*Oh WOW! You've GOT to do this! Amazing kids' experiment - make your own ice cream in a bag!*

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DS and I have just made our own Mr Whippy style ice cream in just 10 mins and it was really good. Ds reckons it was the best ice cream he's ever eaten and I am now officially the best mum ever...

1 cup whole milk
tsp vanilla extract
1 big tablespoon Sugar

poured into a resealable freezer bag

lots of ice cubes
2 tablespoons salt

put in another bag

milk mixture bag goes inside the ice cube bag and then its sealed again too.

shake shake shake for 10mins

eat eat eat for 2mins

This is my end of term Science lesson activity

wow! Must try this. Will buy vanilla essence and freezer bags tomorrow!

Oooh nice one

here's someone doing it on You Tube!

Just bumping - because it's brilliant!

Does it have to be sugar, would sweetener work?

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Oooh, someone posted this recipe/experiment last summer, but it was in Chat and dissapeared before I got round to doing it. I think you can add cocoa powder too.

Thank you

Wow that is just brilliant will be eating icecream by 3.45pm if I get the kids making it asap after school.

We bought ds2 an ice Cream maker for his birthday last year and it is exactly the same method as this just with more plastic tat. He's used it once
Should have saved my money.

That's cool. Gonna try it at the weekend.

Kids' experiment?? ... well DD is only 5 months old. I will try it for her to make sure it's safe! Thanks!

Gah.

This isn't a good idea with a leaky freezer bag!

2 tablespoons of salt? Bloody heck that's a lot. Is that one portion of ice cream?

Oh. Just read it properly. As you were.

have just tested it (just to see if it will work for dd later, you understand)...it's great!

(mind you american mum with tips for using it to educate your child is a bit annoying)

sounds good.

just done this. It's amazing.
melted really quickly though.

what does the salt do though?

Salt melts ice but keeps it at freezing temp.
Americans big into this in days of yore.
I used to spend summers in an American kids' camp and we had ice cream makers to do this with the milk we had just got from the animals.
Magic!

works well with chocolate milkshake too.

If you want a UK version

Works well with any flavoured milk. Have done this with my Beaver scouts and they loved it!