Ice Cream in a Bag Recipe With Nut-Free Chocolate Candies
My kids are ice cream fanatics, well who am I kidding? My whole family loves ice cream. It’s one of my biggest weaknesses! Which is the biggest reason that we can’t buy it during our grocery shopping trips. A carton of ice cream in my home is as good as gone in 2-3 days.
Every once in a while my kids will ask for a small cup of ice cream and who am I to deny them? So we decided to try out the recipe for ice cream in a bag.
Making ice cream in a bag is a great way to get active in the kitchen with kids, make a little science experiment and get a tasty treat in the end.
Ice Cream in a Bag is very simple to make, here is what you need:
- 2 Zip lock bags – One in a gallon size and the other in a sandwich bag size
- 1/2 Cup Milk or if you prefer a creamier texture, use Half and Half
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- Small handful, chopped up, Skippers from Vermont Nut Free Chocolates (They are just like M&M’s, but nut free!)
- Drizzle of chocolate syrup or if you are hardcore like us, Magic Shell!
- 3 tbsp salt – any salt will work, rock salt or sea salt will work best
- 3 cups crushed ice
Directions
- Grab your sandwich sized bag and add the milk, sugar and vanilla. Seal it up tight and set it aside.
- In your Gallon sized bag, add 3 cups of crushed ice and 3 tbsp of salt. You can use any salt, rock or sea salt will work best. If you use regular salt, just note that your processing time may take a bit longer.
- Put your smaller, sealed up, bag into the bag of ice/salt and then close the top.
- Shake! Shake! Shake!! Let the kids do it, saves your arm muscles and it’s a ton of fun for them. Shake for a good 5-10 minutes, depending on what kind of salt you used, until the liquid mixture has formed into something solid.
- When done shaking, your ice cream will look like this. I used skim milk for our ice cream, if you want a thicker and creamier texture then try something like half and half.
I love making ice cream with the kids. We try to do it about once a month.
Isn’t this fun??? We always do this with the kids and they LOVE it… thanks for a great reminder and your pictures are too cute….
My girls would get a kick out of this. WOW. So cool!
I’ve never heard of making ice cream in a bag before. Love that there’s no machine required!
This chocolate looks delicious! This looks like and awesome dessert! Yummy!
How fun and easy!!!
Love this idea and so simple for kids.
Ice cream in a bag is such a fun treat. I’ve made it with my kids before and they really enjoyed it.
I remember doing this in school. It is fun and tastes yummy!
I need to save this recipe for hot nights during the summer! What a fun way to make ice cream for the kids!
OH my goodness, i used to make ice cream like this all the time as a kid! In fact it was even my 7th grade science project I had to show in front of the entire class. I was assigned “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction” law. Lol. Everyone remembered that law after my ice cream demonstration. It was awesome. I can’t believe I haven’t done this with my kids yet. I need to remedy that!
Wow what a great idea! I never knew that you could make ice cream like that, I thought you had to have a machine!
This is such fun idea. I didn’t know you could make ice cream in a bag.
What a fun activity and a sweet treat for all the hard “work” of making the ice cream.
Wow, I have to try this!! Or maybe not… I am kind of an ice cream addict!! Looks too easy for me! ;)
I have never made ice cream in a bag but I know a ton have, it looks delicious!!!
I have never seen home made ice cream done this way. Great way for the kids to be involved!
How neat. I had no idea you could make ice cream that way!
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