An ice cream sandwich is a frozen

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consisting of

ice cream Ice cream is a frozen dessert typically made from milk or cream that has been flavoured with a sweetener, either sugar or an alternative, and a spice, such as Chocolate, cocoa or vanilla, or with fruit, such as strawberries or peaches. Food ...

between two

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s, soft

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s, or other baked goods. The ingredients are different around the world, with

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using wafers and the United States commonly using cookies.

Description

An ice cream sandwich is a frozen

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. The ingredients are different around the world, with the common component being

between

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s, commonly

s, or

Regional varieties

Australia

Within

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, popular brands are "Giant Sandwich" (blue and pink wrapper), and "Monaco Bar" (gold and black metallic wrapper) in the Eastern provinces. Other brands include Streets "Cookie", " Maxibon" (with one-half ice cream sandwich) and "Maxibon Cookie", and "Pat and Stick's Homemade Range" (recognizable by its circular shape). Additional brands "Indulge" and "Feast" have also become popular. Ice cream sandwiches were formerly known as a "cream between". One purchased a small block of ice cream wrapped in paper and placed it between two wafers.

Germany

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, ice cream sandwiches are made with two wafers and the three-flavour combination called ''Fürst-Pückler-Eis'', elsewhere known as Neapolitan ice cream. It is based on a recipe introduced in 1839 by the cook of a German nobleman, Prince Hermann Ludwig Heinrich von Pückler-Muskau.

Iran

The usual

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ian ice cream sandwich is called ''bastani naani'' () meaning "bread-ice cream", and is made with Iranian traditional ice cream between two

Ireland

, they are known as "sliders" or an ice cream

; they are usually served as vanilla ice cream sandwiched between two rectangular chocolate wafers. A "double nougat" is ice cream sandwiched between two nougat wafers. The wafers are not covered in chocolate, only the edges.

Israel

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, ice cream sandwiches are commonly known as "kasata" (קסטה). Though the name comes from the Italian

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, the dessert itself has little to do with Italian cassata, and usually consists of two thick biscuits holding a block of vanilla and chocolate-flavoured ice cream.

Italy

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, ice cream sandwiches are eaten in the region of

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as a breakfast item. The sandwich is called “Brioche con Gelato” in Italian and consists of a soft

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roll split open on top and filled with

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Philippines

Local ice cream (''

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'') sellers/peddlers with their pushcarts that travel around cities sometimes offer ice cream sandwiches with pandesal (salt bread) as the bread.

Serbia

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, a popular frozen food company

Frikom Frikom (full legal name: ''Industrija smrznute hrane Frikom d.o.o. Beograd'') is a Serbian maker of ice cream, which also sells frozen fruit, vegetables, fish, and pastries. History Frikom was established on 16 March 1976 in Belgrade, SFR Yugo ...

created Plazma Sandwich, which is a unique fusion of Plazma (popular Serbian biscuit brand) biscuit-flavored ice cream, enriched with ground Plazma biscuits, covered in milk chocolate with a sprinkling of pieces of ground Plazma biscuits on one half, and two large pieces of Plazma biscuits enveloping the ice cream on the other half.

Singapore

Wafer ice creams are popular in

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. It is one of the types of ''potong'' (cut) ice cream, so named because the servings are sliced from a large bar of ice cream. Wafer ice cream consists of two wafers holding together a rectangular block of ice cream. Wafer ice cream evolved from the older 'ice potong' type, which is a rectangular prism of ice cream mounted on a wooden stick. Many customers complained that the ice potong would easily melt and fall off the stick, leading to the introduction of the wafers for better grip. Vendors are commonly found along

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and

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and outside schools. A colloquial term for it is "''pia'' ice cream", which translates to "biscuit ice cream" in the Hokkien dialect. Common flavours offered include peppermint, chocolate chip,

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, ripple,

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, yam,

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, honeydew, and chocolate. Wafer ice cream vendors also sell the same blocks of ice cream on slices of multicoloured bread, on cones or in cups instead of sandwiched between wafers. Catering companies in Singapore also send ice cream sandwich carts for functions.

Thailand

''Itim Khanom Pang'' (or ''Icecream Khanom Pang''), literally bread ice cream, a

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usually composed of longer rolls similar to hot dog buns a mix of scoops of

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ice cream/sorbet (or vanilla) and chocolate-flavoured ice cream, with a selection of local toppings from traditionally salty or sweet

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, salty crushed peanuts, and syrup-soaked chewy palm seeds to slivers of fresh or dried fruits. Then drizzled on top with

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or chocolate syrup.

United Kingdom

In the

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, an ice cream wafer, consisting of a small block of ice cream between two rectangular wafer biscuits, was a popular alternative to a cone up until the 1980s. A "nougat wafer" was also available, consisting of a layer of mallow sandwiched between two wafers and coated with chocolate around the edges. Typically a vanilla block (or a layer of soft-serve) sandwiched between one plain wafer and one chocolate-covered nougat one. This is known as a single nougat" in Scotland, with a double nougat (pronounced nugget) having nougat wafers on both sides. Raspberry sauce is also a common topping. Nougat wafers came in double or triple varieties, depending on the number of nougat wafers in the construction.

United States

The earliest mention of ice cream sandwiches in North America come in the 1899. Street vendors in New York sold slabs of ice cream between sheets of paper, called "hokey pokeys", until someone had the idea of using cookies instead.Devra First, "Birth of the cool: The story behind the ice cream sandwich, an icon at 120", ''

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Photos from the Jersey Shore circa 1905 show ice cream sandwiches being sold at 1¢ each. The earliest US patent having to do with ice cream sandwiches (No. 1,387,613) is by Russell H. Proper for an "Ice Cream Sandwich Machine" in 1921. Ice cream sandwiches are sold using

chocolate Chocolate is a food made from roasted and ground cocoa beans that can be a liquid, solid, or paste, either by itself or to flavoring, flavor other foods. Cocoa beans are the processed seeds of the cacao tree (''Theobroma cacao''); unprocesse ...

cookies. A Chipwich, where ice cream (usually vanilla) is sandwiched between two

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s, is also popular. A "National Ice Cream Sandwich Day" is set for August 2 and has been celebrated since at least 2005.

Uruguay

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, an ice cream sandwich (''sánguche helado'') or triple sandwich (''sánguche triple'') is typically a

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(''helado triple'') sandwich prepared with

s such as the one in the image.

Vietnam

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, an ice cream sandwich called ' is commonly sold on the street as a snack. It consists of scoops of ice cream stuffed inside a ', sprinkled with crushed peanuts.

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