Parle-G Ice Cream Sandwich
Parle G is a South Asian family go to and typically the first cookie or biscuit a child is given. Parle-G is a brand of biscuits manufactured in India and a 2011 Nielsen survey reported it as the best-selling brand of biscuits in the world; this goes to show many children are still eating this cookies decades after it was created. As a kid, I watched my every cousin of mine eat this cookie with their milk and as an adult I watched my husband pair it with his morning tea. One day as he handed this cookie to his nephew, I asked him “why parle-g?” and he simply said “because it’s perfect.”
I was working on a few dessert recipes at home one afternoon and saw the pack of Parle-G sitting in front of me so I thought, why not take this biscuit and make a dessert of it that is family/party friendly. The taste is mildly sweet and malty, and after eating around four of them, your mouth may be dry if you don’t have a cup of milk or tea to go with it, or ice cream. The texture of the biscuit is ideal for an ice cream sandwich because it gets slightly soft but still holds its structure when you bite into it.
PREP TIME: 15 minutes l CHILL TIME: 12 hours l TOTAL TIME: 12 hours 15 minutes
Ingredients
36 Parle-G biscuits
if you wish to add a biscuit crumble surround then you will be need a few extra
48 oz of vanilla ice cream; I used Breyer’s Natural Vanilla ice cream
pick your favorite vanilla since this will be the majority of your ice cream sandwich
6 oz. raspberry jam or any jam of your choice
one great thing about this recipe is it can be customized to your favorite flavors.
Directions
Makes: 18 ice cream sandwiches
Serving size: 1 sandwich
Line a 10” x 15” baking tray with plastic wrap, with at least 1” of excess hanging over the edge.
Scoop out about a quarter of the vanilla ice cream into the tray at a time, spreading is flat with a spatula as you go, until the tub is empty.
Spoon over 6 oz. of raspberry jam over the ice cream and spread evenly across the tray.
Allow ice cream and jam mix to harden in freezer for at least 2 hours.
5. Once the ice cream and jam have hardened, take a knife and score the middle of the ice cream sheet.
6. Gently, using the plastic to help, fold the ice cream sheet in half onto itself.
7. Lay out Parle-G biscuits along the other half of the tray, starting at the corner and fitting them edge to edge.
8. Flip the folded ice cream sheet back on top of the cookies you laid out and gently press down the ice cream sheet.
9. Place the same amount of cookies across the top of the sheet, starting in the same corner so the cookies line up from top to bottom.
10. Cover and freeze the tray of ice cream sandwiches have hardened fully through again (this takes about 8-10 hours).
11. Cut the individual cookies out and serve!
Customize the cookies by dipping the edges into crushed biscuits, sprinkles or nuts!
