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Homemade Ice Cream in a Bag

Ice Cream in a Bag Recipe

This easy, kid-friendly treat perfectly suits summers. It requires you to just put ingredients inside two Ziploc bags as directed and shake to freeze the mixture. You can turn it into a valuable science experiment and lesson for children that they would absolutely love to ‘savor’.
Prep Time 10 minutes
Chill Time 5 minutes
Total Time 15 minutes
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 4 People

Ingredients
  

  • 2 gallon-sized Ziploc bags
  • 2 cups heavy cream or half and half or whole milk
  • ¼ cup sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • ⅓ cup rock salt
  • 6-8 cups ice

Instructions
 

  • Put the ice and salt in a Ziploc bag
  • Put the heavy cream in another Ziploc bag.
  • Now put in the sugar and shake the bag to mix
  • Add the vanilla extract and shake again
  • Seal this 2nd bag completely, squeezing out any air trapped inside so that no salt enters it and put it inside the first bag containing the ice
  • Seal the first bag
  • Shake the 1st bag for around 5 minutes or until frozen. You should wear gloves for this step as the salt makes the ice extremely cold.
  • Take the inner bag out of the outer one and rinse the former with cold water, including the top part above the seal
  • Carefully open it so that no salt from outside this bag gets inside
  • You will find the ice cream inside a little icy at first. So you can use a spoon to move around the chunks a bit, so they mix and soften. Scoop and enjoy your homemade ice cream!