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Deep Fried Ice Cream Sandwiches

By Pete

This past weekend was the final contest for the 2009 season of the Washed Up Former College Football Players League and I had only limited rooting interests. J.D. from Indiana combined with the pure, unbridled obnoxiousness of pretty much every New Orleans fan ever meant that I’d have liked the Colts to win, but I wasn’t too heavily invested.

The girl and I got invited to a super bowl deep frying party and, let’s be honest, you can’t go to something like that and take something ordinary or boring. It’s either got to be original or uncommonly tasty.

At some point late last week, one of us decided that we needed to deep fry ice cream sandwiches. We decided that the best thing to fry them in would be funnel cake batter.

Let me assure you: mixing funnel cakes and ice cream sandwiches is never, ever a bad idea.

I really wanted pictures of these things, maybe some video testimonials, but it just wasn’t in the cards — we did them at the end of the night and everyone who was still around loved them. They were hailed by quite a few people as the “winner” of the party. So here’s how you make ‘em.

1. Start with a box of 12 ice cream sandwiches. Remove one from the box, unwrap it and set it on a cutting board. Now pick it up and eat it.
2. Cut as many sandwiches as necessary into small sections. We chose fifths, and that worked well. Wrap them each individually in aluminum foil. Eat any of the sections that seem inferior.
3. Freeze them. Freeze ‘em real good. We used a super-cold freezer, but a standard freezer would probably work okay. They might need They need to be frozen overnight. The sections will need to be pretty hard — as hard as possible¹.
4. Make the funnel cake batter (Recipe below) and allow it to cool.
5. Heat your oil to ~375F. 400F might be better. 350F worked okay, but the outside didn’t get quite as brown as I’d have liked.
6. Working from the freezer to the fryer, remove one section at a time from the foil, batter and fry until they’re either golden brown or the ice cream starts leaking. If the ice cream starts leaking before they’re cooked, the sandwiches weren’t quite solid enough.
7. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and eat immediately (or give to your guests, either or).
8. Use left-over batter to make actual funnel cakes. Eat those, too.
9. Go on a diet.

Funnel Cake Batter

2.5 cups Flour
1/2 tsp Salt
4 Tbsp Sugar (could probably have stood a little more)
1.5 Tbsp baking powder
2 eggs (beaten)
1.5 cups milk (approx)
2 tsp vanilla extract

Mix dry ingredients. Add eggs, vanilla, and 1 cup of the milk. Mix until the consistency is even. Add more milk to get the desired consistency. What is the desired consistency? Thick enough to give a nice coating to the sandwiches, not so thick that it falls off. Use your best judgment

I know, it sounds unhealthy, but I promise I did not see a single calorie in any of the sandwiches.

1. That’s what she said.

Full post as published by PeteHoliday.com on February 10, 2010 (boomark / email).