Praline Pecan Meringue Ice Cream Sandwiches Rose's Alpha Bakers
Monday, June 29, 2015 at 11:48AM 
Praline Pecan Meringue Ice Cream Sandwich 'The Baking Bible'
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A quick, easy and gluten free go to ice cream sandwich biscuit (cookie) today.
I've made brown sugar meringues and meringue ice cream sandwiches before, but it's the combo of brown muscovado sugar and toasted pecans in these cookies that instantly turns a scoop of ice cream into a portable ice cream sundae.
The recipe called for light muscovado sugar or dark brown sugar, my local Woolies had light and dark muscovado on special this week... and I thought I got one of each, but nah I grabbed two dark muscovado's by mistake so dark it is.
If you haven't used muscovado before, it has a wonderful aroma and unique treacle-y flavour that is unmatched in the world of sugars.
Start by toasting your pecans, then leave half whole and chop the rest into small pieces.
Muscovado sugar and egg whites are whipped until thick and light, the cooled pecans are folded in. I divided the mixture as this stage and added choc chips to one half... just because, well "chocolate" hello!
Scoops are put on your lined baking tray and gently shaped to discs with a spatula.
Baked, cooled and filled with your favourite ice cream flavour, home made or store bought. Rose includes a recipe for 'Rose Blend Ganache Piping Glaze' for topping the ice cream sandwiches, a lovely white/dark ganache mixture that I didn't pipe I more did the "strewn" thing... delicious either way.
Think of pairing the biscuits with salted caramel ice cream, bourbon banana for a banana foster ice cream sandwich, chocolate (of course), burnt caramel fig ice cream, coffee (not the sweet Vietnamese coffee type, but rather an Italian espresso type to counter cookie sweetness) or just a scoop of classic vanilla.
The meringue mix can also be baked as cookies, just bake in scooped shape for chubby, light and crisp with squidgy centres.
Would I bake again? A definite yes!! Loved these cookies, with only three ingredients (or four if you add chocolate) we all need a quick pantry staple cookie. Fabulous they are gluten free.
Would I change anything? Umm, if I added chocolate I would use a darker higher cocoa ratio variety to play against the sweetness... otherwise no.
How it works... now I've joined the fabulous existing alpha bakers, once a week I will post about what I have baked from Rose Levy Beranbaum's 'The Baking Bible'. This won't include the recipe due to copyright and publisher restrictions however, I will be posting how it went and photos of making/baking the gorgeous baked goods.
Happy Baking :)
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Reader Comments (14)
Yours so tiny and cute! I love how your photos always so picture perfect! Gorgeous meringues icecream sandwiches!
Thank you Faithy :) Lol I was trying not to go mini… but I do love mini foods!!
your cookies look so chubby and inviting.
Lol, thank you Orin :)
Wow, Jeniffer, your cookies are beautiful! Mine are flat and not as pretty, but oh so delicious! Love that ganache as as well.
Hi Jeniffer, Beautiful pics all throughout your post and especially your final beauty shot. What you did with the chocolate was really nice. I agreed with you on all your points as I read through your post. And bourbon banana ice cream? Oh yes. Excellent pairing.
Chocolate chips. Perfect! I'll have to put them in next time. Yours really look great
Thank you Mendy… choc chips ensure the cookies go down with the kids… still works on my step son and he is 23 :)
Thank you Kimberlie for you lovely and generous comments :)
Michele… yours looked great you're being to hard on yourself. Agree they are delicious and the ganache mix is so good I'll use that again on many things I'm sure :)
Love the chocolate drizzles. At least you bought something you'll use. I once accidentally came home with low fat condensed milk - I still have it. If you're going to make cheesecake then there's absolutely no point in it being low fat!
Thanks Catherine :) LOL I swear I had a tin of low fat condensed milk (bought by accident) in the pantry for years ;) with that "I'll use it something…. some day……" thought.
well, thought I had found your home before but now here it is again. Love all your posts!
Thank you so much Joan, I'm looking forward to seeing all your bakes and your journey :)