Did you know that August 2nd is national ice cream sandwich day? Yeah, neither did I. Apparently it’s a thing. I may be a day late and a dollar short but I have a feeling you will forgive my forgetfulness when you see this White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Ice Cream Cookie Sandwiches with Salted Caramel Sauce!
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The Cookies!
These are my delectable and decadent White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Ice Cream Cookie Sandwiches with Salted Caramel Sauce! Chunky homemade dough, baked perfectly, filled with creamy vanilla ice cream and drizzled with salted caramel, nothing wrong with that!
The Salted Caramel Sauce:
You can make your own salted caramel sauce (it’s easy and kind of like a fun science experiment), you can buy it or If you’d like have it delivered to your door! If you are a do it yourself kind of person you can watch a video tutorial on how to make caramel sauce here.
Want to Make The Cookies Gluten Free and Just as Good?
When I bake for my gluten free friends I use Gluten Free Jovial Pastry Flour, because it’s the best for cookie baking. It has the perfect grainy bite! Give it a try, you won’t be sorry.
The Recipe: White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Ice Cream Cookie Sandwiches
You will need: a cookie sheet, parchment paper, wax paper (for storing finished cookies in freezer), my caramel recipe, a stand mixer or hand mixer and vanilla paste. (affiliate links)
- 2 ¼ cups all purpose flour (gluten free suggestion above)
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup butter
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla paste or extract
- 2 large eggs
- 2/3 cups rolled oats
- 1 cup macadamia nuts, roughly chopped
- 10 ounces good quality white chocolate chips
- Caramel Sauce (use store bought or make my recipe linked above)
- Your favorite vanilla ice cream for filling (I love haagen Daaz)
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Preheat oven to 375 degrees and place rack in center of oven. If making your own salted caramel make while oven preheats.
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Place flour, salt, and baking soda in a large bowl and set aside. Cream butter and sugars in mixer.
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Add eggs and vanilla paste or extract, mix until combined.
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Slowly add flour mixture, till well combinedAdd whole oats, mix well. Add chocolate chips and nuts, fold in by hand.
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Place dough by large spoonfuls onto parchment covered cookie sheet and bake for 9-11 minutes. Allow cookies to completely cool. When cookies have cooled, warm up caramel sauce. Turn cookies over and drizzle with salted caramel. Place cookies (on the cookie sheet) into freezer for an hour.
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Ten minutes before filling cookies, take ice cream out of the freezer and allow to soften a bit. Top one cookie with ice cream. Place another cookie on top and gently press. You want the cookies separated by at least an inch of ice cream. Wrap individual sandwiches in wax paper and place in gallon size zip lock bags. You should be able to get 6-8 cookies into a gallon size zip lock.Place in freezer immediately. Serve after ice cream sets up again!
MAY I PLEASE ASK A FAVOR?
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that looks amazing!
You are my hero….bliss, right here!
Glad I can be someones hero!
Mouth is watering just looking at these!
Wow, these look amazing.
You had me at White Chocolate Macadamia nut…..
What is vanilla paste?
It is a paste made with vanilla bean. It doesn’t have that strong alcohol flavor that extract has and tastes good straight out of the bottle. I provided a link in the post if you’d like to see it:)
looks super yummy!!!!!
Thank you! They are a favorite!
Have to make these. I just KNOW I am going to love them. Thanks.
Tried the same and my kid loved it.
We made a similar ice cream sandwich last summer with chocolate chip cookies. I Will have to try them out with the macadamia nut cookies,and YES PLEASE to the caramel sauce!
Yum! I have a recipe for that too!