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Wrap your chops around these. Spongy, chewy double chocolate cookies stand-in for the bread here while the filling is a brown sugar, mint-flecked puck. No, you cannot pack these into a lunchbox for later. Yes, you can eat them in place of a proper lunch.
Double chocolate and dirty mint ice-cream sandwiches
If you like the biscuit base of a classic no-bake cheesecake, is your ice-cream sandwich. Easy, no-churn cardamom kulfi is sandwiched between layers made from blitzed custard cream biscuits.
Kulfi ice-cream bars. Source: Nadiya's Simple Spices / Penguin Michael Joseph / Chris Terry
These delicious from Kirsten Tibballs feature creamy homemade caramel ice-cream (no ice-cream maker required) sandwiched between two rich chocolate biscuits. You'll want a napkin if you eat this with your hands, but it will be worth it!
Caramel ice-cream sandwiches. Source: The Chocolate Queen
Adding a little extra dazzle to your sambo, these are bejewelled with a crunchy praline making them a sandwich for entertaining. You also might need to employ the use of a spoon or fork here.
Gingerbread cookie dough ice-cream sandwiches with praline
If you're a fan of pumpkin in a pie, then it stands to reason you will be a fan of . This next-level sandwich has all the elements working together, from the chewy cookies to the creamy, cold pumpkin ice cream. You'll never look at pumpkin the same way again.
Pumpkin ice-cream choc chip cookie sandwiches
but spectacular: split iced doughnuts, slip slices of ice-cream in between, then roll in sprinkles!
Iced doughnut ice cream sandwiches with sprinkles Source: Richo's Bar Snacks
OK, so this is more of a burger, but the same important principle applies: take ice cream and put it in a cookie/cake/bun. Here we have a deep-red . The advantage of this ice cream sandwich is that from a distance it could look as though you're just eating a burger with a lot of beetroot. A lot, though.
Cherry sorbet on brioche rolls Source: Petrina Tinslay
Most sandwiches don't require their fillings to be churned for hours on end, but don't let that deter you. Once you've churned your innards, they'll be waiting in your freezer whenever you feel like fixing a sandwich. All the elements for these , including the pastry, can be stored in the freezer, patiently waiting to be assembled.
Baklava and pistachio ice-cream sandwich Source: Kulsum Kunwa
Keeping it closer to a real sandwich, these , or loti, are made with bread. But, of course, by bread we really mean crazy-coloured cake baked into a loaf shape. But we've come too far in our ultimate ice cream sandwich journey to let that bother us.
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Ice-cream loti Source: Feast magazine
Emulating that most desirable packet biscuit, the , these cool sandwiches manage to sneak some real fruit into the mix by way of the raspberry filling. It's gonna get messy, people.
Monte Carlo biscuit sorbet sandwiches Source: Brett Stevens
