Happy Sunday Guys,
I’m excited to share a new recipe with you guys after having been off the grid for a while when it comes to sharing how delicious vegan food is and can be. So to make this post extra tasty I thought I’d share my idea of a perfect summer treat; ice cream sandwiches!
As a kid I used to love ice cream sandwiches and I’ll admit that I still do. In Sweden where I’m now located there are no vegan ice cream sandwiches as far as I can see and therefore we just have to make our own at home. No sad faces here though since I came up with a simple recipe that is at least reminiscent of what I used to chomp on as a child but without any cruelty involved.
There’s also no need for an ice cream machine in this recipe as I simply use a three ingredient banana ice cream to slather between the chocolate biscuits. If you don’t have the required high speed blender or food processor though you could still make these sandwiches of course. Just get some store bought vegan ice cream and use that. Here in Sweden the two most common and affordable brands are Tofuline (known in other countries as Swedish Glace) and Oatly. The second being my personal favourite. Do bear in mind however that using store bought ice cream will make these treat sandwiches a little bit more of a treat as we take a whole food out and replace it with a processed substitute.
Either way and however you decide you want to make your ice cream sandwiches this summer I hope they will be delicious and satisfying – exactly the way a treat should be! x
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CHOCOLATE + BANANA ICE CREAM SANDWICHES
MAKES: 8 sandwiches / TIME: 30 min + cooling time
Cookies:
1/3 cup apple sauce
1 tbsp milled flax seed
1/2 cup coconut sugar
2 tbsp maple syrup
1/3 cup coconut oil, melted
1 cup brown rice flour (or flour of choice)
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa or cacao
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp vanilla powder
Ice Cream:
2 1/2 cup frozen banana chunks
2 1/2 tbsp coconut cream
1/2 tsp vanilla powder (or more)
Preheat oven to 175 degrees celsius.
Combine apple sauce and milled flaxseeds and let gel together for roughly 10-15 min.
Stir coconut sugar, melted coconut oil and maple syrup together until combined.
Sift flour, cacao, baking powder and vanilla powder together in a separate bowl.
Add flax and apple gel into wet sugar and oil mixture and combine well before adding dry ingredients in three stages mixing well in between.
Let cookie dough set in fridge until mouldable and then roll into 16 equal balls.
Flatten the balls into roughly 1/2 cm thick rounds on a baking tray lined with parchment paper.
Bake in the oven for 15 min before letting them cool completely.
Ones the cookies have cooled off make the ice cream by adding the coconut cream and vanilla powder to a high speed blender or food processor and start blending.
As the blender/processor runs start adding your frozen banana chunks and keep adding and blending until it forms a thick banana ice cream.
Plop a dollop of banana ice cream onto a biscuit and then place anothe biscuit on top and press down until the ice cream spreads (see video).
Keep in the freezer and defrost for roughly 10-15 min before enjoying.
P.S. to my above questions…Your video says baking soda but your written instructions say baking powder…which one is correct? And for the cocoa powder, was that packed tightly or loosely packed? The grams of cocoa powder would be helpful. Thanks Malin 🙂
hi tanya 🙂 the written recipe is correct, I must have made a mistake in the voice over of the video. thanks for pointing that out!
the cocoa powder should not be tightly packed. thanks also for the point about grams, I will keep this in ind in the future.
Malin, thank you so much! I don’t know if you saw my questions in my 1st comment because you replied only to the ones in my 2nd comment (the “P.S.”), but I was making these the day I wrote you the questions so I just had to try some things on my own. I did end up using baking powder as shown in the written recipe, but it’s curious about the baking soda because that is what I see you using in the video, and I also see it in the 1st ingredient photo above…there is a container of “Bicarbonate of Soda” so it’s confusing. Because there was no acid to interact with the baking soda to help the cookies rise, I used baking powder.
I substituted ⅓ cup of unsweetened applesauce for the ⅓ cup of oil because we wanted softer chocolate cookies like the ice cream sandwiches we used to buy in the store. I also substituted 1 cup of sorghum flour (120gm) for the brown rice flour because that is what I had on hand. I Googled how many grams were in ½ cup of cocoa powder and several sites said 60gm. I couldn’t even smash 60gm in my ½ c. measuring cup and level it off, lol! But that is what I used because the internet said “½ c cocoa powder = 60gm,” and the cookies were too bitter on their own. It still worked out because the ice cream added sweetness to balance it out a bit, but we all agreed less cocoa powder next time, lol! So I will use a loosely packed ½ cup in the future!
Anyway, we were over-the-moon happy to have GF vegan ice cream sandwiches again after 15 years of not having them (that’s how long ago our Celiac disease was diagnosed). Thank you so very much (((hugs)))! And we absolutely adore you and your videos. We are so grateful for you sharing your recipes and inspiring health, compassion, and healing for people, animals, and the planet. Wishing you and yours a world of happiness, peace, and good health!
xo! Tanya 🙂