Aug 24, 2016
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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!
DIY Mini Ice Cream Sandwiches
Making mini ice cream sandwiches at home is easy. Simply use your favorite cookie, an ice cream flavor you love, and some toppings or jellys.
For this recipe, I’m using creamy strawberry ice cream as the base and loading it up with the classic strawberry jam and peanut butter combination. Alllll that sandwiched between 2 buttery vanilla wafers.
The cold, creamy, salty, and sweet combination makes this treat EPIC! Of course, you could make these with any cookie, but the vanilla wafers keep this treat mini-sized and taste even better when frozen!
Mini Ice Cream Sandwich Ingredients
Mini ice cream sandwiches are made with pantry staples and everyday snacks like:
- vanilla wafer cookies: lightly sweet and perfectly sized for a mini ice cream sandwich.
- smooth peanut butter: use any peanut butter or a nut-free alternative such as soy butter.
- strawberry preserves: could be any flavor of preserves or jelly!
- strawberry ice cream: the MVP of this treat! Use strawberry, vanilla, or your favorite flavor.
If you love this recipe, check out my other mini ice cream sandwich recipe. It’s made with shortbread cookies and dipped in chocolate- another perfect frozen treat to make at home.
How to Make Small Ice Cream Sandwiches at Home
Assembling these ice cream sandwiches makes a great activity for kids. Just set out the ingredients, follow the step-by-step directions below, and enjoy!
- Add a layer of peanut butter & jelly
Spread a teaspoon amount of peanut butter onto the flat side of each cookie. Top half the cookies with about ¼ teaspoon of preserves. - Top with ice cream
Use a small ice cream scoop or teaspoon to place a small amount of ice cream onto the jelly-topped cookies. - Assemble and freeze
Top the ice cream with the remaining peanut butter cookies and gently push down. Place the sandwiches onto a baking sheet and freeze for 30 minutes.
The hardest part is trying not to eat one or two of these bite-size treats while assembling.
You can enjoy them straight from the freezer and keep extras in a freezer bag for a week. Before you head to the kitchen, watch this quick video on how to make these mini ice cream sammiches:
PB&J Mini Ice Cream Sandwiches
Ingredients
- 28 vanilla wafer cookies
- ¼ cup peanut butter
- 2-3 tablespoons strawberry preserves
- ½ cup strawberry ice cream
Instructions
- Spread ½ teaspoon of peanut butter onto the flat side of each cookie, just enough to cover the entire surface area.
- Place about ¼ teaspoon onto half of the cookies.
- Use a mini ice cream scoop or teaspoon to scoop a small amount of ice cream onto the jelly-topped ice cream cookies. Top the ice cream with peanut butter cookies and gently press down.
- Place the ice cream sandwiches onto a baking sheet and freeze for 30 minutes or until firm. Freeze extra sandwiches in a freezer-safe zip bag for up to a week.
Cassie S.
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!
Moriah
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.
Falyn
What great giveaways. Thank you for offering them to your readers.
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.
Liz
We create sweet moments by having dinner together and sharing our day. Thanks!
Jill Asay
Love, love, love your site, recently found out my daughter is gluten and dairy intolerant and your recipes have really saved our taste buds, we especially love the allergy free pancakes at momables.
I am a single mom of 4 amazing kids and we love to go on bike rides together, hang out at the park, we cook together and we even enjoy cleaning the house together (you gotta have singing and dancing to make it fun). 🙂 The absolute best time we have together is gathered around the kitchen table playing board games. We have the best belly laughs ever! We highly recommend Apples to Apples Junior. 🙂
Thanks!!
Jimi
My 6yo son and I make chocolate chip energy bites together. We flash freeze and then throw in a Ziploc bag. They are best enjoyed fresh from the freezer.
Olivia
As a family we love watching movies together. My 5 year old loves movies so we make sure we watch a movie with her on the weekends. It is a great time to laugh and cuddle and share homemade meals/snacks. We will definitely be adding this treat to our movie time menu. 🙂
Laura Fuentes
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Enjoy!
dylcia
Our sweet moments are created on the weekends when we get to spend the whole day together. We love to go on little adventures where we get to show our son new things and places.
Sara Geiser
Our sweet moments are always the moments before bed, when we snuggle together to read stories or to just watch some tv – I love spending some cuddle time with the kids before bed 🙂
Can’t wait to try these – they look fantastic!
Shea Brasier
Friday nights we make homemade pizzas and watch a Disney movie inside a fort we make in our living room. Best tradition!
theresa krier
We create sweet moments together by always being in the kitchen together, all of my 8 grand kids love to be our helpers, if they help create it they are more apt to eat it and want to keep cooking and baking, I love this recipe & so will my grand kids as they all love PB&J, thanks
Samantha
I have two young boys (2 and 8 months) so we make sweet memories by just watching them be.
Sue
We make memories in different ways. We sometimes have a family game night, or we go out to eat or we play in the backyard. Our vacations have made very sweet memories for us, too.
Sarah
Great video – I’ll try this with my son.
My favorite times with him are spent reading! We read the BFG and then saw the movie. Next we’re reading Matilda and will see that movie too!
So great!! He loves it and so do I.
I’d love to get entered in the photo shoot and the Ice Cream giveaway from Edy’s/Dryer’s by us!
Mandy Arostegui
We are MAJOR pb&J fans – and Edy’s Slow Churned ice cream here! We have some Cookies n Cream in the freezer right now. We will for sure be making these!
For our family, my favorite sweet moment of every day is our story time at night. Every night before bed, we all read whatever series we are working on (currently Harry Potter!) for a half hour or so before our daughter’s bed time. No distractions, just us! It’s been the best for all of us.
Shallyse
My family loves to create “sweet moments” by baking together in the kitchen.
Jody
Our sweet family moments are made around the dinner table, quite often followed by some sort of game in the backyard.
Maribel F
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.
lisa franklin
would love a photo session. also love edy’s ice cream!
Doris
Love all your recipes
Laura Fuentes
Thank you!
Gail
We love to go on little bike tours on the weekend and have a little picknick by a lake or in a park.
A_Shoemaker
I have to confess…we sneak off to Dairy Queen for BOGO Blizzards 🙂
Brooke
My daughter loves to cook or help out in the kitchen. Every sunday we all cook our meal together. It is a lot of fun but leaves a BIG mess.
Polly
Family dinner time is where we create sweet moments. We are all together and put all our phones away to enjoy our conversations.
Faith
We make wonderful memories by just doing small, fun, family events when when re all home together.
Jessika Speer
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!
Laura Fuentes
Jessika,
You are our winner of the Family Portrait Session! Congratulations!
Check your email for instructions coming from [email protected] (coming soon)
Staci
We love family movie nights and playing games. It’s always fun to hang out together. PB&J ice cream sandwiches are super cute.
KC
Favorite bite size treat I’ve got to say is mini frozen chocolate covered bananas or cashew cheesecakes!
Sylvia Baker
We sit down and eat together as a family every night. It’s getting more difficult to do as the kids get older and involved in more activities! But those are our best moments–doesn’t matter if it’s a gourmet meal we’ve made together or something from the drive-thru! Dinner is when we connect as a family!
Kara
Love this! Every evening my family jumps on our trampoline. It’s our way of having family time, getting out all that energy and having a blast together!
Cynthia Hutchinson
Just having ice cream together
Amy J.
Sweet moments – my daughter loves to bake (or cook) with me.
Melanie
Each of my boys gets to choose a recipe that they would like to prepare.
Lexi
We have a little cabin by a lake. We really enjoy going there and having fun without any of our cell phones. Its great!
Pauline
These look AMAZING!
Nicole
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)
Julia N.
Thanks for the recipe! For my family this summer, some sweet moments were had making smoothies together – something that successfully united my 4, 11 and 15-year old children around the same activity!
Susanne
My husband and I teach school and we pack as many ” sweet moments” into our summer as we can…..family baseball games, homemade ice cream, road trips, etc…..
Bonnie N
We love to spend the day at the lake. Kids love playing in the sand and it’s such a fun day for the whole family!
manda
We like to spend time in the backyard together.
LaTanya
my husband makes mini sweet potato cheescake that I love
Allison Marriott
My family and I make the best memories during our weekly visits to our local zoo. I’m glad after 3 years of memberships, it has never gotten old for my boys. Nothing makes me happier than seeing my boys having fun and learning about animals and our world. The zoo is our favorite place but honestly, anytime we are outdoors are when our favorite family moments happen.
Quinn
We love making popsicles with vanilla yogurt and strawberries!
Allison
Our sweet moments are usually unaware. Usually when we are sitting together and goofing around either by the pool during the summer or in the winter time around the fireplace.
Allison
Frozen chocolate covered bananas!!
Jill
YUM! We are big PB&J lovers! My kids would love these.
Ashley
We love chocolate covered Ice cream bites!
Porsche Espindola
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.
Helen
Our family sweet memories are the simple meals together, going to playgrounds and travel. We just got back from a road trip.
My kids favorite treat is frozen smoothie in the shape of a lollipop!
Diana
We love going down to the beach. I have small boys but they still appreciate splashing in the water and digging in the sand. When we get back they usually share some delicious fruit or ice cream with their father on the balcony, while I get their bath ready.
Nicole
Lately we have been into enjoying homemade strawberry & coconut cream popsicles on the deck in the evenings.
Erin Frazier
We love to make sweet memories as a family by spending time together intentionally and throwing in snow cones and frozen yogurt treats in the mix (of course!) 🙂
Sandy Carpenter
Enjoying dinner as a family = sweet moment.
Talitha McGuinness
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!
Stacey
We try to create sweet moments in the every day…cuddling in the chair to read a story before rest, pulling out some water balloons in the backyard on a hot afternoon, having a surprise treat after supper, family movie night with movie theater popcorn.
Kate
In the summer, we have a special tradition that my son created called Sundaes on Sunday. Yup, every Sunday during the summer, we eat ice cream sundaes… we make them ourselves at home, so they are a little less decadent than if we went out for them. 🙂
Jacqueline D'Attoma
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 🙂
Joan Smith
These look delicious. Our families sweet memories include making heathy snacks to take on our family hikes at our local state parks. We love getting outside an exploring nature.
Kristina
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.
Becky Cagle
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
Stacy Fellows
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!
Michele B
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!!
Natasha
My family loves any kind of great outdoor sport, that’s how we come together and have fun as a family!
Melissa
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.
Alli Tenge
Family dance parties in the kitchen are always awesome for sweet fun moments! Root beer floats make it sweeter, of course 🙂
Teresa M.
Our family creates sweet moments together by spending time outside exploring the beauty around us and getting active. Our last family photo was taken 6 years ago in a studio. It is long overdue for a new one. We would hopefully take one outside this time.
Tracy
For my family I think the sweetest moments occur in the everyday, when I least expect it. Getting snuggles from my boys when they first wake up or when they get home from school. The times when I don’t have “expectations” of how are day should go. When we just enjoy life together by laughing, snuggling, dreaming and crying together. Those moments are ones that leave imprints on my heart.
Sarah
Ice cream cake is our family’s birthday tradition. Everyone gets an ice cream cake for their birthdays, and they get to share it for breakfast!.
Pam
We love eating ice cream as a family!
Nicole
YUMMY! Love making popsicles together & coming up with all different mixes. Waiting till they are frozen is the hardest part!
Jess
We make sweet memories by making honey sunflower butter cacao balls. The kids love to mix in their favorite extras and roll the balls while chatting about their day. In the end, we have a sample and throw them in the freezer. They are yummy cold!
Natalie
We create sweet memories when we all pitch in to clean up the meals we cook! We listen to our favorite music, dance, sing and laugh. And then because we get done so much more quickly, we like to use the extra time for dessert, a game or a walk around the block before bedtime.
Karen Sablich
We create sweet moments with Friday night family game nights or movie nights, which always requires a sweet treat. We will have to try this one; yum!
Karen Sablich
Oops! I accidentally hit the star button as I hit the submit button with my other thin! Sorry!
Natasha
Super easy treat! Thanks for the recipe! My kids will love them!
Sweet family moments are usually on the beach making sand castles, jumping the waves and eating cheese puffs!
Allison Zarkos
We create sweet & memorable moments together with all the outdoor activities we do. Playing tennis, going on family bike rides or hikes tends us time to chat and have fun!
Danielle
We create sweet moments together with our family by going to the beach! We live in Hawaii so you would think this happens a lot, but we have to make time around work, school, and activities to get to the beach. My kids love the water, sand, and rocks to climb on!
Lori
This summer we’ve enjoyed fun family baseball games in the backyard followed by a cool, sweet treat to cool off!
Susan V
We love getting together as a family – including the grandkids, there are 14 of us now, and we enjoy sharing a meal together and there is ALWAYS a yummy dessert – usually more than one!
Jessica
Yum! Our sweet moments/memories tend to be on our camping trips, always filled with fun and usually include smores!
Sara
We love frosting frozen banana slices with peanut butter and topping with a blueberry; we call them our banana cupcakes!
Mindi overstreet
With two working parents and three children, life gets so busy. We try to dedicate one day a week to playing together. Sports, video games, sledding whatever we can do together.
Alex
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.
Tricia
Our favorite sweet moments are when we spontaneously eat ice cream or Popsicles in the pool….something that’s usually not “allowed”
Gena
Our sweet moments are often created when we are just hanging out – eating dinner as a family, playing or just goofing around.
Cathy H
We create sweet moments by visiting their Grandpa and going out to his favorite old fashioned ice cream parlor.
Molly
My husband is often away so it’s a lot of me and three littles. They are die hard popcorn and movie on the couch fans! They like to mix in a few sweets with the popcorn. Salty maple drizzled popcorn is our favorite flavor. Yum.
Angela
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!
Katie Leonard
We create sweet moments by making creative animals using marshmallows for bodies, pretzel sticks for legs, and chocolate chips for eyes! 🙂
Carin
We love to make sweet memories by going on road trips without being sure of our destination. Because it’s the journey, right? 🙂
Amy Farmer
The sweetest moments with my family are always the times we plan on “doing nothing” together. It gives us space to be creative and just chill together. Our best moments usually involve all of us hanging out on the boat together and grilling at the beach. Sweet!
Amy Farmer
Strawberry is what I always come back too:) Always makes me feel like a kid again!
Rebecca
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!!
Tammy
I saw this recipe yesterday and immediately tried these with my kids. We had so much fun and they were delicious!
Vanessa
These look great!
Samantha
We love PB&J! Looks great.
Pat
I’ll have to make this soon. My kids would love this!
Melissa
Pb & J AND ice cream? YES please.
Isabelle
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.
Bethanny
What a great and fun snack/dessert idea! Love it
Olivia
These look great, Laura! Thanks for sharing.
Jenny
What a great idea! We will make these tonight! How fun!
Lisa
Pb&J… YUMMMM! My family’s favorite.
Alexa
These look delicious! And everything you need I already have in my pantry. Perfect!