Homemade Chipwiches: Guinness Ice Cream and Butter Cookies

These chipwiches were also made for my aforementioned birthday potluck. I spent a lot of time brainstorming the best combination of homemade ice cream / fresh baked cookie. Pumpkin ice cream with molasses cookies? Earl grey ice cream with honey cookies? Endless possibilities. In the end, I kept it kinda simple because I knew these cookies would keep the perfect chewy-not-crumbly texture after being frozen.



Use the cookie recipe above without the chocolate chips. Recipe for Guinness ice cream is as follows:

1 bottle of Guinness Extra Stout
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 tsp salt
2 cups heavy cream
1 tsp vanilla extract
6 egg yolks
a healthy pour of molasses, if you have it

Whisk together sugar, salt & egg yolks in a saucepan until smooth. Stir in cream and molasses, and cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until the mixture is thick enough to coat the back of a spoon (about 5 minutes). Whisk in Guinness and vanilla, refrigerate until chilled. Process in an ice cream maker and freeze until firm, at least 4 hours.'

Once your ice cream is done and your cookies are cooled, assemble your ice cream sandwiches (quickly!) and re-freeze them. This recipe makes a lot of chipwiches (20-25?) but I had no problem getting rid of them.