These cookies are the perfect summer treat! No, it's not that the cookies are a cold, refreshing treat (although they are delicious!). The real treat is that as you make these cookies on a hot summer day, you can eat a scoop of ice cream since you have it out of the freezer anyway to make these summer cookies!
✅ Reasons You'll Love These Ice Cream Cookies
There are many, but here are some!
- Easy to make
- Fun to make with children
- You get to eat ice cream while you make them!
- You can switch up the flavors easily by changing the flavor of preserves you use
🦉 Some Amish Wisdom
These are some words from Gloria Yoder about the value of teaching children skills, like easy baking or carpentry:
And this is something that we value as Amish folks that the children get all kinds of opportunities to learn as they watch daddy pound nails, put on a metal roof, or hang windows and doors, or even teach them the value of insulation. The teaching opportunities are endless. We know that comments are made of how Amish do good quality work. We do want to give God all glory; all strength and capabilities come from him. One thing that makes a difference is the children being with daddy and seeing him do so many things, giving him this opportunity to teach them. Thus it gets passed to the next generation. Okay, why not celebrate with 4-ingredient ice cream cookies? If you make this simple recipe, and you have the opportunity to have children help you, do not turn it down. It is worth the extra effort and mess as you listen to their squeals of delight!
📋 Step-By-Step Ice Cream Cookies
For the preserves part, you can use any flavor you like in the 4-Ingredient Ice Cream Cookies.
Ditto for the ice cream, the recipe says vanilla, but you can mix it up strawberry or even something "chunkier" like s'mores or cookies and cream!
🍪 More Easy Amish Cookies
Triple Treat Cookies
🖨️ Full Recipe
4-Ingredient Ice Cream Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter softened
- 2 cups flour
- 1 cup vanilla ice cream
- ½ cup blueberry or strawberry preserves (or another favorite flavor)
Instructions
- Mix softened butter and flour, then add ice cream. (If you have little ones helping you, you’ll be sure to get giggles from this part!)
- Chill until dough is slightly firm.
- Form into balls and place on cookie sheet.
- Flatten slightly and press a thumb print on top. Fill center with your choice of preserves.
- Bake at 350 for 20 minutes.
JAY INGRAM
I had 2 brothers that lived near Flat Rock, Illinois. We would eat lunch at the Flat Rock Cafe and then go shopping at the Amish Market a few miles west of there. I loved the old farm house the Grocery store was in. Especially their "Horseradish Cheese". Great memories.
Kevin Williams
Flat Rock is in the middle of nowhere, but that Amish market is super, it is still there, recently moved to a newer, larger building, you'll have to check it out if you are out that way again sometime!