Hey guys, it's Ro!
Welcome to another Nerdy Nummies!
Today we're going to be doing something 4th of July-themed because it's just in a few
days. We are going to be making Captain America
Ice Cream Sandwiches! You guys were suggesting something Avengers,
and I just saw the new Captain America Movie and I loved it so I thought this would
be a perfect fit... And, last time I made ice cream sandwiches I had a little bit of difficulty
working with the ice cream- BUT! I have since developed a new technique so let's get started!
I'm going to be using the same cookie recipe as the Pokemon Cookies so the things you will
need will be: 2 and 1/2 Cups of flour, 1 and 1/4 Cup of powdered sugar, 1/4
of a Cup and 2 tablespoons of regular sugar, I know, it's weird.
1/4 a teaspoon of baking soda, 1/4 a teaspoon of salt, 3/4 teaspoon of
vanilla extract, 2 sh-ticks of butter which is 1 Cup of butter, and 1 egg.
You'll also need two food-coloring dyes. We've got "Super Red" and "Royal Blue" for
our Captain America colors. Vanilla ice cream and a circle cookie-cutter.
I've got these- they are 3 inches by 2 inches tall and then a little star.
Let's put it all together! Dee-deeeeeee!
The first thing that you're going to do is to take a baking pan and you're going to take
a piece of wax paper or parchment paper, whatever you want to use and I've cut it to fit in
the pan. You're just going to lay it down- and this
is the "new" technique that I'm going to try out!
It worked way better than last time! So you're going to take your vanilla ice cream
and you're going to scoop the ice cream into the pan and pack it down to lay it flat and
then put it in the freezer. Once you've got all of the ice cream in there
and you've smoothed it out, you're just going to put this in the freezer and we're going
to make our cookies! To make our cookies, you're going to need
2 mixing bowls. 1 for our wet ingredients and 1 for our
dry ingredients. In the little bowl we're going to put in our
dry ingredients. We are going to put in flour, baking soda,
and salt and then you're going to whisk them together!
This is a very large whisk! Ha, ha, ha!
Oh my goodness! Why do I own this?
Now you're going to put this aside and we're going to make our wet ingredients.
You're going to take your two sticks of butter and they should be very soft, you want them
to be room temperature. Put 'em in the bowl and you're going to take
your powdered sugar and add your regular sugar. Then you're going to mix together for a few
minutes until everything is smooooth and then we're going to add the egg and vanilla extract
and then you're going to mix again until everything is combined.
Once you've got the wet ingredients all mixed together, now you're going to gradually add
the flour and keep mixing 'til everything is dough'y! "Dough'y"'s a word!
(Smaller bowl clangs against the larger bowl) Once you've got your cookie dough all mixed
together, we are going to divide it into three bowls.
We're going to put a smaller amount in the bowl we are going to dye blue.
A medium amount which will stay white, or just stay "regular" cookie dough and then
a larger amount in the bowl we're gonna dye red.
I'm just going to add a few drops of red to this cookie dough and mix it around and then
a few drops of "Royal Blue" to this little cookie dough and mix it around.
Now we've got our cookie dough dyed red, white and blue and now we are going to stick them
in the fridge to let them chill and to do that you're just going to take a piece of
Saran Wrap and we're gonna wrap up our cookie dough before we put it in the fridge.
So you're just going to pick up your cookie dough like this- Ba-daaa!
Put it right in the middle and then you're gonna wrap it up tight so it doesn't dry out.
De-dee-de-dee-dee-de-dee-de-deee! While the cookie dough is chilling, I'm going
to be doing a decoration thing that is optional. You don't have to do it!
So what we're going to take is a little bit of white dough and I'm going to sprinkle a
little bit of flour, put it on the table and I'm going to be making little stars.
These are little decoration details that are going to go on top of the cookie.
If you don't want to do this, you can use frosting to frost on a star afterwards, whatever
you want to do! This is totally optional, and cut out little
stars. Now we're gonna take our little star cookies
and put them in the oven. I'm setting the oven at 350 and
I'm baking them for 3 minutes, but keep your eye on them because these little guys bake
so quickly and you don't wanna burn 'em! These are gonna go on top of our cookie.
Nee! Once your cookie dough has chilled, what you're
gonna do is start with blue and red. I've rolled out the blue cookie dough to look
like a little round log. Perfect!
That's what we want, we just set 'em aside and now we're gonna roll out our red cookie
dough. So you're gonna take a smaller chunk of the
red cookie dough- leave the bigger chunk over here.
Once you've got your red cookie dough rolled out, you're gonna take your blue cookie dough
and we're just gonna paint a little bit of egg-wash all the way around it.
Egg-wash is egg-white and a little bit of water.
This will help the dough stick together in the freezer.
Now you're just gonna take this cookie dough, put it right at the top of the red and this
is a neat trick! You're gonna lift up your piece of wax paper.
This will help you roll 'em together...and just keep lifting up and rolling.
After you've got it rolled, you're just gonna cut off the excess.
Now you're just gonna do the same thing with the white cookie dough!
Once you've got your cookie doughs all layered- It kinda looks like a big cookie burrito!-
we're gonna roll it in wax paper and put it in the fridge and let it chill for an hour.
I just took the "cookie-burrito" out of the freezer and I've cut it in half so you could
see what it would look like. On this end, this is the "burrito end" and
it's okay if it looks messy because the ends don't matter, it's okay!
So when you cut it in half, that will be the shape!
Isn't that perfect? It looks just like Captain America's Shield!
That's what we want. So to get your cookies, you just take a big
cutting-knife on a cutting-board here...and- I'm doing about a fourth of an inch- and you're
just gonna cut straight down.... Boop! And look at that!
Now that we've got our Captain America Cookies, you are going to set your oven to 375 and
bake these from 7 to 9 minutes, just keep your eye on 'em!
While the cookies are baking, you're gonna take out your ice cream tray and the round
cookie-cutter and we're going to cut out the middle part of our ice cream sandwiches.
So this is the "new" technique- I'm still developing as I go!
But what you do is you put the cookie-cutter right into the tray and to give it a good
push I'm gonna put on my oven-mitt because I don't have a little safety grip at the top...and
press down! Oo-ahh!
Gotta use all my bodyweight! Ha, ha, ha, ha!
And pull 'em outta there! Look at that!
Perfect! Once I get my ice cream sandwich-middles all
cut out I'm just gonna stick these in the freezer so they keep their shape.
Now that our cookies are done baking, we are going to assemble them!
"Avengers assemble!" So we're gonna take three- and these are going
to be the tops. I'm gonna take my little star cookies and
we're gonna stick them right in the middle and I'm gonna use a little bit of just regular
cookie-icing to stick 'em together. Now we're gonna assemble the whole sandwich.
What you're gonna do is take your bottom cookie- and I've flipped it upside down just like
that and then we're gonna take a piece of ice cream and put it on there.
You've gotta move fast 'cuz these will melt! Woo!
Oooh...cold! Now you're gonna put on the top...and ta-da!
And then you're gonna do that to all of your ice cream sandwiches!
Ta-daaaaa! Here are The Captain America Ice Cream Sandwiches
with the "new" ice cream technique! I hope you guys like it, it was a lot easier
than last time! If you guys have another ideas for any other
Nerdy Nummies please let me know! Leave me a comment down there...down below
and I'll do my best to make it happen. I'll also post lots of pictures of these little
sandwiches on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Instagram and if you guys ever make these,
please send me pictures! I love seeing your baking creations, I get
a big kick out of it, it just makes my day! And, um, happy 4th of July and thanks for watching!
Okay, bye-bye! Neee-neee-ne-neee-newwn...berm!