“This post is sponsored by Swell, The Next Wave of Ice Cream. As always, all opinions are my own.”
Well hello summer! I (Bethany) just finished my first year of grad school last week (whoop whoop), but Rachel is still in class all year round (whomp). With all this extra time on my hands, I’m super duper excited to get my creative recipe juices flowing!
I’ve been dying to make homemade ice cream sandwiches for ages now, and FINALLY created a recipe that I think you guys will enjoy! There are four flavors of sammies and they’re all simple, versatile and tasty! We started off by making simple vanilla and chocolate soft cookies, jammed some amazing ice cream (which I’ll get to in a quick sec) in between, and added a fun twist on each one!
Let me first mention the most important ingredient in the whole recipe….the ice cream of course! What is an ice cream sandwich without the ice cream? Two sad sad cookies. Now that we are on the topic, let me introduce you all to Swell, The Next Wave of Ice Cream! Rachel and I are blessed to be able to partner with Swell Foods to show you guys just how amazingly awesome it is!
For those of you who have never had or heard of Swell Ice Cream, let me describe it for you: oh so creamy, dreamy…..literally the perfect ice cream texture (not icy….because we all know that ice cream shouldn’t taste like ice). Is your mouth drooling yet, ‘cause mine is!
Not only is Swell Ice Cream delicious, it’s got a ton of nutritional benefits! The folks at Swell Foods have carefully and whole-heartedly created this high-quality ice cream with the intention of prioritizing the consumer’s health and satisfying ice cream cravings simultaneously!
Here are just some of the nutritional benefits:
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- 10 grams of protein per half cup serving in every flavor
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- Low glycemic, diabetic-friendly
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- A good source of fiber (3 grams per serving)
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- Certified gluten-free
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- Non-GMO
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- Certified soy-free
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- rBGH and rBST-free-dairy
- Short, clean ingredient list (you can recognize and pronounce ALL the ingredients)
As an RD2be and a self-proclaimed intuitive eater, this makes my heart so happy that Swell Ice Cream not only tastes like ice cream (you know, because the icy competitors don’t satisfy those cravings), but it’s made with high quality ingredients that are going to fuel your body and mind. Swell Ice Cream is also not marketed as an “eat the whole pint without guilt” kind of ice cream, which can trigger the restrictive-binge cycle and feed into disordered eating (something that goes against eating intuitively)!
Now that I convinced you to get some Swell Ice Cream for yourself, click here to find out where it find it!
Ok, now back to the recipe! So as I mentioned previously, we’ve got four flavors of ice cream sammies to show off the versatility of Swell Ice Cream:
Chocolate Peanut Butter Ice Cream Sandwiches : Chocolate cookies, Swell peanut butter chocolate chip ice cream and drizzled peanut butter
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream Sandwiches: Vanilla cookies, Swell chocolate cookie dough batter ice cream and mini chocolate chips
Chunky Monkey Ice Cream Sandwiches: Chocolate cookies, Swell dutch chocolate ice cream, crushed walnuts and crushed banana chips
Strawberry Shortcake Ice Cream Sandwiches: Vanilla cookies, Swell vanilla bean ice cream, crushed graham crackers and freeze-dried strawberries
Basically a flavor for everyone!
Healthy Ice Cream Sandwich Ingredients:
Banana
Baking soda
Egg/flax egg
Substitutions for These Healthy Ice Cream Sandwiches:
Almond flour: You may sub in all-purpose flour or gluten-free flour.
Almond Butter: Sub in natural smooth nut butter such as peanut butter, cashew butter or sunflower seed butter.
Maple Syrup: Use another liquid sweetener such honey or agave.
Banana: You can use applesauce, mashed sweet potato or pumpkin puree.
Ice Cream: You your favorite ice cream to place in-between these sandwiches.
How to Assemble Healthy Ice Cream Sandwiches:
Step 1: make the cookies and let cool
Step 2: soften Swell Ice Cream and sandwich between two cookies (or three if you want a triple decker)
Step 3: Add fun additions
Step 4: Refreeze until ice cream is hardened
Step 5: Enjoy!!
Other Healthy Recipes That You Will Love!
Vegan Cookies and Cream Ice Cream
Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Ice Cream
Blueberry Muffin Freezer Fudge
Ice Cream Sandwiches!!!
Ingredients
- 1 cup almond flour
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 cup almond butter
- 1 egg or flax egg
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 1/2 ripe banana mashed or 1/4 cup applesauce
- 1 tbsp cocoa powder optional for chocolate cookies
- Swell Ice Cream vanilla, peanut butter chocolate chip, chocolate chip cookie, dutch chocolate
- EXTRAS
- crushed graham cracker crumbs freeze dried strawberries, mini chocolate chips, peanut butter, crushed walnuts, dried banana chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Combine almond flour and baking soda in a large bowl.
- Combine almond butter, egg, maple syrup, banana and cocoa powder, if using in small bowl and mix well.
- Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and mix well.
- Spoon batter into 12 cookies
- Bake for 15 minutes or until done.
- Let cookies cool completely.
- make ice cream sandwiches and add extras of your choosing!
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I’ve been eating ice cream almost every night lately…can’t wait to try that brand and make these cookies!! So many flavor options too 🙂
I love these fun flavor combos – The strawberry and banana ones sound so fun!
MMMMM WOW. The icecream and cookie combo is one of the best combos in the world. That’s so cool that this ice cream has so much protein.
We agree! Nothing better than cookies + ice cream!
Healthier options like Swell are always welcome. Now patients do not need to restrain their cravings instead go all out and succumb with out caring about repercussions.
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