Sticky Toffee Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches

Sticky Toffee Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches – it’s a mouthful both literally and figuratively. The literal mouthful is the one you should focus on, though. Buttery, sticky toffee cookies, studded with dates and ginger, filled with a swathe of vanilla ice cream and a molten river of butterscotch. THAT’S WHAT’S UP. Click here to go right to the recipe!

 

Sticky Toffee Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches // The Sugar Hit

 

I don’t know why I’m on an ice cream kick in the middle of winter, but that’s what’s happening. It’s cold, the wind is rattling up through the floorboards in my house, and I’m licking ice cream cones like they’re going out of style. This little number, here, though is not so much about the ice cream, as it is about the cookie. Sticky Date Cookies that is, or Sticky Toffee if you’re in the UK where they like to pretend there aren’t any dates in their pudding (there are).

 

These cookies are IN-SANE. Why? Because they taste exactly like sticky date pudding. It’s uncanny. The caramel notes, the buttery notes –  close your eyes and you’d swear that you were digging into a bowl of the classic recipe. Rarely does it happen, when you try to jack-knife an old recipe into a new format, that the transition goes so smoothly. I can only imagine that this transition was somehow meant to be. Smiled upon by the baking angels maybe? Or just really good for normal reasons.

 

Let me tell you about these cookies; they are perfect. They are everything you ever wanted in a cookie. Gooey, chewy centres, crispy browned edges, the whole heaven-in-a-mouthful shebang, textural nirvana. They’re studded with chunks of chewy medjool dates and yet more chew from crystallized ginger. If you really hate dates or ginger, then move along, these cookies are not for you. But if you have no problem with classic old-person flavours, then throw an afghan blanket over your legs, sit down next to me, and prepare to be happy.

 

Once I tasted a bite of the first test batch of these cookies I knew they would make perfect ice cream sandwiches. Adding the butterscotch sauce was a no brainer. Of course these drip all over everywhere, and sauce runs down your arm, and ice cream smushes all over your face. Life and ice cream sandwiches are messy. But dammit if these aren’t my favourite kitchen discovery of the whole year so far! They’re just so damn good. PLEASE try them.

 

Now let me know – classic sticky date pudding is my favourite Winter dessert, what’s yours? Apple crumble? Baked apples? Or are you, like me, perversely in favour of ice cream in the cold?

 

xx Sarah.

 

Sticky Toffee Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches // The Sugar Hit

 

Sticky Toffee Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches // The Sugar Hit

 

Sticky Toffee Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches // The Sugar Hit

 

Sticky Toffee Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches // The Sugar Hit

 

Sticky Toffee Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches // The Sugar Hit

 

Sticky Toffee Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches // The Sugar Hit

Sticky Toffee Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches
 
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Serves: 16 cookies / 8 sandwiches
Ingredients
  • 230g (2 sticks) butter
  • ½ cup (100g) caster sugar
  • ¾ cup (165g) brown sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 tsp sea salt
  • 1¾ cups (265g) plain flour (all purpose)
  • ½ tsp baking powder
  • ¼ tsp baking soda
  • 12 medjool dates, chopped
For the butterscotch sauce:
  • ½ cup (55g) butter
  • ½ cup (110g) brown sugar
  • 2 tbsp golden syrup
  • ½ cup (125ml) thickened cream
  • ½ cup crystallized ginger, chopped
Instructions
  1. Melt the butter either in the microwave or in a pan on the stove, transfer to a large mixing bowl and let cool until just warm to the touch.
  2. Add in both sugars and stir briskly until combined, and then beat in the egg, vanilla and salt.
  3. Fold through the flour, baking powder and soda, and then finally fold through the dates and ginger. The batter will be very soft. Scrape half the batter out onto a piece of plastic wrap, carefully shape into a log using the plastic, kind of like a christmas cracker - twist the ends tightly to form the shape, and repeat with the rest of the dough.
  4. Place the logs into the fridge and refrigerate for at least an hour or up to three days. The dough also freezes really well.
  5. Preheat the oven to 375F/190C and line 2 baking trays with baking paper, when you're ready to bake.
  6. Slice the dough into 8 discs per log, and space evenly out on the trays - leaving plenty of room for the cookies to spread.
  7. Bake for 12-15 minutes, or until dark golden at the edges and still soft in the middle. Leave to cool completely on the trays and they will set up into a perfectly crispy-chewy cookie.
  8. To make the sauce, place all the ingredients into a saucepan and bring up to a rolling boil for about 1 minute, and then set aside to cool.
  9. To serve, place a scoop of ice cream between two cookies, drizzle with butterscotch and eat.
 

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