Ice Cream in a Bag for kids

Ice Cream in a Bag

If you don't have an ice cream maker, try mixing up your own frozen treat in a bag! All you need is a little cream, sugar, vanilla, and ice. Shake away!

Makes:

Serves 2

Hands-on time:

10 minutes

Start-to-eat time:

10 minutes

Ingredients

  • 1 cup light cream or half and half
  • 1 cup heavy cream
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • Ice cubes
  • 1/2 cup salt (Kosher or rock salt)

Kids kitchen skills:

  • measuring
  • making ice cream

Tools:

  • 1 quart-size sealable plastic bag
  • 1 gallon-size sealable plastic bag
  • measuring cups & spoons

Step-by-step

Grown-up steps
  1. Measure the cream, sugar, and vanilla extract into the quart-size bag. Zip it up tightly.
  2. Fill the gallon-size bag with ice. Add the salt. Put the sealed smaller bag inside. Now zip up the larger bag.
  3. Shake and shake the bags to make ice cream! It will take about 5 minutes until the cream hardens.
  4. Take the smaller bag out of the larger one. Eat the ice cream right out of the bag!

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