No Crank Ice Cream

Sunday night we made homemade ice cream in a bag. Matt was very suspicious of it all, but he turned into a believer. Sorry about the wild pictures, I put my camera on nighttime setting and I didn't quite need that setting yet for the evening so they are a little wild.


It was a fun time and Kelsey loved it. Here is the recipe if you want to give it a try:
Put 2 Tbsp sugar
1 cup 1/2 and 1/2
and 1/2 tsp vanilla extract into a ziploc sandwich bag

Put the following into a gallon size ziplock bag:
1/2 cup salt (nice big granules, kosher or rock salt)
ice cubes - about 1/2 of the gallon bag worth
and the sandwich bag full of the yummy goods.

Now, shake and mush (technical term here) those bags until the mixture hardens and you have ice cream! It took us a little longer than 5 minutes.

One tip I have for you, wear gloves or put something on your hands - it was freezing!

Also, I thought that one of our ice cream bags had opened up into the salt bag because the icy saltwater was looking a little milky. It didn't though, and if it did, it wasn't very much.

The girls loved it and so did we, I was surprised at how good that ice cream tasted!