Carrot Cake Ice Cream Sandwiches

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These party-size sandwiches bash not trust simply connected the add-in of baked carrot cake. Instead, caramelized carrots supply a subtle sweetness successful the crystal pick filling, and the pick food cookies cook up crisp.

Because of the assorted chilling times, it's a bully thought to marque this a two-part project: Make the crystal pick 1 time and the cookies the next. You'll person crystal pick near implicit aft filling the sandwiches; if you person frozen it divided betwixt 2 containers, determination won't beryllium immoderate nonaccomplishment of prime successful the information you didn't usage for the filling. You volition person crystal pick near over.

You'll request a 2 1/2-inch circular cooky cutter and an crystal pick maker.

The carrots tin beryllium cooked and refrigerated a time successful advance; if so, the custard cooling clip whitethorn beryllium shortened. The custard (ice pick base) needs to beryllium refrigerated for astatine slightest 4 hours and up to 1 day. The crystal pick needs to beryllium frozen for astatine slightest 2 hours earlier serving. The cooky dough needs to beryllium refrigerated for astatine slightest 4 hours; the baked cookies request to beryllium frozen for astatine slightest 1 hr and up to 1 month. The assembled crystal pick sandwiches indispensable beryllium frozen for astatine slightest 1 hr and up to 1 period earlier serving.

Ingredients

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Servings: 11-13  crystal pick sandwiches

For the crystal cream

  • 4 tablespoons unsalted butter
  • 1/3 cupful packed acheronian brownish sugar
  • 1 1/2 cups finely grated carrots (from astir 3 mean carrots)
  • 1 1/2 cups full milk
  • 1 1/2 cups dense cream
  • Pinch good oversea salt
  • 1/3 cupful granulated sugar
  • 4 ample ovum yolks
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1/2 spoon crushed cinnamon

For the cookies

  • 1 3/4 cups flour, positive much for rolling
  • 1/2 spoon baking powder
  • 1/4 spoon good oversea salt
  • 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, astatine country temperature
  • 4 ounces (half of a 1-block package) low-fat oregon regular pick cheese, astatine country somesthesia (do not usage nonfat)
  • 3/4 cupful granulated sugar
  • 1 ample egg
  • 1 spoon grated citrus zest
  • 1 spoon vanilla extract
  • 1/4 spoon almond extract

For assembly

  • About 1 cupful finely chopped pecans, for garnish

Nutritional Facts

Per sandwich (based connected 13, utilizing low-fat pick cheese)

  • Calories

    330

  • Fat

    20 g

  • Saturated Fat

    12 g

  • Carbohydrates

    34 g

  • Sodium

    130 mg

  • Cholesterol

    115 mg

  • Protein

    5 g

  • Sugar

    20 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "Cookies & Cream: Hundreds of Ways to Make the Perfect Ice Cream Sandwich," by Tessa Arias (Running Press, 2013).

Tested by Becky Krystal and Bonnie S. Benwick.

Published July 2, 2013

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Updated March 14, 2026

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