WHAT'S FOR DESSERT? HOMEMADE ICE CREAM IN A ZIPLOC BAG

I of course thought it would have been great weather up at our family's cabin in the middle of May to make ice cream with my 2 year old...but it ended up starting to snow! So we just went back in side and ate our ice cream by the roaring fireplace (after I took a few pictures).

Last summer at church Family Camp in the Jemez Mountains, I had the kids make ice cream in a Ziploc bag. It was a big hit!

It's a great way to spend some time with your kids this summer making something they'll love to eat. It's also a great way to teach them patience.

 HOMEMADE ICE CREAM IN A ZIPLOC BAG

serves 1

There are all kinds of recipes to make homemade ice cream, I have many recipes as well but this is what I used this time:

1/2 C milk

1/2 C heavy whipping cream

1/4 C sugar or powdered stevia

1/2 t vanilla

quart size Ziploc

gallon size Ziploc

approx 2 C ice

1/2 C or more rock salt

All all your ingredients in a quart size Ziploc bag. Squeeze out air & seal tightly.

Put ice and rock salt in a gallon size Ziploc bag. Then add your quart size bag. Squeeze our most air and seal gallon size tightly. 

Gently rock the bag back and forth and from side to side. Use gloves or a kitchen towel to prevent your hands from getting too cold. Canaan & I used oven hot padded gloves. Continue to rock for 10-15 minutes or until the contents have solidified into ice cream.

Remove the quart size bag and wash the ice & rock salt off with cold water because it will damage your hands. (We washed it off in the cold stream in front of the cabin.)

Open bag and serve as is or with toppings.