Red Velvet Ice Cream Sandwiches

Inspired by a comment on http://www.thisiswhyyourefat.com/?p=1105. Very easy to make. The cookie recipe is based on http://busycooks.about.com/od/cookierecipes/r/cakemixcookies.htm. The cream cheese ice cream recipe is modified from http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Cream-Cheese-Ice-Cream-107998. Since it is cream cheese based, a custard base is not made, which greatly simplifies the process. Perhaps later I will try a creme anglaise cream cheese ice cream recipe to see if it is worth the trouble. This idea (ice cream sandwich with cookies made from cake mix) should easily generalize to other combinations, like devils food with cherry ice cream for a Black Forest sandwich, devils food with caramel coconut ice cream for a German Chocolate sandwich, yellow cake with chocolate ice cream, carrot cake with cream cheese ice cream, white cake with strawberry flecked condensed milk - cream cheese ice cream for a tres leches sandwich, etc.