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    Home » Party Food » Fun Party Recipes

    Film Reel Ice Cream Sandwiches

    Published: Feb 17, '15 · Modified: Feb 23, '18 · By: Beth · This post may contain affiliate links.

    Whether you are hosting an Academy Awards party of just having friends over for a movie night, these Film Reel Ice Cream Sandwiches are red-carpet worthy and a sure win for the award of best dessert.

    Film Reel Ice Cream Sandwiches

    I've personally never hosted an Oscar party, even though I think it would be fun, but I do love hosting movie nights now that we have a cozy movie theater in our basement .

    We'll be having some friends over soon for a movie night and I wanted to create a really festive treat that both kids and adults would love and thought it would be great to share it before the Academy Award air this weekend, in case any of you are hosting an Oscar party.

    After, Kim, The Partiologist, shared her Academy Award Cookies here a few days ago, I was inspired to make some cookies of my own to use as ice cream sandwiches.

    Kim's cookies are decorated with fondant and look really cool, but I didn't want fondant on a frozen cookie, so I chose to just cut my cookies to look like film reels then sprayed them with silver food coloring spray to give them that shiny finish.

    Sandwiched in between each cookie is a frozen treat. I say frozen treat, because although I called these "film reel ice cream sandwiches," I didn't actually use ice cream. I meant to. I wanted to. But, in the end, I didn't. Instead I made homemade chocolate mousse which I shaped into round discs to use inside my frozen dessert.

    Using ice cream could have reduced the amount of time it took me to make these treats and certainly would have cut down on the dirty dishes, but I came up with the idea for these crafty treats yesterday and it snowed all day. Being I don't like driving in the snow and didn't have any chocolate ice cream in my house, I had to get creative.

    I made do with what I had on hand, and that meant whipping up a batch of my favorite chocolate mousse and freezing it in discs so that I could make these frozen treats.

    The frozen chocolate mousse made for a really decadent dessert and I was so happy I used it, but you can use chocolate ice cream if you want to make authentic ice cream sandwiches. Either way, they are fun movie night sweets.

     

    Film Reel Ice Cream Sandwiches

    Ingredients: (makes 24 cookies = 12 ice cream sandwiches)

    Cookie Dough:

    2 cups all purpose flour, plus more for dusting cutting board
    ¼ teaspoon salt
    ¼ teaspoon baking powder
    ½ cup butter, softened slightly
    ¾ cups sugar
    1 large egg
    ¾ teaspoons pure vanilla extract
    ½ teaspoon almond extract

    Chocolate Mousse Layer: (use chocolate ice cream if you prefer)


    1 cup heavy whipping cream
    8 ounces semi-sweet chocolate, finely chopped
    3 tablespoons water
    3 tablespoons sugar
    2 egg yolks, room temperature

    Supplies:

    rolling pin
    3 ¼ inch round cookie cutter
    ¾  inch round cookie cutter
    12 - 3 inch round metal pastry rings, if making mousse
    or a 3 inch round cookie cutter,  if using chocolate ice cream
    12 - 10 inch acetate strips to line pastry rings, if making mousse
    parchment paper lined baking sheets

    Instructions:

    Whisk together 2 cups flour, salt, and baking powder together. Set aside.

    Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Stir in egg, vanilla and almond extract.

     

    Add dry ingredients and stir just until combined.Pat dough into a disc, wrap in plastic wrap or place in a zip top bag, and refrigerate for at least 1 hour.

    Dust a cutting board lightly with flour.

     

    Roll dough out to ⅜ inch thickness. Cut rounds using the 3 ¼ inch cutter. Remove excess dough, set rounds about an inch apart on a parchment paper lined baking sheets.

    Use a ½ inch round cookie cutter to cut 5 holes around the outer edge of each cookie, so that each cookie looks like a film reel.

    Place in the refrigerator for at least 15 minutes.

    Preheat oven to 350 degrees.Bake one tray of cookies at a time for 10-12 minutes until dry around the edges.

    Allow cookies to cool completely on the baking pan.

    When cookies have cooled, spray them with silver food coloring spray. Allow them to dry completely. I lined a large box with parchment paper and set the cookies inside before spraying to keep the spray from getting on my table.

    If making chocolate mousse, follow these instructions:

    Whisk whipping cream to soft peaks. Set aside. Melt the chocolate in a large bowl. See my Chocolate Making Tips page for detailed chocolate melting instructions. Set aside. Pour water and sugar in a small saucepan and bring it to a boil over medium heat. Stir until the sugar is dissolved creating a simple syrup.

    Whisk egg yolks in a medium bowl.  Continue to whisk while slowly adding a small amount of simple syrup.  Slowly drizzle in the remaining simple syrup continually whisking.

    Combine eggs with melted chocolate, stirring until well incorporated.  Heat chocolate mixture in the microwave for 20 seconds then stir until smooth.

    Add one third of the whipped cream and whisk until well incorporated.  Gently fold in the remaining whipped cream until fluffy.

     

    Line twelve 3 inch round pastry rings with acetate strips.

     

    Pour mousse into a 16 inch disposable pastry bag and pipe into the rings, filling each about 1 inch deep. You can also just spoon the mousse into the rings, if you prefer.

    Freeze for at least one hour.

    Remove mousse discs from freezer, pop out of the rings, and peel off the acetate.

    If using ice cream, cut ice cream into 1 inch thick slices, then cut into discs using a 3 inch round cookie cutter. Set on parchment paper lined baking sheets and freeze until firm.

    Just before serving, sandwich one round of  frozen mousse or icing cream in between two cookies.

    You can assemble these ahead of time, wrap them in plastic wrap, and freeze until ready to serve. Allow them to sit at room temperature for 5-10 minutes before eating so cookies soften slightly.

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    Hi, I'm Beth Jackson Klosterboer, a professional chocolatier & baker, cookbook author, and event planner. I love sharing recipes for happy occasions here on Hungry Happenings. I also create easy fudge recipes to share at HowToMakeEasyFudge.com, rice krispie treat recipes at HowToMakeCerealTreats.com, and easy cookie recipes at HowToMakeEasyCookies.com
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    1. eliz

      May 22, 2020 at 11:43 pm

      I'd like to try these with mini chocolate cheesecakes in between.

      Reply
      • Beth

        May 23, 2020 at 8:13 am

        That would be delicious!

        Reply
    2. Cathy McInnes

      February 20, 2015 at 2:53 am

      You are so so creative! I absolutely love these and could eat one! Saying hello from foodie Friday!
      Cathy@ three kids and a fish

      Reply
      • beth

        February 20, 2015 at 3:24 am

        Thanks so much for stopping by and leaving a nice comment:)

        Reply
    3. Maria

      February 20, 2015 at 2:04 am

      How beautiful! Your precision is amazing! The cookies look beautiful and sound delicious!

      Reply
      • beth

        February 20, 2015 at 3:23 am

        Thanks so much. After cutting a few of the cookies, I found the correct spacing so they all looked pretty similar.

        Reply
    4. Brenda @ SweetSimpleStuff

      February 19, 2015 at 4:45 pm

      Hummmm ... ice cream or frozen mousse ... decisions, decisions! Your film reel ice cream sandwiches look amazing and sound delicious!

      Reply
      • beth

        February 20, 2015 at 3:22 am

        Life is so full of tough decisions! Chocolate anything is my choice.

        Reply
    5. Sugartown Sweets

      February 19, 2015 at 1:24 am

      Loving all the cool movie treats on your blog this week. These mousse ice cream sandwiches are just way cool!!

      Reply
      • beth

        February 20, 2015 at 3:22 am

        Thanks:) These were really fun to make and I'm saving them for movie night with friends.

        Reply
    6. The Partiologist

      February 17, 2015 at 11:44 pm

      I just love the way they turned out - I can only imagine how good they must taste too, that mousse filling sounds divine!

      Reply
      • beth

        February 20, 2015 at 3:21 am

        Yeah, that chocolate mousse is one of my favorite things to eat. I love it and it's great in between two cookies:)

        Reply
    7. Danielle Doerr

      February 17, 2015 at 4:05 pm

      Oh my gosh! These are TOO cute to eat!!

      Reply
      • beth

        February 20, 2015 at 3:20 am

        Nope. I've eaten plenty. LOL!

        Reply

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