Easy Chocolate-mint Ice-cream Sandwiches

Total Time: 1 hr 45 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 5
• 2 pints vanilla ice cream, softened
• 15 mint-flavored creme-filled chocolate sandwich cookies, chopped
• 1 (8 1/2 ounce) package large chewy chocolate cookies

Recipe

• 1 stir together softened ice cream and sandwich cookie pieces. freeze 30 minutes. spread ice cream evenly on 1 side of 5 large chewy cookies; top with remaining large chewy cookies. place in plastic or wax paper sandwich bags, and freeze at least 1 hour.
• 2 butter pecan ice-cream sandwiches: omit mint-and-cream-filled sandwich cookies. substitute 2 pints butter pecan ice cream for vanilla ice cream and 1 (8.75-ounce) package large chewy sugar cookies for chewy chocolate cookies. proceed as directed.
• 3 mocha-almond-fudge ice-cream sandwiches: omit mint-and-cream-filled chocolate sandwich cookies. substitute 2 pints mocha-flavored ice cream with chocolate-covered almonds for vanilla ice cream. proceed as directed. note: for testing purposes only, we used starbucks coffee almond fudge ice cream.
• 4 oatmeal-rum-raisin ice-cream sandwiches: omit mint-and-cream-filled sandwich cookies. substitute 1 (8.75-ounce) package large, chewy oatmeal cookies for chewy chocolate cookies. pour 1/4 cup dark rum over 1/2 cup golden raisins; let stand 2 hours. drain and discard rum. stir rum-soaked raisins into softened ice cream, and proceed as directed.