While on the topic of baking, I thought it would be fun to look at some videos about how to make homemade ice cream.  I watched some video of a woman making ice cream using different ingredients in large plastic bags, and shaking them for 10 minutes, but that seemed too difficult.  Then, something a lot quicker.  When you search, “how to make ice cream” on You Tube, the first result is a video about making snow ice cream.

The video was the easiest way to make “ice cream” that i found.  I don’t know if snow ice cream tastes anything like real ice cream, though. I feel like making ice cream out of snow would be kind of weird.  Even if it’s clean snow…it’s still been outside in the elements.  I don’t know.  The woman in the video said that she left a bowl out to collect the clean snow.  I guess that would be your best bet.

The only ingredients you need are 1/2 cup of half and half or whole milk, 1/4 cup of sugar, 1/4 teaspoon of vanilla, and 4 cups of clean snow.  You just mix the milk, sugar, and vanilla together, and then pour it over the clean snow, and mix that up.  In the video, the consistency looks pretty crumbly, not creamy, like true ice cream. It would probably be a fun activity for kids, as long as the snow is clean and safe, I guess.  I’ll have to try it this winter to see if it actually works.

Anyone have any recipes for easy homemade ice cream.

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