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This is what the ice-cream sandwiches look like in the recipe book.

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This is how one of my ice-cream sandwiches turned out.

I know, I know it looks like a ball of mush. But you’ll have to take my word for it. It tastes heavenly. I made 20 of them not too long ago and half are already gone!

I love making desserts now. It’s my new thing. I also love complex recipes. Often, I convince myself to start something complicated with a bunch of ingredients and steps because it seems like more work will translate into better food. It actually ends up being that way too. Complex recipes give me better results!

For my sandwiches I had to prepare three batches of “stuff” and finally put them together to construct my sandwiches.

It’s no surprise that they look awful because I did everything super fast and made some major errors along the way. It also took me three days to make this! I started sometime Sunday and something related to Castor took precendence and I had to pause.

Some of the ingredients had been left out for a while, oh well. They seemed fine and were stuck back in the fridge. Or so I thought. One of the key ingredients, two lemon halves, sat out on the counter for two days before I picked this recipe back up today. Ew. Right. They looked dried out. I thought to myself, let’s squeeze the lemon juice out and see what it tastes like. It might be alright. It wasn’t bad. Not the freshest of lemony taste, but not bad.

Yesterday, I measured all my dry ingredients and things just sat out. Oops added an extra cup of sugar to my batter instead of the blueberry mixture. Yikes. Oh well. Then I made the sandwich layer too thick, by spreading the entire batter in one dish instead of two. I don’t have two square baking dishes and I didn’t have time to wait around. Ugh — what was I thinking. Whatever. I kept my cool. It was all gonna end up in the sandwich.

Finally, I cut my baked dough (with the excess sugar) into small squares. Also cut my flattened lemony icecream into small squares. Layered them and topped them with the blueberry mixture (missing the sugar).

It is one hell of a dessert. I cannot stop eating those little rugged squares of deliciousness. My hubby had to step in. “Hey! Easy on them. You’re going to get a belly ache!”

Here’s a side shot he just took for me:

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