An ice cream sandwich is a frozen

dessert Dessert is a course that concludes a meal. The course consists of sweet foods, such as confections, and possibly a beverage such as dessert wine and liqueur. In some parts of the world, such as much of Greece and West Africa, and most parts o ...

consisting of ice cream between two

biscuit A biscuit is a flour-based baked and shaped food product. In most countries biscuits are typically hard, flat, and unleavened. They are usually sweet and may be made with sugar, chocolate, icing, jam, ginger, or cinnamon. They can also be sa ...

s, skins, wafers, or

cookies A cookie is a baked or cooked snack or dessert that is typically small, flat and sweet. It usually contains flour, sugar, egg, and some type of oil, fat, or butter. It may include other ingredients such as raisins, oats, chocolate chips, nuts ...

. The ingredients are different around the world, with Ireland and Israel using wafers, and North America using chocolate cookies.

Regional varieties

Australia

Within Australia, popular brands are "Giant Sandwich" (blue and pink wrapper), and "Monaco Bar" (gold and black metallic wrapper) in the Eastern provinces. Other brands include Streets "Cookie", "

Maxibon Maxibon is a brand of ice cream sandwich made by Froneri. It consists of a block of ice cream containing small chocolate chips with one end covered in chocolate, and the other sandwiched between two biscuits. History The Maxibon is an ice cream ...

" (with one-half ice cream sandwich) and "Maxibon Cookie", and "Pat and Stick's Homemade Range" (recognizable by its circular shape). Additional brands "Indulge" and "Feast" have also become popular. Ice cream sandwiches were formerly known as a "cream between". One purchased a small block of ice cream wrapped in paper and placed it between two wafers.

Germany

In Germany, ice cream sandwiches are made with two wafers and the three flavour combination called ''Fürst-Pückler-Eis'', elsewhere known as Neapolitan ice cream. It is based on a recipe introduced in 1839 by the cook of a German nobleman, Prince Hermann Ludwig Heinrich von Pückler-Muskau.

Iran

The usual Iranian ice cream sandwich is called ''bastani naani'' () meaning "bread-ice cream", and is made with

Iranian traditional ice cream Bastani ( fa, بستنی), locally known as ( fa, بستنی سنتی "traditional ice cream") or ( fa, بستنی سنتی زعفرانی "traditional saffron ice cream"), is an Iranian ice cream made from milk, eggs, sugar, rose water, saffron ...

between two

wafer A wafer is a crisp, often sweet, very thin, flat, light and dry biscuit, often used to decorate ice cream, and also used as a garnish on some sweet dishes. Wafers can also be made into cookies with cream flavoring sandwiched between them. They ...

Ireland

In Ireland they are known as "sliders" or an ice cream

, and they are usually served as vanilla ice cream sandwiched between two rectangular chocolate wafers. A "double nougat" is ice cream sandwiched between two nougat wafers. The wafers are not covered in chocolate, only the edges.

Israel

In Israel, ice cream sandwiches are commonly known as "kasata" (קסטה). Though the name comes from the Italian

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, the dessert itself has little to do with Italian cassata, and usually consists of two thick biscuits holding a mix of block of vanilla and chocolate-flavoured ice cream.

North America

The earliest mention of ice cream sandwiches in North America come in the year of 1899. Street vendors in New York recently sold slabs of ice cream between sheets of paper, called "hokey pokeys", until someone had the idea of using cookies instead.Devra First, "Birth of the cool: The story behind the ice cream sandwich, an icon at 120", ''

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/ref> Photos from the Jersey Shore circa 1905 show ice cream sandwiches being sold at 1¢ each. The earliest US patent having to do with ice cream sandwiches (No. 1,387,613) is by Russell H. Proper for an "Ice Cream Sandwich Machine" in 1921. A

Chipwich The Chipwich is an ice cream sandwich made of ice cream between two chocolate chip cookies and then rolled in chocolate chips. The Chipwich name and logo is trademarked by Crave Better Foods, LLC based in Cos Cob, Connecticut. The original, cr ...

, where ice cream (usually vanilla) is sandwiched between two

chocolate chip cookie A chocolate chip cookie is a drop cookie that features chocolate chips or chocolate morsels as its distinguishing ingredient. Chocolate chip cookies originated in the United States around 1938, when Ruth Graves Wakefield chopped up a Nestl ...

s, is also popular. A "National Ice Cream Sandwich Day" is set for August 2 and has been celebrated since at least 2005.

Philippines

Local ice cream (''

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'') sellers/peddlers with their pushcarts that travel around cities sometimes offer ice cream sandwiches with

pandesal Pandesal ( es, pan de sal, salt bread, lit. "salt bread") is a staple bread roll in the Philippines commonly eaten for breakfast. It is made of flour, yeast, sugar, oil, and salt. Description ''Pandesal'' is a popular yeast-raised bread in the ...

as the bread.

Singapore

Wafer ice cream is popular in Singapore. It is one of the types of ''potong'' (cut) ice cream, so named because the servings are sliced from a large bar of ice cream. Wafer ice cream consists of two wafers holding together a rectangular block of ice cream. Wafer ice cream evolved from the older 'ice potong' type, which is a rectangular prism of ice cream mounted on a wooden stick. Many customers complained that the ice potong would easily melt and fall off the stick, leading to the introduction of the wafers for better grip. Vendors are commonly found along

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and

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and outside schools. A colloquial term for it is "''pia'' ice cream", which translates to "biscuit ice cream" in the Hokkien dialect. Common flavours offered include peppermint, chocolate chip,

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, ripple,

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, yam, sweet corn, honeydew, and chocolate. Wafer ice cream vendors also sell the same blocks of ice cream on slices of multicoloured bread, on cones or in cups instead of sandwiched between wafers. Catering companies in Singapore also send ice cream sandwich carts for functions.

Thailand

''Itim Khanom Pang'' (or ''Icecream Khanom Pang''), literally bread ice cream, a street food in Thailand usually composed of longer rolls similar to hot dog buns a mix of scoops of

coconut The coconut tree (''Cocos nucifera'') is a member of the palm tree family (Arecaceae) and the only living species of the genus ''Cocos''. The term "coconut" (or the archaic "cocoanut") can refer to the whole coconut palm, the seed, or the ...

ice cream/sorbet (or vanilla) and chocolate-flavoured ice cream, with a selection of local toppings from traditionally salty or sweet sticky rice, salty crushed peanuts, and syrup-soaked chewy palm seeds to slivers of fresh or dried fruits. Then drizzled on top with evaporated milk,

sweetened condensed milk Condensed milk is cow's milk from which water has been removed (roughly 60% of it). It is most often found with sugar added, in the form of ''sweetened condensed milk'' (SCM), to the extent that the terms "condensed milk" and "sweetened condense ...

or chocolate syrup.

United Kingdom

In the United Kingdom, an ice cream wafer, consisting of a small block of ice cream between two rectangular wafer biscuits, was a popular alternative to a cone up until the 1980s. A "nougat wafer" was also available, consisting of a layer of mallow sandwiched between two wafers and coated with chocolate around the edges. Typically a vanilla block (or a layer of soft-serve) sandwiched between one plain wafer and one chocolate-covered nougat one. This is known as a single nougat" in Scotland, with a double nougat (pronounced nugget) having nougat wafers on both sides. Raspberry sauce is also a common topping. Nougat wafers came in double or triple varieties, depending on the number of nougat wafers in the construction.

Uruguay

In Uruguay, an ice cream sandwich (''sánguche helado'') or triple sandwich (''sánguche triple'') is typically a

neapolitan ice cream Neapolitan ice cream (in Ireland and the U.K., sometimes colloquially mispronounced as Napoleon ice cream), also sometimes called Harlequin ice cream, is a type of ice cream composed of three separate flavors (vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry) ar ...

(''helado triple'') sandwich prepared with

s such as the one in the image.

Vietnam

In Vietnam, an ice cream sandwich called ' is commonly sold on the street as a snack. It consists of scoops of ice cream stuffed inside a ', topped with crushed peanuts.

References

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