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Happy National Ice Cream Sandwich Day!

Making use of childhood appeal and refreshing freezer temperatures, ice cream sandwiches are the pinnacle of summer desserts. The playful portable treats can easily be made two ways: either by simply stuffing individual soft-baked cookies with tablespoonfuls of ice cream and freezing or creating two pans of rolled-out cookie sheets, icing the bottom layer with ice cream, topping it with the second cookie pan and freezing.

Get inspired by these quirky ice cream sandwich recipes or do your own mix-and-matched concoctions!

• Lemon ice cream sandwiches with raspberry-swirl (pictured at left)
• Brownie-mint chocolate chip ice cream sandwiches
• Chocolate macaroon ice cream sandwiches with caramel ice cream
• Gingerbread cookies stuffed with vanilla ice cream
• Vanilla ice cream with ginger-molasses cookie sandwiches
• Mango-curry ice cream sandwiches with gingersnaps
• Gingersnap lemon sherbet sandwiches

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I was obsessed with ice cream sandwiches when I was a kid. What a great idea: an ice cream/chocolate sandwich treat you can eat with your hands! My mom usually bought Hood brand, and I'd eat them by the box.

Today is National Ice Cream Sandwich Day, and since it's probably warm where you are (in the U.S. anyway), go to the store right now and buy a box of them. Go ahead. I'll wait.

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You back? Great. If they didn't have any at the store, maybe you can make your own with the help of Sesame Street! Of course, you can't forget the history of the ice cream sandwich. They were invented in New York in the summer of 1900.