Lavender Blackberry Ice Cream Sandwiches
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Honee Bee Home challenged me to make a baked treat using lavender, blackberries, gin and ice cream to compliment her Blackberry Lavender Gin Milkshake. Well, challenge accepted!
These grown-up ice cream sandwiches use a variation of my Mamaw's shortbread cookies paired with my homemade Blackberry Gin & Tonic Swirl Ice Cream. Though the components come together quickly, you’ll have to wait a bit—or should—for the ice cream to set or else you might have a sticky, slidey mess. Patience is key here, but they won't disappoint!
The boozy Gin & Tonic ice cream is tempered by the blackberry jam and lemon-lime flavoring. For my ice cream, I used lemon-lime flavored soda instead of Tonic Water and was very happy with the results. I took a shortcut and used store-bought seedless blackberry jam. But if you have blackberries, are a jam maker, and want to make your own jam, by all means go for it! I’d recommend making it seedless as the seeds could add a mouthfeel (and annoyance) that you might not enjoy.
Once the cookies are completely cool and the ice cream is set, it’s time to make your sandwiches!
Use the same cookie cutter you used for your cookies to cut out portions of ice cream, sandwich the ice cream between two cookies, and place in freezer until ready to serve.
Lavender Blackberry Ice Cream Sandwiches
Ingredients:
- ½ cup of white sugar (may increase to 1 cup if using tonic water)
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 3 tablespoons gin
- ½ cup tonic water or 7up or other lemon-lime flavored soda
- 2½ cups heavy cream
- ⅓ cup seedless blackberry jam
- 2 cups of sifted all-purpose flour
- ¼ teaspoon baking powder
- 1 cup unsalted butter, soften
- ½ cup sifted powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon lemon extract
- 1½ teaspoons culinary lavender buds
Instructions:
- In a large bowl mix together sugar, lemon juice, gin and tonic water or lemon-lime soda. Stir the ingredients until the sugar is dissolved.
- Whisk in the cream until it's the texture of a thick shake, but very be careful not to whip it.
- Line 2 quart baking pan with plastic wrap. Transfer ice cream base to the pan and smooth ice cream evenly into pan with a spoon. It should be about 1-inch thick. Cover with plastic wrap and place it in your freezer. Freeze until soft the consistency of soft serve—firm but not hard.
- Remove from freezer and dot the blackberry jam onto the ice cream and use a knife to create swirls. If your jam is firm, you may need to gently warm it, but allow to cool before adding to ice cream.
- Cover with a small piece of plastic wrap, sticking directly to ice cream. Cover with a piece a parchment paper that fits just the surface of the ice cream. Cover the pan tightly with more plastic wrap. Freeze until firm, about 6 hours or overnight.
- While the ice cream is setting, make your cookies.
- In a medium bowl, sift together flour and baking powder and set aside.
- Cream butter and powdered sugar in a large bowl or standing mixer until light and fluffy. Gradually blend in flour mixture.
- Stir in lavender buds.
- Divide the dough in half and shape into two large balls. Flatten the ball of dough into a ½” thick disk and wrap in plastic wrap. Chill for 2 hours in the refrigerator.
- Preheat oven to 300 degrees and line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Roll the dough out between two sheets of parchment paper, keeping it to a ¼” thickness. Using a 3-inch round cookie cutter, cut and place on prepared baking sheets about 1 inch apart. To keep cookies from spreading, place entire baking sheet of unbaked cookies into the freezer for 5 minutes.
- Bake for about 20 minutes. Cookies will be pale but set.
- Cool on baking sheet 2 minutes and then carefully move to a wire cooling rack and allow cookies to fully cool.
- Once the cookies are completely cool, take out the ice cream from your freezer. Use the same cookie cutter to cut out portions of ice cream, sandwich the ice cream between two cookies, and place in freezer until ready to serve.
Notes:
Calories
869.30Fat (grams)
66.93Sat. Fat (grams)
41.98Carbs (grams)
62.72Fiber (grams)
1.72Net carbs
61.00Sugar (grams)
43.95Protein (grams)
5.71Sodium (milligrams)
64.39Cholesterol (grams)
193.40
