Ice Cream!

We like to cook in this house. A fine young consort of chefs you're raising, did you know? Milan is the Head Sous-Chef, but they're all veeeeery fond of pouring and stirring, and of course, licking the bowl clean at the end.

Today's culinary exploration was a new recipe courtesy of Chatelaine: Ice Cream Sandwiches!!! You cook a large, thin slab of chocolate, firmer than cake, not as dense as a brownie, and layer the ice cream in the middle... and you get... a GIANT ice cream sandwich!!! Milan and Ella in particular were MOST impressed by this.

Dries was not entirely sure this thing was edible. I think he played with it more than he ingested it. Still, he had fun!

Dominic and Ella had no such reservations. Nom, nom, nom!

Eliana was probably the most excited about this project ... and then quite seriously let down that the outside layers of the sandwich are brownies. Which is, of course, chocolate... sigh... However, to our mutual relief, she discovered that the ice cream more than made up for the chocolate, and she managed to enjoy her piece after all! Phew!

Milan does not share his sister's ambivalence about chocolate. He scarfed down his piece and immediately angled for a second. Yummy!
What's not to like about cooking, when you make stuff like this???