Tasty ice cream sandwiches with pumpkin cookies

Ice cream sandwiches are a year-round treat in my house and these pumpkin spice chocolate chip cookies are fast becoming a holiday classic.

The cookies have a lightly spiced flavor and the pumpkin keeps them moist even when frozen. You can choose any type of ice cream, and then dress it up by adding Hershey’s semi-sweet chocolate chips or Reese’s peanut butter chips.

Pumpkin chocolate chip ice cream sandwiches recipe

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup pumpkin purée (canned or fresh, not pumpkin pie filling)
• 1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
• 1/2 cup Hershey’s semi-sweet chocolate chips (or 4-5 Hershey’s milk chocolate snack size bars, chopped)
• Ice cream of your choice
• Optional: 1/2 cup Hershey’s semi-sweet chocolate chips or Reese’s peanut butter chips for ice cream

Directions:

1. In a small bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and pumpkin pie spice.
2. In a large bowl, mix the butter, sugar and brown sugar. Add the pumpkin purée and vanilla extract.
3. Mix the flour into the other ingredients until just combined.
4. Fold in the Hershey’s semi-sweet chocolate chips or chopped Hershey’s snack size bars.
5. Wrap the cookie dough and refrigerate for at least 1 hour before baking.
6. On a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, place heaping spoonfuls of the dough. Bake the tray at 350 degrees F for 12-15 minutes.
7. Allow the cookies to cool completely before making the ice cream sandwiches.
8. Freeze the cookies for 30 minutes, or longer until you are ready to prepare them.
9. Sandwich ice cream between two cookies. Then, swirl them in Hershey’s semi-sweet chocolate chips or Reese’s peanut butter chips, or roll the outside of the sandwich in chips as desired.
10. Freeze the sandwiches for 30 minutes or until you are ready to serve them.

This post is part of collaboration between Hershey’s and SheKnows.