How to Make an Ice Cream Sandwich at Home

Ice Cream Sandwiches are a fun summer treat that everyone enjoys. To be able to make our own ice cream sandwiches using our own healthier recipes, I went in search of the best ice cream sandwich makers and ice cream sandwich molds.

One of my favorite finds is the Mini Ice Cream Sandwich Maker by Cuisipro. This mini ice cream maker lets you make fun shapes while helping with portion control.

Another fun choice in the search for the best ice cream sandwich makers is all of the fun shapes (like stars, hearts, pigs, cows, snowflakes, gingerbread men and snowmen) available from the Tovolo Ice Cream Sandwich Molds to make shaped ice cream sandwiches.

Making homemade Ice Cream Sandwiches lets you to decide the type of ice cream (or other iced fillings), the type of cookies used and the size of the finished sandwich, which can result in healthier ice cream sandwiches.

Mini Ice Cream Sandwiches made with Cuisipro Mini Ice Cream Sandwich Maker.

Watch the YouTube clips to help see how to make ice cream sandwiches.

One easy recipe for making traditional large-sized ice cream sandwiches.

Making traditional homemade Ice Cream Sandwiches at home starts with choosing a favorite ice cream, or other frozen filling and favorite cookies or cakes.

Best part is you can make unique flavor combinations that you wouldn't be able to buy in the store.

Making Mini Ice Cream Sandwiches can be a much healthier option than eating traditional ice cream sandwiches. By choosing healthier ingredients and practicing portion control by eating smaller ice cream sandwiches you don't have to give up ice cream sandwiches.

Smaller portions let you enjoy eating ice cream sandwiches, without over indulging with the super-sized portions. Smaller ice cream sandwiches mean fewer calories, so instead of a 300 or 400 calorie ice cream sandwich, you may be able to cut those calories in half.

Choosing lower calorie options for the ice cream, using frozen yogurt or fruit sorbets are other ways of cutting down on calories. You could even blend some frozen fruit and use that instead of ice cream.

Lower calorie cookie options (instead of chocolate chip or chocolate cookies) would be using vanilla wafers (< 20 calories) or chocolate wafers (~ 25 calories), a 65 calorie graham cracker or a plain sugar cookie.

Mini sizes help with portion control, so you can eat ice cream sandwiches and not eat too much, which can very helpful if you are watching a waistline.

Mini Ice Cream Sandwiches made with Cuisipro Mini Ice Cream Sandwich Maker

A recipe for making mini ice cream sandwiches.

Mini Ice Cream Sandwiches are an easy way to have your ice cream and practice portion control.

Making mini ice cream sandwiches is simple with the Cuisipro Mini Ice Cream Sandwich Maker.

See how easy it is to make mini ice cream sandwiches with the Cuisipro's Mini Ice Cream Sandwich Maker.

For those wanting to make fun ice cream sandwich shapes look at getting ice cream sandwich molds.

With the Tovolo Ice Cream Sandwich Classic Molds you can make the a heart, star or circle sandwich. With the barnyard combinations, not only can you make the cute pig shown to the right, but you can also make cows and chickens. With the Tovolo holiday molds you can make a snowflake, gingerbread man and snowman.

With the Wlliams Sonoma Ice Cream Sandwich Molds you can make a star, a cow or a pig and the Willams Sonoma Wild West Molds make a cowboy hat, sheriff's badge or cowboy boot and the Gemco Ice Cream Sandwich Molds lets you make a car or train.

Another fun way to use the Ice Cream Molds is to use the cutters to make fun shaped sandwiches, which would be cute to serve at a child's party or shower.

Pig Ice Cream Sandwich made with Tovolo Ice Cream Sandwich Molds

These Ice Cream Sandwiches were made using different Tovolo Ice Cream Sandwich Molds.

Another Ice Cream Sandwich Maker is the one from Girl Gourmet, created by JAKKS Pacific.

The Ice Cream Sandwich maker comes with a flower-shaped mold, cookie cutter and press along with cookie mixes and recipe cards for making cookie dough, graham cracker or brownie ice cream sandwiches.

Girl Gourmet offers several different baking and cooking products for making all kinds of sweet treats that make cooking a fun activity for girls.

Girl Gourmet Ice Cream Sandwich Maker available on Amazon

These ice cream sandwiches look to be made from chocolate cookie wafers and strawberry ice cream, with the nice added touch of a small heart cut out of the cookie.

Use a mini cookie cutters to cut decorative holes in the cookies or cakes before baking.

Homemade Ice Cream Sandwiches by Ryan Snyder

Making homemade Ice Cream Sandwiches lets you to decide the type of ice cream (or other iced fillings), the type of cookies used and the size of the finished sandwich.

1. Ice Cream

   Use ice cream, sherbet, a mixture of the two or for healthier options light ice cream, frozen yogurt, sorbet or pureed frozen fruit.

2. Cookie

   Premade or homemade cookies, graham crackers, wafers or thin cakes.

3. Size

   Any size you like, mini, small, medium, large or super-sized

4. Shape

   The traditional shapes are rectangles and circles, but with molds and sandwich makers you can make hearts, flowers, animal and holiday shapes.

National Ice Cream Sandwich Day is held August 2. The origin of the holiday is harder to pin down, as is the origin of ice cream sandwiches.

One of the first references to ice cream sandwiches is a patent filed by the Anderson company for an ice cream sandwich making machine. The Food Time Line lists an article in the New York Times from August 31, 1928 listing ice cream sandwiches as one of the "New Hot-Weather Refreshments" available. Ice cream sandwiches were among the ice cream novelties (ice cream cones, ice cream sundaes, banana splits, popsicles) that were introduced in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Inexpensively priced and sold at fairs, these ice cream novelties were treats of the "common folk."

Official holiday or not, it is a fun one to celebrate during the hot days of summer. Make your own ice cream sandwiches to celebrate with the Classic Tovolo Ice Cream Sandwich Molds or Cuisipro Mini Ice Cream Sandwich Maker.

Ice Cream Sandwich made with Classic Tovolo Ice Cream Sandwich Molds.

News from Last Year's National Ice Cream Sandwich Day

Different variations on making ice cream sandwiches using different ice creams and cookies, brownies or cakes.

Leave your comments in the section below.