Pear ice cream sandwich with gruyere rosemary shortbread

Make cookies:

Cream butter with sugar. Add lemon zest, vanilla extract, and egg and mix well. In a bowl, whisk both flours together with the minced rosemary. Slowly mix flour mixture into butter until a stiff batter forms. Make two logs and chill to form dough. Pre-heat oven to 375 degrees (F).  Cut dough and bake cookies until golden at the edges, about 16-18 minutes. Remove from oven and sprinkle the tops of the cookies with gruyere cheese. Allow to cool completely before sandwiching the ice cream between two cookies.

Make ice cream:

Poach pears in bourbon, maple syrup, clove, cinnamon, nutmeg, and sage. Remove pairs, strain liquid and reduce to syrup. Puree pears. Make a vanilla ice cream base with eggs milk, vanilla, cream. Add puree. Spin in ice cream maker, add syrup last 5 minutes or churning.