It is still hot here and we are still making any possible attempt to stay cool! We had some friends over today and made ice cream in bags and a can.
How to make Ice Cream In a Bag
For each individual you will need:
1/2 cup milk or half and half (I have seen where you can even use flavored coffee creamer)
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 tablespoon sugar
ice
1/4 cup rock salt
2 quart sized Freezer Zip-loc bags (could use smaller bags)
1 gallon Freezer size Zip-loc bag
a hand towel or winter gloves to keep little fingers from freezing
Mix the milk, sugar and vanilla together in one of the quart sized bags. Seal, removing as much air from the bag as possible. Place this bag inside the other quart sized bag, remove air and seal (double bagging to prevent leaking and insuring success). Put the two bags inside the gallon sized bag along with the ice (we filled the bag with ice) and then about 1/4 cup rock salt. Remove air and seal tightly. Wrap the bag in the towel or put your gloves on, and shake, shake, shake.
It was near 100 degrees today so it took about 15 minutes to freeze. I would think if it had been cooler it would have frozen quicker. Since it took longer we had a bit of trouble keeping the kids interested ------so the moms were left holding the bag!
Rinse the small bag before eating or be careful when removing from the outside bag to keep it salt free. We added toppings (chocolate syrup, M&Ms, broken oreos, pretzels and peanut butter cups) right into the bag and began eating! Yum ----We had plenty of participation for this!
How to Make Ice Cream in a Coffee Can
1/2 cup sugar
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
3 tbs chocolate syrup
Ice
About 1/2 cup Rock Salt
Place the ice cream mixture in the smaller coffee can and seal lid with duct tape. Place the smaller can in the center of the larger can. Pour the ice and salt around the smaller can.
Put the lid on the larger can and place a piece of duct tape around the lid to make sure it is really secure. Roll the can around outside for about 30 minutes.
Again it was so hot that we had to refill the ice and salt in the can about half way through! Our kids weren't too crazy, so we did just fine leaving the duct tape off after we refilled the ice. Rinse smaller can before serving.
Everyone agreed the chocolate ice cream was our favorite.
Now if you want to really have a ball at your party you need the Mega Play and Freeze Ice Cream Ball!
How fun is this? You can make ice cream anywhere, with the Play and Freeze Ice Cream Maker! Add cream and sugar in one end, and ice and rock salt in the other, then "play ball", roll and shake (maybe a fun game of "hot potato") with the ball. Thirty minutes later you will have delicious homemade ice cream. This cool high tech ball makes 1 quart of ice cream.
After making our ice cream today I can say this ball would be great. Even using freezer (Name Brand) bags we had some trouble with gallon bags leaking and leaving salt water everywhere. Also the kids had the most fun kicking the can around. Having a ball to play with would be perfect.
One lucky reader will have the chance to be the proud owner. Leave a comment by midnight on Sunday, August 3rd for a chance to win! (Only U.S. Shipping for this giveaway --sorry!)
This looks like so much fun. We’d love this!
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Oh, I have been wanting one of these ever since they came out.
Thanks for the chance!
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I would absolutely LOVE to win this!! Homemade icecream tastes like no other. I absolutely adore it and crave the taste but don’t want to buy an ice cream maker and crank out ice cream just for myself. This would be perfect for me!
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What an awesome giveaway! Thanks for hosting this!
This would definitely be useful in Texas. Temperature is set to be over 100 for the next couple of days.
We have a large ice cream maker, but it’s not quite the same.
How fun, my daughter would love to play with this ball and then to get ice cream out of it too – best of both worlds!
I’ve always wanted to try this! I have great memories of homemade ice cream from my childhood. Thanks for the chance to win!
Paula
When I was a kid my mom bought us an icecream freezer that was a glorified coffee can. It was insulated and we rolled it back and forth between two kids. I think this ball would be a lot of fun for kids.
What a wonderful concept! I love it. Please enter me in your drawing. Thanks, Cindi
I have seen that in a catalog and have swooned over how much fun it would be. I am a sucker for home made icecream!
My three little girls and I have made the ice cream in the bag before. Super easy, super fun, and super yummy! (I did do most of the shaking.) I have never seen the ice cream maker ball. How cool! We would use that weekly at least. Thank you!
I have been wanting one of these all summer! My daughter, husband and I would have a great time rolling and throwing the ball around. I will have to try out the ice cream in a bag though!
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Oh, we love ice cream around here! Hope to win!
i enjoyed reading the post and the pics helped a lot cause my my seriously could not wrap around how you could make ice cream with bag and coffee cans. but lo and behold you can. lol that’s what i call thinking outside the box!
That is so cool!
rock on
This would be so much fun to do with my 4 year old. Count me in.
Wow-how cool!
very cool, I even like the shade of purple in the pic
YUM!!!!
Fun! I’ve always wanted to try one of these!
What a neat idea. We love homemade ice cream.
This would be so fun! Thanks for the giveaway!
First time to your blog, it looks like fun!
Cute pics of making the ice cream!
Enter me, please!
We LOVE homemade ice cream
My son loves ice cream (we all do) and he’s great at throwing. This looks like fun!
Oh…this reminds me of some special times visiting my Grandparents and having homemade ice cream. I would love to relive those memories more often.
What fun! In addition to getting to kick something around, you get repaid with ice cream!
We’d have a blast making our own ice cream (plus playing at the same time!) What a cool giveaway! Thanks!
I’ve never made homemade ice cream. This looks so fun. thanks for the giveaway!
What a super idea! Play while making a treat!
I believe you have truly captured the essence of summer there. What a fabulous post!
I have wanted one of those ice cream balls forever! I’m addicted to finding ice cream recipes, but I’m waiting to save up enough money for one of those things (poor college student here! haha). Thanks for the fun!
Ice cream, Ice cream, we all scream for ice cream….LOL!
The play and freeze ball sounds cool! I love the ease and fun, fun, fun part of it. We are having a party on the 22nd and this would be a big hit with kids and bigger kids alike. lol
Thanks for all the ice cream making ideas–the Play and Freeze Ice Cream Maker is a great idea!
We are all ice cream fiends around here. That looks like it would be fun to use!!
Thanks for the great giveaway! I have my fingers and toes crossed for this one.
how cool is this! my kids would have a blast! play time with a reward! haha
How great is that! Even my 1 year old would love to kick the ‘ball’ around. mmm…..now I want some icecream!!
OH! That looks so cool!!! I love homemade ice cream too!! Count me in!!!!
my 8 year old remembers doing this in school and loved it, she’d have fun with this, i can taste a bowl of homemade peach now, mmmm
That sounds like so much fun – the kids would absolutely love it!
I would love to win this. I just recently moved in with my daughter and her husband and their 7 children. How much more fun could a grandma have than making ice cream with her grandchildren.
My 8 year old could make his own ice cream! Enter me please!
I stumbled across your site today and I am putting it in my feeds! These sound like such fun ideas. Maybe we can give one a try this week! Thanks!
This would be so fun in the South Carolina heat!
i’ve always wanted to make ice cream at home!
My parent’s have this and my kids tried it once and loved it, they would love to have their own to make ice cream with! Thanks for the great giveaway!