Apple pie & Lemon icecream Sandwich

original blog post: http://greedygirlcooks.blogspot.com/2016/09/apple-pie-lemon-icecream-sandwich.html

Ingredients

Apple Pie Cookies

2 prepared pie dough or two sheets of puff pastry (pie dough is better)

2 apples

½ lime (juice)

½ cup sugar

½ cup flour

1 ½ teaspoon cinnamon

½ teaspoon nutmeg

5 tablespoon butter

Few sprinkles of sugar and cinnamon

Lemon ice-cream

1 ½ teaspoon lemon extract

1 lime zest

Yellow food coloring (optional)

2 pinches of salt

Jeni’s ice-cream base

2 cup Milk plus 2 tablespoons

1 ¼ cup Cream

2/3 cup white Sugar

3 table spoon Cream cheese

1 table spoon plus 1 teaspoon Corn starch

2 tablespoon Corn syrup

Instructions

For the ice-cream

In a dish make the cornstarch slurry by combining the corn starch and 2 tablespoon milk
In a separate bowl lightly whisk the cream cheese, salt, lime zest, lemon extract and coloring
In a pot bring to boil the cream, milk, white sugar and corn syrup for 4 minutes exactly
Once it’s been boiling for four minutes remove from the heat and stir in the cornstarch slurry
Place back on the heat and stir allowing it to slightly thicken for a minute or two
Pour the hot milk mixture into the bowl of cream cheese to dissolve it and remove lumps
Pour contents into a zip lock bag
Prepare a bowl filled with ice
Place the zip lock bag in the ice bath and allow the mixture to completely cool
Churn the cooled mixture in an ice-cream maker
Once the consistency has thicken up to soft serve pour into a metal loaf pan place a layer of parchment paper over top
Press down parchment paper on the top surface of the ice-cream and allow it to harden for at least 4 hours in the freezer.

For the Apple pie cookies

Preheat oven to 375 degrees
Remove the seeds from the apples and roughly chop
To a food processor, add apples, lime juice, butter, sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg
Blend into a fine paste
Roll out two sheets of pie crust or puff pastry
Spoon the apple spread all over one sheet
Using a lattice cutter and working in small batches, make some lattice designs with the other pie dough and place on top of the apple pie spread
Once you have covered then entire layer with lattice dough using a cookie cutter cut out as many cookie shapes as you can from the dough
Place unto a prepared baking sheet
Sprinkle with more sugar and cinnamon
Bake until golden brown apx 15-20 minutes
Remove from oven and allow it to cool before making ice-cream sandwich cookies with the lemon ice-cream.

Greedy tips:

Make sure to work with smaller pieces for the lattice cutter, and if you don’t have one you can do the traditional method by braiding strips of dough together.