So my sister and I were talking about Bakerella's adorable cake pops and trying to come up with other yummy combinations. Now I don't know who thought of subbing in ice cream for the frosting, but I'll give Hillary that credit. Two days after we were kicking around ideas, I needed a sanity-seeking project and decided to tackle this idea. However, after some thought I decided I don't think the cake and ice cream will maintain any separateness. So, I decided to try brownies+vanilla ice cream+chocolate coating= Brownie Sundae Pops (well balls cause I didn't have sticks, but pops sounds better). And here's what happened:
1 8x8 pan of cooked and cooled brownies
2-3 c. vanilla ice cream, softened
chocolate for coating, I just got the bark stuff
Seems simple enough, right? I let the brownies totally cool, then cut them into small chunks. I put the ice cream and about half the brownies in the food processor and ran it long enough to incorporate the brownie into the ice cream, but not totally disintegrate the brownies. Then I folded in the rest of the brownie chunks by hand (so I had different size pieces). I put all this back in the freezer for several hours.
Once the brownie-ice cream mix got firm, I attempted to roll balls from it. I used spoons and my hands, neither was great, but I got close-enough shapes. As fast as possible I put these balls (not touching each other) back in the freezer. Unfortunately, the balls never froze hard. Might be my freezer, might be all the messing with them, I'm not sure.
My plan was to get the balls really, really frozen. Then I'd melt the chocolate bark, let it cool until it was thick but not hard, and dip/coat the frozen ice cream brownie balls. The coated balls go back into the freezer to freeze up and stay there until time to serve.
But this didn't work out. I'll be trying again, but if you get to it first, let me know how it works out!
To make up for this one, I'll post a couple healthy (or at least low cal) recipes the next couple days :)
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