Our Lavender Ice Cream Sandwiches recipe features homemade lavender cookies with either vanilla or lavender ice cream. A beautiful treat for special occasions such as Mother’s Day, Easter, bridal showers, spring or summer parties.
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If you are needing a pretty dessert for a special occasion, this Lavender Ice Cream Sandwiches recipe is for you. These ice cream sandwiches are made of a simple lavender cookie and then filled with either vanilla ice cream or lavender ice cream.
If you can find lavender ice cream in your area, we would definitely recommend using it. However, it can be difficult to find. Our recommendation would be to look for it at independent ice cream shops in your area.
If lavender ice cream isn’t an option for you, no worries! Vanilla ice cream is delicious with the lavender flavor in these cookies. You can use vanilla ice cream as-is, or if you wish, you can use a bit of lavender food color gel to give your vanilla ice cream a pretty lavender color.
The homemade lavender cookies are pretty much a shortbread cookie, with the addition of crushed lavender flowers. To get crushed lavender, you will start with dried lavender flowers and crush them in with a mortar and pestle into a fine powder. They are then incorporated into the raw cookie dough. If you wish, you can press some additional (non-crushed) lavender flowers into the top of the cookie dough before baking. The lavender flowers also look pretty when scattered around your finished ice cream sandwiches
They are lovely for Mother’s Day, Easter, bridal or baby showers, or parties in the spring or summer.
Lavender Ice Cream Sandwiches Recipe
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Lavender Ice Cream Sandwiches
Description
Our Lavender Ice Cream Sandwiches recipe features homemade lavender cookies with either vanilla or lavender ice cream. A beautiful treat for special occasions such as Mother’s Day, Easter, bridal showers, spring or summer parties.
Ingredients
2 teaspoons dried lavender flowers (edible)
2 sticks unsalted butter
2/3 cup sugar
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 pint of vanilla or lavender ice cream (or another flavor of your choice)
Optional: Lavender colored food paste or gel, additional dried lavender flowers
Instructions
Line a medium-sized baking, that fits in your fridge or freezer with a sheet of parchment paper. Crush the lavender flowers up finely with a mortar and pestle (it should be powder-like).
Beat together the butter, sugar, and crushed lavender flowers in a large bowl. In a small bowl, mix together flour and salt. Add flour/salt mixture to the butter mixture until you have a smooth ball of cookie dough. Cover and let chill in the fridge, in the bowl, for 10 minutes.
Remove and roll out the dough on the parchment paper. You’ll want it to be a little less than 1/3 of an inch thick.
Place the tray in the freezer for 10 minutes for the fridge for about 30 minutes.
Use your favorite cookie cutters to cut the dough into shapes. You will need 2 cookies per sandwiches.
Place the cookie dough shapes on your baking sheet, leaving a bit of room between the cookies to allow them to expand. If you wish, press a bit of additional dried lavender flowers into half of the cookies (tops of the sandwiches).
Bake at 350 degrees F for about 12 to 15 minutes. This timing may vary quite a bit depending on the size and thickness of the cookies. Keep a close eye and pull them when they look like they are just about to start browning up.
If using vanilla ice and you wish to color it lavender, place vanilla ice cream in a bowl and allow to soften slightly. Mix in lavender colored food gel to achieve your desired color. Return ice cream to the freezer to allow it to firm up.
Let the cookies completely cool before adding the ice cream filling. You’ll want to have a cool tray or plate ready to put them on and then get them right into the freezer.
Freeze for at least 2 hours before serving to make sure the ice cream has time to harden again and stick to
the cookies.
- Category: Dessert
- Cuisine: American
Keywords: cookie, ice cream sandwiches, mother's day, ice cream, lavender flowers,
Emily says
I love trying desserts and drinks with lavender and I bet these ice cream sandwiches are so yummy! Thank you for sharing at Merry Monday; I will be featuring your dessert at our upcoming party 🙂
Barbara Chapman ~ French Ethereal says
Hello Brandie! Just visiting from Kerryanne’s Cake, Bake, Grow and Gather link party and saw your feature. I write a lot about tea parties, so your recipe is perfect for my Yummy! board, which I did pin. I’ll have to try your recipe this summer ~ it looks delicious!!
Have a great week,
Barb 🙂
Kerryanne says
Oh these look amazing Brandie and are extra special with the lavender ice cream. What a treat!
Thank you for sharing at Create, Bake, Grow & Gather this week. I’m delighted to be featuring this recipe at tomorrow’s party and pinning too!
Jann Olson says
These would be so fun for a garden party! So pretty, and I’m sure delicious too. Thanks for sharig with SYC. I wanted to feature you, but don’t see the party listed on your link party page. Sorry, that is one of the requirements to be featured.
hugs,
Jann
FrugalHausfrau says
What a fun and beautiful recipe! I can’t wait until my lavender comes in! Thanks for sharing with us at Fiesta Friday!
Mollie
Miz Helen says
Your Lavender Ice Cream Sandwiches will be delicious! Hope you are having a great week and thanks so much for sharing with us at Full Plate Thursday.
Miz Helen
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Angelina says
This looks so tasty! Thanks for linking up with Thursday Favorite Things – I’ll be featuring you this week!
Marilyn Lesniak says
Congratulations! Your post was my feature pick at #OverTheMoon this week. Each Hostess displays their own features so be sure to visit me on Sunday evening and to see your feature! I invite you to leave more links to be shared and commented upon. Please don’t forget to add your link numbers or post title so we can be sure to visit!
Kat @ Kat's 9 Lives says
Mmmm! I love lavender ice cream! These ice cream sandwiches are so fancy!
Theresa says
These look so good! Thanks for sharing your DIY at the Inspiration Spotlight party @DearCreatives Pinned & sharing.
Chas says
I’ll be featuring you next Wednesday on To Grandma’s House We Go!
Chas says
I truly want to give this a try! Pinned! Thanks for sharing on To Grandma’s House We Go!
Sandra L Garth says
Lavender Ic Cream reminds me of the movie “It’s Complicated”. It was one of Meryl Streep’s specialties. This is a pretty, dainty dessert and perfect for Mother’s Day.
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Helen at the Lazy Gastronome says
I made lavender no churn ice cream – it would go great with these! Thanks for sharing at the What’s for Dinner Party!
Michele @ Queenbeebaker says
These ice cream sandwiches look SO good. They are beautiful for Spring too!
Amy says
I’ve never eaten Lavender before but this sounds intriguing. Thanks for sharing at Bouquet of Talent Party.