Ice cream sandwiches are as essential to summer as SPF and strong AC. Enter our favorite ice cream sandwich purveyor in town: The Baked Bear. The Midtown storefront bakes their brownies and soft cookies daily, from which you make custom sandwiches mixing and matching the cookies, ice cream flavors, and toppings. And sure, you can keep it classic with a chocolate chip cookie and old-fashioned vanilla combo, but you can find that anywhere. We like to get a bit wild here and combine things like the blue Cookie Monster cookie with toasted s’mores ice cream—sometimes it’s nice to let your inner kindergartener win out.