6 chocolate chip cookies
Mint chocolate chip and/or vanilla ice cream
Black and orange sprinkles, colored sugars or other Halloween cookie decorations

~ If cookies are homemade, make sure they’re completely cooled before preparing ice cream sandwiches.

~ Soften ice cream at room temperature about 10 minutes or in microwave oven on medium (50%) for 10 to 20 seconds.

~ For each ice cream sandwich, place about 1/4 cup (1 small scoop) ice cream on flat side of one cookie; top with another cookie and press gently so that ice cream meets edges of cookies.

~ Immediately roll edges of ice cream in decorations, if desired.

~ Wrap in plastic wrap; freeze until ready to serve.

~ Six cookies makes three sandwiches.

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Woodworth says “libraries are awesome” and “Ben & Jerry’s ice cream is tasty,” therefore “A library-themed Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream would be tasty awesome!” He’s come up with several suggestions for flavors:

~ Gooey Decimal System: dark fudge alphabet letters with caramel swirls in hazelnut ice cream

~ Rocky Read: vanilla with chocolate-covered nuts chocolate chunks and raisins

~ Overdue Fine as Fudge Chunk: Hunks of rich fudge brownies in creamy milk chocolate drizzled throughout with golden caramel and sprinkled with mini white chocolate coins.

The names alone would sell me!

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To celebrate, they’re launching the “What Would You Do For A Klondike Bar NOW?” campaign with interactive online “Micro Bytes” to demonstrate just how far ice cream fans will be willing to go for the improved treats – or to just provide some entertainment during snack time!

The Khaki Pants Pete Online Video Game is modeled on the concept of 8-bit video games from the ’80s where characters face a series of “eyebrow-raising” challenges. Chapter 1 launched this past week on Klondike’s new Web site, KlondikeBar.com, as well as on Klondike’s Facebook Fan Page. Additional chapters of the game will launch every other week this summer.

You can also use Klondike’s Facebook “Roast-A-Friend” Application, a light-hearted and comedic Facebook app that will allow users to put their friends on the hot seat to find out how thick their “shell” really is.

So, what would you do for a Klondike bar?

[images used with permission from klondike]

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I couldn’t find any information on the treat in English, but from what I can tell it’s layers of ice cream and what looks like caramel that have a chocolate coating, and is of course shaped like the popular MP3 player.

The treats were released in Norway in March and there’s no word on what Apple thinks of this “homage!” Each box of ice cream also comes with a free MP3 download from a Norwegian artist.

I would love to see these available closer to home, wouldn’t you?

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I had my first taste of it as a kid when my family went on a road trip to Indiana to visit relatives for the summer. It was the most amazing thing ever – chocolate ice cream, marshmallows, chunks of fudge, and nuts. From then on, whenever we had the opportunity to order our own flavor of ice cream, that was my first choice.

According to Wikipedia, the flavor was created in March 1929 in California by William Dreyer:

“…when he cut up walnuts and marshmallows with his wife’s sewing scissors and added them to his chocolate ice cream in a manner that reflected his partner Joseph Edy’s chocolate candy creation incorporating walnuts and marshmallow pieces. Later, the walnuts would be replaced by pieces of toasted almond.”

Having been created right at the brink of the Great Depression, the ice cream was actually given the name “rocky road” to give people something to smile about.

And, in honor of today being Rocky Road Ice Cream Day, make some of your own! If you don’t have an ice cream maker, simply allow a quart or two of chocolate ice cream to soften just a bit. Put it in a larger bowl or mixer bowl, and add marshmallows, chocolate chips and nuts and mix just enough that it’s combined, and refreeze.

Homemade Rocky Road Ice Cream

2 cups heavy cream
1 cup half-and-half
1/3 cup sugar
dash salt
6 oz milk chocolate, melted
4 oz Egg Beaters, or egg substitute
2 tsp vanilla extract
½ cup toasted chopped nuts
¼ cup miniature chocolate chips
½ cup miniature marshmallows

Heat cream, half-and-half, sugar and salt in a small saucepan until sugar dissolves. Add melted chocolate and stir to combine. Remove from heat and place in a pan of cold or ice water to cool to room temperature.

Strain chocolate mixture into a blender or food processor; add Egg Beaters and vanilla. Process until smooth.
Chill until ready to freeze.

Pour into the ice cream maker and follow the manufacturer’s instructions for freezing. About a minute before ice cream is finished, add nuts and chocolate chips and freeze for another minute. When ice cream is frozen, fold in marshmallows. Makes: about 1 quart

And, just because I’m very easily amused, here’s Weird Al’s music video for “I Love Rocky Road” – a parody of Joan Jett’s “I Love Rock and Roll:”

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Here are the most popular posts from Chocolate Bytes for 2008. Did I include your favorite?

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Don’t forget that tomorrow, Election Day, Ben & Jerry’s is offering a free scoop of ice cream at any of their participating Scoop Shops between 5 and 8 pm!

Find your nearest shop here, and you don’t even need a voting sticker now!

(Starbucks is also offering a free tall drip coffee for all customers, and Krispy Kreme will be giving away free star-shaped patriotic donuts if you bring your “I Voted” sticker!)

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For voting, that is!

On November 4th, Ben & Jerry’s Scoop Shops around the U.S. will be giving away free scoops of ice cream. Just show them your “I Voted” sticker, a photo of you in front of your polling station, do the “I Voted dance” (ha!) or just tell them you voted.

There are 430 Scoop Shops in the U.S., and you can find one nearest to you here.

My favorite Ben & Jerry’s ice cream flavors are Cookie Dough and New York Super Fudge Chunk. What are yours?

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Sometimes you just need to go all out!

A homemade chocolate brownie topped with ice cream, sprinkles and chocolate syrup.

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It’s National Soft Ice Cream Day, so I thought I’d share a new recipe. I don’t have any pictures of my usual ice cream process because the lid of my ice cream maker was overly-cuddled by one of the cats, who ended up knocking it to the floor where it didn’t survive.

So while I wait for the replacement lid to finally make its way out of New Jersey and to the desert southwest, I’ll leave you with the amusing picture above and a quick, no-maker-needed recipe for soft chocolate ice cream. This is by no means classy or elegant, but it gets the job done!

Soft Chocolate Ice Cream

1/2 gallon chocolate milk
1 can (14 oz) sweetened condensed milk
1 large (16 oz) carton whipped topping (Cool Whip)

Mix the condensed milk and whipped topping, stirring gently. Slowly stir in chocolate milk. Pour in gallon freezer bag and freeze. Makes 1 gallon.

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