How to make a better sandwich (hint: use ice cream)

Take your sandwich building to new frontiers and ditch your standard savoury fillings for ingredients of the iced kind. That's right, it's time to break the rules and make the 'sandwich' of your dreams.

— See Kirsten Tibballs make her choc biscuit and caramel ice-cream sandwiches in the new season of The Chocolate Queen, 7.30pm Tuesdays from 1 October to 19 November on SBS Food, with episodes also at SBS On Demand

Wrap your chops around these minty, chocolatey sandwiches. Spongy, chewy double chocolate cookies stand-in for the bread here while the filling is a brown sugar, mint-flecked puck. No, you cannot pack these into a lunchbox for later. Yes, you can eat them in place of a proper lunch.

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If you like the biscuit base of a classic no-bake cheesecake, this is your ice-cream sandwich. Easy, no-churn cardamom kulfi is sandwiched between layers made from blitzed custard cream biscuits.

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These delicious stacks from Kirsten Tibballs feature creamy homemade caramel ice-cream (no ice-cream maker required) sandwiched between two rich chocolate biscuits. You'll want a napkin if you eat this with your hands, but it will be worth it!

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Adding a little extra dazzle to your sambo, these gingerbread cookie dough numbers are bejewelled with a crunchy praline making them a sandwich for entertaining. You also might need to employ the use of a spoon or fork here.

Gingerbread cookie dough ice-cream sandwiches with praline
Gingerbread cookie dough ice-cream sandwiches with praline

If you're a fan of pumpkin in a pie, then it stands to reason you will be a fan of pumpkin in ice cream, in a choc-chip cookie. This next-level sandwich has all the elements working together, from the chewy cookies to the creamy, cold pumpkin ice cream. You'll never look at pumpkin the same way again.

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Simple but spectacular: split iced doughnuts, slip slices of ice-cream in between, then roll in sprinkles!

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OK, so this is more of a burger, but the same important principle applies: take ice cream and put it in a cookie/cake/bun. Here we have a deep-red cherry sorbet nestled in a brioche bun. The advantage of this ice cream sandwich is that from a distance it could look as though you're just eating a burger with a lot of beetroot. A lot, though.

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Most sandwiches don't require their fillings to be churned for hours on end, but don't let that deter you. Once you've churned your innards, they'll be waiting in your freezer whenever you feel like fixing a sandwich. All the elements for these baklava and pistachio sandwiches, including the pastry, can be stored in the freezer, patiently waiting to be assembled.

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Keeping it closer to a real sandwich, these Singaporean ice cream snacks, or loti, are made with bread. But, of course, by bread we really mean crazy-coloured cake baked into a loaf shape. But we've come too far in our ultimate ice cream sandwich journey to let that bother us.

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Emulating that most desirable packet biscuit, the Monte Carlo, these cool sandwiches manage to sneak some real fruit into the mix by way of the raspberry filling. It's gonna get messy, people.

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