Maple Ice Cream Sandwich - Maple from Canada

Ingredients

• 1 ¼ cups milk
• 1 ¼ cups double cream
• ½ cup pure maple syrup (preferably amber syrup for its rich taste)
• 8 egg yolks
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• ½ cup unsalted room temperature butter
• 1 cup maple sugar
• 1 tsp baking soda
• ½ tsp salt
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 egg
• 1 ½ cups plain flour
• ⅓ cup chocolate chips
• ⅓ cup pecans, chopped