Gramma's Ice Cream Sandwiches ~ 4th of July style

one egg

1/2 cup shortening

1 tsp vanilla

1/2 cup cocoa

3 1/4 cup cake mix

1/4 cup butter or margarine

1/2 gallon ice cream

Beat egg, shortening, butter, vanilla & cake mix

Roll out batter and cut with biscuit cutter

Bake cookies & place a scoop of ice cream between 2 cookies

Press together gently until ice cream moves to the edge

Wrap in plastic & freeze 24hours

I used strawberry ice cream, white cake mix and star cookie cutter

I used devils food cake, dreyers mint chocolate chip icecream (it is white!) and added blue food coloring. I pressed a small star cookie cutter gently into the dough to get the star impression

(I use to save out 1/4 cup of the cake mix and use it on the counter to roll it out, but it was too doughy, I needed the whole cake mix and then dusted the counter lightly with flour. Back in the day when mom made these, maybe the cake mixes had more mix to them, or she used a different brand.) These were a hit on 4th of July (kids didn't like having real strawberry chunks in the ice cream...so find some plain old flavored ice cream (I bought that kind to avoid dye)