making ice cream in a baggie

 Last week I read a blog post at 2 Little Hooligans about how to make ice cream in a baggie.  Interesting, I thought!  I invited my friend Teri over with her two littles, A and L to try to beat the heat and enjoy some baggie ice cream!  It was really good and fun to make with the kiddos.  They had fun helping measure and watching us shake the bag.  Needless to say, we've repeated this activity several times since.  Here are the pics from our adventure!

 



Pouring half and half.  Brave, I know.  But she did a good job!

 


A is so patient!

 

 


  



A helping shake the bag





Little hands waiting expectantly.....

 


Vivi is unsure of the outcome.

  



She really did like it, I swear!

 


A liked it for sure!

   


Poor Boo Bear wanted some....






And sweet L was just happy to be there!

 

So, here is the recipe and directions!

Ingredients:

2 TB sugar

1 cup half and half

1/2 ts vanilla extract

1/2 cup coarse salt

Ice

1 gallon zip lock bag

1 pint zip lock bag



Instructions:  Measure out half and half, sugar, and vanilla and pour into pint size zip lock bag.  Fill the gallon zip lock bag 1/2 way with ice.  Pour the salt over the ice.  Put the pint size bag into the gallon bag and shake the bags for at least 5 minutes (I liked it better when it was shaken for 7 minutes, it's a little firmer).  When it gets to your desired consistency, rinse the bag under water to rinse salt residue off and voila!  Delicious, fresh ice cream!

Make it today - you won't be sorry!