After making the cinnamon ice cream I wanted to push the envelope a little further by having a go at making baklava ice cream sandwiches. This is an ice cream sandwich dessert you'll want to bookmark for special occasions.
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These were not going to be any ordinary ice cream sandwiches though.
I wanted to apply my "Greek touch" to the whole process.
For quite a while I had wanted to incorporate the flavours of baklava into some kind of ice cream sandwich dessert.
I tinkered with the idea of making my own ice cream cones and incorporating a honey flavour through them but I had no success in this area.
Then I remembered those ice cream sandwiches you used to buy as a kid.
Australians seem to have a fascination with this type of ice cream sandwich dessert. The Monaco Bar was brought back after heavy pressure from an online petition!
🥘 Ingredients
These are the ingredients required to make baklava ice cream sandwiches:
For the ice cream:
- 1 portion cinnamon ice cream
For the cookies or biscuits:
- 120 g butter, unsalted, room tem,perature
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ½ cup honey, Greek preferred
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 2 cups flour, plain or all purpose, may need to add a little more to get a good, pliable dough
- 1 pinch salt
For the decoration:
- 1 cup walnuts, shelled, coarsley chopped
- 2 tbsp brown sugar
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
To achieve the baklava style flavours I was after, I mixed honey into a biscuit dough and baked these in the oven.
The flavours were spot on!
I had cinnamon, walnuts and honey...all the flavours of a Greek baklava.
🔪 Instructions
- Using an electric mixer with a paddle attachment, beat the butter, sugar and honey until you have a creamy consistency-this will take between 2-3 mins. Lower the speed on your mixer and proceed to add the eggs one at a time ensuring they are well incorporated. Add your vanilla extract.
- In a separate bowl combine the flour, baking powder and salt. Slowly add this flour mixture to the butter mixture and mix until a dough begins to form. You may need to add a little more flour to form the dough. Roll the dough into a ball, wrap in cling wrap and refrigerate for one hour.
- Pre heat your oven to 180 deg C and line a baking tray with some baking paper.
- Remove the dough from the fridge and on a lightly floured surface proceed to roll it out to ¼ inch thick. Using your preferred cookie cutter and cut out 8 cookies. Line the cookies on the baking pan and pierce the tops with a fork.
- Bake for 8-10 mins, remove from the oven and allow them to cool completely before sandwiching the ice cream.
- Once you have sandwiched the ice cream, roll the sides of the sandwich in the walnut mixture.
💭 Top tip
I'm not going to lie. I was a tad disappointed with the presentation.
If I had known I would be making these baklava ice cream sandwiches beforehand, I would have poured the freshly churned ice cream into a shallower pan and "cut out" the ice cream to sandwich them perfectly around the biscuit.
I found scooping it and shaping it a little frustrating as it kept on melting.
Overall though, I was quite happy with the flavours.
They turned out a little bigger than what I would have preferred and a little messy to eat but hey, that's the price you pay for wanting to be nostalgic.
📋 Recipe
Baklava Ice Cream Sandwiches
Ingredients
For the ice cream:
- 1 portion cinnamon ice cream
For the cookies or biscuits:
- 120 g butter, unsalted, room tem,perature
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ½ cup honey, Greek preferred
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 2 cups flour, plain or all purpose, may need to add a little more to get a good, pliable dough
- 1 pinch salt
For the decoration:
- 1 cup walnuts, shelled, coarsley chopped
- 2 tbsp brown sugar
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
Instructions
- Using an electric mixer with a paddle attachment, beat the butter, sugar and honey until you have a creamy consistency-this will take between 2-3 mins. Lower the speed on your mixer and proceed to add the eggs one at a time ensuring they are well incorporated. Add your vanilla extract.
- In a separate bowl combine the flour, baking powder and salt. Slowly add this flour mixture to the butter mixture and mix until a dough begins to form. You may need to add a little more flour to form the dough. Roll the dough into a ball, wrap in cling wrap and refrigerate for one hour.
- Pre heat your oven to 180 deg C and line a baking tray with some baking paper.
- Remove the dough from the fridge and on a lightly floured surface proceed to roll it out to ¼ inch thick. Using your preferred cookie cutter and cut out 8 cookies. Line the cookies on the baking pan and pierce the tops with a fork.
- Bake for 8-10 mins, remove from the oven and allow them to cool completely before sandwiching the ice cream.
- Once you have sandwiched the ice cream, roll the sides of the sandwich in the walnut mixture.
Notes
- The cookie cutters I used measured in at 9 cms. I think it would be better to use smaller ones say 6-7 cms. I’ll leave that up to you.
- Also as I stated earlier, it would be preferable to use the same cookie cutters to cut out the ice cream once it had frozen in a shallow pan. That way they would fit perfectly around the two biscuits.
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