Ice Cream Sandwiches - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 egg
1/2 c. shortening
1/4 c. softened butter
1 tsp. vanilla
1 pkg. devil's food cake mix
1/2 gal. brick ice cream

Preparation

Heat oven to 375\u00b0.
Beat egg, shortening, butter, vanilla and 1/2 cake mix (dry) until smooth.
Stir in remaining cake mix. Divide dough into 4 equal parts.
Roll each part into rectangle 10 x 6-inch on lightly floured cloth-covered board with floured stockinet-covered rolling pin.
Cut rectangles 3 x 2 1/2-inch each.
Place on ungreased baking sheet.
Bake 6 to 8 minutes or until edges look set (centers of cookies will be slightly puffed). Prick surface of cookies lightly with fork.
Cool; remove from baking sheet.
Cut ice cream into rectangles about 3/4-inch thick. Place ice cream rectangle between 2 cooled cookies.
Gently press together to spread ice cream to edges of cookies.
Wrap in foil or plastic wrap and freeze at least 24 hours.
Makes 16 sandwiches.