This weekend I had a craving for a treat I hadn't made since the kids lived at home. In their growing up years, I was SuperMom, and made so much of what we ate from scratch. It was also cheaper. But, mostly I was being SuperMom. I made yogurt, breads, soup, cakes, pies, cookies, etc. all from scratch. We had a garden and I canned stuff. Dad hunted deer so we had ground venison for chili, etc. We lived a ways from the grocery store, so I was always looking for things I could make quickly from a few ingredients I could always keep on the shelf or in the freezer. Ice cream sandwiches was one of those things.
Where I got this recipe from has been lost forever in the deep recesses of my mind, but the adult children sitting at my counter this past Saturday didn't care about origin. They remembered the treat for sure. Simple to make substitute for Ice Cream Sandwiches:
Cool Whip-iches
Graham crackers, broken in half. A big spoonful of still-half-frozen Cool Whip on one half, then add the other half, to make a sandwich. Wrap each sandwich in saran, and keep in the freezer. It's best to give them a day or more as frozen, so the moisture in the Cool Whip eventually softens the graham cracker but we usually had a hard time being patient - and still do!
Variations, of course: Add a package of dry hot chocolate mix to the Cool Whip to get chocolate Cool Whip; Add mini-chocolate chips to the Cool Whip first; Dip the sides of the sandwich into mini-chocolate chips before wrapping; use fat-free Cool Whip to shave off calories; use chocolate graham crackers (a family favorite); never tried cinnamon grahams, but couldn't hurt!
I'd venture to say I've made thousands (talk about cheap ice cream sandwiches, portion control, etc.) and eaten hundreds of these. I hope you enjoy!
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