Easy Ice Cream Sandwiches {Cake Mix}

Quick and easy ice cream sandwiches recipe with cake mix, homemade with simple ingredients. Fun for kids birthday parties!

*This post is sponsored by Kellogg's. All opinions are 100% mine*

This is probably the only sandwich that no kid will ever refuse. They can be enjoyed as a dessert or snack and you can get super creative with the add-ins and the coatings on the sides.  It's simple enough for even kids to help out, just like my Snow Ice Cream and this Ice Cream Cake.

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• Key ingredients
• How to make easy ice cream sandwiches recipe with cake mix?
• Tips and variations
• Recipe FAQs
• Storage
• More ice cream desserts
• Recipe

Key ingredients

• Eggs- These should be large and at room temperature.
• Oil- Should be neutral tasting.
• Cake mix- I used a chocolate box mix but you can use other flavors if you like.
• Granulated sugar- This is for rolling cookie dough balls.
• Cereal- For topping the cookies and covering the sides.
• Ice cream- Used as a filling between two cookies.

How to make easy ice cream sandwiches recipe with cake mix?

1. Mix together eggs, oil, cake mix, baking powder. 
2. Chill dough.
3. Make cookie dough balls and roll them in sugar and stick cereal on top. 
4. Bake and fully cool the cookies. 
5. Top off a cookie with a scoop of ice cream and stick another cookie on top.
6. Roll the sides in sprinkles, crushed cereal or coconut and you are done.

Tips and variations

• All ingredients must be at room temperature so that they blend together smoothly and evenly.
• Don't replace oil with  butter since the texture of the cookie becomes very dense.
• Chilling is important because it makes it easier to handle the dough. Furthermore, it prevents the cookies from spreading too much while baking. 
• Rolling in granulated sugar is optional but it makes these cookies soft and chewy on the inside and crispy and crackly on the outside, which is delicious.
• Any brand of cake mix can be used as well as any flavor. You can even use your favorite homemade cookie recipe and stick cereal in them, prior to baking.
• Typically, vanilla ice cream is used in these but you can use other flavors of ice cream too.
• Cookies must cool down completely before you fill them with ice cream or else ice cream will melt and start dripping everywhere. 
• Instead of ice cream, you can fill with icing. Try this Easy Almond Buttercream Frosting or this Swiss Meringue Buttercream Frosting (SMBC) or even this Easy Honey Frosting (No Powdered Sugar).
• You can use a variety of ingredients to coat the sides such as: sprinkles, nuts, roughly chopped candies e.t.c.
• For a cake version, stack the sandwiches in a tower formation and sprinkle chopped candies and sprinkles all over the cake. It would look similar to my Easy Cake Tower and this Cookies and Cream Cake (Oreo Cake).

I got a little creative and used Kellogg's Froot Loops and Frosted Mini Wheats from Sam's Club in the cookies to make them more fun and my son loved them! He has already asked me to make them for his friends at his next play date. Who says you can only enjoy cereal for breakfast? Right?! There are so many different, shapes, colors, flavors that the possibilities of using them in desserts are endless. 

Recipe FAQs

Storage

• Freeze- This is the only way to store them. Make sure they are placed in a sealed freezer-safe container. Each sandwich should be separated by a sheet of wax paper. Freeze for up to 1 month.
• Make ahead- These can easily be made 1-2 days in advance and stored in the freezer.

More ice cream desserts

• Healthy Chocolate Banana Ice Cream
• Watermelon Ice Cream (2 Ingredients)
• Ice Cream Float
• Root Beer Float (2 Ingredients)
• Ice Cream Cone Cupcakes (Cake Mix)

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