Nothing says summer to me more than waffles and ice cream! I love to get waffle & ice cream sandwiches when I'm at fairs or festivals, but that's very seldom, so I thought I would try my hand at making my own and freezing them to eat later. Here's how it went!
I used my electric waffle iron and box mix pancake/waffle mix to make it easy, but you can make your own homemade waffles with this recipe:
Waffles: Whisk together:
2 large eggs
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 ¾ cups milk
½ cup vegetable oil
1 tablespoon white sugar
4 teaspoons baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
Using a large spoon I spread a heap of each flavor onto one waffle. More is better.
Once you have your ice cream on the waffle, top it off with the second matching waffle and press down gently so that it sticks together like a sandwich.
The first time I made these I used plastic wrap to wrap them up, but it was time consuming, messy, and felt like such a waste of plastic wrap, so this time I decided to try out aluminum foil instead.
The foil was so much easier to use; it was easier to get the right size that I wanted than with the plastic wrap, and they wrapped up nice and tight.
It's a good idea to figure out how many pieces of foil you will need ahead of time (after you match up your waffles) so that you can have the pieces torn off and ready to work with. I did two sandwiches at a time so that others wouldn't be melting all over the place while I fiddled with assembling more. Once I had them wrapped with foil I popped them into the freezer and then assembled the next two, etc., until all were done.
All together it took me less than an hour from start to finish to make about 10-12 sandwiches. We enjoyed them once they were frozen solid, which took about 4 hours in my freezer. Hope you try making them yourself! Would be a fun thing to make with kids.
