Oatmeal Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches

After spending some time in the San Francisco bay area, we here at 51 Porter have a soft spot for It's It Ice Cream Sandwiches. Now that we're living on the East Coast, we've taken it upon ourselves to recreate the warm and fuzzy feeling an oatmeal cookie ice cream sandwich can bring. If you've had the real deal It's It, you'll notice that ours isn't chocolate dipped, but to make up for this lack of chocolate the oatmeal cookies have chocolate chips baked into them, and chocolate chips are added as a garnish to the ice cream...so we think we've covered the chocolate front. 

Ingredients:
1 1/2 sticks unsalted butter at room temperature
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup granulated sugar
2 eggs
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground allspice
1 cup chocolate chips
3 cups old fashioned rolled oats
Ice Cream, you choose the flavor. We used Vanilla Bean and Black Raspberry Chip, the Raspberry flavor was best (in my opinion). 


Directions: 
1.  Preheat oven to 350 F. 


2.  Whip the butter and both sugars together until smooth. Add in eggs one at a time and beat until fully mixed. 


3.  Whisk together the flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and allspice. Add this dry mixture slowly to the wet mixture. Beat on low speed. The cookie batter should have no lumps at this point.


4.  Fold in chocolate chips and oats. 

5.  Using a spoon, place one inch lumps of cookie dough on a greased cookie sheet. Leave at least one inch around the cookies, as they will flatten and spread out as they bake. 


6.  Bake for 10-12 minutes. I tend to like soft and gooey cookies, but these ones do need to have a little more shape to hold the ice cream.


7.  Take the cookies out of the oven and allow to cool. While they're cooling, take the ice cream out of the freezer and allow it to soften. You want the ice cream to be soft enough that you're cookie won't break when you flatten an ice cream scoop with it.

8.  Speaking of ice cream scoops, turn half of your cookies (now cooled) upside down and place a scoop of ice cream on each. Top with another cookie, and gently push down until the ice cream sandwich is formed. Roll in chocolate chips or sprinkles for some tasty garnish, then put the sandwiches back in the freezer until they harden. 

9.  Eat the ice cream cookie sandwiches with friends outside on a sunny day. 


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