What a combo, eh? Not to worry, they aren’t consumed together or even at the same time. These two beauties were my guest posts this week on two wonderful blogs owned by equally wonderful bloggers. Shea from DixieChikCooks offered me a guest post on her blog DixieChikCooks.com and Roberta from MoreThymeThanDough.com (@MoreThymeBlog) made the same offer. They are both good friends I met on Twitter. If you’re on Twitter and aren’t following them both, you’re missing out on good tweets.
I love ice cream. I mean I really, really love ice cream, so one day when I was watching cooking TV while eating a sandwich (don’t we all do that?) Donna Hay was on. I’m assuming her show is on lots of places because she lists both Fahrenheit and Celsius temperatures. Anyway, Donna Hay’s motto is Fast, Fresh and Simple and her ice cream sandwiches were just that. She made coconut macaroon cookies using an egg ring to shape them and then put a scoop of strawberry ice cream and pushed the cookies together til the ice cream just peeked out the sides. It looked so easy and so good.
Making ice cream is my thing so I cranked up my best friend Nemox and I made some fresh strawberry ice cream and put it in the freezer to finish and then went on to the macaroons. Three ingredients. Egg whites, powdered sugar and dessicated coconut.
You can get the recipe (and leave a comment puhleeze?) at MoreThymeThanDough.com. I hope you like them as much as we did !
When Shea asked me if I would like to do a guest post on her blog I was a bit nervous. It was my very first time and I had no clue how to do it. I didn’t know how to format the post to send it to her or how she wanted the photos and most stressing of all was what to choose for the dish. On my own blog I post things that I think are good — for me or for my family or guests — but when you’re posting on someone else’s blog, you don’t want to post anything ordinary. She was really kind and explained what I needed to do and I said I was making brie baked in phyllo dough with caramelized onions and cashews, she said that would be fine.
This is a favorite appetizer of ours and we always have our friends asking for it again. It’s not difficult to prepare and it’s a nice companion to cold nibblies.
To all my fellow American friends, I hope you have a fantastic 4th of July celebration. Please post photos of your fun times. Not too many people celebrate the 4th of July in Australia. It’s sort of the day after the 3rd and the day before the 5th here. 🙂 I’m celebrating!
YUM!! Happy 3rd and 5th to you!! LOL 🙂
These are 2 very delicious photos and I will visit these blogs.
What lovely choices for your guest posts. Heading over now to check out the recipes.
I have to confess that it was not ice cream that drew me to your post, but baked brie. I love cheese, and I adore brie. Unfortunately, my husband and oldest daughter are not fans, and I cannot justify buying a whole round just for me (as I am still vain and care about my dimensions:)
I love the idea of brie enveloped in phyllo! I am scampering very fast to Shea’s blog to get your recipe:)
congrats on your first guest post :). coconut macaron strawberry ice cream sandwiches sound like a winning combo!!! love it maureen!
I love brie and I totally adoreeee ice cream 😀 I was a little skeptical when I read them together on the title of your post but now I understand 😛 Congrats on the first guest post and I’m going over there right now to check it out!
Goodness me they both look so delicious! Mmm I’d better hurry getting dinner ready! 😛
Congratulations on your guest posts! I have to go and check the recipes, both dishes look fantastic!
I’ll be honest, ice cream combined with brie doesn’t sound half bad to me! But these dishes do look delicious on their own, as well!
I love baked brie and so does my husband 🙂 Your pics look delicious!
Those Ice cream snadwiches look great. Coconut maccaroons are yum already, but strawberry I.C. between two. Oh yeah! =) And, who doesn’t love baked brie? No normal person..lol
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Both of these look delicious, but the baked brie with cashews looked exceptional. It’s a great twist!
This is a great combo! Thanks for sharing!
That brie sounds phenomenal. And the photo of that ice cream sammich is just naughty 🙂
Congrats on your guest posts! Two wonderful recipes!
Congrats on your guest posts..heading there right away
Love both the ice cream and the baked brie. I love to watch DH too hehe
Great recipes. Glad you had a happy fourth.
that’s one thing i would like to make which i haven’t made yet…Baked Brie..
Great recipes. I love the idea of macaroons with ice cream 🙂
I suppose it would be pretty indulgent to do one another the other, wouldn’t it? Still, both sound DELICIOUS.
There goes again my diet…I cannot understand how can you make these photos look so inviting..I instantly swallowed my saliva.
Congrats on two fabulous guest posts…of course, I am drawn to the ice cream sandwiches the most, but I also love brie. Love them both!
I wish I could watch Donna Hay shows here! The ice cream sandwich looks delicious, and I want ice cream every day in our summer heat. Your baked brie in phyllo looks great too!
Hehhee – you got me going there with the 2 together! Great shots and lovely ideas! Going to head over now…
These look divine! Love the coconut in it, thanks for sharing!
We only celebrate the 5th since it is my baby boy’s birthday! Love both your recipes and I wish my freezer was bigger so I could make ice cream. But brie baked in phyllo. Yes!
These are seriously two of my favorite foods! Oh my gosh, this made me sooo hungry 🙂
I’m so into homemade ice cream right now. I haven’t made strawberry but it’s on my list. Your’s looks divine! So glad you celebrated the 4th too! We had a few friends over for a bbq – very relaxing.
Both of these look and sound so delicious! But I welcome a bite of those yummy ice cream sandwiches right now while it is so hot in the southern region of the U.S.
This post could have two of the most delicious dishes ever! I am definitely going to go check out those two posts you’ve shared on other blogs.
And I know you didn’t eat these together, but I think I may just do that and make a not-so-healthy meal out of it! Yum!
That ice cream sandwich looks like heaven! Wow!