Ice Cream Sandwich Sharks

One of our favorite books is Shark Trouble!  Jess and George are two little chimps stuck on two different islands, Banana Island and Coconut Island.  They'd like to be together, but the ocean between them contains sharks who thwart all their efforts to cross the water while singing:

whenever the little chimps get close.  After many failed efforts (like digging a tunnel, scaring the sharks, and ski-surfing across the shark infested waters), the chimps each climb into their respective trees to think.  Then something amazing happens.  The trees bend and the leaves tangle together to form a leafy bridge across the water.  They celebrate their new friendship with banana milkshakes and coconut cake.

If you'd like to make your own shark ice cream sandwich, the hardest part is having to stick them back in the freezer between every step to keep them from melting.

You'll need:

• Two cookies
• Ice Cream
• Gray frosting (ick, I know)
• A Bugle (optional)
• Marshmallows or white chocolate chips
• DIY edible eyes or chocolate chips

Start with the cookies.  If they are really soft, put them in the freezer for a while so they're easier to work with.  Put a scoop of ice cream in between and squish one side down more than the other.  (We Martha-types use lots of technical terms like squish and glop.)

 Put your teeth on the less smooshed side next.  That way you don't have to worry about messing up your frosting later.  I used cut mini marshmallows but white chocolate chips would be adorable too.

Spread your gray frosting on the top of the cookie and a Bugle.  Find yourself a flattened one.  You could also skip the Bugle and pipe frosting directly on the cookie for the fin, but I do not possess the equipment or know-how for that.

Press your frosted Bugle on top of the cookie and put two glops of frosting toward the front to hold your edible eyes or chocolate chips.

(They are a little hard to eat.)

If you've got some ice cream fans, you might also want to check out our ice cream literacy & math and ice cream play dough.