Clockwise from prime: Noona’s Ice Cream, Heap’s Ice Cream, Thea, Comfortland, Bibble & Sip, and Supermoon Bakehouse
Photograph: Hugo Yu; Meals styling: Jamie Kimm
Not so way back, innovation in ice-cream sandwiching amounted to stuffing a brioche bun with some gelato. However now? Throughout peak season? 1,000,000 completely different bakeries and scoop retailers are vying for our consideration (and our much-coveted consideration on TikTok), so simple sandwiches simply received’t reduce it. A cookie is rarely only a cookie, something can turn into an ice-cream taste. Listed below are ten new concepts to maintain us coated by means of the summer time.
1. A New Use for Croissants
Somedays Bakery, a number of places
Slabs of banana-walnut croissant bread pudding are thinly sliced and crisped up with the intention to maintain chocolate gentle serve for a particular that may begin in August.
2. Tons of Coloration …
Bibble & Sip, 253 W. 51st St.
Sunshine-yellow corn cookies sandwich two stripes of ice cream: one vivid pink (strawberry), the opposite deep inexperienced (matcha).
3. … Or Tons of Babka
Thea Bakery, 17 Greene Ave., Fort Greene
It’s twice-baked babka sandwiching babka ice-cream swirled with babka crumble, all rolled in salty babka brittle. It’s additionally out there solely on weekends and — as you may guess — tends to promote out quick.
4. A Excellent It’s-It Dupe
Julia Jean’s, 202 Clinton St.
An East Coast ode to San Francisco’s well-known frozen dessert: Ayanna Quint labored on her recipe for over a decade. And she or he nailed it. The nubby chewiness of the oatmeal cookies and her bittersweet chocolate dip are good.
5. A Sandwich That’s “Every part”
The Pastry Field, 515 E. twelfth St.
Bitter-cream cookies help cream-cheese ice cream rimmed with everything-bagel spices. Candy, salty, excellent.
Clockwise from prime left: Supermoon Bakehouse, Julia Jean’s, Somedays Bakery, the Pastry Field, and the Display screen Door.
Photograph: Hugo Yu; Meals Styling: Jamie Kimm
6. A Collab We Can Get Behind
Heap’s, 171 Seventh Ave., Park Slope
The strawberries-and-cream ice cream at Brownstone Brooklyn’s favourite new scoop store is churned within the Hudson Valley. The semolina-pistachio-rosewater-and-orange-zest cookies come from Sawa, one other neighborhood jewel.
7. Black & White (& Purple)
Supermoon Bakehouse, 120 Rivington St.
The colour-loving, rainbow-everything LES bakery goes two-tone for an ode to black-and-white cookies with alternating layers of brownie, vanilla cookie ice cream, chocolate cookie ice cream, and a blondie. Or, go vibrant and get the ube-pandan choice.
8. A Higher Good Humor Strawberry-Shortcake Bar
Noona’s, 304 E. fifth St.
Yuzu “dreamsicle” ice cream is swirled with the identical strawberry jam that slicks this sandwich’s brown-butter cookies. Crumbs from these cookies and freeze-dried berries are the crunchies coating the skin.
9. Home made Cosmic Brownies!
Comfortland, a number of places
Montana Barbieri has baked her model of the sprinkle-topped Little Debbie favorites for 15 years. Now she’s utilizing them to cradle vanilla gentle serve made by the chainlet’s ice-cream maestro, Andrew O’Neill.
10. The Gracie
The Display screen Door, 145 Driggs Ave., Greenpoint
Maine Camp Espresso ice cream arrives between triple-chip cookies — chocolate chunks, white-chocolate chunks, and salty white-chocolate items — which are provided by, and named for, web favourite Gracie Baked.
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