Chocolate-Chocolate Chip Cookie and Strawberry Gelato Sandwiches

• 2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
• 1/2 cup natural unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
• 1 cup (packed) dark brown sugar
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
• 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
• Fresh Strawberry Gelato , slightly softened

1. Preheat oven to 375F.
2. Line 2 large rimmed baking sheets with parchment.
3. Sift first 4 ingredients into bowl.
4. Using electric mixer, beat butter in large bowl until fluffy.
5. Beat in both sugars, then eggs, 1 at a time.
6. Beat in extracts, then flour mixture.
7. Fold in chocolate chips.
8. Drop batter by heaping tablespoonfuls onto prepared sheets, spacing mounds 2 to 3 inches apart.
9. Using moist fingertips, flatten mounds to 3/4-inch thickness.
10. Bake cookies 5 minutes.
11. Reverse sheets.
12. Bake until cookies are puffed and dry-looking but soft to touch, about 5 minutes.
13. Cool completely.
14. Freeze on sheets 15 minutes.
15. Spoon 1/3 cup gelato onto flat side of 1 cookie.
16. Top with second cookie, flat side down; press together.
17. Wrap and freeze.
18. Repeat with remaining gelato and cookies.
19. DO AHEAD: Keep frozen up to 2 days.

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Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/chocolate-chocolate-chip-cookie-and-strawberry-gelato-sandwiches-352674 (may not work)