How to hand make ice cream in a Baggie
Goes great with Birthday Cake!
This is a great activity for a kids birthday
party and ice cream goes great with birthday cake. It takes
very little preparation and the kids love it!
1 quart Half and Half
1 can sweetened condensed milk
2 1/2 teaspoons vanilla flavoring
Ice
Rock Salt
Quart size baggies
Gallon size baggies
Makes approximately 8 servings
of ice cream.
Beat all ingredients well...lots of air!
Seal and place in freezer for approximately two hours.
After two hours take mixture out of the freezer and beat
again for about 30 seconds.
Give each child a quart size baggie. Use a measuring
cup to dip about 3/4 cup of mixture into each quart size sandwich bag.
Seal tightly!
Have the kids place their quart size bag into a gallon
size baggie. Scoop about three handfuls of ice into each child's gallon baggie along
with about 1/4-cup of rock salt. You want the mixture to freeze quickly.
Seal tightly!
Have the kids flip the bag end over end (like kneading
dough). Use towels so it's not too cold and a softer landing for the bag. We've never had
one break, but neither do we want to have one break. After 5 - 10 minutes (we predict)
you'll see that the solution is beginning to stick to the sides of the smaller bag. Give
it a little pinch to see if it is getting hard. When it is at a soft serve consistency
take the quart bag out of the gallon bag. Have a bowl of cold, clean water nearby. Dip the
quart bag, containing the ice cream, into the bowl to rinse the salt water off the outside
so it doesn't drip into your ice cream.
Yummy! Time to hand out spoons - open bag - and eat
ice cream quickly...it melts fast!
Actually this ice cream project can be a science experiment...
ask...
What happens to ice when you add salt?
At what temperature will liquid freeze?
What is a solution?
Estimate the time it will take to freeze...etc.
We estimate you want 3/4 cup of ice cream per child. How
solid it gets depends upon the effort of the child, the amount of ice and rock salt you
use. It really doesn't take long and it's lots of fun.
Add toppings to frozen ice cream rather than to mixture in
bag - it could slow down the freezing process.
