Homemade Ice Cream in a Bag
Did you know that you can make your own ice cream at home? You can! And all it takes is 5 ingredients and about 15 minutes. Warning: your arms will get tired shaking and making this ice cream! But it’s so much fun.
This “Ice Cream in a Bag” recipe was modified from the recipes on The Best Ideas for Kids website and The Recipe Critic.
Materials:
- 3 Ziploc bags — 1 gallon size and 2 small sizes (Note: Name-brand bags are usually better than store-brand for this recipe. You want to get good quality bags, or they may leak.)
- A dish towel
Ingredients:
- 1 cup half-and-half
- 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 Tbsp sugar
- lots of ice
- 1/4 cup salt — Any kind of salt should work, including table salt.
Steps:
1. Pour the half-and-half, vanilla extract, and sugar into a small Ziploc bag.
2. Press out any excess air, and seal the bag firmly. Then place it inside the other small Ziploc bag.
3. Fill the large Ziploc bag halfway with ice. Add the salt to the ice.
4. Put the small double-bag into the large one, and cover it with more ice. Seal the large bag.
5. Wrap the bag in the dish towel (the salt makes the ice in the bag very cold) and shake your bag for at least 6 minutes. You may want to shake it longer — After 6 minutes, our ice cream was pretty soupy, but still delicious!
6. Take the small bag out of the large one, and rinse the outside of the small bag with cold water to get off all the salt. Make sure to rinse the top of the bag.
8. Open the bag with the ice cream inside, mix with a spoon, scoop out, and eat! (If it’s too soupy, you can stick the bag in the freezer for a while to harden it up.)
Extra Tips: Try adding chocolate syrup to the small bag to make chocolate ice cream, or strawberry syrup to make strawberry ice cream. You can also try different flavor extracts, like maple and almond, to get different flavor ice creams.
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