grain-free, dairy-free ice cream sandwiches

jamiestelter — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 11:27:46 +0000

At overnight camp when I was a kid I had a chipwich almost every single night of those 8-week summers. Man, I loved my chipwiches.

This right here is basically the adult version of that… minus the grain and the dairy. Lest you think it’s minus all the flavor, too, both my husband and best friend tried them — both of whom love their carby sweet treats — and loved ’em. What’s not to love about cookies and ice cream though, in any form?

So before summer’s over, get in on this recipe.

Grain-free, Dairy-free Ice Cream Sandwiches

MAKES 15-20 COOKIES

Ingredients

3 cups almond flour
1/2 cup virgin coconut oil
1/2 cup pure maple syrup
2 eggs
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups Enjoy Life semi-sweet chocolate chips (or any dairy-free brand)
1 pint of your favorite dairy-free ice cream

Instructions

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
In a medium-sized bowl combine dry ingredients: flour, baking soda and salt.
In another small bowl mix eggs, maple syrup, and vanilla extract together.
Pour wet ingredients into dry and mix together until combined.
Melt coconut oil, pour into batter, and continue to blend until combined.
Stir in chocolate chips. (The batter will be very wet.)
On a parchment lined baking sheet, drop balls of cookie dough about a tablespoon in size. They will expand when you bake, more than you think.
Flatten cookie balls with back of a spoon — flatter is better for ice cream sandwich-making. If you want, leave some fluffy for straight cookie-eating.
Bake for 15 minutes.
Let cool outside the oven, then put them in the freezer for about 10-15 minutes.
Scoop ice cream onto half the cookies, topping them with the other halves. Push down and freeze them for another 10-15 minutes… then enjoy!

Notes

These will keep in the freezer, inside tupperware, for about a week.

A Recipe From Jamie Stelter | www.thetvdinner.com

happy purim!

jamiestelter — Sun, 16 Mar 2014 16:11:37 +0000

And what’s Purim without Helen’s homemade hamantaschen? She sends them to us every year and it is such a treat — because not only do I not usually eat sweets, but Helen’s cooking (that’s my mom, obvi) is just the best. I am not a baker, but she is an all-star — and these are every bit of proof you will ever need. And how freaking cute is she with the handwritten note? I only wish it said Jamie on it, so you could see how she always dots the “i” in my name with a heart. ALWAYS.

Anyway I didn’t know that this was my Bubby’s recipe — that’s my late grandmother, my mom’s mom — until she told me, though I shouldn’t be surprised. Almost all of my memories of her — except for her gorgeous jewelry and knit sweaters I inherited — are surrounded by food. There was her herring at the break fast for Yom Kippur, her roast beef simmering in a pool of gravy and roasted potatoes at every other holiday, and her endless twist-top containers of raisins and goldfish we would dig into as we played Rummy or Kings Corners with her and my Zayda. And now, her hamantaschen.

Read the story of Purim and these delicious triangular cookies — then bake your own using the recipe below.

cookies – TV Dinner — healthy recipes for RA by Jamie Stelter

grain-free, dairy-free ice cream sandwiches

happy purim!