It’s not official, but Derrick Capdeville is certain his students will hold the record for Washington’s largest ice cream sandwich after Thursday.
“I’m personally confident this is the state has ever seen,” he told a group of 30 kids on Tuesday during the IMPACT winter break program at Beaver Lake Middle School.
Capdeville, a coordinator for the after-school program, said the whole winter break week was dedicated to setting records, whether as individuals or teams. The largest of those records was the ice cream sandwich.
“We were like what can we do that’s record breaking,” Capdeville said. “We asked the kids what they were thinking. They love sweets, they love all that stuff.”
Under the direction of Jill Meitzel, students started constructing the cookie dough Tuesday using 18 pounds of sugar, 15 pounds of butter, 27 pounds of flour, 9 pounds of chocolate chips and 48 eggs.
Given the option of playing a game or prepping, the kids who chose the kitchen said it was an easy choice.
“I’ve only seen ice cream sandwiches about this big,” said sixth-grader Cindy Xiao, holding her hands in small square. “I’ve never seen a huge one.”
Gwen Meldon, a sixth-grade Pine Lake Middle School student, admitted she doesn’t even like ice cream.
“It’s not as much about the product, it’s more for doing it,” she said. “It’s fun.”
The end product is expected to be 2 feet wide, by 8 feet long, containing 20 gallons of ice cream and enough dough to make 2,400 one-ounce cookies.
Asked if it would be hard to eat the final product after putting all the work into it, seventh-grade Pine Lake student Rachel Rosewater didn’t think so.
“What’s the point of making something without eating it,” she said
Gwen Meldon pours eggs into a commercial size mixer while Katya Yegorova looks on.
Rachel Rosewater prepares to roll a giant pile of cookie dough Tuesday in the Beaver Lake Middle School kitchen.
