Shake It Up: Homemade Ice Cream

 We have been having some fun with our girls making homemade ice cream. YUM.  I remember making ice cream in resealable bags a couple of times in school.  It was always fun.  I turned to Pinterest, of course, to try to remember what exactly to put in the bags.  Does everyone out there have an ice cream maker now??  So many of the homemade ice cream recipes told me to just add the ingredients to the ice cream maker. . . um. . . I am looking for something a little more old-fashioned than that!  (not that it wouldn't be fun to have an ice cream maker! But we would seriously be eating ice cream way too often then!)

I read a few recipes that said you could shake it up in a plastic bag and then did what I usually do with recipes. . . WING IT.  The pictures below are from two separate ice cream making occasions so don't be confused when we are making chocolate ice cream and then pictures show our girls eating vanilla chocolate chip!

 What you will need:

Gallon size resealable bag

Smaller size resealable bag

Ice Cream Salt

Milk (any)

Ice (preferably crushed, I'm sure cubes would work fine as well)

Flavors, toppings (vanilla, chocolate syrup, candy, fruit, whatever your heart desires)

Prepare your ice cream bags:  I used a separate quart size resealable bag for each person.  In each bag I put a TBS of sugar (refined, *sigh*, I will try raw sugar next time), 3/4 to 1 Cup Milk (Whole milk turns out creamiest, but other milks work too), and in this case about a TBS of chocolate syrup. (If you would rather have vanilla, 1-2 tsp vanilla extract does the trick), candy can also be added in at this stage. Zip your bags shut.

Fill your Gallon size bags up about 1/4 - 1/2 of the way with ice

 Pour in some Ice Cream (Rock) Salt.  I did not measure this.  I gave the box 3-4 shakes.  I suppose if you are measuring it would be about 6 TBS of salt.

 Re-check all of your seals on your ice cream bags!  After everything is zipped tight add your ice cream bags to the Gallon size bag. Zip Gallon bag shut.  (We were able to put two small bags to one Gallon bag)

 SHAKE, SHAKE, SHAKE!!  This is the fun part for the kids, not so much for mom and dad.

 Shake for about ten minutes.  You will notice your milk change to ice cream consistency.

 Rinse off your ice cream bags under cold water to remove any rock salt so it doesn't end up in your ice cream.

Scoop into a bowl or eat right from the bag!

Enjoy!

So fun and so inexpensive.  I was able to purchase the Ice Cream Salt for around $1.38 and it will last for a long time.  All the other ingredients I had on hand, so $1.38 well spent.