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A recipe for gourmet ice cream sandwiches from the family behind White Squirrel Coffee Shop and an affogato bonus

David, the owner of Toronto’s White Squirrel Coffee Shop, and his family made this video to share a sweet how-to for gourmet ice cream sandwiches (his is a foodie’s version of the classic corner store chocolate cookie kind) and affagato (also known as ice cream drowned in espresso). In this video, once they’ve shown us how it’s done, David and his wife Shawna and their two long-locked boys hang outside their shop and rap about ice cream and cookie flavour pairings. Plus, they’re letting us share their cookie recipe with you guys. If you’re anything like us, after watching this you’ll be jonesing for a scoop, in which case we suggest you take a stroll to your local parlour, preferably one that makes their own stuff.

White Squirrel Ice Cream Sandwich Cookie Recipe

1.5 cup butter
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
1/2 cup molasses
1 cup cocoa
4 cups flour
1/2 tablespoon ginger
2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoons salt

In electric mixer, cream butter for a few minutes. Add sugar, mix until fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time. Add molasses and cocoa. In separate bowl, sift remaining ingredients together. Once mixed, slowly incorporate dry ingredient mixture with wet mixture. Scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl while mixing until dough appears evenly mixed.

Refrigerate dough until firm. Roll into balls slighty smaller than a golf ball, and roll balls in white sugar to coat. Space coated balls on dry cookie sheets far enough apart so they can be pressed flat without touching each other. Press balls flat with base of small rocks glass or similar item, dipping the glass into sugar to avoid dough sticking to the glass.

Bake at 330 F for 6 minutes. Allow to cool slightly and remove to cooling rack for 15 minutes.

Note that you should keep cookies frozen for the best ice cream sammies. Makes approximately 4 dozen 3″ cookies (enough to feed your entire family and some of your neighbours!).

Now that you have your gourmet ice cream sandwich cookies, you’ll need some gourmet ice cream to go with them. Click here to peruse the list of Bunchland’s top 10 favourite gourmet ice creams.