. Working 1 sandwich astatine a time, scoop a decent magnitude (roughly 50g) of ice-cream connected to nan level broadside of 1 cooky and property mildly to dispersed it retired evenly complete nan base. Lay different cooky level broadside down connected top, past wrap tightly successful greaseproof insubstantial and put successful nan tub successful nan freezer, truthful it starts to frost immediately, earlier moving connected to nan adjacent sandwich. Repeat pinch nan remaining ice-cream and cookies, past time off to frost for astatine slightest different hr earlier serving.