If you are a fan of the classic PB&J sandwich combination, you are going to love today’s treat idea! These Peanut Butter & Jelly Mini Ice Cream Sandwiches are delicious bite-sized treats that are simple to make and fun to eat!
To bring you this fun recipe, I’ve teamed up with Edy’s Slow Churned Simple Recipes light ice cream, the makers of today’s delicious flavor for these mini sandwiches: strawberry ice cream.
My kids love a good PB&J, and so does my husband. The mix of the salty peanut butter and sweet jelly brings a ton of comfort to the classic sandwich. When creating fun recipes using ice cream, and wanting to use strawberry ice cream, I couldn’t get past the idea of a frozen PB&J treat!
I also wanted to create a treat that the kids and I could do together, and as you can see in this quick video, it’s a terrific way to have fun in the kitchen.
What I love about using Edy’s Slow Churned Simple Recipes light ice cream for my recipes, is that it’s super creamy and free of artificial colors and flavors. And for this one, the strawberry swirl really adds an extra touch of sweetness to these mini sandwiches! If you live west of the Rockies, you may know this delicious brand as Dreyer’s!
Rich, creamy, delicious ice cream stuffed inside two sandwich cookies with one of our favorite flavor combinations… yum! The hardest part is not to eat them as they are made and to leave a few for everyone else to enjoy.
What is your favorite frozen bite-size treat?
Peanut Butter & Jelly Mini Ice Cream Sandwiches
- Yield: about 14 ice cream sandwiches, will vary by cracker package.
Ingredients
- Vanilla Wafer Cookies
- Smooth peanut butter
- Strawberry preserves
- Edy’s Slow Churned Simple Recipes Strawberry light ice cream
Instructions
- Begin mini ice cream sandwich assembly line by spreading peanut butter onto the inside of all round cookies, just enough to cover the entire surface area.
- Onto half of the crackers, place a small dab of strawberry preserves, about 1/4 of a teaspoon.
- Using a small ice cream scoop, melon-baller, or teaspoon, scoop one small scoop of ice cream onto the jelly sided cookies. Close the ice cream sandwich with the peanut butter sandwich cookie, and gently push down.
- Transfer this immediately onto a baking sheet and freeze, for 30 minutes, until firm – or enjoy immediately.
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These look delicious! And everything you need I already have in my pantry. Perfect!
Pb&J… YUMMMM! My family’s favorite.
What a great idea! We will make these tonight! How fun!
These look great, Laura! Thanks for sharing.
What a great and fun snack/dessert idea! Love it
I love all your recipes with Edy’s / Dryer’s ice cream. We always keep tons of ice cream at home and I always look for new things to make with it.
Pb & J AND ice cream? YES please.
I’ll have to make this soon. My kids would love this!
We love PB&J! Looks great.
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I saw this recipe yesterday and immediately tried these with my kids. We had so much fun and they were delicious!
Ice cream sandwiches are my families favorite next to a spoon full of peanut butter!! We have even made an Ice cream sandwich Minnie Mouse cake for my daughter’s 3rd birthday. (So much black/gray whip cream on top, hahaha) This recipe is amazing!!! Friday night kitchen fun!!
Strawberry is what I always come back too:) Always makes me feel like a kid again!
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These would be the perfect little “sweet treat” after dinner that the kids would love making! 3 out of the 4 of our children have a peanut allergy, so we’d substitute with Sunbutter, but would be just as yummy! Love easy treats that are nut-free and the kiddoes can assemble themselves!
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My kids love frozen chocolate dipped bananas. I bet these little sandwiches would be great made with peanut butter and a chocolate dipped banana slice to make a banana split mini sandwich. Hmmm…what kind of ice cream to use? Decisions, decisions.
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Super easy treat! Thanks for the recipe! My kids will love them!
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We try to make sure to do a little something special every weekend, whether that’s a treat (like these little yummies) an experience or just lots of fun play.
My family loves any kind of great outdoor sport, that’s how we come together and have fun as a family!
Those look delicious, and I know my son will love them. For our sweet moments, we love to go camping. Even if it is still close to home, it gets away from the hectic,sometimes stressful home life, away from the electronics, and allows us to spend quality time together, be it playing board games or just sitting around a campfire. Keep all those great recipes coming!!
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We love ice cream! Can’t wait to try these with my kids. We like to make fun things as treats and this sounds great!
I love your family friendly healthy and easy recipes!! The PB & J ice cream will for sure be a new family favorite and I can’t wait to try out your chocolate protein dip! Thank you for all your amazing recipes, tips and for keeping it real
What a fun idea! We love ice cream cake so much we actually make minicupcake sized bites sometimes, but chocolate dipped frozen bananas bites are also great.
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My big Italian Family’s sweet moments are created when we are most unaware- like when we are gathered in our cosy cottage on Lake Erie- or when we are all together laughing and listening to the silly words of our two tiny nieces 🙂
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We as a family, we have become so much focused on time together and “experiences” vs. gifts, parties, etc. We have enjoyed a wonderful summer of trips, spontaneity and exploration, seeing many things for the first time in our own backyard. It was a sad 1st day back to school for us, realizing that our summer time together had come to an end. Now, it will be rush, rush, rush and hopefully meeting together around the dinner table a couple of nights each week!
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These look yummy! I’m thinking I could switch it up a bit to accommodate our gluten free/dairy free/nut free needs. My family loves to go outside after dinner and play together (basketball, scooters, blowing bubbles). They always love a frozen treat afterwards to cool down.
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my husband makes mini sweet potato cheescake that I love
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I think any time you can spend quality time with your family, beyond the craziness of the week, you’ve got a ‘sweet moment’. My boys (twins, age 3) love to help in the kitchen – mixing, pouring, scooping… whatever the chore may be – they are always amped to be my assistants! This past weekend, we made Rice Krispy treats and they used cookie cutters to cut out different shapes. So much fun… and they got a chance to practice with learning their shapes too! (but shhh – don’t tell them it was educational)
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We have a little cabin by a lake. We really enjoy going there and having fun without any of our cell phones. Its great!
Each of my boys gets to choose a recipe that they would like to prepare.
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Just having ice cream together
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We create sweet moments in our family by baking in the kitchen together. My four year old LOVES being involved in making treats, and he would love these ice cream sandwiches! He’s been wanting vanilla wafers too, so this will be great!
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We make wonderful memories by just doing small, fun, family events when when re all home together.
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would love a photo session. also love edy’s ice cream!
I always make lots of good desserts and snacks for my kids healthy too. They love to help me.I enjoy to watch their happy faces.
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Great video – I’ll try this with my son.
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I try to make every moment with my family sweet. 🙂 but I think one of my favorites is before bed. Myself and my two children sit in my son’s room. We say prayers, together, and sit and have discussions about our story for the evening’, and share giggles about our day. 🙂 it sends everyone to bed with a giant smile.
this mini pb&J ice cream sandwiches look wonderful! i’m excited to try them.
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Those sound amazing. We create sweet moments at home by turning on some music and dancing together while putting dinner together in the kitchen. It’s a lot of fun and the kids love being little helpers.
These look delicious! We always try to have a fun & healthy little ice cream snack either in the afternoon or after dinner as our sweet little treat! We will try these soon! Our sweet moments are created during bath time. We always create fun little games to help get clean!
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