The coveted recipe for Notoreos, a winsome experiment in creating a vanilla-cream-filled chocolate sandwich cookie that tasted like chocolate and vanilla and not . . . Oreo. This recipe is a personal creation and allows you to custom-stuff each cookie to the desired thickness. It also requires a shot glass, which takes any recipe to the top shelf.
The cookies themselves can be crushed to make excellent pie crusts.
for the Notoreos
Cream together - 1/2 cup butter
- 1/2 cup sugar
Add in and mix thoroughly - 1/2 cup baking cocoa
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
Add in- 1 beaten egg
- 1/2 tsp vanilla
- 3/4 cup flour
Chill dough for 1 hour.Roll out on a well-floured board to 1/8-inch thickness. Cut into rounds with a shot glass dipped in flour. Bake in a 375-degree oven for 10 minutes.Cool completely. | for the Creamy Filling
Beat together - 1/4 cup butter
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1.5 cups powdered sugar
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
Roll into balls and smoosh in between two cookies. ( Save some single chocolate cookies for the ice cream.) |
French Vanilla Ice Cream
adapted from America's Test Kitchen
Place metal 8x8 pan in freezer and a large bowl containing an ice bath in the refrigerator.Steam to175 degrees- 1.75 cups heavy cream
- 1/25 whole milk
- half of 3/4 cups sugar
Remove from heat. Mix together - half of 3/4 cups sugar
- 6 large egg yolks
Slowly stir 1 cup of the hot cream mixture into the egg mixture. When mixed thoroughly, slowly whisk egg mixture into hot cream mixture. Slice and scrape the contents of Mix constantly on low heat until steaming at 180 degrees; remove from heat.Immediately pour into a bowl and rest in the refrigerated ice bath, stirring occasionally until quite cool. Cover and refrigerate overnight. | |
Putting It All Together
Chop 4-6 whole sandwich cookies into chocolate-chip-sized bits. Crumble 6-8 more plain chocolate cookies into small bits. Pour chilled cream into ice cream maker. Add in 1 cup of chopped and crumbled cookie bits into the mixer 2-4 minutes before the ice cream is done. When mixer is done, press into metal pan and freeze for one hour; then pack into cartons and freeze overnight.
It's been much too long without a post, don't you think?
My favorite order at Fenton's is a "junior" Black & Tan - ever since I discovered ice cream could taste like a bear claw! The recipe I started with seemed reasonable (delicious vanilla base), but all that made it "Toasted Almond" was . . . well, toasted almonds. One cannot rely on the extra bits for fundamental flavor. No. So the trick to toasted almond ice cream is to replace the sugar with almond paste!
| Yup! Almond paste is just ground-up almonds and sugar. It also has a carbon footprint of a jet-setting yeti. It also costs as much. Look at that. My almonds have traveled from my home state to Denmark and back.
However, while it's possible to make your own, I was concerned about maintaining the correct texture for ice cream, and industrial-ground pastes tend to have much more uniform textures than home-ground, so storebought it was! | |
| | And the almonds? The almonds came from a giant box of one-ounce freebies at the office. I let the box sit there all day, then stuffed a pound and a half of samples into a Ziploc bag and scurried home like a paranoid squirrel.
The trick with the almonds, according to my beta-tasters, are to start with slivers or chop them up much smaller (and use less of them) than I had. The constant crunch overpowered the creamy ice creamI tend to overdo the extras, because I always feel storebought ice cream gyps you (unless it's Ben & Jerry's. All hail Ben & Jerry's!) |
Move over Dryer's, I've got this one covered.
"Oh, you made homemade ice cream and put Samoa cookies in it?" you ask.
No. I turned the cookie into ice cream.
We've been going on a scratch-only kick around here, and I rarely trust any food from *any* chain store or cafe with a kitchen the size of a train bathroom. At Noah's Bagels, we baked bagels fresh everyday - from thawed, frozen, pre-made bagel dough rounds delivered in a box from a factory somewhere. A friend at Safeway says their cakes arrive frozen, ready to be thawed and decorated. Even their freshly-baked bread comes from a mix.
Food should not come from a factory, from a mix, or from a box.
And Samoa cookies, my friend, come from a factory. But not this ice cream. This ice cream comes from a land of rainbows and clouds and confetti goodness.
 These recipes balance out perfectly so that your bonus fudgey goodness evenly spreads on your extra butter cookies. |  I'll get better at these shots, I promise. |
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