There’s more than one way to squish a scoop of ice cream. Case in point: next-gen ice cream sandwiches that replace cookies with waffles, funnel cake, and doughnuts. Above, lime cake cradles rum and mint ice cream for a mojito version at NYC's Pearl & Ash. Here are 8 more nouveau ice cream sammies we'd travel for.
Fluffy Belgian waffles sandwich together ice cream flavors like honey-lemon olive oil and salted pistachio. Follow your heart and get your waffles dipped in melted chocolate and rolled in crushed pretzels.
Avocado is the biggest thing to happen to toast since butter—so naturally, it was only a matter of time before avocado ice cream toast found its way onto the dessert menu.
Who needs birthday cake when you can have birthday cake ice cream sandwiched between two rainbow-sprinkle blondies?
This family-run microcreamery marries seasonal ice creams like buttermilk rhubarb and strawberry lovage with cakey graham crackers in flavors such as cardamom.
The Cronut whisperer's take on an ice cream sandwich at Dominique Ansel Kitchen involves salted caramel ice cream between brown sugar kouign amann (basically caramelized croissants). Pro tip: the original Dominique Ansel Bakery location also has a secret off-menu kouign amann ice cream sandwich.
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What's better than a funnel cake ice cream sandwich? One filled with seriously nostalgic flavors like Fruit Loops, whatchamacallit, and Corn Pops(!).
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The duo behind the Ideas in Food blog (and the most mind-blowing steak) technically makes a doughnut sandwich with frozen custard, not ice cream—but who's counting when the result is this good?
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If you leave Brooklyn's pizza mecca without ordering one of these, you're doing it wrong.
