Homemade ice Cream

This week, the 11th, I decided to do a little learning with the kiddos.  What did we do?  Made simple ice cream!

 

 Here's the bag, ready for a little shaking!  Inside a large bag you put 1/2 cup rock salt, and fill half way with ice (you can use regular salt, but it doesn't work as well).  Then, inside a smaller plastic bag put 1 cup milk/cream, 2 tablespoons of sugar (I think you could do with less... I found it very sweet), and 1/2 tsp of vanilla.  Seal it, put it inside the larger bag, and seal that one.  Then comes the fun part...

 You shake it!

 

 Shake and shake and shake for about 5 minutes.  I ended up doing most of the shaking (since the kids tired of it easily.  It was more fun jumping up and down on the floor than just shaking your arms!)

 

 When done, it will be more solid, kinda like soft serve ice cream.

 

 Mix in any extras and eat (you could eat right out of the bag, but one cup of ice cream is a lot for one person, so I split it between the three of us... my husband got a taste too, of course).

 

Yummers!!

 

Next up... turning smoothies into popsicles (just bought some fun star silicone popsicle molds I look forward to using!  Yay!).